Fairy Tale Cottage: Eileen Hull and Stampendous Hop

Hello and welcome! The Eileen Hull Inspiration Team is having a blog hop this week together with Stampendous. Don't miss all the inspiration, and there are prizes to be won too. This is day two of the hop. 

I made a little fairy tale/Hobbit house:

I love to make little houses, something that you might already know. The stamps we got from Stampendous are adorable and can be used to build houses. Instead of using them with the dies that come with the stamps, I made a circular house with Eileen's Embroidery Hoop die, which gives a great size circle (3.6 in in diameter). I was planning to make sort of a Hobbit house, even though my son reminded me that it should have had a circular door too, in order to really qualify as a Hobbit house, and it should have been a part of a hill. He did guess that it was a Hobbit house though, so I wasn't all wrong. 

Here you can see the cute Cottage Home stamp set that we got, and I also used Eileen's Embroidery Hoop and Make-It-3D dies. 

Start by die cutting two circles with the Embroidery Hoop die. I love dies that are versatile and when I used the Embroidery Hoop for another tutorial, I thought that the inside circle was very useful and planned to use it for something else. Since it is a Bigz die it can cut though thick material. I worked with mat board, which is my favourite surface for 3-D projects. To make my house 3-D, I used the clever Make-It-3D die, which comes with three different parts, so that it can fit different shapes. The one you see here works great for circles. Coat them with gesso.

 For the house to stand without problems, I cut off a piece at the base.

Paint the parts with Picket Fence and Pumice Stone. I wanted a light coloured house, but you can of course use any colour. If your house is dark, you might want to white emboss the stamped details. so that they are clearly visible.

 Stamp the house with Jet Black ink. Don't reink the stamp for all the brick impressions.

 I also stamped the windows and the door on a a left-over inky paper, and the step on grey paper.

 Colour the house with Distress Paint using a fine paint brush.

Assemble the house as shown here, using a strong adhesive. I used Ranger's Wonder Tape and also added some hot glue here and there - be careful not to burn yourself. You'll have to cut off a part of one of the 3-D pieces.

I glued the doors, window shutters and just the top part of the step to the house and also added some rub-on words and a number. The step was adhered with a foam dot.

It doesn't show well, but there is Glossy Accents on the flowers.

I liked the look of the pink bricks. As with all my little houses, I wish I could stay in them for a little while.

The little window stamps are so cute, and I like that there are two different ones on the Cottage Home set, so you can easily make a variety of houses.

 The edges of the house were dry-brushed with Hickory Smoke Distress Paint.

The fainter impression of some of the stamping adds texture to the background, and just a hint of bricks.

The back of the house looks like this, with more rub-ons and three windows. If you don't want to make a 3-D project, this would look great as a circular card too.

Remember to hop along and comment on the participants' blogs, for your chance to win. Three lucky winners will win their choice of Cottage Home or Mushroom Home plus pre-cut mat board from the Sizzix Scoreboards Canister Die. Sponsored by Sizzix. Deadline to comment is February 28th and winners will be announced early next week. See Official Contest Rules for details.

Thank you so much for stopping by!

Happy crafting!!

Anna-Karin

Supplies:

Stampendous COTTAGE HOME	Sizzix EMBROIDERY HOOP Bigz	Sizzix Bigz Die - Embroidery Hoop	Sizzix ScoreBoards XL Die - Box, Make-it-3-D	Sizzix Little Sizzles - 6" x 13" Mat Board Pack, 6 White Sheets
Simon Says Stamp 3 SHADES OF GRAY	Tim Holtz NUMBERS REMNANT RUBS	Tim Holtz BOTANICAL REMNANT RUBS	Ranger Archival Ink Pad JET BLACK	Tim Holtz Distress Paint PICKET FENCE
Tim Holtz Distress Paint PUMICE STONE	Tim Holtz Distress Paint VICTORIAN VELVET Ranger TDD36494	Tim Holtz SCATTERED STRAW	Tim Holtz Distress Paint GATHERED TWIGS	Tim Holtz Distress Paint HICKORY SMOKE
Dina Wakley Ranger WHITE GESSO	Tim Holtz Tonic CRAFT KNIFE	Big Shot Machine	Sizzix BIG SHOT MACHINE Gray And White	Sizzix CUTTING PAD XL Pair
Sizzix Accessory Cutting Pads, Extended	Ranger MINI ROUND INK BLENDING TOOLS	Ranger Inkssentials GLOSSY ACCENTS	Ranger Inkssentials Non Stick CRAFT SHEET	Ranger Inkssentials WONDER TAPE 1/8""
Ranger WONDER TAPE 1/4 Inch

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