Ellibelle's Garden Party No. 7 - Anything In or From a Garden

Hello everyone and welcome to my Garden Party No. 7 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 crafty share this time. 

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All stamps I used on today's card are from Tracy Evans Boutique Designs: TE14 - The Wonder of Nature, TE37 Flower Power, TE43 Magnolia and TE35 Abstract Trees and TE32 Alpha Florals. 

I colored the flowers using Derwent Inktense pencils and added Stickles glitter to the flower centers. The stamps are available directly from Tracy Evans shop from the UK or from Simon Says in the US. I also added some twine and edges were all distressed.

I plan to share my card here:

• Beautiful Blossoms - Flowers
• Dream Valley Challenges - 2 or more layers
• FarmQuest Home Challenge Blog - Anything Home Goes (Sunflowers and Wheelbarrow from the home garden)
• Paper Rock Scissors - Paper and/or scissors (all paper layers and scissors used for distressing and fussy cutting)
• Path of Positivity - Anything Positive 
• The Paper Funday - Changing Seasons or AG
• Triple B - Blooms, Birds or Butterflies
• Word Art Wednesday - AG

Starting mid- August and into late summer is when butterflies are the most active in my garden and I absolutely love to walk around and photograph them. I feel like this year I've had the most butterflies ever in my garden. 

Painted Lady Butterfly on a pink Zinnia blossom

A better view of this gorgeous flower. Zinnias are so easy to grow from seed and attact butterflies and hummingbirds alike. I've not bee able to capture a decent photo of a hummingbird as they are so quick.

A Monarch Butterfly loading up on nectar from a butterfly bush.

Top Picks for Garden Party No. 6

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. 16 Emma T.

No. 53 Carol G.

No. 58 Bunny Hoyle

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 7th 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 October 6th at 11:59pm CST