Sunday, April 19, 2026

HOW DOES MY GARDEN GROW?

At the Seize the Birthday Challenge #342 we've been called to "Make a Spring Garden", so I had an opportunity to use a Memory Box die that came free with an order sometime last year. It's a fairly ornate die and not really my style, but I didn't use the border and opted for the center circular garden gate, which had been already cut from white cardstock and languishing in my stash.


I made a square white card base and cut a circular opening from a slightly smaller card panel and attached it to the face of the card base. On a scrap of pale blue card stock, I stamped this wonderfully whimsical garden with PTI "Pinefeather" ink and colored it with Copic markers and white gel pen, trimmed it out with a circle die, and attached it to the center of the opening on the card. I added about a hundred tiny pieces of dimensional foam to the back of the circular gate, tied on a PTI "Tiny Tag" with white heat-embossed sentiment, and glued it over the pale blue garden I had created. Having done all of that, it's now time to go out into my real spring garden and do some weeding!


Seize the Birthday: Seize the Birthday #324-Make a Spring Garden


Added April 24, 2026:



I'm also entering this card in the current Tic, Tac Toe Challenge #290, using the center down row - Embellishment/Free/Circles:







5 comments:

  1. Well... I love everything about this! What a pretty little fence die that is!

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  2. Fran, I absolutely love that circle with the white picket fence in it and your flowers showing in the background. Lovely card. Thanks for joining us at Seize the Birthday.

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  3. I love your delightful garden, Fran! What a sweet die for the fence. Happy you joined us at TicTacToe Challenge!

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  4. One of my favorite cards in the gallery, Fran! A perfect and darling garden scene you have created. Thanks for playing along at Seize the Birthday!

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  5. A very sweet card, Fran! The circle frame die is delightful. Thanks for joining us at TTTC this round. Cheers, Jolanda - DT Member

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