G is for

First of all can I thank everyone who left such positive and kind comments on my last post. I enjoyed my first day of retirement yesterday and after celebrating over lunch with my dear friend Karen I was itching to do some crafting and enter some challenges. The fun continues with the dictionary challenge over at The Craft barn and the letter this fortnight is G. There are also lots of challenges asking for spring and Easter themed projects.

After some deliberation I whittled it down to 2 possibilities...golden and garden. I chose G for Garden and decided that gold would feature out there too, just right for a sunny Easter garden.

I also bought a recent new set of Paperartsy stamps, I had to buy them as the are all about Daisies.

Today is just glorious. The sun is really hot on our patio and I have got the washing out, I can hear the bees buzzing and the birds are singing their little hearts out.

The flowering currant is attracting the bees but I could not get a shot, they were too quick

My acers are waking up with lots of new shoots

 Even Old Choc is enjoying the sunshine

and sunshine can only mean one thing

Time to get out the chairs and sit and enjoy a cuppa or two with this sweet boy under our chairs.

For my journal page I started off adding some texture paste to my art journal page

 I added gold embossing powder to create my golden garden and added a sentiment. I then started blending some Spring garden distress ink colours. The embossing acts as a resist.

I stamped and coloured the Daisies with distress inks and fussy cut them out. 

I also used some bister and die cut CL butterflies from the inky coloured card.

So once I had my background made I got busy with a little more stencilling and adding my embellishments. 

Here is my finished page.

 Here is my definition...my garden certainly is my pleasure ground and I certainly am a gardener according to my dictionary!

It will not be long before I have butterflies there too. 

I would like to enter my Easter garden art journal page into the following challenges;

The Craft Barn  dictionary challenge My G is for garden
Little Claire's  3/3 anything goes
Ribbon Girl  3/3 any image
Whimsy  3/3 spring colours or Easter
Deep Ocean  2/3 Fave colour combo I have lots of fave combos but greens/ golds/ yellows is one of them.
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday 2/5 come rain or shine This page I hope shares my sunny Easter holiday in my sweet garden. The rain bit is to come as the forecast is not looking good!
Sweet Stampin  2/3 Easter
Crafty Boots  2/3  Easter
Penny Black and More  3/3 feature a creature
Stamping sensations 2/3 flower power
Vintage Stamping at least 3 layers I have 5;  the inks, the stencilling the stencilled embossing, the stamping and the die cuts.
Sparkles 1/3 make it girlie
Wow embossing powders March challenge
Creative Corner 1/3 anything but a card

Right I am heading back to the garden to make the most of this glorious day...and I know you are all loving my hellebore photos... so here's  another that |I just snapped.

Just bliss........I'm going to put on the kettle and just sit ;0)

Thanks so much for visiting. Enjoy the Easter holiday.

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane xx