Back in Michigan I always had some type of garden, but here in NW Arizona the soil is sand and the ground is hard, our backyard is not user friendly, it's a long steep walk on a gravel covered path down to the bottom. Gardening here would take raised beds and more room than our current back yard offers so this is my Arizona Garden.
Using an old seed starter set up I had on hand I put a few coats of Mod Podge on the wooden crate and painted the pots off white.
I started with this beautiful collage sheet. You get 9 different seed envelopes and you can print them as many times as you need to.
I printed the file onto glossy photo paper then I backed it with a piece of chipboard and cut them out using my paper trimmer. Then I glued wooden sticks onto the backs of the images.Using an old seed starter set up I had on hand I put a few coats of Mod Podge on the wooden crate and painted the pots off white.
When the Mod Podge dried I stamped images on the ends of the crate with StazOn ink and colored them with markers.
I didn't have anything on hand to fill the pots with so I went out into the yard and collected some of our landscaping rocks. Then I went to town decorating the front of the crate using, buttons, brads (I took off the prongs on the backs and attached them with my hot glue gun) and butterflies I cut and embossed with my Cuttlebug using some of the beautiful papers my kids have sent me from Japan.
Printable file from: http://www.ewenmeprintables.com/index.php
Stamps are from: http://plumpurdy.com/
Flower buttons from: Melissa Frances
very nice job on the box! very cute!!
ReplyDeleteLOL. I loVe your Arizona garden. I think the rocks are perfect in the pots. I love your stamped images on the ends and all the die cut butterflies. I spy some other little cuties mixed in there, too. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteCrafty hugs,
Dawn
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