Hello and welcome to a new Garden Party taking place right here on my blog 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 in a 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 :)
And here is my Garden share for this month. Now if I could just find a cute little hedgehog in my Garden, sadly they aren't native here in the States but I will always have the fond memory of finding one under our plum tree growing up in Europe :)
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I recently mentioned that a friend asked me to show her 10 year old daughter how I make card (she really loved the birthday card I sent her) and this is the second card design I prepared for her to make. (You can see the first one here).
The stamp is the wood mounted Penny Black "Ladybug 'n Hedgehog 1433F. The wood mounted version is hard to find but I think it comes also as part of a clear stamp set (probably smaller scale). Stamped with Versafine Onyx ink and colored with Faber Castell Polychromos pencils. The patterned paper is the same used on the first card I shared, by The Paper Studio, butterflies were done once again with Penny Black's Soaring die set. Cut from pale yellow cardstock and the edges were inked with Wild Honey Distress ink. The leafy bunch at the bottom of the card is a woodmounted stamp also by Penny Black Spotted Winter 4270K and sentiment an oldie from Stampin Up. I added a tiny heart to the sentiment. I gave my little student :) the option to add a few more butterflies to her card which she did. She also used a cloud stencil on the white space and that looked really nice, wish I had taken a photo of her finished project but I didn't think of it. She had lots of fun and hopefully we'll do this again in August before school starts.
I plan to share my card with these challenges:
- Crafting Happiness Challenges - AG
- Crafty Animals - Animals
- Moving along with the Times - Use a coloring medium (I used pencils)
- Penny Black Saturday Challenge - PB Stamps
- Simon Says Wednesday Challenge - Four Legged Friends
- Try It On Tuesday - Animals
- We Love Stamping - Summertime
I'm so excited to introduce not one but TWO special party guests joining me this time as guest designers. Please welcome Lia and Deanne! Thank you both for being here! Remember, even though you are special party guest, you are still invited to link up your other garden themed projects!
Guest designer Lia
Guest Designer Deanne
You can find out more about how they made these gorgeous creations by visiting the links above their projects. I'm sure they would love to hear from you!
Top Picks for Garden Party No. 16
Now it's time to announce my Top 3 from the last Garden Party. It was so great to visit all your blogs and admiring your gorgeous creations. A note for entry no. 18 - I am sorry that I couldn't leave you a comment, but I kept getting a "spam-alert" error message. I do appreciate you sharing the beautiful 3D paper flower! Thank you!
My Top 3 are listed in the order of entry:
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 Thursday, August 13th). 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 your share at the Garden Party No. 17!
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 August 10th at 11:59pm CST
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