June Garden Photos

Some photos taken in our garden during June.


Frogs basking in the sun.......

Tadpoles tucking into bread....



Roses and Foxglove....

A Blackbird sunning himself on the hedge in our front garden....


We found this tiny sleeping baby hedgehog on the garden path, we think he might have been disturbed by one of our dogs, so we put him somewhere safe at the bottom of the garden, and an hour later had gone, probably made his way back to his original place where he'd been sleeping.


A strawberry flower.........

Corncockle......


Ox-eye daisies.....

And some rosehips :-)

Furry Friends

A quick card using the Furry Friends CD from Joanna Sheen.


I matted the image onto blue shiny paper, and added a punched butterfly, sticky gems and eyelash yarn. The sentiment is a Polkadoodles stamp.


I'd like to enter this card into Make it Monday's linky party.

Knitted Flower Brooch & Box

For the box lid I used white card printed with paper from Polkadoodles Sundae of Seasons CD, the flowers are stamps that came with Craft Stamper magazine, I stamped them with black ink and heat embossed them, and put sticky gems in the centres.


For the scalloped circle I used white card decorated with blue and green marbling inks, I then heat embossed it with clear embossing powder. I also inked around the edges and embossed that too. I also used the same marbled card to stamp the flowers on. Punched out butterflies and baker's twine wrapped round the scalloped circle.

Inside the box is a knitted flower brooch, the outer blue petals I knit with aran wool and the inner green petals are double knitting. The pattern is from this book.

I'd like to enter this into:

Polkadoodles - Stashbox Stamps, Secret Theme

Make It Monday - Anything Goes

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes

By The Cute & Girly - In The Garden

Deep Ocean Challenge - Anything Goes

Crafty Calendar Challenge - Things With Wings

Wine Bottle Easel Card

This week at Polkadoodles they're having a blog hop, and their challenge is to make a male themed project, and to include a button and a circle. I made this thank you easel card to enter into the challenge.


All elements for the card are by Polkadoodles - the backing papers are from their Father's Day download, which Nikky is kindly giving as a freebie for the duration of the hop, the wine bottle and glass are from the Not For Girls CD and the lettering is from the Candy Doodles CD.



I also added a wine cork as the easel stopper, made a wine glass charm for the glass, added string and raffia, a button, Cuttlebug embossing and a bit of glitter.

I would also like to enter this into Stampin With The Dragon's challenge to make an easel card.

Eddie's New Blanket

It's Eddie's birthday today, he's 14, and here he is with the crocheted blanket I made him.


Made in double crochet using wool from my stash that I've gathered over the years.

Scampy & Jasper like it too :-)

Knitted Mouse & Heart

A knitted heart and mouse keyring, pattern and wool from Let's Knit magazine.

Sea Shells Stitch Markers & Flowers

Some stitch markers I made today, made from Tibetan silver sea shell charms, silver plated beads and glass beads.

And some photos taken in our garden this week.

Butterfly Glasses Chain

A glasses chain I made from Tibetan silver butterflies, irridescent glass beads and tiny purple seed beads.

Hedgehogs & Ladybird

Late last year we found a baby hedgehog in our garden, he was underweight and unlikely to survive the winter so I took him to our local RSPCA wildlife hospital. On Sunday they phoned to say he was ready to be released back into the wild, so yesterday we collected him, and also another hedgehog and last night let them both go at the bottom of our garden.

We're putting food out for them every night to help them along and we're hoping they'll be regular visitors to the garden.

And this morning while tidying the garden we came across this 7 spot ladybird.

Stitch Markers & Glasses Chains

A set of stitch markers and a few glasses chains I've made over the last few days.