The Lake House - Kaisercraft

A while back I watched Mel Heaton on create and craft with these papers and stamps but didn't buy them. A few weeks later temptation set in and I purchased them! I wanted to make a card for my mum so pulled them out.
I started with a dark green 8x8 card blank and selected a paper from the first edition up and away pink pad (the stripey one). I went round the edges with Tim Holtz Peacock distress ink pad and the floral border from the lake house stamp set. I mounted this on the card and then selected one of the kaisercraft papers. I used the petal pink liquid pearls to highlight key points on the roses. I left this to dry.
For the main image I then stamped the water fountain onto watercolour paper with black archival. I then used my distress markers to colour in the image. The centre of the flowers is using the petal pink liquid pearls again!. I took the floral border and stamped round the edge of the card. I then mounted this on a pink background (also stampled) and then a grey back ground. This was then attached to the card. Using the lake house transfer sheet I then added the swallow and some additional flowers.

To create the mother sentiment I also took this from the transfer sheet and mounted on pink and grey with use of the floral border again. To complete the card I used teal silk crush ribbon (which I got from creative studios) to create a bow.
After all this I decided not to keep as a card and placed into a white shadowbox frame from Ikea (approx £5) and it will then be a keep sake.