Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Garden Birthday card

Today marks the start of another challenge over at Die Cuttin' Divas.
This week the challenge is:
Garden theme

Today, my card features a 3" wheelbarrow from Walk in my Garden, clouds from Serenade, grass from Everyday Paper Dolls and the sun from Celebrate the Occasion! The card base, sun and sentiment banner are all made from handmade wildflower embedded seed paper!! All those layers can be planted to grow a wonderful garden of wildflowers!

I inked all the layers with a sponge and coordinating ink colors. I hand cut the little banner and stamped it with a Scrappy Mom's Stamp. I used Momento black ink... if you are stamping on textured paper like this, it's a great idea to test the ink on a scrap of the paper before you put it on your project.

The center of the little flowers are finished off with some Liquid Pearls in light yellow.

All the layers and embellishments are added with pop dots. I wanted to make sure they can be easily removed so the card base can be planted.

We'd love for you to stop by Die Cuttin' Divas and enter the color challenge!
Garden theme

The sponsor this week is The Greeting Farm

9 comments:

SiskiyouSue said...

Beautiful! It's nice to see a cut from an older cartridge. Seems like most of us have abandoned them...

Pat N. said...

Love your card, Cheryl. The wheelbarrow is perfect for the garden theme!--Pat

Georgiana said...

This is perfect for the month of April since it is Earth Day. Do you make this paper or buy it that way?

Georgiana
Carson's Creations

Diana said...

Cheryl,

I love your card! It's so cheerful!

TFS

bdcampers@msn.com

Cards and Crafts by Sheree said...

This is absolutely precious! But I would not want to put it in the ground...I want to put it on my mantle! Great job!

Creative Diva said...

Your card is truly stunning. Love the cart of flowers.

Hugs,
Patty
creativediva98.blogspot.com

Loves Happy Hour said...

very cute!!

cheers!
LHH
http://loveshappyhour.blogspot.com/

Gerda said...

Cheryl,
Very cute card, its make me happy to see the sun!
Gerda
http://cardscreations.blogspot.com

Anonymous said...

Love your card, and love your site! Became a follower!

DCD Suzanne