A shout out for June!

Happy June everyone...the longest day and first day of summer is now just 21 days away. 

My plants are thriving as we have had a mixture of sunshine and showers so my garden is looking lush, especially my foxgloves, such tall elegant flowers. Mine just self seed from year to year and I have shades from white to pink.
I snapped these photos at dusk and the busy bees were still humming in and out the flowers.

Today is also the start of our June challenge over at Country View Challenges. For this month the theme is "The written word". We would like to see all your crafty makes where you have added text in some form.

 As always you can enter our challenge as many times as you like and combine with any other challenges. Your make can be anything creative! You may even be the lucky random winner of the £20 CVC voucher.

All the details can be found here

I knew just the set of words I wanted to use, my

Visible Image "Wake up awesome" stamp which Susan has for sale here on the County View crafts website. My inspirational word cards sell so well at Dotty's Teahouse so I decided to make a sunny June card with colours which shout out summer. I chose these Distress oxides for my background colours.

I first white embossed the sentiment onto the less textured side of my watercolour paper.

A little spritz of water gave me the simple bleached look I wanted.

I really wanted the words to pop so I simply distressed the edges and matted up my card with bright yellow and blue card and added some sequins,  just like the sun in the blue sky on a June morning.

I would like to also link up my card with these other fun challenges;

Cute card Thursday 1/3 here comes summer
Simon says stamp Wednesday anything goes
C.R.A.F.T 1/3 come play outside
Little Patch of crafting friends 2/3 anything goes
Simon says work it Wednesday 2/3 summer

I hope you also managed to wake up and feel awesome, we all should be....let's have a shout out for the arrival of June 2018! I hope to see lots of you joining in with our "The written word" challenge. There are so many fab quote stamps out there you are spoilt for choice and I am sure you must have some form on text lurking in your stash.
Here is the link again 

My 2nd DT make for Country View is on Thursday and it's a very non clean and simple card with a Father's Day theme.

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x