Happy Spring everyone and welcome 😊The last few days have been the kind that has made Melbourne's weather and Crowded House's song, Four Seasons In One Day so memorable over the years. There has been everything from overnight frosts to sunny highs as well as thunderstorms and hail. But the garden is starting to show signs it is enjoying the growing hours of sunlight and the Spring sound of weekend lawn mowers is for now very welcome!
It's also time for a new challenge at Just Add Ink and this week's gorgeous, country cottage garden inspired image was suggested by the lovely Kelly. The beautiful florals and greenery are so perfect to celebrate Spring - and Autumn as well - and are so pretty they are hard to resist! As always our design team have created fabulous cards to inspire you so we hope that you can take a moment to pop on over to the challenge blog and hopefully join us.
I was inspired by the florals, pinks and greens and also the country feel of the photo image. So it seemed the perfect time to have a play with one of the new sets available now in the Holiday Catalogue. Yes, they say it's only 120 days or less to Christmas....so it''s definitely coming 😀
This is the pretty Country Home set, and I coloured the florals with Blendabilities - including the new Blackberry Bliss and Shaded Spruce combos. And for the jar/ vase I used Copics.
I also added some shading using a Basic Grey Water colour pencil as somewhere for the jar to sit but it has been almost lost in the real shadows created by using dimenionals to add the layers.
I teased out the beautiful Copper Trim and added some Jute Twine and the Wood Textures DSP to emulate the layers of texture in the photo's oak tree, picket fence and cobblestone path.
Whilst many of the sentiments in this stamp set are perfect for the American Thanksgiving holiday, there are plenty more suitable for every day use and I suspect this will be a very handy set to have 😊
Card stock: Whisper White (Thick and standard), Rich Razzleberry
Inks: Momento Tuxedo Black
Designer Series Paper: Wood Textures Stack
Stamps: Country Home
Accessories: Big Shot, Blendabilities Combos: Lovely Lipstick, Old Olive, Shaded Spruce, Calypso Coral, Blackberry Bliss. Copper Trim, Jute Twine ( Retired), Regals Enamel Shapes (sadly retired)
Non SU: Stitched Rectangle Dies (SSS), Copics: C1, C3, C5
Thanks for stopping by today and I hope that you can take a moment to pop on over to Just Add Ink and I look forward to seeing what you will create from using this spring garden inspired image as Inspiration this week.
Happy stamping until next time,
Jan
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