garden variety...

I'm back with another Papertrey Ink blog hop to feature a new stamp set by Melissa Phillips and Nicole Heady called GARDEN VARIETY! It will be available on the 15th. There are new dies with it as well, and I used the new Seed Packet Frame die and Seed Packet die (pocket) in my little mini album called "Planted in My Heart".

It's still a work in progress, as I need to add more photos to it, but I wanted to show you what I have so far! I wanted to make a mini album out of the seed packets and frames, but also wanted it to have a light and airy spring feel, so I chose to make my own little vellum pockets. I love how the light shines through the vellum, and how the vellum shows through the seed frames and let's you peek at what's inside! Here I layered the die cut frame over the vellum and then stamped a saying right onto the vellum, along with some little yellow flowers...

The second page isn't a pocket, just a flat page. I stamped onto the vellum with the little flowers, punched the edge with a border punch, then added a journaling card, photo and a tab that I made myself.  There is a new stamp set also this month called YEAR OF FLOWERS COLLECTION - and here on this page, I stamped the saying from that set.

On page three, I stamped some Year of Flowers roses on the front and chalked them in. The cute sayings and grass are from the Garden Variety set. Don't you LOVE that tiny house button? It's from the Neighborhood line by Crate Paper!

The little envelope here was cut with the Seed Packet die. I used the leftover piece that was punched out of the frame from the cover under the chipboard, just to add some pattern and color.

You can cut the Seed Packet Frames out of patterned paper like I did here...

Or you can stamp them directly onto the vellum like this page...and layer some of the Year of Flowers stamps over the top...

This little bundle is tied together with seam binding. I think it'd be cute with some larger photos in between the pages as well and some smaller ones tucked into the pockets, but alas....I ran out of time. I used lots of Crate Paper here - Emma's Shoppe, Neighborhood and the Portrait lines...journaling cards, buttons, stickers and chipboard. I mixed and matched all of those lines. Thanks for taking a peek!

Please visit the rest of the ladies to see what they've made with these two sets!

• Betsy Veldman
• Dawn McVey
• Erin Lincoln
• Heather Nichols
• Jessica Witty
• Lisa Johnson
• Maile Belles
• Melissa Phillips
• Michelle Wooderson
• Nichole Heady

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{Planted in My Heart mini album}

• STAMPS: Garden Variety and Year of Flowers Collection
• INK: Jenni Bowlin (yellow), StazOn (black) and Ranger Industries (brown)
• PAPER: vellum, Crate Paper
• DIES: Seed Packet die, Seed Packet Frame die
• OTHER: pin by Maya Road, buttons/brads/stickers/chipboard/journaling cards by Crate Paper.