🌿🐾 Garden Party Mayhem – Mini Collection
by Pearlywinks
 
Welcome to the garden party where absolutely nobody is taking responsibility. 
Garden Party Mayhem is a wonderfully mischievous Mini Collection packed with vintage cottage-garden charm, cheeky woodland characters and just the right amount of complete and utter chaos.
 
Set amongst rambling flowers, old-fashioned washing lines, weathered garden sheds and pretty afternoon tea tables, our troublesome little residents have clearly been left officially unsupervised. Rabbits are hiding in laundry baskets, squirrels are helping themselves to biscuits, mice have moved into the flowerpots, foxes are making off with the washing and the duck appears to know rather more than she is letting on!
 
The artwork combines warm aged papers, delicate florals, vintage ephemera and soft storybook illustration, with muted creams, faded blues, sage greens, terracotta and touches of dusty pink. It has a wonderfully nostalgic feel while the humorous characters and wording give the collection its own playful personality.
 
And because apparently the garden needed paperwork for all this nonsense, you'll also find a fabulous selection of tongue-in-cheek permits, warning notices, incident reports and evidence tags. 
 
Inside the Collection
 
The collection includes:
4 Backing Papers featuring aged parchment textures, paw prints, florals, teacups, bunting, gardening accessories and other coordinating motifs.
5 Full Scenes, including the original chaotic washday scene alongside beautiful animal-free garden settings perfect for building your own compositions.
8 Focal Art Designs featuring the rabbit, hedgehog, squirrel, duck, fox and mouse getting themselves into various suspicious situations.
14 Individual Elements, including character artwork, flowerpots, watering cans, garden tools, wellies, biscuits and coordinating embellishments.
12 Ephemera Pieces including an Official Trouble Maker tag, Incident Report, Biscuit Permit, Garden Violation Notice, Evidence Tag, Garden Access Permit and, naturally, a Warning: Chaos in Progress.
10 Coordinating Sentiments including:
“I Have Absolutely No Idea What Happened”
“It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time”
“Well, That Escalated Quickly”
“Officially Unsupervised”
“Not My Circus… Actually, It Might Be”
“I Regret Nothing”
“Caught in the Act”
“Chaos Coordinator”
“Normal Is Overrated”
“Another Fine Mess”
 
Made for Creating
 
Garden Party Mayhem is ideal for card making, journalling, scrapbooking, humorous birthday cards, friendship cards, memory keeping and mixed-media projects.
Use the artwork exactly as supplied for quick projects, or take the individual elements into Atelier Go to resize, layer and combine them to create completely new scenes of your own.
 
The animal-free garden scenes are particularly useful as ready-made backgrounds, allowing you to decide who caused the mayhem this time.
 
The collection also works beautifully for layered card designs — combine a backing paper with one of the ornate focal pieces, add a character or garden element and finish with one of the wonderfully inappropriate sentiments.
Garden Party Mayhem
Pretty flowers.
Vintage china.
A peaceful cottage garden.
 
What could possibly go wrong?
Apparently… everything. 
 
Garden Party Mayhem – Mini Collection by Pearlywinks
A delightfully chaotic little collection for crafters who know that sometimes “I have absolutely no idea what happened” is a perfectly reasonable explanation.