My inner gardening nerd came out in full force when I discovered a display of inexpensive mini-shrubs at Home Depot, including two very-hard-to-find-around-here 'Center Glow' Ninebarks. I had just returned from the fancy nursery (no luck), and so stumbling upon these Ninebarks at the Depot felt just a little short of miraculous. I went a little nuts, returning over several days to pick up lace-cap and panicle hydrangeas and even a Japanese dappled willow, all headed to the various planting beds we're creating at our new/old farmhouse. Definitely worth a scrapbook page. Oh, and I even found a third Ninebark--a 'Royal Jubilee."

This design uses one of the new Flower Fotoblendz Templates and much of the Bouquet Artplay Collection. I had to jiggle the template somewhat to fit my photos, and even added a frame pirated from a different template to contain a photo at bottom right. I also had to re-do the text boxes to fit with the photos and the Word Cluster. After all that was done, I added the background paper, a transfer from the Artplay Pallette and an Artsy Transfer to enrich the colors and textures. I embellished with a couple of layers from the MultiMedia Bouquet Set and grasses from the Artplay Palette.