Mushroom Digi Thanks

Happy Tuesday, peeps!  My friend Michele, who always creates the most edgy, fun, eclectic cards in blogland, recently had a card on her blog featuring a pretty mushroom (and a snail!).  You can see it HERE.  Now I really liked that little image and guess what---it was a FREE digital image, so I went over to Rachelle's blog and snagged it for myself!  THEN I had a conversation with Michele about printing with my printer using cardstock or watercolor paper (it doesn't do well with either), and she gave me a couple of hints, so I decided to try it....just on some cheapo Georgia Pacific cardstock from Walmart.  And I was just going to experiment...you know how that goes...and it actually turned out pretty good..it warped a wee little bit but not badly enough to toss it!  So here we go:

I was concerned about the black ink bleeding, but I used a damp aquapainter with my ink and a very light touch, and I love how it came out!  I used some retired nature-themed Painted Seasons DSP on my Crumb Cake card, and added a panel of Poppy Parade and an Altenew sentiment.  Of course, every white gel pen I have ever tried malfunctions after about a month, so my white spots on the mushroom cap did not turn out very well:

Thanks, Rachelle!  I love this pretty little image.  I do know it's called a Fly Agaric, only because I saw someone recently used a similar image on a card!  And you may not know that my neighboring town called Kennett Square is considered the "Mushroom Capital of the World"....they produce lots and lots of mushrooms, sent all over the country!  And here in our little yard, the mushrooms are quite prolific due to all the rain we've had!  Now I am not an expert on mycology, so I have no idea what kind of mushrooms these are!  This one was huge....probably 8-9" across, and it was in my yard:

These are in my flower bed under my butterfly bush...curly-edged:

And these are also in my flower bed, but they teeny tiny....only about 1/4" across and they even have little mushrooms INSIDE of the mushrooms!!  They're barely noticeable in the mulch:

So that's the nature walk for today!  Thanks for popping by...enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Label Love (Altenew), Digital Image by Rachelle
Card stock & Papers	Crumb Cake, Poppy Parade, Painted Seasons DSP (ret), White (Georgia Pacific)
Ink	Poppy Parade, Old Olive, Crumb Cake, Cinnamon Cider, Sahara Sand, Soft Seafoam, Memento Black
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Rectangle Dies, Greenery EF, Computer