When I first saw the new Lockhart image, "Petunia" that Ellen released this weekend, it was love at first sight. I think maybe it was the gloves that totally put me over the top. My mom would plant petunias around our back garden every Spring. It's been a long long time since I was a young girl. But if memory serves me right, she had a pair of red checkered gloves that would lay just so by the earthy pots of Petunias that were ready to be planted against our white picket fence.
For this fence I used the Martha Stewart "Picket Fence" Edger Punch. So that none of the floral image would be lost in the punched out section of the fence, I used a strip of the punched fence as a stencil. Placing it on the cardstock, I sponged over it creating the fence and sky. An actual punched strip of the picket fence is accented by a chocolate ribbon placed behind it.
Copics were used to color in the Petunias and gently shade areas of the stenciled fence. A panel of Graphic 45 designer paper was used behind the main image. A "rainbow" was made with three Dew Drops.
Hope that you can join in on the fun a give this sketch a try. Happy crafting!!
