How does your garden grow?

After my visit to the nursery a few weeks back I hardened off my bedding plants and was finally able to pot them up a couple of weeks ago. After the rain and now the hot sunshine they are really taking off.

I have bought some old favourites but also some newbies....I love this new purple petunia.

 It gives such a flash of colour.
I have gone for yellow and red in my hanging baskets this year

As you all know I adore taking photos...you have seen my photos on my blog for nearly 6 years now (gulp).  However I have a confession to make....for all the cameras I have owned..... I have never ever read the manual. I just look at the quick set up guide and I'm off. I drive my Hb potty as I'm the same with any gadget. I just don't have the patience to sit down and read a manual.  At the weekend though I noticed an icon on my camera which I didn't understand and after all this time I finally searched out the CD and loaded the manual onto my computer.  OMGoodness what fun effects there are on my camera!

So I had a play.....and I love all these different effects....here are a few

Fun eh!

So my challenge project has to be floral doesn't it. It is a canvas that I have not yet shared with you. I made it at one of my talented friend's, Brenda Brown's inky days.  It was such a great day. We used lots of mixed media techniques.

I would like to enter it into the following challenges.

Simon Says Stamp Monday summer garden

A vintage journey texture or embossing paste (used on the canvas).

Everybody Art non cute

Allsorts 2/3 the great outdoors

Crafty Friends based on a book mine is Papillon by Henri Charriere

Noor summer

Stamps and stencils floral frenzy

Rhedd's Creative Spirit anything goes

Happy Little Stampers mixed media

Butterfly challenge A is for aperture +/- apricot

And just to leave you with one more of my photo effects....

....who stole the yellow ;0) 

I can see me using this lots.

I can almost hear my garden growing at the moment. It's too early for my fuchsias to bloom yet but just wait until they do...my camera will be very busy.

Thanks as always for your kind visits and sweet comments you take the time to leave. We had a massive thunderstorm this afternoon but the sun is now back...no need for me to water the garden tonight ;0)

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x