Everything Has Beauty

Hello and Happy Sunday! I had some fun with my new-to-me Flower Garden stamps by Tim Holtz on my vacation to our special place in the mountains of W. Va.-- Capon Springs. Short on space, I packed up all my Distress Oxides, water color card, Jet Black Distress archival ink and my stamp set into one neat box with thoughts of coloring to my heart's content! One problem! I forgot my water detail pen, so I spent the drive up to W. Va. looking for a craft store close to an exit. Right before we hit our destination, I found one! Yippee! When we got to our destination, I realized I didn't bring a stamp block for the cling stamps; duh! This would have been a good time to have a Travel Stamp Platform!

I made this card for my friend, Kathy, one of my Capon Family friends. She and a few other guests took an interest in my flower stamps and inks, and we had our first Capon mini art class.  Lots of fun to break up all that hiking!

 Although I didn't do the best job of stamping using just my hand to impress the image, I still had so much fun coloring the flowers and greenery with various shades of Distress Oxides! I can't wait to get my hands on Tim's new colors!

After I returned home, I fussy cut my flowers and layered them on Classic Kraft Stock I embossed with Tim's Botanical 3D Texture Fade. Details on how I made this background can be found here. Plain white card inked with Wild Honey Distress ink gives some definition to the panel and is layered over a Lumber 3D embossed panel.

The sweet bee and butterfly are from Tim's Botanical Layers collection, and I added some Distress crayon to make them fit my color scheme. A Small Talk sticker stands in for my sentiment.

I hope you like my simple card! Thank you for stopping by today, and for all your wonderful comments! Stop by again later today when I will have another tutorial on how to use Tim's Lumber 3D Texture Fade. I should have a third post later in the day! Making up for lost time while in the mountains!

Hugs and Blessings!

Sara Emily

Challenge shares:
Love 2 Create Challenge #10 Anything Creative/Mixed Media Goes
Card Mania CMC # 106 Anything Goes
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Anything Goes
Country View July 2018 - In The Summer Garden
Southern Girls Flower Power
(new challenge!) Back to Basics and Beyond Challenge #8 Use an Embossing Folder
SumMore Fun Mood Board Challenge #33 Inspired by the blues and the butterflies.

These products were used and can be purchased at The Funkie Junkie Boutique:

(MAY PRE-ORDER) Sizzix 3-D Texture Fades Embossing Folder - Botanical	(MAY PRE-ORDER) Sizzix 3-D Texture Fades Embossing Folder - Lumber	$23.95 Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Rubber Stamps - Flower Garden	Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Watercolor Cardstock	(February Pre-order) Tim Holtz Idea-ology 8 x 8 Classic Kraft Stock
Tim Holtz Idea-ology Small Talk	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Crayons - 6PC Set #2 TDBK47919 (February Pre-order)	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Crayons - 6PC Set #5 TDBK51756	Ranger Tim Holtz Ground Espresso Distress Paint	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Wild Honey
Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Antique Linen	Ranger Tim Holtz Ground Espresso Distress Ink Pad	(FEBRUARY PRE-ORDER) Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Pad - Squeezed Lemonade	(FEBRUARY PRE-ORDER) Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Pad - Shaded Lilac	(FEBRUARY PRE-ORDER) Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Pad - Bundled Sage
(JULY PRE-ORDER) Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Pad - Twisted Citron	(JULY PRE-ORDER) Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Pad - Seedless Preserves	(JULY PRE-ORDER) Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Pad - Picked Raspberry	(February Pre-order) Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Pad - Wilted Violet	(February Pre-order) Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Pad - Spiced Marmalade
(February Pre-order) Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Pad - Peeled Paint	(February Pre-order) Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Pad - Fossilized Amber	(February Pre-order) Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Pad - Worn Lipstick	(February Pre-order) Tim Holtz Idea-ology Botanical Layers