And exhale a rainbow

Today’s card featuring a whole stack of stamps from Artist Impressions to create a cottage garden scene.

To make up this card I followed the tut my crafty friend Jenny posted a few weeks back, which you can find here.  You really need to go check out her blog, Jenny does the most amazing cards!

As this is a shaker box card with two interactive elements (it comes flat in an envelope but then opens out plus the shaker part) I am entering it in the current challenge at 4 Crafty Chicks.  Over at TGIF they want to see some repeat stamping.  I have lots on this card to create the garden, a row along the bottom of the shaker element, two different kinds in the wheel barrow as well as repeated flowers in the various pots.

The entire card has been water coloured so I’m also linking it up at Simon Say’s Stamp Work ItWednesday challenge.  I think the water colouring really helps to set the scene of an English cottage garden.

Ingredients:

Embellishments

Craft Consortium Sequins ~ Wildflower Meadow

Inks & Paints etc

Kuretake Gansai Tambi Watercolor ~ No 10 White

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Black Soot, Broken China, Bundled Sage, Chipped Sapphire, Forest Moss, Gathered Twigs, Ground Espresso, Hickory Smoke, Milled Lavender, Peeled Paint, Pumice Stone, Shaded Lilac, Spun Sugar, Tattered Rose, Tea Dye & Vintage Photo

Papers

Bazzill Card Shoppe Cardstock ~ Marshmallow

Bazzill Orange Peel Cardstock ~ Baby Blue Medium

Couture Creation ~ Acetate

Fabriano Watercolor Paper ~ 200gsm Hot Pressed

Stamps

Art Impressions Watercolor ~ 4965 Bench Set, 5018 Cobblestone Set, 5008 Flower Set 3, 4875 Garden Wagon Mini Set & 4869 Small Container Set

Challenges

4 Crafty Chicks #413 ~ {Interactive Cards!}

Work It Wednesday ~ Watercolor!

Thanks for stopping by!