Ellibelle's Garden Party No. 8 - Anything in or from a Garden

Hello everyone, it's time for a new Garden Party (No. 8) to start and all are invited to attend with a "Garden" themed post. Remember, anything in or from a garden goes, this can be any type of craft, photography (from a garden), garden tips, garden weddings and parties, 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. My apologies to all of you as I fell so behind with commenting but finally got the chance to visit all your blogs now. 

Here is what I made using stamps from Tracy Evans Boutique Designs.

I don't have any pumpkins growing in my garden this year but I did once before (accidentally by leaving a pumpkin for the squirrels to enjoy over winter and one of the seeds grew a plant :)  I do have birds and cats (my own cat as well as some neighbourhood cats roaming around).

I started with my stamp positioning tool and the large pumpkin from the Tracy Evans set A Myriad of Designs. I used a mix of yellow-ish and orange Distress inks/Oxides and green for the stem. Next I used the ivy which is part of the same set. I slightly bent the ivy stamp so it wouldn't stamp in a straight line. Next I stamped the cat from the set Numerical Cats which also included "October" using Versafine Onyx ink. The little bird is from the set Myriad of Designs as well. I thought about some stenciling on the background but couldn't decide on a stencil so instead I dug through my Tracy Evans stamps and decided on using the background stamp - Art Notes which was released through Aall and Create and retired. If you are interested in any of these stamps, they are available in the US from Simon Says Stamp. The retired Art Notes can be purchased at Frantic Stamper. Fran is unfortunately closing her shop and is no longer purchasing any new inventory so the newer stamps aren't available there. Of course if you are in the UK you can get the Tracy Evans Boutique Designs stamps directly from Tracy's shop. 

I framed my scene with black cardstock then a white base. To finish the card I used a black Posca pen for some black spatter and stamped a couple more of the ivy leaves under the cat's paws.

I am sharing the above card here:

1. A Place To Start - Pumpkins
2. Cupcake Inspirations  - Fall Harvest
3. Double Trouble Challenge - 3, 2, 1 Recipe (3 layers, 2 animals, 1 pumpkin)
4. FarmQuest General Store Challenge - Anything farm/country/outdoors
5. Sisterhood of Crafters - Anything Fall
6. Stamps & Fun = Creativity - Animals
7. Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge - Halloween
8. We Love Stamping - Autumn

I also decided to make an ATC since I had stamped the pumpkin a second time. A similar design to the card above using the same stamps and inks. I am starting to love the miniature cards and have already made 5 this year. Those of you who make/collect these... how do you store them?

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I am sharing the ATC with the challenges below:

1. Papercraft Challenges - Amazing Autumn
2. Pearly Sparkles Challenge - Pumpkins and Leaves
3. Stamping Sensations - Autumn
4. Tag-Along (and ATC's) - Anything Autumn

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Top Picks for Garden Party No. 7

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. 1 Silke

No. 17 Vicki

No. 24 Diana L.

Such beautiful work!! Congratulations to each one of you on your well deserved recognition! Your top pick logo is below, you may post it to your own blogs if you like to :)

Now it's time for the 8th 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 November 10th at 11:59pm CST