New Home Card

Making a new home card for friends is a nice way to congratulate them on moving. See how here!

"The ornaments of your house will be the guests who frequent it.
~Author Unknown"

How to make friends and family feel welcome in a strange place

Have you ever moved house to go to an unfamiliar place? It feels strange and disturbing at times to do so. I have moved many times in my life and know how disjointed I feel in each novel place. I think moving to a different house is counted as one of the major stressors in life! So helping someone feel they have arrived in a friendly place is a good thing, right? That's why I love cardmaking - making some new home cards to have on hand for the next person or family who feels out of place is practically a public service. Lol!

It's amazing what a simple little greeting card can to do to help a family or friend feel they belong in the neighbourhood. And it is a fun card to make so we papercrafters get to have a good time crafting as well.

I used the handmade greeting shown to help a family feel some comfort and delight in a recent move they made. The stamp set is from a retired set that was available in one year's Stampin' Up! Sale-A-Bration (which happens every January in Australia, by the way. It's such a worthwhile month on the Stampin' Up! calendar) catalogue. It was easy to make a row of little houses in Chocolate Chip. I added some trees too. Then I rubber stamped a little house again and full-coloured it in specially with my Stampin' Write markers before cutting it out to pop up with Stampin' Dimensionals. Adding a rhinestone or pearl or two to the door makes it even more special I think. Gotta have bling.

It helped to use the Stamp-A-Ma-Jig to get the positioning of the house walls, roofs and trees just right.

Then all I had to do was mount my main image on some Chocolate Chip cardstock, add a band of designer paper and some ribbon, then stamp a border of leaves on the bottom of my card, and not to forget to stamp the same line of leaves on the envelope.

Then I could deliver my new home card to my friends. I think they appreciated the thought very much.

If you have some nice papercrafty ways to welcome people to the neighbourhood, I would love to see them. Tell me how your friends or family reacted to your gesture too?

Do You Have A Favourite Handmade Card to Share?

Do you make greeting cards? Please do share it with me.

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