We always create our garden scenes under a beaming bright sun, but why not try creating your next scene under the bright lights of a full moon!
Today’s amazing card is from our designer, Christine, and it closes out the month of August with a stunning garden scene card that glows! This 5×7 scene card has a rustic charm full of Fall vibes and cheerful, sunny, sunflowers all freshly picked, in a crate, ready for the farmer’s market. We love how Christine set this scene at night, choosing a brown evening sky instead of black to really pull in the way Autumn feels. This post will share a quick and simple way to create a glowing full moon and some happy bees with glistening wings. Follow along and create an evening autumn garden scene card with us.
- The bee wings are created using a bright teal blue cardstock and painting it with a gold metallic splatter paint. Allow to dry and cut out using smallest bee wings die. The bee body is from matte black cardstock.
- The moon is created by first die cutting a mask from typing paper using the Nested Small Stitched Circle die of choice. Lay the mask directly onto the rust colored cardstock, allowing the tree to give you position. Using inks shown in photo gently brush the ink around the edge of the moon stencil. Taking same circle die, cut a white cardstock circle. Using colors shown and a brush gently add ink to the edges a bit darker and lighter as going toward center. This gives the appearance of roundness. Now using finger daubers create darker areas (craters). The tree will cover most. The goal here was an appearance of a full moon. A more realistic moon could easily be created using pencils or markers.
- Follow along with photos for die cutting references and placement. Note: the detail pieces added to the birdhouses are the Gate and Arbor die set, handles die.
- A bit more sparkle was added to the bee wings using a sparkle gel pen. Tree, crate, “ground” and bird house posts all cut from woodgrain cardstock and ink blended.
- The rust background has the largest A2 nested size Deckle edge dies EMBOSSED, not cut inside the 5×7 Nested Deckle Rectangle dies, to create an indented frame look.
- 5403D Half Tree Die
- 5505-03D Large Bird House Die
- 5920-01D Bee Dies
- 36064 Autumn Splendor 4×8 Stamp Set
- 5012D Nested Circle Small Stitch Die
- 5708-04 Wooden Barrel and Crate Die
- 5626-03D Sunflowers Die
- 5941-01D 5×7 Nested Deckle Rectangle Dies
- 5176D Nested Deckle Rectangle Dies
- 5166D Gate and Arbor Die
- 5709-02D Spring Flowers Die
