Ellibelle's Garden Party No. 13 - Anything in (or from) a Garden

Hello everyone, it's time for a new Garden Party to start and all are invited to join in the fun!

As always, you may share anything in or from a garden. This can be crafts of any kind, garden photography or garden tips, weddings and tea parties taking place the garden... So many options!! As always the linky tool is at the end of the post along with my Top Picks from the last party, each one invited to join me as a special party guest :)

Here is what I made inspired by what's currently showing signs of life in my garden but they aren't blooming yet. Daffodils are probably my favorite early spring flower but then I do love them all.

I used Penny Black's brushstroke stamp Daffodil Dance and Letraset Aquamarkers for coloring. I lightly spritzed the stamp with water before coloring. Not 100% happy with how the stamping turned out and I really miss my "working" Distress markers. Maybe I need to get all the mini Distress inks for an alternative. Unfortunately the regular sized ink pads are not so easy to use with these stamps so I used the aquamarkers instead.

For embellishments I used part of a MFT die (crosshatch) and tied some green jute twine around the image panel. And a butterfly from Penny Black's die set Soaring. Patterned paper is really old, this one is from Stampin Up. To finish the card I flicked some diluted green ink and a gold posca pen onto the card, as usual I think there was more splatter on my desk instead of the card.

Entering the above card with these challenges:

• Beautiful Blossoms - Flowers
• Die Cut Divas - Spring is coming
• Penny Black Saturday Challenge - PB Stamps
• Triple B - Blooms, Birds or Butterflies

My snowdrops finally started to bloom a few days ago, of course there had to be a picture 😀and then I discovered the little ladybug too. So nice to see after a long winter! After some strong storms in the area we are now back to chilly March weather. 

🌹 Special Party Guests 🌹

I'm so happy to announce that I have two Special Party Guests joining me this time, they are Brenda from  Floral Fantasies and Carrie from Carrie's Custom Cards. Many thanks to both of you for accepting the special guest invite and they made some wonderful garden themed projects to share and inspire.

Brenda

Also by Brenda

Two gorgeous creations so full of pretty spring flowers. Please visit  her blog to find out how she made these cards.

Carrie

An amazing creation by Carrie, how gorgeous are those pink flowers! Please visit her blog to find out how she made this card.

Top Picks for Garden Party No. 12

Now it's time to announce my Top Picks from the last Garden Party. Remember each top pick is invited to join me here as a special party guest for the next party if interested. 

No. 16 Diane A.

No. 40 Rosi

No. 58 Loopyloo

Congratulations to each one of you on your well deserved recognition! Your top Pick logo is below you may post this to your own blogs if you like to :)

New this year:

I would like to invited each Top Pick to join me as a "Special Party Guest" in the next Garden Party (starting April 9th). Please message me at ellibellescorner at gmail dot com if you would like to be a special guest. Of course this is totally optional as I know we all are busy in one way or another just thought it would be something fun to offer the top picks :)

(Btw. Even if you are a special party guest for the month, you are still invited to share your other garden themed creations in the linky tool during the month!)

Now it's time for the 13th 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 April 6th at 11:59pm CST