Planted Paradise – Love You

Welcome back.  A few Friday deadlines are creeping up on me…

I am playing with Inkspirational (#320) to use more than one company’s product(s) and using a Close To My Heart Die that I was gifted with the current Sketch Saturday (#755) layout and combining that with Heart’s Quest (#58) and Farm Quest (#56) who have similar requirements. 

I have a friend that lives in Sante Fe, New Mexico and all of the gorgeous photos from her Adobe Home look out on to a dry landscape and she has decorated her patio space with lots of plants in terracotta pots.  This provided the inspiration for my design choice.

Here is the result:

Steps:

• Card Base: (8½” x 5½” scored at 4¼”) Basic Beige cardstock.
• Background Zig Zag Panel: (4¼” x 5½”) Cajun Craze, Pretty Peacock and Petal Pink cardstock die-cut with the Geometric Grid Die (CTMH).
  • The Cajun Craze Frame was adhered to the card base and the Pretty Peacock and Petal Pink Chads were Paper Pieced into the Frame in a zig-zag pattern.
• Vertical Cross Strip: (1⅛” x 5”) Vellum cut diagonally along the bottom to match the gridline.
• Bottom Shape: Basic Beige cardstock scrap.
  • The Large Planter Pot from the Planted Paradise stamp set was stamped with Cajun Craze ink and fussy-cut with Paper Snips.
• Center Shape: Basic Beige cardstock scraps.
  • Foliage images from the Planted Paradise stamp set were stamped with Pretty Peacock ink and also fussy-cut with Paper Snips.
• Top Shape: Petal Pink and Basic Beige cardstock scraps.
  • The sentiment, Love you, from the now retired Season of Chic stamp set was stamped with Pretty Peacock ink onto the Basic Beige cardstock and die-cut with the (⅝”) Stitched Circle die from the Stylish Shapes Dies set.
  • A Petal Pink Accent Mat was also die-cut with the (1¼”) Stitched Circle die.

All elements were adhered to the card to resemble the sketch.  I punched out five (5) small Hearts in Petal Pink, Pretty Peacock and Basic Beige with the retired Owl Builder Punch and added them to the Terracotta Pot.

Who wouldn’t love a big pot of Succulents and/or Cacti to warm up a dry corner?

Thanks for spending some of your time with me today.  Cheers,  Jolanda!

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