More in my summer garden

It's time for my 2nd inspiration piece for Country View. I am the hostess this month for our challenge and I have chosen the theme "In the summer garden" for July.  If you missed my first post you can see it here.

For my 2nd piece I decided to make a butterfly card as I see lots of them fluttering around in my garden. They are always very hard to photograph so I thought I would share a few more photos of my summer garden.

 I love my garden studio.

It's also in the only shady part of my garden so perfect for keeping cool whilst crafting.
For my 2nd card I wanted to use my new Tim Holtz botanical 3D embossing folder which Susan of Country View Crafts has in stock. Remember she offers FREE UK postage on everything on the web site.
These new 3D folders are amazing. I used the back of a cereal packet and got this amazing texture.

 I used fossilised amber, mowed lawn and picked raspberry distress inks and just lightly swiped over the surface.

I just love the effect you can achieve.

I didn't want to cover this up too much so I used some inky mop up card and stamped and embossed  my Visible Image butterflies also in stock with FREE UK postage.

 I used the words from the new Life is beautiful hummingbird set which Susan will have in stock very soon, watch this space as I am writing a shop blog post for her.

I then added my butterflies, added a little Treasure gold gilding wax and matted and layered my card onto a Kraft blank. This is my newest card up for sale at Dotty's Tearoom in Carshalton High Street where my cards are sold.

Here are a couple of close ups

and one last shot.

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges;

The butterfly challenge The letter V I have spun the wheel and used vertical design, vintage, Vegas gold (my gilding wax) , vermilion (my picked raspberry ink) and vine leaves (my embossing folder)

Creative fingers 2/3 anything goes

Crafty catz 2/3 anything goes +/-embossing

Fussy and fancy 2/3 pretty in pink

Simon says stamp Wednesday anything goes

Creative moments 3/3 anything goes

Penny Black and More 2/3 things with wings

Stamping sensations 1/3 in my garden (great minds that we have such similar July challenges!)

Card Mania 2/5 anything goes

So now it's your turn. We would like to see all your crafty makes where you have been inspired in your own summer gardens.

 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.

I am really looking forward to seeing all the entries.

All the details can be found here

Enjoy this ongoing gorgeous summer weather.

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x