How Apropos

In case you never read down that far in the sidebar, the quote for today (Saturday) is:

"Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.Gilbert Chesterton(1874-1936)"

I'm not sure I agree with Mr. Chesterton about the frame, but the part about art consisting of limitation sure reads true just as I'm about to show you a card I stamped yesterday for a limited supplies challenge on SCS. The challenge was to use a Halloween stamp set with a non-Halloween sentiment. What a great challenge! At first nothing came to mind, until I realized that the house from Home is where the haunt is isn't necessarily have to be haunted. What if it was just a handyman's special and someone with the right skills moved in?

SO i used my stampin' write markers to create a creamy caramel sided house with a close to cocoa roof and a ruby red chimney. After I stamped the house I used my more mustard marker to add curtains and my ruby red marker to color the door. I added a chocolate chip and ruby red fence and some trees which, with the aid of garden green and ruby red markers and some sponging turned in to apple trees. I matted the image on garden green card stock and adhered it to a creamy caramel base which I first stamped with the sanded background in creamy caramel ink. I added the "just moved" sentiment from loads of love accessories stamped with chocolate chip on a petite tag, sponged the tag with garden green and more mustard and matted it with ruby red. I added some caramel gingham ribbon and I was done.

So what do you think? Pretty nice home in move-in condition, right? You'd never think of this place as haunted :-)