When I got home from work tonight I was happy to see the Way to Use It Challenge on SCS. Julia challenged us to use some sort of frame for our project. I thought it would be fun to frame a flower garden and knew my new Rubbernecker Wild Flower and Floral Silhouettes would be perfect to play with. I love the flower image in my project.
I cut out a 5 x 5 inch square and stamped it repeatedly with the greenery image to create a framed border on the sides and bottom. Each time I inked up the image I misted it before I stamped to make the ink apply more evenly. I cut out a portion of the framed square with a square coluzzle and then cut out all the greenery portion of the frame with snips to allow a soft green border for the frame. I cut a second piece of paper and stamped and masked the flower several times to create my pretty garden. I watercolored with Rose Red reinker which actually is such a strong color of ink that it looks more of a bright red. I adhered the garden layer to the base and then used mounting tape to mount the frame over the garden image. I love the sentiment “In the Garden of Life Friends are the Flowers”. Isn’t this so true! I hand painted little red flowers and greenery on the sentiment.
Have a great weekend!
Stamps: Rubbernecker Wild Flower, Floral Silhouettes
Paper: Red, Watercolor
Ink: Brilliance, Rose Red, Bashful Blue, Barely Banana, Peeled Paint
Accessories: Twill, Coluzzle, Snips, Mounting Tape, Glue Dots, Oval Punch, Brushes.
Kittie – my husband says this is “very pretty”. I say it’s extraordinary! I love love love this card and your framing technique. You must have a very steady hand and patience to match! Fabulous card!
Kittie ~
This is lovely. I so enjoy your creations. Just beautiful!
Jean ~
Gorgeous work Kit!
Wowzers Kittie! Talk about gorgeous!!
That’s is awesome – how creative!!
Kittie, this is beautiful, as always :), and thank you for going into detail how you did this.
this is just downright beautiful! 🙂
so lovely, such pretty watercoloring!
What a beautiful garden frame, Kittie! Who wouldn’t just grin every time they saw it!!
Wow Kittie this is just gorgeous, love everything about it!!!
Wow, what a beautiful card. Your watercolouring is absolutely amazing. I’ve added your link to my Makes Me Smile Award on my blog, I hope you don’t mind. I’d love to be able to watercolour like you do, so very artistic. Thanks for sharing what you do,
Debbie
Rubbernecker is so lucky to have you, you give me such inspiration with your amazing creations!
Love your cabin…chimney is awesome and I love the way the flowers pop in the garden card. Perfect work, as always!