Hi everyone. I hope you're having a great weekend. Our weather is beautiful, and I finally got out and did some much much needed garden weeding yesterday morning. Right now I'm in a self-discussion about my big flower garden and how my tall phlox and bee balm have relocated (over the last few years) themselves to the sunny side. They don't look bad there, but they're so tall they're blocking the shorter plants. The question is, once the blooming season is over do I move them back to the other side of the garden or move the shorter plants? Somehow I think in the long run it will be less work to move the shorter plants because I swear those phlox and bee balm have feet and walk. 😏
Here's a pre-weeding photo I took the other day to show you what I mean about the tall plants. Boy my garden looks wild! (And out of control too-grin)
Today I have a bit of art to share, both a journal page and a tag. Let me start with the tag.
This time around Valerie is hosting at
Tag Tuesday, and her theme is
Summer Holidays. One thing I like to do in the summer is float around in the water, especially if it's hot. I'm sure lots of folks like a pool,lake or ocean to get wet in. That's the theme of my Summer Holidays tag. I started by using a stencil and some blue ink. Then I used a new die set that I recently splurged on. I really liked the floating lady (by Concord and Ninth), and I die cut all the pieces using scraps of paper. I didn't bother with a face because by the time I cut all pieces, I didn't want to ruin the face and have to start cutting all over again. 😏 The words come from an old stamp set I have, and I have no idea who made that because I'd thrown out the packaging a long time ago.
I also have another journal page for Halle's "I've Got a Notion" challenge at Art Journal Journey.
I covered my page in some fabric looking paper, and then I stamped the stitched flowers. They reminded me of pin cushions actually. I die cut the dress form, the sewing needle and the scissors. I first glued down the dress form and added a bit of cheesecloth to it. After I glued the other die cuts down, I used a white paint pen to make the thread in the needle look white. I had some of these gemstone sunflower stickers so I added them. The trim along the top and bottom borders is a punch out and finally I stamped the quote and fussy cut that before adding it to my page.
There's still a few more days to join Halle at
AJJ as her challenge runs through the end of the month.
And last but never least, I am linking up to Gillena's
Sunday Smiles at her blog.
Enjoy whatever is left to your weekend and have a great start to the new week.
