Pretty Little Houses & Pink Flamingos

Hello my fine feathered friends!

 

Aimee here with not one, not two, but

THREE

projects for you!!!

 

When I saw the house half plate,

I just KNEW I had to have it!

These little houses are so sweet and adorable

and I have so many ideas for them.

 

Want to make these projects?

 

Well, alllllrighty then!

 

What you need:

Recycled cheese container

(this is a Laughing Cow cheese container)

Acrylic paints

Smooch inks

Sandy stuff from Mud Puddles

Foam tape or pop dots

Black ink (I used Pitch Black pigment ink from Ranger)

Other ink colors of your choice

Super Gloss EP from Viva Las Vegastamps!

Scissors

Miracle Tape

Heat gun

A toothpick

Scraps of paper- white, blue, green, patterned papers

Pink Flamingos (the ones we get with our Viva Las Vegastamps orders)

Craft Bond or other stinky glue

Stickles

Stamps

 

 

First things first-

paint the cheese container inside and out...

I painted the outside purple and the  inside blue.

Once the blue was dry, I stippled a lighter blut over it,

then painted some blue Stickles over it.

Stamp houses with black pigment ink and emboss using Super Goss EP.

I did 6 houses.

Repeat with trees.

Stamp some trees in other ink colors.

Stamp the clouds on blue patterened paper using blue ink

(I used Denim Adirondack ink from Ranger)

Color houses and trees with Smooch colors.

Color in clouds with white Smooch.

While the Smooch is drying, start tearing up some green card stock for 'grass'.

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Once everything is dry, start layering.

Use Miracle Tape to adhere everything...

I started with a couple of clouds, and then added a house.

Add some torn paper 'grass'.

Then add a tree or two.

Add more 'grass' using pop dots or foam tape,

and keep going until you fill the container and like the way it looks.

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Once your container is layered to your liking,

put some of the Mud Puddles sandy stuff inside.



For your pink flamingos, snip the base off of each one,

put a little stinky glue on the back of each one,

and stick their legs down into the sandy stuff.

 

For the 'whimsy' flag, simply stamp the words onto a scrap of card stock.

Trim with scissors into a flag, put some Miracle Tape on the back and stick the tooth pick to it.

Put a pop dot or some foam tape behind the flag and stick it down,

tucking the toothpick ("flag pole") down in behnd some grass.

I am going to get little clear acrylic easels for these cuties!

 

 

And, here we have an art journal page.

This back ground was already done-

watercolor paints, Gelatos, and some stencils....

Sometimes I just play around in my books making backgrounds.

You'll follow the same process with this as you did

 with the container, minus the pop dots.

Place some clouds, then a house and a tree.

Layer some 'grass', and add another house and tree.

I also added the cool funky fence to the 2nd house.

Layer some more and add the third house.

 

 

I hope you enjoy these projects!

Have a lovely day!!