4 Square Friendship Frame

I was unable to sleep during the night because of my cold so I decided it might be better if I just got up especially as Dave needed his sleep.

Since I didn't want to wake him I crept about in my craft room. I needed something quiet to do so after reading for awhile and realising I wasn't going to be able to return to bed I decided I could just about manage an easy project if I took my time over getting it done (in between coughing and blowing my nose that is).

I knew I had seen similar project on Alli Miles site - check it out here http://allistamps.blogspot.com/2008/04/garden-of-life-5.html and had always admired it intending to have a go myself at some point especially since I had the 'Garden of Life' PTI stamp set.

This is my version using one of the frames I purchased at the car boot sale this weekend. It only has 4 squares so there was much less work involved compared to her project.

Because my frames were 4 squares long it was hard to get everything in the shot so I took a close up photo showing partial detail. I decided on using 2 shades of the same colour ink and added inner cardstock frames in each square alternating the colours. After I stamped my text I decided I wanted a bit more black detail so I added pen dots and lines around each square to finish it off.

I think it turned out ok and since I have 2 more frames I can have some fun mixing them up too - but not until I'm feeling better. At some point sheer exhaustion will take over and I'll head back to bed.