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 Happy Friday!!!  It's time for a new challenge from the Cut It Up Challenge Blog.  This week, the challenge is: How Does Your Garden Grow

Here is my card for your inspiration:

My husband and I celebrated our 25th wedding anniversary back at the end of July.  Our kids threw us a big party so I have a number of Thank You cards to make and send out.  I wanted something that was relatively easy to mass produce but was still pretty and elegant.  So, I used some watercolor markers on this beautiful flower image and stamped it onto watercolor paper.  Then I just used a fine paintbrush with a tiny bit of water to create the watercolor look.  It is a little time consuming, because I have to switch back and forth with the markers, but it really creates a beautiful card!  I die cut the panels with a stitched rectangle die and stamped the sentiment.  I die cut a second stitched rectangle to mat the image and mounted it all on a white card base.  Then I added some clear drops and done!

Thanks so much for stopping by!  I hope you will hop over to the Cut It Up blog for the full details of the challenge and to see what the rest of the Design Team has created. 

Supplies:

Stamps: MFT "Beautiful Flowers" (seems to be no longer for sale) and "Something for Everything"

Dies: MFT "Blueprints 13" smaller stitched rectangle and "Blueprints 12" larger rectangle

Challenges:

Penny's Challenge #579--anything goes

The Paper Shelter #608--add a flower

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday--stamp it

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends #237--anything goes

Cards Galore #127--anything goes

Sheepski Designs #90--anything goes

We Love Stamping--handcolored image OR Anything Goes

{Pin}spirational #317--stitching

Krafty Chicks #732--stamps

Triple B--anything goes

Beautiful Blossoms #20--anything goes