Spring Garden Collage - Stampin' Up! Storybook Garden Patch

   My stampers got some coloring therapy yesterday at class!  I had them using colored pencils and the Storybook Garden Patch stamp set to create a vintage feel collage card with pops of colors.  Everyone picked which garden items they wanted to use and chose the colors as well.  Each one was unique and I think most of my stampers enjoyed the bit of relaxing coloring.

  This design starts with a Crumb Cake base, then a band of Timeless Plaid DSP across the center to brighten up the palette.

 I arranged many of the stamps from the Storybook Garden Patch set onto an E block to create a kind of small background stamp.  It was stamped on a piece of Crumb Cake with Early Espresso ink.  Using paper snips we roughed up the edges and sponged Crumb Cake ink all around the panel.  One of the splatter stamps from the Elements of Text stamp set was stamped all over the panel as well, stamping off once for a very light worn look.

  Next the E block collage was stamped again on a piece of Very Vanilla along with the stack of pots image.  Then we got to work coloring whichever images we wanted in whatever colors we liked using the Watercolor Pencils.  The favorites were then die cut and arranged in a group in the bottom corner.  I popped the peas up on dimensionals on this sample.

  The sentiment from Storybook Friends is stamped in Early Espresso onto Very Vanilla and is then popped up over a linen thread bow.  A single Adhesive-Backed Textured Dot is added under the sentiment for the final detail.

  Thanks for looking!  Did you stamp today?

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Stamps: Storybook Garden Patch, Storybook Friends, Elements of Text

Ink: Early Espresso, Crumb Cake

Paper: Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla, Timeless Plaid DSP

Accessories: Watercolor Pencils, Storybook Garden Patch dies, dimensionals, linen thread, Adhesive-Backed Textured Dots