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| Metanoia Climbing Rose - changes from Orange to Pink to Yellow! |
I always look forward
to June - and not just because my birthday is in June! - but because
it's the month when the roses in my little garden are looking their
best.
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| Albertine Old-fashioned Rambler 'Roses Round the Door!' |
June is the month for
roses as far as I'm concerned, even though my yellow 'Dreaming
Spires' begins to bloom in May, or even late April.
In June, all my climbing roses are out and filling my walled garden with their wonderful fragrance.
In June, all my climbing roses are out and filling my walled garden with their wonderful fragrance.
So it's perfectly
appropriate that the Rose is the Birth Month Flower for June.
And my
Zazzle stores provide plenty of options when it comes to choosing a
birthday card or gift for someone who celebrates their birthday in
June.
Here you'll find all
sorts of roses, all painted by hand in watercolours - yellow roses,
red roses, various pink roses and even little pink and white dog
roses -
Click on the image
below to see the whole collection:
But whether or not you
are specifically looking for a birthday gift or birthday card, you'll find a
great selection of home and fashion accessories, cases and sleeves for electronic devices, as well as matching giftwrap and greeting cards, in my 'Summer Days'
collection.
And you can browse the whole of my 'Summer Days' collection by clicking HERE and scrolling down through the categories to find -
A friend hosted a
birthday picnic in the rose section of the beautiful but little known Linda Vista Gardens in
Abergavenny. And once we'd finished eating, out came my camera and I
'snapped' a few of the roses, with painting them in mind.
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| Alchemist Roses changing colour! |
But I take my photos with painting in mind so they are often not
particularly good as photos!
The original
painting of these 'Lipstick Pink' roses probably took me minutes
rather than hours and I was quite pleased with the result. However,
when I scanned it, the upper part of the painting was very faint so I abandoned
it and added it to the pile of sheets of watercolour paper that I use
for testing colours when I'm painting.
Then one day, it
occurred to me that I could use the painting for a greeting card or invitation,
placing the text in the area that was too washed out.
That worked well and
from there I went on to create a repeating pattern and some
coordinating patterns to make a collection that eventually fixed
itself in my mind as 'Summer Days'!
Here are the fabric
designs that made it into my 'Summer Days' collection, available on a
wide range of fabric types - the white butterflies in the background were a later addition!
I do hope you've enjoyed this
'Summer Days' post
and that you'll have time to
'stop and smell the roses!'
'Summer Days' post
and that you'll have time to
'stop and smell the roses!'
