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Friday 19 August 2011

How does your garden grow?

I've had in mind for some time to create a canvas which depicts a garden scene using grungey flowers and the Tim Holtz Bird Cage. I had the basic design in my head but it evolved as I went along. This was my finish product:


I'm really pleased with the end result. I used scrunched up tissue to define the sky at the top and the grass at the bottom which I applied with Gel Medium (matte), I coloured using the Eco-Friendly acrylic paints. Using stencils and moulding paste I created the crown and floral flourish and painted these using the Eco-Friendly acrylic paints. I used cordinations paper for the flowers and the branches which I sanded down. The flowers were made using spiral dies. The large yellow flower was made by scrunching tissue paper and dictionary pages which I had sprayed with Cosmic Shimmer Mist and glued together. The white flower was hand painted and I added a flower button in the centre to finish it off.
Grunge paper was used for the birds, bird cage and the bracket. I finished my canvas off by using jump rings, steam punk jailers keys and pearls.

I am going to use this for a future workshop so watch this space!

A few competitions:

craftyourpassionchallenges - Anything but a card
allsortschallenge - Anything but a card
creativecardcrew - Handmade flowers
paperplaytime - Anything Goes
craftsandmechallenges - Anything Goes
craftuscrazy - Anything Goes
paper-craftingjourney - Anything Goes
creativecraftchallenges2 - Anything but a card
shellysimagesblog - Anything Goes
dreamvalleychallenges - Distressing
makeitmonday - Anything Goes

19 comments:

  1. Such a gorgeous card Joanie...and fabulous colours and design too hun...

    have a lovely weekend...hugs Vicky xx

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  2. Great project Joanie. Your flowers are beautiful and looks perfect in your garden
    Thanks for joining us at Allsorts this week and good luck!
    Big hugs, Jill

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  3. Beautiful card Joanie. Love the bird cage and the flowers are so pretty. a lovely garden.


    Thanks for sharing with us at ‘Make it Monday’

    Luv CHRISSYxx

    Don’t forget. .if you leave a comment on another entrant, mention that you saw their card on ‘Make it Monday’ for a chance at second prize.. the more you comment on and mention MIM, the more chances at winning second prize.

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  4. Fabulous canvas! Love all your flower details! Great idea for the sky! Beautiful garden!

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  5. Beautiful canvas, love all the details you put into this work of art! Thanks for playing with us at Dream Valley Challenges.

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  6. This is beautiful. Thanks for sharing your talents with us at Craft Your Passion. Looking forward to seeing more of your work soon!
    Hugs,
    Jodi

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  7. oh really love this its just gorgeous great colors and detail on this bless you for playing at creative craft challenge this week hugs cherylxxxxx

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  8. Beautiful card! I love those fab flowers :-) Thankyou for joining us at Dream Valley! Love 'n' hugs, Mel xx

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  9. what a wonderful little scene - love the bird cage
    Thanks for linking up to Make it Monday
    Lisa x

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  10. Beautiful card, I love your handmade flowers.
    Pauline
    x

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  11. This is really cool! I love all the texture on your project!

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  12. Thank you for crafting with us this week at Craft Your Passion Challenge and we hope to see you again soon!!

    ~Jenn~

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  13. Such a gorgeous creations♥. Love your bird cage and flower♥.

    Hugs Marita♫♫

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  14. What a great canvas, and scene you have created.

    Thanks for sharing your creation with Make It Monday.
    Don't forget......... if you leave a comment on another entry, mention that you saw their card on "Make It Monday" for a chance at second prize. The more entries you comment on the more chance you have of winning second prize.

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  15. I would be so pleased with this result also Joanie the canvas is stunning. Love the grungy handmade flowers and the tissue sky is just a fabulous idea.

    Thanks for sharing with us at Fashionable Stamping Challenges.

    Hugs Shirley x x

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  16. Joanie, this is stunning. I love all the different mediums that you used on this project.

    Thanks so much for joining us at Creative Card Crew.

    Mari

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  17. A gorgeous project. I love the tissue sky and the flowers are fab. Thank you for joining us at Creative Craft.
    Nikki x

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  18. This is gorgeous, I love the flowers. Thanks for joining us at Creative Craft Challenge. Bev x

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  19. thanks for joining us at PCJ this time with a beautiful creation
    Jacki xx

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