In my garden
Here is a layout I have created for Soul Scrappers Challenge called "In the Garden". You may recall that yesterday I posted some photos of the beautiful Bird of Paradise flowers that are growing in my garden. We were posted a selection of items to be used on the layout - and here they are. Now what did I do with them? Will firstly I used the two die cut flowers as stencils onto white cardstock with Gelatos that I had shaved and made into a liquid with warm water. I also flicked some of the liquid onto the cardstock. This I then cut down to a 11.5" square and distressed the edges (not shown) and placed onto blue cardstock. I deconstructed the vanilla burlap (hessian) and soaked it the diluted solution. The flowers and mini-cup cake after stenciling and additional painting with remaining liquid. I then painted with acrylic paint the wood pattern paper with a mixture of white and yellow. The fabric butterfly I also painted with acrylic p...