A spoon full of Sugary Crafty Emma's Cupcake with Stampavie and more...

Some friends are moving to a substantial property in Italy with two studio apartments for holiday rentals and I wanted to welcome them to their new home with a card.    I found some photos of their property on their rental website and merged together several shots to watercolour with my Aqua Markers.   Whereas the first time I coloured with Aquamarkers I used the pens directly on the paper and then spread them out with the water brush.  This time I scribbled the ink on to a tile and then picked it up with a brush to apply to the paper.   Don't get too excited by the quality - there is a huge amount of Photoshop involved in the making of my "water colour" picture but I'm very pleased with the result.  The garden isn't quite as mature in reality as it is in my picture and the house aspect in relation to the pool is imagined rather than real but I'm sure my friends will appreciate receiving a card which is representative of their home.  My papers are K&Co including the "Dream" sentiment.  The "Sunshine" sentiment is an LOTV stamp.
The gates were a real wotsit to make.  They consist of two Cricut cut brackets (which are actually part of a sign), a Martha Stewart fleur de lis punch and a Stampin Up word window punch.  Try as I might, I just couldn't get the railings to be the same size.  This was my third attempt and then when I tried to cut them off at the bottom they ripped - hence the ribbon round two of the edges. 

As my picture shows a great deal of their pretty garden, I am entering my card into the challenge at Cupcake Crafts which is "in the garden" and as this gorgeous setting will incorporate two holiday rentals, I am also entering into Crafty Emma's Store where the challenge is "holidays". A Spoon Full of Sugar has an "Anything Goes" challenge and the challenge at Stampavie and More is "summer" which fits well with my picture and of course the LOTV sentiment.  I'm not sure if there is a requirement to use a certain kind of stamp for Stampavie - I feel there should be but I couldn't see it in the instructions so I apologise if I've made an error by entering there.