August - A Walk in my Garden

Can you believe it's August already?  Summer vacation is almost over and pretty soon it's back to school for the kiddos! I've been working my way through this set of large oval month stamps from Serendipity featuring one card at the beginning of each month.  These stamps are just gorgeous and I'm accumulating a beautiful set of note cards that can be used for birthday's or just to say hello.  The August stamp features all the beauty of the garden - sunflowers, tomatoes and vegetables.  I colored mine with Copics, added a trellis inspired die cut, used garden papers, and natural embellishments of twine and a wood button to tie it all together.  Here's what I came up with:

 
This stamp reminds me a lot of my own garden this time of year so I thought I'd share some photo's to show how my garden grows about now.  I live in a regular small suburb, but I do have a large yard that affords me some room to plant just about whatever I want - just not a whole lot of it!  Enough for my own family and to share with neighbors.

So now you have had the official tour of the garden!  There are always new things to see!  Tomatoes are getting ripe, I even have a few butternut squash this year!  Did you get everything right?  Did you see that pumpkin?  Wow!  I hope it gets really big - kind of explains why I am always watering lately huh?  I even have gourds and white pumpkins planted.  I don't grow much corn - there is just enough for a few decorative bunches for Halloween/Thanksgiving, and it's Indian corn for decoration - not sweet corn for eating!  Thanks for stopping by! Have a beautiful day!               

Jeanne

Supplies Used:  Finished Size:  5" x 7"

Stamp:  Serendipity Large Oval Cling

Paper:  Basic Grey Offbeat (Pattern), Papertrey Ink Vintage Cream, Kraft, Scarlett Jewel (Solids)

Dies:  Spellbinders Lattice Motifs

Markers:  Copic

Button, Button Thread (Waltzingmouse), Ink (Momento Tuxedo Black)