Some garden sweetness!

 Happy Wednesday HH fans!

Well we have made it to the middle of the work week, yeah!  Today I'm featuring our beautiful imaged called Country Garden.  I absolutely love the large flowers in the this image.  There are just so many colours I can imagine using for the flowers.

I picked some pretty bold for me background paper because I was in love with all the fabulous colours is has.  

I turned this cutie into a Thank You card because my stash is super low.

Copic Combos

Brown - E27, E25, E23

Green Leaves - YG67, YG17, YG13

Green Grass - G46, G43, G40

Yellow - Y08, Y06, Y04

Pink - R89, R85, R83, R81

Purple - V17, V15, V12

Warm Gray - W7, W5, W3

Shading - B00, B000, B0000

Stamps - Country Garden T005 & Thank You F103

Thanks for poppin' by today & happy stampin'!

Country Garden

Howdy - MichelleO here today and I just LOVE coloring up spring, flowers and animals! My favorite time of the year! Well other than allergies. This week for High Hopes Stamps I colored up Country Garden - Such a sweet pretty image!  

Not only the sweet spring but also the country feel makes me happy! I colored with my Copics (colors below) and then found some papers from Paper Studio that have that soft country springy feel to them. I sewed down the layers and placed the image and sewed it down with a zig zag stitch. Zig Zag is fun and makes me happy too! LOL - A wonderful Happy Birthday Script from High Hopes Stamps is perfect for this image. I was looking for an embellishment and decided lets go with spring - country and what makes me smile and pulled out some adorable tiny pink buttons. Love buttons! 

Copic colors used -

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Country Garden....

Welcome Everyone;

There are times, when creating a card that I have no idea what sentiment to use at the time.  When this happens, I add the card to my "General & Anything Goes" stash.  A Thinking of You, Happy Birthday, Thank You sentiment can be added at the last minute.  

So for today's card I used Country Garden from High Hopes Stamps vast repertoire and left the sentiment of for now as I couldn't decide which one to use.

Supplies used: 

• Stamps:  Country Garden (T005) - High Hopes Stamps
• Paper:  XPress It Blending Cardstock, DP - Cottage Life - 49th & Market
• Copic Markers:
• E27 - Africano, E25 - Caribe Cocoa, E23 - Hazelnut
• YG17 - Grass Green, YG13 - Chartreuse, YG11 - Mignonette
• R85 - Rose Red, R83 - Rose Mist, R81 - Rose Pink
• BG0000 - Snow Queen
• Dies:
• Lacey Lattice Rectangles - Gina Marie Designs
• Butterflies - Impression Obsession
• Nuvo Jewel Drops: Aqua Plains & Morning Dew
• Miscellaneous: Lace Ribbon

Do take some time with a favourite beverage and browse the High Hopes Stamps website to see the many and varied fun stamps that are available.  For some inspiration, hop on over to the High Hopes Stamps Blog and see what the HH Divas have been up to. We do post daily. Don't forget to follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day,

Hugs,

Country Garden

My final my favourite thing to share with you this month is flowers. 

My Grandmother was phenomenal with putting together bright coloured flowers in our flower beds. My job was to follow her as she planted with the "magic" bucket to water the flowers after they were planted. The "magic" made the water blue.......such a fun child hood memory! As an adult I know what turned the water blue........but I still like to pretend I didn't know <wink> 

I think Country Garden is the perfect stamp to use to share.......flowers.

I have another favourite thing to share and that is country colours. Dusty rose and what I call a grey blue are some of my favourite colours. After colouring my stamp, I cut it out using a stitched rectangle die. Some paper from Julia Nutting and MFT were perfect. A white picket fence, cotton lace bow and some gumdrops finish off my card.  

I decided to keep the layout quite simple and will add the sentiment to the inside of the card when I have an occasion to use it. 

Card Recipe 

Stamps: Country Garden - High Hopes Rubber Stamps

Patterned Paper: Paper Dolls - Julia Nutting, Watercolor Wash - MFT

 Tuxedo Black ink - Memento,  Misti, baby blue ink - Memories, fence and lamp post die - YNS, stitched rectangle die - YNS, white sugar and sparkle gumdrops - YNS, cotton lace ribbon - stash

Spectrum Markers: AG1 AG3 AG5 CG4 DG3 JG6 CT1 CT2 CT4 GB5 AP1 AP3 AP4 AB1 AB2 AB3 EB6 EB3 EB5 OG2 DG2 DG4 VB1 VB2 VB3

Copics: RV11 RV32 RV36

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Have a fantastic day!