I like options...

if I can use a product more than one way...

I'm HAPPY...

here's the new large hosta on the right & the original is on the left...

it's stamped on newsprint that is adhered to clearly for art, using Glue N Seal...

it's inked with leaf green & the 

new vintage text stamp was stamped over the leaves with watering can archival...

options to think about...

all these flowers were stamped on newsprint/CFA and they will all work with the leaves...

plus there are lots more that fit...

decisions...

marigold?

pansy?

ruffled flower?

I cut a piece of my white magic mat board to 5 inches square, and pressed it into this inky fluid...

it's potting soil, forget-me-not and rubbing alcohol mixed in with the palette knife...

after drying it looks like this...

gorgeous starting point for a background...

another option...

tim recently released a beautiful sizzix die that creates a cool dimensional house...

you'll see lots of samples using it as intended...

but what other options are available?

I cut this side portion of the house from white magic mat board...

I inked the embossing folder with watering can archival & ran it thru the vagabond to look like siding...

the ink gets pressed into the recesses...

after embossing, I lightly inked over the house with tree branch, cut the window 3 times from back cardstock & glued them together...

I was going to cut a roof, but I saw that 

my art parts residence roof was a good fit...

I cut the door from a scrap of black magic mat board & embossed it with the dots embossing folder...

the mini heart is a black magic mat board scrap, covered with silver metallic embossing paste...

I used a black magic mat board scrap to create a chimney...

I used the layered tree stencil  toward the far left side of my base...

the trunk is inked with tree branch & the leaves are inked with orange blossom & red geranium archival...

I used tree branch to stamp the old wood floor background over the base & then used the new splatter brush with faded jeans distress stain to add the mini ink dots...

just dispense some stain onto the craft sheet, load the brush & then spread the bristles over the base & dry...

my lace border was stamped at the bottom using jet black and above that is a strip of tim's self adhesive corrugated material...I swiped the fern green pad over the raised spots...

I decided to layer 2 of the same flower...

it's inked with forget-me-not & overstepped with the 4 leaf clover background stamp, using tree branch archival...

and here's the piece all assembled...

TRUE, forever & Fig 7 are remnant rubs...

LOVE is a tim/sizzix die & it's cut from black cardstock that has Ranger's adhesive sheet on the back...it makes a sticker & it perfect for thin die cuts...

LOVE LOVE LOVE the dimension...

it's STURDY...but light as air!

super fun little art...

it can be displayed on an easel or popped into a frame...

or I might add a larger black magic mat board base???

that's it!

I hope YOU are inspired to look at the options...

then...

make art!

wendy