Ellibelle's Garden Party No. 14 - 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 this time:

Some of you may remember that I fell in love with Stamperia papers, first I had only purchased 2 Christmas/winter packs but then at the beginning of this year I placed an order with a few more (spring and summer themed) paper packs but as you can imagine I had a hard time cutting into them. They are just so beautiful! I think I'll buy another pack just to hoard!!

This particular paper pack is the Stamperia Lavender collections. Available in 8x8 or 12x12. I have the 8x8 paper pack. 

These pretty papers don't really need much more so I just added stitching around the edges. I mounted the image panel onto another paper from this pack and then added the sentiment with is also part of the paper pack. I distressed the layers before adhering to the white card base. Oh, the little  heart is also part of the paper pack, I cut it out and distressed then added a little button and jute twine. There had to be some sparkle so I used a glue pen and loose glitter for that.

I plan to share the above card here:

• Beautiful Blossoms - AG with Flowers
• Dream Valley Challenges - 2 or more patterned papers
• Love Those Pretty Papers Challenge - Designer Papers
• Paper Rock Scissors - paper and/or scissors (scissors for distressing and all are paper layers)
• Triple B - Birds, Blooms or Butterflies

Below is a picture I took in my garden with some beautiful daffodils. We had an amazing sunset that evening and I just couldn't resist. If you are following me on Instagram, then you may have already seen it. Somehow it looks better on the small phone screen than the PC screen. 

There are no special party guests this time so let's get straight to the Top Picks from the last Garden Party.

Top Picks for Garden Party No. 13

There were many wonderful garden themed creations, thank you all so much for joining in! Selecting just 3 is never easy but I finally had to make a decision and here they are listed in the order of entry:

No. 26 Lia

No. 31 Irene M.

No. 37 Imke

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 :) Please read the info below if you'd like to join me as a special party guest.

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 May 14th). 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 14th 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 May 11th at 11:59pm CST