Ellibelle's Garden Party No. 5 - Anything In or From a Garden

Hello everyone and welcome to my Garden Party No. 5 taking place right here on my blog. I'm so glad you stopped by and I hope you will bring something along to share this month too. Remember, anything in or from a garden goes, this can be any type of craft, photography (from a garden), garden tips, garden weddings, etc. As always the linkup is at the end of the post. And don't forget to check who made the top picks from the last party.

For my card today I used a cardinal stamp which I was recently asked to make a card with. Lots of cardinals in the garden here year round so it was a perfect opportunity to use this card for the Garden Party. 

While I usually use this stamp for winter cards I tried to make it work all season using some floral branches and I stayed away from the color green. 

The background was done using the faux shiplap technique (easy "how to" in this post),  then I used several dies all by Penny Black (Wildwood, Blustery and Cherry Blossom) all cut out using white cardstock and then inked with Distress inks. The bird from the Penny Black set Nature Sings was stamped on Bristol Vellum paper and I used Distress inks along with a couple Faber Castell Polychromos pencils for coloring, then fussy cut. 

Sentiment is from the Penny Black set Love Big.

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Top Picks for Garden Party No. 4

It was so great to see many of you joining me again at the garden party and selecting just 3 is never easy but I finally managed  and here they are listed in the order of entry:

No. 2 Margreet

No. 11 Pauline

No. 39 Lia

Aren't these gorgeous? Congratulations to each one of you on your well deserved recognition. Your Top Pick logo is below, you may post it on your own blogs if you like to.

Now it's time for the 5th Garden Party to start!

Simply link a new or recently shared post (featuring something in or from a garden) using the linky tool below. To make it even more fun and maybe meet a new blogging friend I invite you to visit another entrant's blog post and leave them some love. This is just a suggestion and in no way do you have to :)

Below are the main guidelines at a glance:

• Your entry must feature something in or from a garden.
• You may combine with any other challenges/link parties.
• Please leave a link back to this blog.
• Up to 5 entries per blogger please.
• Backlinking to a recent post is allowed.
• The party ends on Monday August 11th at 11:59pm CST

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