In The Garden

I made this card for my Grandad's birthday.  I made a gatefold card, cutting in a diagonal across the top edges to make it more of a fancy shape.  I used the free stamps from Creative Stamping Magazine to stamp out the watering can and plant pots, colouring them in using Spectrum Noir pencils.

I stamped the wheelbarrow and flowers from the same stamp set into the middle of a circle to create the middle of the card and again coloured it using Spectrum Noir pencils.

Gardening Bears

I made this card for my Grandad's birthday.

He's a big gardening fan so this Gruffies stamp from House Mouse was perfect.  The stamp set is called 'With Friends Like These'.  I stamped the bears onto the 'waste' section from Spellbinders Majestic Labels 25 and coloured them in using Spectrum Noir pencils.  I went round the edge of the frame using Cosmic Shimmer PVA pearls in black.

For the background I used a lattice embossing folder for the top half, coloured over with Vintage Photo Distress Inks and a piece of decorative paper from My Minds Eye for the bottom half.  I added a couple of borders and a sentiment from Lili of the Valley.

I handmade the seed packet, colouring it with Vintage Photo distress ink and adding a few sunflower stamps over the top.