Garden Party for July 1

Its Garden Party Tuesday - where a magazine clipping plucked from the "Inspiration Shoebox" is used as the inspiration for a card.

Here is the picture posted last week ---->

I like the colors, although I don't know if I'd be gutsy enough to decorate my own home with them. (But I painted 2 giant trees on the walls of one DD's room - so who knows.)

And here is my card. It seems like I've been using flowers a lot lately, so I switched over to strawberries. The stamps are from Odd Bird Planet - Strawberry Pair and Berry Sweet.

I colored it with Copics and cut it out with my Nestibilities die. Then I inked the background with Vintage Photo Distress Ink and a duster brush while the cutting die was still in place to keep the cream edge. The matte is cut and embossed with a scalloped die.

The patterned paper is from the Basic Grey Blush collection. The bottom edge is punched with a Threading Water Punch.

So there is my attempt....

And here is the photo for next Tuesday. Hmmmm.... interesting. I guess we'll see...

If you'd like to play along, just post a comment here with a link to your creation and I'll include it in Tuesday's post.