Alaskan SapphireRose: Lady of the Garden

Lady of the Garden cares for all creatures great and small (but she’s particularly fond of mushrooms and birds as you can see). I started out with a fun articulated doll shrine made out of masonite that I coated in gesso and painted with Scattered Straw distress paint. I just love how the buttery yellow color compliments the Victorian Fashions Collage Sheet from Alpha Stamps.

To create the garden I cut the top third off a 4” styrofoam ball and glued it to the base after the paint dried. I then covered the styrofoam in sheet moss and created mushroom and pearlized leaf stick pin clusters, I also created a fun golden bush from some leaf charms in my stash, you could substitute the fun brass oak leafs from Alpha Stamps if you wish to make your own. I also added some paper roses that I coated in glitter paint to give them a bit of sparkle. I glued a bird from the Lady in Blue Collage Sheet to one of the leaf stick pins and inserted that in behind the golden leaf bush.

I chose this image from the Victorian Fashions Collage Sheet from Alpha Stamps, isn’t she loverly? I rough cut the image from the collage sheet then ran the image through my xyron machine and attached it to a thin piece cardboard. I then covered the other side of the cardboard piece with some paper from the Shadow Brocade Scrap Book Paper Set then fussy cut the image out. I edged the image with black soot distress ink. I carefully cut the arms off and set them aside to attach to the articulated arms later. I then gathered and attached 5 lengths of tulle to the bottom of the image with a tiny attacher and covered up the staples with a small length of Mottled Brown Seam Binding. I then attached the image to the masonite torso piece. I then cut and attached the arms to the masonite arms and attached them with the brads that came with the kit.

After assembling the shrine and letting the glue set I attached the torso to the base and wrapped the tulle around to the back and tied a knot that I hid with this fun mushroom and flower bustle.

The Lady kept demanding More! More! So I obliged her and got busy adding some more creatures for her to care for and some more girly lady things that we all like such as glittered flowers and pearls.