Materials…

• Onefourzero Houses, Beautiful Flowers and Sunflower stamps
• Acrylic paint
• Black Whispers inkpad
• White cardstock

To create…

1 Cut a piece of cardstock to measure 15x30cm, draw in a light central guide line and fold both sides towards the line until they meet. Fold in the edges using a bone-folding tool to create a gatefold card.

2 Draw the hill lightly in pencil on the front of the card. Measure and draw out a 10cm square in the centre of the inside panel, and lightly draw in the ground. Using watered down acrylic paint, apply a wash to define the sky and ground areas. Wait for this to dry completely before stamping the images as shown using a black Whispers inkpad.

3 Paint all the images using watered-down acrylic paint. Paint in the long stems of the flowers using a dark green paint. Add deeper colour to the sky and the grass.

4 Finally, paint a thin blue line around the whole image in the centre of the gatefold card to frame it.

Project by Rachel Dimbleby. Originally published in Simply Cards & Papercraft issue 35