The Underground Tutorial Project Life | Nicole Reaves

1. Open the house_guests.studio file in Silhouette Studio and cut out from cardstock or patterned paper. Cut a background paper to 3x4 and back the house cut with it.*

2. Start stamping your background images – anything that would be inside the house – with black ink. I began with the cute girl with the mug in the first floor window.

3. Use the curtains outline stamp and stamp on patterned paper. You could also use the solid curtain with a colored ink on white cardstock and then stamp an outline over it. Use scissors to trim out curtains. Cutting just outside the outline will fill the window on the cut file.

4. Apply adhesive to the back of the curtains and adhere inside the second floor windows.

5. Add more details inside the windows. Here I added a bird to the windowsill on the second floor window.

6. Stamp the vertical blind stamp with black ink on patterned paper and cut out. Adhere to the first floor window. Tuck up inside the window if you’d like to adjust how much of the blinds show past the top of the window.

7. Choose another patterned paper and cut a strip that measures 3” long x 1/4" high. Adhere to the top of the house for the cornice.

8. Cut another 1/4" strip of patterned paper and trim down the length for windowsills. Here, mine are just a bit wider than the window, at 1 1/8” wide. Adhere just below each of the three windows.

9. Cut a 3/8” strip of green cardstock or patterned paper for grass. Using your scissors, cut fringe on the top half of the paper. Adhere the strip to the bottom edge of the house, leaving a blank space in front of the door. Rough up the top edge of the grass to loosen up the fringe.

10. Add any other stamping details, like the “mmm” stamp. The door space is a nice spot for a short phrase or journaling.

11. With all of the paper and ink color options, the possibilities are endless for these little houses!

*Note : the House Guests cut file measures exactly 3”x4.” This size fits nicely in the Handbook page protectors. If you are using a page protector that has a slightly narrower pocket, trim down the width of the house before layering and stamping.

Supplies : House Guests stamp set, The Underground 4x6 paper pad, dot roller adhesive, scissors, grid paper, acrylic block, Versafine Black Onyx ink, Color Theory Coral Bay ink pad