Nature's Garden

Hi all.  Well it's Christmas Day and I hope that most of you have a very enjoyable time, but I know though there will be those for whom Christmas is less happy and I hope that the new year brings better times.

This is the card I made for hubby using a set of stamps from Highlight Crafts called Nature's Garden which came with a Creative Stamping Magazine, and I'm afraid that this is the first time I have used it...tut tut.  I thought I would use this background and make it a snowy landscape with the addition of some pots and a cute robin, and the hare is part of the stamped scene.  I added the snowy hills and the soft blue sky in the background using Tumbled Glass Distress Ink which I blended using a brush.  I coloured with my set of alcohol pens and added some Flower Soft for the snow which came free with some winter decoupage eons ago and I had only used a very little of it.  I just used some glue and then sprinkled some of it onto the wet glue and pressed it down a bit to get it to stick and left it to dry.  I stamped the two different flowerpot images and coloured and cut them out and added them using Pinflair silicone glue gel.   I also used a white Posca Pen for snow on the pots and also used a bit on the branches behind the large pot on the right.  I finished with the sentiment stamped and embossed using Versamark and heat embossed with WOW Silver Metallic Embossing Powder before adding it onto a 5" x 7" card.

Thank you for visiting me here today and I'll see you again soon.

I am entering the following challenges:

We Love Stamping Challenge - Dec. 24 Winter/Anything Goes.
Stamping Sensations Challenge - Dec. 24 Anything Goes/Winter.

NBUS Challenge - No. 69 Where we use our Never Before Used Schtuff.