Right Shed Fred

By fabulous coincidence Dr.Digi released this super gardening stamp just when I had in a commission to make a gardening card! I love it when that happens! This is Right Shed Fred.

I coloured him with polychromo pencils on kraft card. I love colouring wood at the moment and try and sneak it in to everything, so a shed was pure joy!

Here he is in the shop:

Here is my version of him:

Background paper is also from Dr.Digi's this time, it's part of the Seedings Backing Paper Set.

I colourised the backing paper to just be shades of green, but from the original colour scheme I cut out two of the flower pots to use as embellishments in the corners too. Font is ACME Secret Agent.

I added a few background plants to add to the gardeny feel! And a snail, can you spot him?

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Something different, with flowers.

On my personal instagram I've been working on flower stories from my garden every few weeks. It changes so quickly and the flowers don't last for long, I wanted to capture it, find some advantages to the fine weather we usually don't experience.

	May 21st 1. Ceanothus 2. Alkanet 3. Pink Champagne Clematis 4. Begonia 5. Dicentra Formosa 6. Begonia 7. Dogwood 8. Montana Reubens Clematis  9. Busy-Lizzy
	June 2nd 1, 6, 8 - ceramic plates. 2. Begonia 3. Hydrangea 4. Rheum 5. Clematis Nelly Moser 7. Ceramic balls 9. Lupin
	June 27th 1.Indian Bean Tree and Sumac 2. House leek 3. Begonia 4. Astilbe 5. Gazania 6. Herbaceous Bell Clematis 7. Cactus 8. Trailing Geranium 9. Nemesia

Anniversary Card for Gardeners

Another commission card, this time an anniversary card for two people who enjoy gardening.

From a distance I now realise it looks rather like a rattle! Or a bauble! However, it was meant to be a ring of garden images with the greeting in the middle!

Background is  blended Shaded Lilac and Bundled Sage Distress Inks, with flicked Wilted Violet and Lucky Clover and a final splosh of Cosmic Shimmer Golden Mint to add some sparkle! :)

The images are stamped with Brushed Corduroy, Shaded Lilac and Bundled Sage Distress Inks.

Stamps are from Buzzcraft Oliver's Orchard Characters and Captions No.485, Hunkydory Flutterbye Garden and Rose Garden by Clear Impressions. Also a freebie magazine set that I have now lost the details for! (oops!)

The font is Delinquente Demo.

Garden Colouring....

I've been looking for a way to use parts of colouring books in my cards, for personal use, so I can do something with the images after I have enjoyed colouring them. It also occurred to me that they'd make pretty nice backgrounds just as they were!

This background image is from The Secret Garden - Available as a free download from The Adult Coloring Club. I have drawn two birds based on an element within the "colouring image" to make a feature for the card and added diecut bunting (Die'sire) , fence and watering can (Trimcraft). Birds and fork handles coloured with copics. They are meant to be a male and female bullfinch! :)

Our pets in our gardens.

Just sharing a picture with you today. My Mum requested one of my cat drawings for Christmas featuring our pets! This is the final image - the background shows composite parts of both our gardens. On the left are my cats" George" and "Bertie". (Brothers and rescue cats) and on the right is Mum's cat "Tiggy". (Also rescued, abandoned in a box in the churchyard with her kittens.) The two dogs are "Holly" my labrador and "Figgy" Mum's rescue staffy. First time I have had to colour in "brindle"... took me a while to figure it out :)