Rose Garden

Hello friends,

Spring arrived last Sunday for us in the Southern Hemisphere. We are already experiencing hot weather in Pretoria –  seems as we have skipped the crisp and cool spring days. In our garden the roses started blooming this week and seeing this I enjoyed it so much to create this card for  the  Sugar Creek Hollow challenge this forthnight. The theme is “My Rose Garden” and we would like to see roses on your vintage or shabby chic project. The sponsor for this challenge is Heather Hudson and you can visit her shop on Etsy at My Artistic Adventures. The prize for one random winner is three collage sheets from her Etsy shop. From Heather’s beautiful collection of digital sheets she kindly supplied me with the “shabby green vintage rose tags collage sheet” for the challenge. I used my new Spellbinders D’Lites die “Gazebo” to create a garden scene. The beautiful tag is embellished with pearls and lace. I then printed a few more tags and fuzzy cut the roses to use with the paper roses from Wild Orchid Crafts. The inside of the card is also decorated with tags from the collage sheet.

I entered my card in the following challenges:

• 4 Krafty Girlz Challenge #1 (ends 09/19) – Anything Goes
• As You Like It Challenge #10 (ends 09/19) – Favorite Flower and Why (I love roses because they are so delicate with lovely colors. The paper flowers are such stunning replicas  I always enjoy making cards with them)
• Crafty Ribbons Challenge #60 (ends 09/12) – Anything Goes with Ribbon
• Creative Moments Challenge #25 (ends 09/18) – Birthdays/Anything Goes
• Penny’s Paper-Crafty Challenge #143 (ends 09/11) – Spooled Items (Lace and Ribbon)
• The Perfect Sentiment Challenge #PSCB90 (ends 09/11) – Ribbon, Baker’s Twine, Seam Binding or all 3
• Word Art Wednesday Challenge #96 (ends 09/11) – Anything Goes
• Card and Scrap Challenge Utfordring #60 (ends 09/13) – Use dies/ Bruk dies
• 4 Crafty Chicks Challenge #158 (ends 09/12) – Lace
• Totally Gorjuss Challenge #200 (ends 09/14) – Anything Goes
• Crafting Musketeers Challenge #5 (ends09/29) – Vintage
• Crazy 4 Challenges #C4C202 (ends 09/14) – Flowers and Pearls

The lovely image from My Artistic Adventures

The gazebo and a Whimsy sentiment

A close-up of the roses

A peep at the inside

The inside decorated with more tags from My Artistic Adventures

Project details:

• White cardstock
• Designer paper from Prima “Romantique” and Kaisercraft “Enchanted Garden”
• Vintage images from My Artistic Adventures
• Spellbinders D’Lites dies “Gazebo” and “Garden Weave”
• Olba punch “Leaves”
• Whimsy sentiment stamp from “Vintage Seed Packets” stamp set
• Penny Black sentiment stamp from “Lace Delight” clear stamp set
• Memento Dye ink “Toffee Crunch” for stamping
• Roses from Wild Orchid Crafts
• Lace
• Pearls
• Hug Snug seam binding “Iced lime”
• Tim Holtz distress ink “Antique linen”
• Skwiglues “Crystal”

Thanks for visiting today, I appreciate it so much. Please join us at Sugar Creek Hollow “My Rose Garden” challenge this fortnight. Have a wonderful day and happy crafting.

As always, regards from South Africa,

Amelia