Summer Garden (for CSF 869)

It’s Thursday, and another challenge for Create with Stamping Friends! This week is a sketch challenge. I took a little liberty and turned things around a little. You’ll see why in a minute! I know it’s not technically summer yet, but our summer garden is taking shape in our backyard and I wanted to express that in today’s card.

Here’s the sketch:

And here’s my summer garden card:

I really wanted to use the watering can, but with the squares angled the way in the sketch, I would either be watering the left side of the card or the bottom. I flipped it so the water can flow over the veggies! And the sun is shining on the garden. Of course!

Details:

• Garden Green Cardstock base, 8-1/2″x 5-1/2″, folded at 4-1/4″
• Granny Apple Green Cardstock layer, 5-1/4″x 2-1/2″, and two stitched squares from Stylish Shapes at 2″ squares each
• Storybook Moments DSP, 5-1/8″x 2-3/8″
• Basic Beige squares (2) at 1-3/4″ each
• Calypso Coral sentiment strip, 2-3/4″x 1/4″
  • Sentiment from Beautiful Butterflies stamped in Versamark Ink and heat emmbossed
• Daffodil Delight Cardstock “sun”, 2″ circle
• Veggies and watering can images from Storybook Garden Patch, stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black, colored with Blends, and cropped with coordinating dies
• Three green dots embellishments

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