Graceful Garden with Wonderful Romance
My card today is a combination of Graceful Garden stamp set, Seasoned With Kindness stamp set, Wonderful Floral Framelits Dies (coordinates with the Wonderful Romance stamp set) and the Delicate Lace Edgelits. I tried a little watercolor on this card to give it a bit of texture. The Graceful Garden rose is really pretty in real time, but it looks a little faded here. I believe it is because it was heat embossed after being stamped with Melon Mambo ink. Does that look like Melon Mambo to you. The watercolor pencil doesn’t look like Melon Mambo either.
My sketch layout come from Freshly Made Sketches this week.
The rose from the Graceful Garden serves as my circle for the layout. The base is Bermuda Bay card stock. This is a true simple card, two layers really. The card base and the art piece. The art piece background is colored in Coastal Cabana, Balmy Blue and Lemon Lime Twist. After I lightly colored an area with the Balmy Blue and Lemon Lime Twist, I used an Aqua Painter with water to turn the coloring into a watercolor panel. The Balmy Blue was too blue for my card base so I added some Coastal Cabana to it and it turned out great with the color. A piece of edgelit was cut from Whisper White card stock using the Delicate Lace Edgelits Dies. It was adhered to the edge of the watercolor panel using Liquid Glue.
Two strips were cut from Bermuda Bay and Lemon Lime Twist to make the banners under the rose. A die from the Wonderful Floral Framelits Dies ( this die set coordinates with the Wonderful Romance stamp set) to cut leaves from Bermuda Bay and Lemon Lime Twist card stock.
The Graceful Garden rose is stamped on a panel of watercolor paper in Melon Mambo ink and then stamped with Versa Mark and heat embossed using Clear Embossing Powder. The rose is then colored using a Melon Mambo watercolor pencil. The rose was fussy cut after being colored. 
The leaves were attached to the back of the rose using two Glue Dots. It was easier doing it that way, you could tell exactly how the leaves needed to be placed around the rose. After attaching the leaves to the Graceful Garden rose it was popped on the water colored panel using Mini Stamp in Dimensionals.
The inside sentiment is stamped on a panel of Whisper White that is matted on a Lemon Lime Twist panel of card stock. A rose from the Graceful Garden stamp set was stamped on a panel of white watercolor card stock and then colored with the same colors as the rose on the front of the card. It is adhered with Multipurpose Liquid Glue in the lower right corner of the sentiment panel.
Thanks for stopping by. I hope you liked my card. All comments are appreciated. My wish as always is for you to find encouragement and inspiration for your own creations.
Shirley G
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Card Cuts:
- Bermuda Bay – card base – 4-1/4” x 11” scored at 5-1/2”
- Bermuda Bay – banner behind rose – 2-5/8” x ½”
- Lemon Lime Twist – Mat for sentiment panel – 4” x 5-1/4”
- Lemon Lime Twist – banner behind rose – 3” x ¾”
- Whisper White – Art piece panel – 4-5/8” x 2-7/8”
- Whisper White – Art piece stamped 2-1/2” x 2-1/2”
- Whisper White – Decorative Edge – 3-1/2” x 1”
