Saturday scrapping: Home sweet home

Hello!  Ok, its not Saturday, but I've been invited to guest design over at The Studio Challenges for the month of October, and I'm not allowed to post until the challenge goes live on Sundays.

The challenge this week was to scrap about our home.  I thought it would be a good time to use my 7 Gypsies phototray (which silly me had purchased, thinking it could house Junior J's collection of animal figures, but the tray turned out to be too shallow), as well as a set of measuring spoons that we had received as a token during a wedding that were too pretty to use.

I made a little house using chipboard and patterned paper (the roof was made by layering square scalloped shapes that were trimmed to make the shingles)...

Us, peeking through curtains.  And a whole bunch of flowers!

And I added all sorts of homey details (like curtains, the lamp and chair) and quotes to the tray, and used loads and loads of roses since they were so pretty!

There are 4 measuring spoons in total, with little phrases engraved on them... here are two of them...

That's us, taken for our wedding photoshoot.  We looked so much younger then, haha!

Here's the final thing, with this quote that hangs in my parent's house: "Houses are made of bricks and stones, homes are built on love alone":

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Can you spot the little lock?  Now go hunt for the keys!

Can't find them?  Heee hee, the keys are BEHIND the house!  I didn't want to waste the two compartments behind the "house", so I made pockets to hold the extra sets of room/house keys that we have, as well as matching tags for the keys.  The roof of the house is glued to the tray and I cut up of those free magnets that you get with purchases and used that to ensure the "door" snaps shut when we close it. :)

House keys and room keys, all labelled.
You can see the little magnetic strips at the bottom to close the house properly...

Ok, I used tonnes of stuff to make this tray, so I won't try writing down my supply list... most of the paper was Crate Paper's Restoration, which suited the vintage-y nature of my project!  Mail me if you have questions on the supplies... and if you have time, do take part in the challenge ya?  (Click here to read all about it!)