Let's Craft and Create challenge #227: Anything Goes or Something New (new home, new year, new baby, etc.)...

 
It's a new year and a new challenge at Let's Craft and Create. The option for this month's challenge--Something New--is perfectly timed. In fact, my final card for 2025 (see my December 31 post) was a New Year's card and the card I have created for this challenge is a New Home card. Both a New Year and a New Home hold exciting possibilities! I can attest to that--I've seen a LOT of new years and have lived in fourteen different apartments and houses in my lifetime. 

To make this A2-size card, I first cut the dark blue pieces. The strips across the top and down the left hand side are both 1 1/8" X 4". The strip across the bottom is 1 1/8" X 2 3/4". The blue square that holds the focal point is 2 3/4" X 2 3/4".

I cut my DSP just 1/8" shorter and narrower than each of the dark blue strips.

This little mushroom house is one of my favorite dies to use for a new home card. It's so whimsical and fun.

I added some gold metallic marker to the spots on the roof. I also used the marker for the doorknob and to add some spots to the tiny mushroom.

The images have been popped up with foam squares, and the sentiment was stamped with Versamark and heat-embossed with white EP.

Here is a peek at the inside. I stamped the word "Congratulations" and then stamped the second sentiment beneath it. 

A second little mushroom die-cut was added at the top.

I hope you'll take a look at all the other inspiring projects the Design Team has created. You'll find them on display at Let's Craft and Create. You're sure to be inspired to join our first challenge of 2026.

Thanks so much for stopping by, and remember to laugh--a little or a lot--every day.

Cheryl