Japanese Gardens

Most of these pictures were taken in the Japanese Gardens in the St. Louis Botanical Garden.  There are a lot of them I just couldn't decided what to post.

First I will share a card I made for one of the girls in my cardmaking group that I have known for quite a few years and she loves Asian inspired cards and I just happen to have some of that in my Tag Art book of images.  I told her I had no idea what it said I hope it is nice :)  She said she would have to ask her Mom, she hasn't told me yet what it says, there was a smaller one that I put inside the card also but forgot to take a picture.

I used a gold pen on the arch and some wink of luna gold marker inside the gold corner stickers and added a gold sparkle rhinestone to the top of the tag. I forgot to write down the embossing folder I used.

Hot of the press -- Tag art #2 (image)
Sizzix -- Tags, rounded die
Embossing folder
Gold Pilot pen
Gold Corner stickers
Wink of Luna -- gold
Recollections -- rhinestones

Ok on to the pictures, the first is near the beginning of the gardens

In this next one I wanted to show you that there was still quite a few bare trees out there

I liked the reflection here

I liked the pink with white flowers

Look how pretty blue the sky was that day

Huge Magnolia tree, now we are out of the Japanese Garden area of the Gardens

Here is a closeup of the tree, as you can see the flowers were at the end of their blooming so it is a good thing we went when we did

This next one was my favorite tree, I had my hubby write down what type of Magnolia it was, I want one in my yard :)

 Here is a closeup of the blossoms, aren't those colors beautiful!!

Now we are almost back to the beginning, I love this path that winds through the trees

Sorry for the overload of pictures.

This time of year is just Beautiful when all God's creation comes back to life!!

Thanks so much for stopping by and I wish you a blessed day,

Connie