Garden Wheelbarrow and Hollyhocks

Good Wednesday morning. My project today started off with the intent of making another clean and simple card like I posted yesterday but it took a different turn altogether. I wanted to create a simple wheelbarrow full of hollyhocks and pair it with a little grass and a sentiment but it just didn’t seem to want to work out that way. It’s always a surprise to me when I end with something totally than I started out working towards.

I cut the wheelbarrow once in red and once in Sahara sand cardstock. I cut the body and the handles off the red and attached them over the gray paper. I colored the wheel with a black Copic marker. I had all the different colored hollyhocks already cut from a few projects ago and I decided to use them. Although not necessarily colors I would normally use together I thought they were perfect to represent flowers being carried out in the wheelbarrow to be planted.

I cut a couple sections of the grass border, cut it apart and tucked it inside the wheelbarrow, tucked the hollyhocks in around them and attached everything with glossy accents. and attached with glossy accents. I purposefully placed a few sprigs of the foliage hanging down out of the wheelbarrow to it didn’t look “too arranged”. Here’s a closer view.

The fame was cut using my Matting Basics A set. I attached the small grass border and the fancy cut border to the back of the frame with ATG adhesive and then mounted to the card base with glossy accents. I tucked the wheelbarrow in between the two grass layers and attached to the base with double layers of mounting tape. I attached the three butterflies for the finishing touch.

Have you tried your hand at making some garden scenes? They are so much fun.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you have a great day.