Walking amongst the weeds!

Some of you may know that I love to visit gardens, some of them very formal, some less so but I love to walk in areas where there are wild flowers too! I also like to let wildflowers grow in our caravan garden….although I am not keen on the big nettles that seem to find their way into the centre of my shrubs

I recently purchased the Tim Holtz Thinlets Wildflowers set 2 - at last at a good price!
Today I sat at my Big Shot and cut a whole pile of them - not only that sorted them into bags of colours that I liked together!

The other day I had found these little bags that are the ideal size for my craft room bits and pieces! I will be able to take some bags easily when we go away too! 

I made a background of Faded Jeans Oxide Ink and Tumbled Glass Distress Ink.

While cutting the flowers I also found that I had some nice stencil shapes too so added those using Distress inks.

I arranged the diecuts on my page but didn't like the way the pink one was sitting so I snipped the top off and turned it upside down!

The stamped grasses along the bottom are from various sets I have collected over the years - unfortunately I cannot remember which comes from which set. They were stamped in a combination of Adirondacks and distress inks The words are from a very old Stampman set but seemed just right for this page and were stamped on a piece of old under paper!

I would like to join in again at Art Journal Journey where Elizabeth is leading the way with her theme of Summertime Love

I would also like to enter at Stamping Sensations where the theme is  
Anything With Flowers 

My next post will be my 'T' post…if you want to see what I got up to on Saturday!
Thanks for looking, Chris