I made this card for the Art Impressions monthly contest. This month's theme is "New Year's Resolutions". My resolution is to spend more time in my garden. Even though we have a new baby in the house! LOL Well, I'll try. I have some ambitious plans for new plants and a new garden path. We are in the running to be a tour garden for the National Daylily convention that will be held here in 2012 so I am tweaking things to get ready for another visit from the judges.
I hope this card shows up on the Art Impressions site soon. I was rather proud of how it turned out. I ended up with this fold on the front so I could incorporate both the sentiment stamp and the garden I created with stamps. I stamped the sentiment on ivory cardstock and distressed it with inks and a distress tool and then mounted it on lovely pink paper from the MME Bohemia line. When you open the flap on the cover you see the garden gate and flower border. I stamped these on the sky printed paper from the Basic Grey Mellow line and then colored with pencils and used mineral spirits to blend. I then sponged inks all over to age it to match the rest of the card. The inside of the card is also covered with the pink Bohemia paper and distressed.
Date: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 GMT Views: 374
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