Mums and Friends

Hi friends!  As much as I love crafts and art, I do NOT have a green thumb.  One of my favorite friends does, however, and she always makes sure I have plenty of blueberries, raspberries, and beautiful flowers from her garden. Her name is Greere and Greere definitely has a green thumb!  She shared some photos of her gorgeous Fall flowers and I decided to make her a card and a gift with those photos. I'd like to enter my first project in the following challenges:

Let's Create #236 - AG + The Colors of Fall

Triple B October - Anything Flora/Optional Mood Board

Beautiful Blossoms #46 - Anything Floral/Optional Mood Board

Cupcake Inspirations #642 - Fall

I put Canva to work and printed out the resulting images on cardstock. I die cut this one above, stamped a bit on it, added some kraft sentiment stickers, and then matted it on a postage stamp frame. I then used some mixed media stamps from Funky Fossil on a piece of Kraft cardstock and attached to that, applying another sentiment sticker to the top. I framed this in a desktop 5x7 frame for Greere.

I then decided I had to also make her a card to go along with the gift:

It was so much fun gifting this to her - she opened it and her eyes went wide and she was like "OHMYGOD those are my flowers!".  Totally worth it. :)

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While I was at it, I also made a little ATC for the following challenges:

ATC Around the World #142 - Autumn Flowers

The Little Things #09 - Pumpkin and/or Pink

Tag-alongs and ATC's - All Things Autumn

For this one, I just took a scrap piece of watercolor paper left over from another project and cut it to ATC size, then sponged the edges with black ink. I printed out the photo of the flowers that I had edited in Canva, leaving the background dark for contrast, and used a postage stamp nesting die to cut it out. Layered a sticker on top of it from a Tim Holtz Halloween themed sticker book to finish it off. Peace.