Buttons, Lace and Flowers

 Hi everyone. Happy Thursday  to you.   I hope you are having a nice week. I was hoping my week would be quieter than last week was,  and it is, but only a little bit. However, today I actually have a whole day open-hurrah! 😏

Today I also have another journal page for Halle's "I've Got a Notion" challenge at Art Journal Journey.

    I started my page by first embossing the image in the center of the page. I embossed on brown paper, and then I rubbed both black and then gold ink over it to highlight the sewing notions on it.  I also die cut the dress form, and then I stamped that piece with some flowers using some white pigment ink.

     I stamped  the page with the same flower image in pink, and then  I took a scrap of some printed paper and attached it on the right. I added the embossed image and "stitched" around it with a white pen. I also added a couple of tiny little die cut thread spools and a die cut needle and thread.  I took a scrap of some yellow flower trim and glued it down, then added the die cut dress form. I die cut  some white paper to make the lace along the bottom.  I added some actual buttons, and then, after digging through some of my stash, I found this ancient cloth clothing style label.  I remember buying a package of these labels (that had various words printed on them) back in my scrapbooking days in the late 1990's or early 2000's. I think an old company called Making Memories produced them. 

     And how about a few garden photos to finish off this post?  I'm really happy with my gardens this year (so far), except for 1) the Japanese beetles invading my roses (and I can't spray because my bees visit the plants and bug sprays don't discriminate between beetles and bees) and 2) some bulbs I planted in my shade garden that the chipmunks have totally eaten.  But at least no woodchuck (so far) this year mass destroying plants. 👍

Don't look too close because it's time to weed once again, but our temperatures have been too hot for too much garden time.

My lawn doesn'r look great, but you can see the whole garden here. The building is my husband's workshop that came with the house when we bought it. It needs a new roof and a paint job too.

My one rosebush that seems to be untouched by anything is my climbing rose. It is a very happy plant. This year I planted some creeping thyme underneath it. 

Even my potted asparagus fern is flowering this year. I bring it inside every winter and put it out during the nice weather. It looked pretty scraggly a month ago, but even in this close up photo you can see it has filled back in. 

Have a super day.