OLW59 - using Greenhouse Garden and Nature Walk

You may be wondering whether you're in the right place, but your eyes don't deceive you - Crafting Clare's Paper Moments is a French Foliage-free zone today! Don't worry, I'm not so fickle as to have gone off it already! It's just that I've been waiting for the fabulous One Layer Wednesday challenge to come out and, when I found that it was to use this picture as the inspiration for a one layer card, well, it didn't exactly shriek leaves to me! Here's what I made:

I don't know quite why (!) but I decided to use the remains of a top note cut-out to use as a mask which I held over my card base while I sponged a background inside with So Saffron and Old Olive inks. I've used my favourite Confetti card stock with those beautiful speckles in it.

The white flowers from Greenhouse Garden were stamped on top of this and embossed with white embossing powder. I really like the misty look of them! The stalk from the set was added randomly in Old Olive and then came the Nature Walk plant, which I coloured with Daffodil Delight and Old Olive markers before stamping repeatedly.

To finish I defined the white flowers with markers and added a sentiment using my stamp-a-majig. This was one of those cards which started with me wondering what would happen if I just... and then ended up like this!

Supplies needed for this project:

Stamps: Nature Walk, Greenhouse Garden, Sincere Salutations

Ink: So Saffron, Old Olive, Whisper White Craft ink

Card stock: Confetti Cream

Other: Top Note die, markers, white embossing powder

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This week, my 10-year old son went to a science fair at the 'big school' his older brother and sister attend. When he got home I asked if he'd enjoyed his day. It was brilliant, he told me - he'd met his sister's friends at lunchtime! I told him that sounded great, but what about the science aspect of the day? He then launched into an animated monologue about how this cool guy had made a ball of flame on the end of a stick and it had exploded! He added that he was thinking about buying some hydrogen and some nitric acid on ebay. He then disappeared outside to play, leaving me mentally picturing the charred remains of the family home...

Can you believe it's Friday already? We have a packed programme of cricket, shopping expeditions, summer fairs and tennis tournaments scheduled, so fingers crossed for the weather! I hope you have a lovely weekend too, whatever you have planned. Thanks again for all your support - I really appreciate my followers, your visits and comments, and hope to see you here again very soon.