A Gift...

I've made this plant marker for a very dear friend, who I know grows loads of things in her garden. I 'm hoping she will be able to use it to mark a row of seedlings or maybe one of her pots of produce.

Just before Christmas I saw these wonderful plant markers on sale and couldn't resist buying a couple with the idea of altering them and making them into more personal and special gifts.


As you can see they already had a black section which I'm guessing was to write the name of the plant on in chalk. However, it wasn't real black board type paint so I decided to bring the plant marker bang up to date. I attached a laminated piece of white card on the back and included a pen attached with a tag and bow as part of the gift.


I stamped Tilda with watering can (one of my all time favourite Magnolia stamps) on to shrink plastic. I also made a shrink plastic flower and pot, which is one of the stamps in the Messy Rabbit collection by Joanna Sheen.

I stamped the background of grass and the sentiment 'Spring in in the air' using a Studio G collection.

All the images were coloured using Sakura Stardust pens.


My gift is also for the challenge at http://magnoliameetsstampavie.blogspot.com/ where everyone was asked to make a gift using a Magnolia stamp.

I'm halfway through altering the other plant marker so do call back tomorrow if you would like to see how that has changed.