Home is where art heart is!

This weeks theme on the Simon Says Stamp and Show Challenge is "Anything Goes".  After moving to a larger home a year or so ago, I still have a lot of wall space to fill and have consequently been making a lot more framed pieces than I usually would.  This is one of those, destined for my kitchen I think!

The stamp is one of Wendy Vecchi's from her set "Residential Art".  I cut out 6 of the 2"x2" squares from the Retro Grunge pad and then stamped the house and text onto each one.  I then stamped them again onto white cardstock and set about altering each house and then cutting out just the house part and sticking it onto the stamped image on the patterned squares. 

Going from left to right, this is what I did:

• House 1 is red and yellow Claudine Hellmuth paint applied with my finger.
• House 2 was left white.
• House 3 was coloured with green Claudine Hellmuth paint and then parts of the house were coloured with a white paint pen.
• House 4 doesn't show too well in the photo, but it's very pale blue, with a slightly darker blue flourish stamped onto it.
• House 5 is coloured with Fired Brick distress stain.
• House 6 was coloured with Promarkers.  I knew they would blur the Archival ink I had stamped the image with, but I hoped it would make it look like it might have been on fire.  The "for rent" is a clear stamp from a set by 7 gypsies.

And there you have it!  I'm really pleased with how this one turned out, which is a good job, as I'll be seeing a lot of it if it ends up on my kitchen wall! lol  I think it should probably go above that bit of worktop to the right of the sink, before you get to the boiler, don't you agree?  :)

Our ever-generous sponsor Simon Says Stamp is offering a $50 gift voucher as the prize again this week! The winner will be chosen at random from those who enter the challenge, so why not give it a try? At the very least why not head over to the Challenge Blog to see how the other members of the design team have interpreted this weeks theme! :)