mystic moonlit garden

When I get my new stamps into the house, I often spend hours dreaming of what kind of scenes I could create with each one. You guessed it! I love making a scene!!!

And ever since first spying this Butterfly Basics Bundle from the New Occasion Catalog, it's been begging to be made into a fairy-like moonlit garden scene. It reminded me of the place we lived at in Manitoba, years ago. Especially the shade garden on the east end of the house. I wanted to replicate it. (All I need yet is lilies of the valley!)

The white flowers and ferns are embossed in clear onto Whisper White cardstock and then I sponged Night of Navy, Not Quite Navy, and Marina Mist over it all, making sure to leave an area white for the moon rays. I sponged the darkest colors at the edge. Using these same colors, I stamped those two same images over the white embossing, giving it a 3-d effect. And then I die-cut the butterflies out of velum and different shades of blue cardstock, and layered it on with pearls to finish. I realize that the flowers are probably meant to be upright, but to me they look kinda like morning glory vines. That's what I love about Stampin' Up. So much can be done with one image or product. There is no right or wrong. Truly versatile.

I made several of these cards to send along with the catalogs to some of my friends. It seems surely everyone is gonna love these bundles as well as I do! They're keepers!