Plant A Garden

Hello Blogger friends! Thanks for taking the time to stop and visit with The Charmed Life Blog this first Saturday in June. 

It's a beautiful, sunny day here. The humidity is down and I have the windows open and a gentle breeze is blowing through my home. I can hear the lawnmowers and other Saturday morning activity in the neighborhood. 

Last night we were on my next door neighbor's patio enjoying pizza and conversation. It felt so good to be out and and enjoying time with friends once again. We just discovered a new pizza place fairly close to our house. The pizza is so delicious. 

Anyway, let's move onto my card for today. This one I created for my weekly DT post on the CottageCutz Blog. For my card today, I am featuring the new Gardening Cat die and created a thinking of you card for a friend who loves to garden. So let's get started with some details on how I created my card.

Design Steps:

I started this card with my sketch. I had one saved on my computer that I thought would work well with this die image. It's an older one from Splitcoaststampers #696. I used this sketch a couple of years ago and created this card. I linked it just to give you an idea of how you can get a different look from a sketch just by changing up the images.

Next, I looked through my designer papers and found this floral one. It caught my eye almost immediately. I liked the flowers and soft pink background.

Sweet Sugarplum card base: 4 1/4" x 5 1/2"

Designer Paper Layer: 4 1/8" x 5 3/8"
Old Olive layer 2 + White layer 3 of sketch: used largest Pierced Rectangle die (4 1/4 x 3 1/4")

For the background layer instead of stenciling clouds, I decided to use a sun rays stencil and sponge the corner with wild honey distress ink. It helped to fill in the white space on the card.

The sentiment was the next to be completed. I recently bought some garden sentiment stamps and thought this one would work well with the Gardening Cat image. I didn't intend to stamp who the quote was from, but I forgot to tape it off when I inked the stamp. Audrey Hepburn was an actress in the 50's & 60's. It's stamped in chocolate chip ink. The stamp set is from the Penny Black set -"blooming sentiments".

Now that all the elements of the sketch are cut, stamped and sponged, I am ready for card assembly.
I attached the images to the white panel with double sided tape.

I did take some liberties with the sketch. I moved element 4 of the sketch to the bottom of the image panel. My garden plot is covering that part of the sketch. 

I finished off my card by attaching the remaining panels to the designer paper and then the card base. Added a couple of heart enamel dots and my card is finished.

Well that's it for me for this post. So until next time........God bless.

dies I used to create card:

I am also entering:

1. Crafty Friends has an anything goes challenge. 

2.  A Gem of a Challenge has an anything goes. 

3.  Just Us Girls has a sunshine challenge. 

4.  My Time to Craft has a stencil challenge. 

5.  Joy of Sets has a tic-tac-toe. I chose nature-summer-animals.