Today's Ways to Use it Challenge is Picture This - to use a photo on your card.
I LOVE using photos on cards - I make cards for my grands for their birthdays with photos of them on the cards, I make cards for church with a photo of our church on them.
So today I went out to my garden and took a photo of my Solomon Seal plants.
Here's a little history of this pretty plant:
Solomon's Seal is named for King Solomon of Hebrew lore who was granted great wisdom by the Hebrew God and had a special seal that aided him in his magical workings, allowing him to command demons without coming to harm. According to herbal lore, King Solomon himself placed his seal upon this plant when he recognized its great value. Those with imagination can see the seal on the rootstock in the circular scars left by the stem after it dies back.
Solomon's Seal is a bittersweet, astringent, tonic herb that includes convallarin (also one of the active constituents in Lily of the Valley), asparagin, allantoin, gum, sugar, mucilage, starch and pectin.
Solomon's Seal has been used for centuries to heal wounds, repair damaged tissue, bruises, and knit broken bones; relieve dry coughs and tuberculosis; treat chronic dysentery, diarrhea and hemorrhoids, among other diverse uses.
My sketch is based on the latest Fusion Challenge.
ETA: I'm also linking this to the SCS Bible Verse Challenge.