Hope everyone enjoys their Springtime. Here in Toronto the gardens explode with all their Spring colours and fruit trees are covered with beautiful blooms.
Our new Design Team has shown an amazing amount of Spring projects this past month and there is much more to come in the next few weeks.
To celebrate May we are offering one of our favourite stamp sets – Abundant Blossoms as this months’ giveaway! This is one of our featured sets this month. Just click on the image to see it in our online store.
PLUS: All online orders this month (until May 31) will receive a C$5 gift certificate for our online store. It can be redeemed for US$ and C$ orders (the computer will do the math for you). This offer is valid for all new and returning customers (excluding our DT). Make sure to spread the word.
To win the Abundant Blossoms set, leave a comment with a quick note how your garden is doing right now. You can leave a comment until Thursday, May 6 to be eligible to win. Check next Monday’s post to find out who the lucky winner is!
Now off to create Spring cards!
Happy Stamping,
Bettina
My outdoor garden is doing ..not so good, as I have a brown thumb. However, my “mental” garden is flourishing. Ideas abound!
Thank you for the chance to enter.
LindaJ
The garden in the front is starting to grow. My husband commented on “all the tulips” coming up by the “tree” and he asked when I planted the bulbs, since he didn’t remember me planting any new bulbs. I said I didn’t plant anything new and I thought all the bulbs were done and pulled up in the area. I know the squirrels will dig up bulbs, I guess they also replanted them for me in one tidy bunch. Thanks to the squirrels. The back garden is a bit of a dog’s breakfast as we started expanding last year and have to “rent a bin” to get rid of all the sod and clay. I am looking forward to some new plantings (probably more Phlox, which I love and Mother Nature just looks after them for me).
Have fun gardening everyone. Take some time to take a few photos and scrapbook a garden journal. Sandra d.
Usually at this time of year my garden is looking lush and green with lots of spring flowers, but sadly this year, due to the very cold long winter, the season is late and it’s looking a little sad. I need to create my own crafty garden
I unfortunately do not have a garden! But I do love to stamp, so thank you for the opportunity to win this set!
My perrenials are all coming up and I have a few flowers blooming, but best of all my herbs have grown again! Salads are so much better with them in it. The grass id finally green in the Maritimes.
Wow, what a beautiful stamp set. Our garden is so pretty, the colors are so vibrant, red, pink and yellow flowers all over, love how fast the green grows. I went for a little walk with my camera on macro to see the flowers up close. Nothing more pretty then nature!
Its a little early here in New York, so my garden isn’t doing well. I hope to get some tomatoes in shortly and then the flowers will start to bloom. Thanks for the chance to win.
Still chilly here in WA state, but my husband has gotten bean seeds planted. Lots more to do, as weather permits – more veggies & flowers, of course!
Here in Indiana, everything is popping as well. My perrenials are ready to burst into bloom. Not quite ready for annuals to be plantedyet as it still gets rather cold in the evenings…but maybe in a few weeks! Thanks for the opportunity. I love this stamp set!
No garden yet because I cant put anything in the ground until the end of May. Its too cold here in Ohio. I do have my herb garden started in mini pots in my kitchen
Our garden is an autumn garden with the leaves on the trees just starting to turn colour and drop. Its all starting to look very untidy though and in need of a clean up.
Ummm…I don’t have a garden! LOL I don’t have a very green thumb either…though I do hope to plant some flowers–but we have not gotten to fixing up the outside of our house yet–in terms of redoing the landscape–it was such a fixer upper–we are still fixing the inside! LOL
I have a black thumb. I just killed a miniature rose bush I got for my birthday. The only flowers I can grow are the ones I stamp.
My garden isn’t doing great. I cleaned it up and it has snowed twice since. We need some warmer weather to get things growing. I am in Saskatchewan.
We’ve just had a typical British Bank Holiday weekend – cold and wet -so the garden is not doing well. Spring flowers are over and even the Camellia is fading fast. It doesn’t help that we have a football loving dog. Just love these stamps though – I could create a “virtual garden”.
Sue xx
It’s got lots of weeds, but life seems to be getting in the way of sprucing things up.
My garden consists of a flower bed that is full of weeds and a few flowers
Its been too cold to weed as of yet but I am hoping for some warm weather so I can get out there and fix it up! So in the meantime my creations are my spring fun lol!
With our warmer than normal spring this year and the early arrival of our first baby, my mother cleaned up my garden for me and now the tulips are showing beautifully and the shrubs and trees are starting to bloom. Happy spring.
My knockout roses are blooming like crazy right now! And my potted plants are looking so pretty too!
I live in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada and the only flowers up right now are the tulips. The irises are popping their leaves up, but we can’t start planting for another three weeks since there is still a risk of frost tonight.
What a cute set, endless possiblities for creating!!
Spring is late and cold this year, in my part of Norway,so there aren’t many flowers yet. But the weeds seemto start as early as usual
All we need is a few days with warm weather and sun, and all will be popping!
While we live in a rural area, we actually enjoy the very best Italian vegetable garden in Northwestern ON meticulously groomed and lovingly tended by my Italian father-in-law. It is amazing and its delicious bounty is shared with many as lucky as us!! We cannot have our own garden as we are hosts to an abundance of wildlife including 5-10 deer who enjoy nothing more than feasting on any and all planted bounty (just ask my poor Mom and Dad down the road who watched the deer eat all of their plants and flower bulbs last year). We do hope in the near future to invest in a 8-10 foot fenced-in garden compound that our graceful friends cannot enter – maybe then we can see if my dear husband inherited his fthers green thumb. Thank you for the opportunity to enter this contest – I love the details and dimensions of the stamps and see endless creative possibilities with them!! Good luck to everyone who enters!!!
After two weeks of gardening (read: hard work!) the garden looks better than it did same time last year….. our work paid off. Higher temperatures and lots of rain really gave the garden a boost and I’m glad we took the time to clean up all those leaves and do the necessary weeding and mowing. Now it’s time to sit back and enjoy…. until it’s time to come out of our lazy chairs and go back to work again
I def. love to be in the garden, both working and relaxing LOL!
Oh how I wish I had a green thumb. I love when friends share their bumper crops with me since I have no luck in growing my own veggies – though I’ve tried time and time again to grow something from scratch. It’s either the soil, or the weather, or operator error, but my gardening attempts just never come to fruition.
My gardens are doing well so far. Right now my peonies and my allum are growing like weeds. And my hydragneas are just getting going. Can hardly wait to plant my annuals as well.
I came home after 2 weeks of holidays and my garden was full with spring flowers…..my work in November paid off and I was in 7th. Heaven seeing all the colorful flowers. I love flowers, so when I noticed this giveaway, I had to try my luck. Thanks for giving a chance to win these pretty, colorful, delicate flowers ready to spread fragrance in my Craft room.
My Lily of the Valleys are in bloom and I always treasure that time of the year!
Thank you for your generosity~
garden is slowly starting, need more rain:) but my beloved hydrangea is starting to grow Love flowers, real or stamps:)
i planted my tulips last Oct, as per the instructions. They started blooming in Feb this year, due to the warm weather we got! However, because of the rain we usually get here in the West Coast, the got crushed a little, so my tulips have all bloomed and but are now… gone =(
they were beautiful when they were here though! and i did make my first layout!
thanks for the chance to win!
hugs
juli
My springtime garden is my fav, it’s when my tulips and dafadils are in full bloom and my crabapple tree is in full bloom and smells sooooo good, while everything else is starting to have new growth, after our winters it’s such a welcome sight!!!
Well, our garden is a little slow in coming, but our rose bush has bloomed very well without any attention/intervention on our parts.
great looking stamps, my gardens are coming along just fine, I added a trailer full of cedar mulch to the front and side gardens, the tulips are up, each year I add more and more. All my hosta are just coming up, i was a little nervous, I planted 30 hostas last fall and I thought maybe they were all dead cause nothing was coming up…but just last week these little stems popped up and yippee my hosta’s are alive!
We are in between right now…..tulips have since bloomed and faded…everything is super green right now, full of buds…waiting to burst open. I can’t wait!!