I only meant to buy green card....

..... honest I did......  but while browsing a site looking for some, I happened upon this wonderful die called Colchester Houses from Poppystamps. Now one of my daughters used to live in Colchester and her house looked absolutely nothing like that, but nevertheless I fell in love with the die and it somehow found its way into my basket.

I thought it would look really good as a silhouette against a sunset background, so I masked off a suitable sized band of a card and used inkpads and a watercolour brush to create a fiery sunset. Then I was just about to stick down the diecut and it dawned on me - the sunset was going to show through the windows and all the houses would look as if they were on fire.

So I stuck it onto white card first, and cut it out. Which made me realise what a blessing a die cutting machine is - those little eaves were right ******* to cut out. Next time I'm going to add the diecut BEFORE making the background......

I'm playing along with Less is More, where this week it's a colour challenge, with the theme Sunset