Last days in July

We really are racing through the year now and in a few days it will be August. July has been a real mixed bag of weather here but there have been some really glorious spells of sunshine and we have enjoyed a family wedding, our wedding anniversary and many other special times. Thank you all for your anniversary wishes for Saturday, we spent a lovely day at Scotney Castle in Kent.

I have lots of projects on the go which I will be finishing off in the next week or so but to say goodbye to July via my camera I thought I would share a few sunny photos taken this month at a garden centre where I had lunch with my Mum and Dad. They were hosting a summer flower exhibition

the flowers were themed according to colours and wow what an explosion of colour there was.
Reds......

Lavender and pinks

 

 Blues and whites

and hot oranges and yellows

There is just such an explosion of colour in nature at this time of the year. I even have an amazing dahlia in a pot in my own garden which is similar to the one above. This is mine below...it's called Art Deco and I bought it at the Hampton Park Flower show last year. It over wintered in its pot in my garden.

and this is the agapanthus I also bought. They have bloomed beautifully this year.

It just shows that you don't need anything bigger than a pot to grow some gorgeous colour in your garden. I even snapped a visitor on one of my flowers.
I love this flowers quote from Walter Hagan.

You're only here for a short visit.
Dont' hurry, don't worry
And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.

I have made a new card for my Etsy shop . It uses one of the wonderful adorable fairies images from Nicecrane from this sheet available here. I adore this set.

I made an inky background with lots of stencilling and stamping and added a Noor Joy frame and some die cuts including my favourite Cheery Lynn leaves and Joanne Sheen ivy.

and I also made a matching gift tag using a spellbinders frame

and decided to put them together as a birthday card and gift tag set

It is for sale via this link

I would like to enter my card (and tag if it is allowed) into the following challenges;

PaperArtsy flowers I just love everything floral!

Mixed Media stencils 

That's Crafty stencils and masks

Creative Inspirations flowers

Noor UK something old something new my new is my birthday ribbon my old are my leave die cuts

Bunny Zoe summer breeze

Try in on Tuesday  hot and wild my colours are hot and my bird and fish are pretty wild!

The artistic stamper  tags

Paper take weekly take your pick I have chosen to include a tag.

Simon Says stamp Mondays no ordinary paper I used mixed media paper so that I could get really inky  with my green backing.

Simon Says stamp Wednesday anything goes

Cheery Lynn anything goes

I am back again tomorrow with a "puzzling" mixed media piece for Tracy....watch this space. Thanks for visiting and enjoy these last days of July.

Remember to smell those flowers................

Bye for now,

Jane x