At the entrance to the formal garden, you’ll find lovely ladies growing from pots tended by their loving partners. Both pretty as flowers, holding butterfly wands, surrounded by flowers as butterflies fly around them.
The sound of water cascading over the edge of the lion wall fountain into the pond below draws you into the garden
Take a seat on a bench and enjoy the sounds and fragrances of nature.
In addition to the miniature Formal Garden pictured above, I've also created some Potted Lady ATCs. And speaking of the Potted Ladies (growing from pots), I think they would make a great standalone project that could be used for many things. Imagine them as placeholders where instead of the butterfly wand, there is a card with your guest’s name. They would look lovely on a tea party-themed table and would make unique gifts for a bridal shower.
NEW COLLAGE SHEETS
For the Formal Garden and the Potted Lady ATCs pictured further down in this post, I created 4 new collage sheets. Two of the sheets contain women & men from the 1830s with lots of jeweled butterflies. One is a set of 8 ATC nature-themed backgrounds and a half sheet of urns and roses.
The sheet contains:
3 - Ladies
2 - Gents
12 - Jeweled Butterflies of various sizes
This sheet contains:
5 - Ladies
1 - Gents
8 - Jeweled Butterflies of various sizes
This half sheet is filled with urns & roses. Click on the image below to purchase this collage sheet.
POTTED LADIES ATCs
For those of you who love to make ATCs, I created 6 examples made using all four of the new collage sheets and some of the products I used for the Formal Garden.
VIDEO TUTORIAL
In the video, I cover the construction of the Formal Garden and the techniques listed below:
Faux Marble Painting
VIDEO TUTORIAL
FREE GARDEN IMAGES FOR USE IN YOUR ART
ADDITIONAL PICTURES
You never disappoint! This is absolutely delightful - and to think you've achieved it (almost) entirely with collage sheets! Amazing! The 'water' is brilliant - it looks just like - well - water! Such a lovely little scene - and so fanciful and whimsical. Brava - again!
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ReplyDeleteAmazing! The tutorial video is great. You are such a talented artist!
ReplyDeleteJust gorgeous, Laura!! Who else but you would have done such a beautiful job with "Potted Ladies" lol. The fountain is magical to view!
ReplyDeleteBrilliant! and the water turned out wonderfully!
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for the inspiration! The supply list link isn’t working. I would really like to know where to buy the iron fence looking chipboard that you used to make the bench. I couldn’t catch what you said about it in the video. Thanks!!
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