Thursday, September 3, 2015

In the Pink

Since the wind storm that hit last Saturday, it has been raining and the temps have dropped from 80 to 60.  Now I am in long pants, sweatshirt, sox, and have even turned on the wallboard heater in my craft room.  Crazy. So is our summer gone?  Will we get an Indian summer after this week?  I sure hope so. Even though Fall is my favorite time of year, I'm not ready to give up summer.
So many of our flowers were destroyed in the storm (up to 60 mph winds).  All the dahlia plants are broken and the gladiolas are on the ground.  I sure wasn't ready to say goodbye to all those pinks and purples.  That is probably why I took on some of the pink challenges for this card.

I used #272 sketch at Sketch Saturday
The flower is a Hero Arts digital image from the Poetic Petals Printables set and is colored with Copics.
This card gave me the opportunity to us my new Spellbinders Happy Birthday Garland Die D Lites. Thank goodness for my Silhouette Pick Me Up tool.  Those little hearts are TINY!
Also used is a circle from the Dienamics Circle Stax, a Spellbinder Scalloped Circle, and a Cuttlebug embossing folder, all cut and embossed with my Cuttlebug. 

Challenges:
Classy Cards - celebrate and photo inspiration
Stamplorations Case - cased Kim Makortoff's card with circle, poppies, and embossing
Simon Monday - 3 colors: pink, green, yellow
Word Art Wednesday - anything
Simon Wednesday - make it colorful
Time Out - use a marker
Uniko - summer and photo inspiration
Crop Stop - anything
Sweet Stamps - anything



14 comments:

  1. Excellent colouring and I like how you have framed the card. Thanks for joining us at TO

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  2. Very pretty card with all it's pretty details!! Thank you for joining us at Classy Cards 'n Such for our "Celebrate" challenge! Hope to see you back each and every week!
    Diane CCNS DT

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  3. So sorry to read about your flowers, Marsha. Glads and dahlias are such beautiful summer flowers. Maybe you'll get the weather we had in MN after the storms and cold - lots of hot weather! I love your card and the embossing folder you used. Thanks for playing along with us at Sketch Saturday! Cathy DT

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  4. Your card is so pretty. The embossed background is lovely and the sweet garland is the perfect embellishment!! Thanks for sharing with us at Word Art Wednesday this week, hope you'll join us next week for our 200th challenge!!

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  5. So very pretty, Marsha ... lovely colouring and wonderful delicate detailing! Thanks so much for playing along with us at Time Out! Anita :)

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  6. A striking and beautiful summer card with a gorgeous image and perfectly coloured
    Thanks so much for sharing at Uniko studio challenge.
    Sarah x

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  7. Your card is so pretty, I really love the embossing folder you used and those cute little bows in the corner. Thank you for joining the Classy Cards N Such challenge this week. I hope you will join us again next week.

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  8. Thank you for joining our challenge at Classy Cards 'n Such! I love the pretty flower highlighted by the swirls of the embossing folder, and the lovely sentiment die. Please join us again next week.
    Mindy~CCNS~DT

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  9. Very pretty card and so beautifully coloured! Thank you so much for sharing your project and for playing along with us over on the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog... :)

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  10. I love the embossed frame around the gorgeous flower. Lovely work. Thanks so much for playing along with the Uniko challenge this month. x

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  11. So sorry that your flowers were destroyed in the storm, but your card is very pretty and will last longer! Thanks for taking the Time Out to play with us!

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  12. Sorry to hear your flowers were damaged in the storm. Your card is beautiful and love the embossing.
    Thank you for joining us at Simon says Stamp Wednesday Challenge.
    Luv
    Debby

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  13. Your weather sounds much like ours here in the UK! What a pretty card, love the poppy image framed by the embossed panel. Thanks for sharing and joining in on the Uniko Challenge. My apologies in my delay in popping by and commenting. Hugs Bev x

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  14. Very pretty focal flower! Thanks for joining in at CASEplorations

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