Garden as though you will live forever...

Hello!

After the long hiatus it feels so good to finally be back with a brand new Scenic Saturday post on the ol' Blogabella. I'm continuing to enjoy creating with the latest release to hit the shelves so I chose to ink up the lovely Uptown Girl Greta Loves to Garden for my card today.

To shake up the design a bit and give Greta a slightly different look, I stamped her at a subtle angle in the bottom corner of the small-ish Note Page die, cutting her off at the waist. My goal was to have her sort of "photo-bombing" the picture of the garden that I created using a mix of older stamps and free hand coloring. The pumpkins are part of the Set of Pumpkins while the flowers behind them are from the retired Little Bits Potted Flowers set, I simply didn't ink up the pot part of the image. Greta and the garden were all concentrated in the bottom half of the panel so that I could color in a wide open blue sky that provides some breathing room within this otherwise rather busy scene. It also creates the perfect space for me to add a sentiment from the new Garden Sentiments set. Once the little Note Page panel was all colored up I added foam adhesive to the back so that it would have a bit of lift separating it from the busy garden print covered card base. Hopefully you can see that building a full and bountiful garden scene doesn't have to overwhelm and take over the entire card design to the point where it is hard to make out the individual elements.  :)

Stay crafty my friends!

 

Supply list:
cardstock- Papertrey Ink and Catherine Pooler
stamps- Stamping Bella (Uptown Girl Greta Loves to Garden, Set of Pumpkins, Little Bits Potted Flowers and Garden Sentiment set), Colorado Craft Company (Spring Background)
ink- Memento tuxedo black and Catherine Pooler sage
Mama Elephant Note Page die
Copic markers:
skin- E000, E00, E11, E04, R00, R20
hair- E53, E55, E57, E47, E79
clothes- E40, E41, E81, E84, Y11, Y21, Y26, Y18, W1, W3
vegetables- YR15, YR07, E19/R05, YR09, R29, YG05, G46, BG96/RV63, YG13, YG09, G46/YG21, G14, G07, BG99/YG00, YG03, YG67, BG99/YG06, Y02, Y26
pumpkins- Y35, YR04, YR68, E09, E84, E87, YG13, YG17, G46, BG96
sky- B0000, B000, B00, B01, C0, 0
dirt- E31, E42, E43, E44
cucumbers/kale- G20, YG11, YG41, YG45, YG05, G46, G85, BG96/YG03, YG07, G46, BG99
flowers- YY04, Y17, YR24, E35, E25, E29, E49/R14, R17, R43, R56, RV99, YR02, Y38, YR18
butterfly/fence- Y02, Y15, Y18, YR15, E74/E35, E44