I’m sorry I haven’t posted in a couple days. I’m on a trip with some friends and, while the Internet here is pretty good, I’ve just been having too much fun to sit down and post, which is both a good thing and a bad thing. Even when I have my laptop with me by the pool, I’m just too distracted and relaxed to get much done. So please forgive me if I don’t post quite as much this week.

By the way, if you ever have the opportunity to stay at LeBlanc in Cancun, do it! It’s an amazingly luxurious place. They pamper you like you’re royalty. We even have a butler!  Now on to today’s card…

The Hearth & Home Thinlits Dies, originally offered in the 2015 Holiday catalog, are returning in the new Occasions catalog, and are available in a new Bundle with a brand new coordinating stamp set, Happy Home. Aren’t these images sweet?

For today’s card, I used the bench image to create a sweet Spring/Summer scene outside the window. I stamped the scene in Basic Black on Whisper White card stock, then I colored in the scene with Sponge Daubers and inks in Soft Sky and Garden Green. I used a White Stampin’ Chalk Marker to fill in the clouds, and a Crumb Cake Stampin’ Write Marker to fill in the bench. I used Stampin’ Dimentionals to attach the window to the wall.

Notice the little bird in the sky over the bench? That isn’t part of the stamp. I accidentally got a speck of ink there, so I used my Basic Black Stampin’ Write marker to hide it with a little V shaped bird. No problem!

For the room’s interior, I used a piece of the new Love Blossoms Designer Series Paper Stack as the wallpaper.

For the bead board wainscoting, I scored a piece of Whisper White card stock every 1/8” with my Simply Scored Scoring Tool. I glued a 1/4″ strip of Whisper White CS along the top of the bead board, then a 1/8″ strip on top of that, for the chair rail molding.

I stamped the sentiment in Garden Green on Blushing Bride CS, and cut it out with the Word Window Punch. The whole thing is glued onto a Garden Green card base.

Here’s what I used:

Thanks for stopping by today, and Sweet Stamping!