TIOT is In My Garden!

Our new theme at Try It On Tuesday is 'In My Garden There Is'
I think the DT must all have such lovely gardens as the inspiration on the TIOT blog today is fabulous!

Many of you may know that the only garden I have is the one at our caravan - it does give me a lot of pleasure, we get birds all year round and over the weekend during the damp weather we enjoyed watching the swallows diving around!

I really didn't know were to start with my journal page as there are so many aspects of the garden that I love so I got out a Garden Journal dedicated to my Dad, a gardener by trade, and chose a page that I liked, then attempted to portray it in a different way!

I decided to use a Crafty Individuals bird stamp as the original page has a Crafty Individuals image from one of their sheets

 Here is the original page in the small journal.

I started by stamping the bird in white onto a piece of gelli printed paper.

Next came my background, some paint from the brayer and some stamping by picking up some of the ink brayered onto my mat, then more random stamping using Crafty Individual stamps

I stamped some CI stems onto white paper and fussy cut them.

I arranged them onto my page and then took a photo.....

...just to see if it was what I wanted!

I found some flowers that I had in a box but no leaves so I drew some and coloured them in and gave the flowers some centres.  
I added butterflies and other insects and a few more white flowers!

Once again I am fascinated by how a page looks when photographed on different coloured backgrounds!

I hope you can join us at TIOT this time  - I would love to see your gardens! The challenge runs for 2 weeks.

I would like to enter this at Funkie Junkie Boutique challenge - Lets Do It Again 

Thanks for looking, Chris