Good Wednesday morning. My project today started off with the intent of making another clean and simple card like I posted yesterday but it took a different turn altogether. I wanted to create a simple wheelbarrow full of hollyhocks and pair it with a little grass and a sentiment but it just didn’t seem to want to work out that way. It’s always a surprise to me when I end with something totally than I started out working towards.
I cut the wheelbarrow once in red and once in Sahara sand cardstock. I cut the body and the handles off the red and attached them over the gray paper. I colored the wheel with a black Copic marker. I had all the different colored hollyhocks already cut from a few projects ago and I decided to use them. Although not necessarily colors I would normally use together I thought they were perfect to represent flowers being carried out in the wheelbarrow to be planted.
I cut a couple sections of the grass border, cut it apart and tucked it inside the wheelbarrow, tucked the hollyhocks in around them and attached everything with glossy accents. and attached with glossy accents. I purposefully placed a few sprigs of the foliage hanging down out of the wheelbarrow to it didn’t look “too arranged”. Here’s a closer view.
The fame was cut using my Matting Basics A set. I attached the small grass border and the fancy cut border to the back of the frame with ATG adhesive and then mounted to the card base with glossy accents. I tucked the wheelbarrow in between the two grass layers and attached to the base with double layers of mounting tape. I attached the three butterflies for the finishing touch.
Have you tried your hand at making some garden scenes? They are so much fun.
Thanks for stopping by and I hope you have a great day.
Wonderful summer card…love all the details!
Jan
Such a pretty card, Kittie! Great wheelbarrow die cut filled with such pretty flowers. Great “lattice” panels and butterflies, too. Like the all the “red” on this card. 🙂
This is so cheerful! Love the red it draws me in . Such pretty pretty flowers.
ok Kittie, you finally did it. This card is so darned cute, I just bought the wheel barrow die….LOL…. Such a pretty card… I love it… Thank you for sharing your creativity
A lovely card and the dies are so beautiful !
Very pretty card. Love the cute wheelbarrow with the pretty flowers…and of
course the butterflies.
I’m so ready for Spring and getting out into the garden, just love your red wheelbarrow Kittie, we used to have one. Brings back lots of memories of when my kids were small. Daniel always wanted to get in and have me push him around for a ride :-).
This is a wonderful card Kittie! Love the flowers in the wheelbarrow!
Good Morning, Kittie, A gorgeous, scene, from the garden of color. I actual love the colors you put in the wheelbarrow, The holly hocks are on my wish list. Love what you have created with them. Butterflies for that added touch of spring, just beautiful…..have a good day….LOL
The card is beautiful. I love all the colours of the Hollyhocks. The wheelbarrow filled with flowers, has me wishing to be out in a garden, digging and planting. This card has brightened a very dull, cloudy, cold and rainy day. Thank you for brightening my day and lifting my spirits.
Jacquelene L
Canada
This is so great if convinced me to buy the wheelbarrow die. Anorher wonderful scene with great colors. TFS.