I loved the photo of the green door as soon as I saw it, & because I enjoy living things & flowing lines the idea for this postcard came easily.

As soon as I looked at the door I saw a lovely diamond shaped trellis.  My husband was convinced that I had made a major architectural mistake in my trellis (after it was all stitched!) but I pointed out to him that I had deliberately chosen to make my trellis with the diamond shapes above each other, firstly because it fit the postcard shape & also it could be more ornamental than Canadian Tire’s!  The inspiration for the vine came from a William Morris design that I like very much; and of course the pot would now be empty, also indicating the passage of time.  I padded it with 6 strand cotton horizontally but it still looked too flat after being stretched so with some difficulty, (not wanting to re-lace the card) I tucked in a small tuft of quilt batting.  The whole thing brightened up when I couched gold threads onto  the branches.