Ellibelle's Garden Party No. 6: Anything In or From a Garden

Hello everyone and welcome to my Garden Party No. 6 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.

Here is my Garden Party share this time.

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I used one of my favorite Hero Arts stamps - Antique Bee and Flowers, stamped once in the center and then part of it on top and bottom of the card. I colored with Faber Castell Polychromos pencils. I used a Chickenwire stencil from TCW which works as well for a honeycomb background I think, with Antique Linen Distress ink. I then used a script stamp from Tracy Evans' set called Magnolia on the background for a little more interest. The sentiments in black are from the Tim Holtz booklet of quotes called Small Talk. I mounted the card front onto black cardstock and then onto an embossed piece where I used the Texture embossing folder by Penny Black.

Above is a photo of one of my beautiful mini sunflowers (Suncredible Sunflower or Helianthus Hybrid). This plant was purchased from the Lowes Garden center "clearance" section. Anyone else addicted to the Garden Center clearance?? I had to quit going as I started running out of room for flowers without more digging. Absolutely love how well this plant recovered. It looked really sad when I purchased it but I was happy to rescue it, trim off all the spent flowers and it grew back so beautifully! This sort of sunflower almost grows like a little shrub and is full of blossoms as you can see a few in the background. Plus the bees and butterflies love it!

Challenge I plan to share the above card with:

• A Place To Start - Summer Things
• Can You Handle The Pressure? - Embossing Folders
• Crazy is our fame - STENCILS are our game! - Stencils
• Double D - Bee Happy
• Stamping Sensations - Birds, Bees or Butterflies
• Sweet Stampin - Use a stencil
• Try It On Tuesday - Summer

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Top Picks for Garden Party No. 5

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. 3 Melanie H.

No. 56 Brenda

No. 66 Papierelle

Such amazing work!! 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 September 8th at 11:59pm CST

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