Grace’s Garden and Its Inspiring Canopy for the Sisterhood of Crafters

Sisterhood of Crafters has a new theme for you all, starting today – “How Does Your Garden Grow? (Create using something you’d find in a garden!).” To begin this project, I combined a couple of different die sets (one new and the other retiring soon). Then, I layered them onto the most unlikely Sand & Sea designer papers. Grace’s Garden is one of those wonderful bundles that I won’t be letting go of for a long time.

Once you finish here, I hope you visit our Sisterhood of Crafters Design Team gallery for some great inspiration and play along!

• Firstly, I started this card with Crumb Cake 12″ cardstock, cut at 12″x6″ and scored at 6.”
• After that, I cut the two pieces of DSP at 5″ then cut the “grass” piece with the die from Inspiring Canopy. Once done, I sponged Pear Pizzazz ink over it to give it more of a grass color but letting the neutral color show its wonderful details.
• Then, I adhered the two pieces together and layered onto white cardstock.

Now, the FUN Part!

• Firstly, the creative part of this card came in a couple of stages. The first one started with stamping the gate, coloring it oh-so-slightly with a Gray Granite Stampin Blends marker, then cutting it out with the coordinating die.
• After that, I stamped four of the plants, coloring them with Stampin’ Blends and cutting those out. It needed something in the background, so I got out the Inspiring Canopy dies and cut the trees with the same paper as the “grass.” After that, I cut the leaves from scraps of Soft Sea Foam, sponged with Pear Pizzazz and glued everything onto the card base.
• Finally, the finishing touches was adding a few little Finches to the card front after I had stamped, colored and cut them out. Then, I made a sign from the “Hello” stamp, cropped it out with a cute little die from Ornate Frames collection and tied Linen Thread into the holes. Once that was done, I popped it up with dimensionals onto the gate.

• As You Like It Challenge Challenge – Spring or Summer: My answer was so easy! Spring is my favorite season! Why? Because living in Michigan, winter can be long and cold. Seeing the sun and nature coming back after a long break is the best!
• Crafty Catz Challenge
• Get Creative Challenge
• Moving Along With The Times Challenge – Animals/Birds
• Through The Craft Room Door Challenge
• The House That Stamps Built Challenge

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Grace's Garden Photopolymer Stamp Set (English) [151513] $18.00	Sand & Sea Designer Series Paper [154288] $11.50	Neutrals 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Cardstock [147003] $12.00	Pear Pizzazz 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [131201] $8.75
Gray Granite Classic Stampin' Pad [147118] $7.50	Pear Pizzazz Classic Stampin' Pad [147104] $7.50	Flirty Flamingo Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [154884] $9.00	Gray Granite Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [154886] $9.00
Mango Melody Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [154888] $9.00	Soft Sea Foam Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [154902] $9.00	Garden Gateway Dies [151512] $35.00	Ornate Frames Dies [150664] $34.00
Linen Thread [104199] $5.00