Hello! I hope your week is off to a great start. I've been enjoying and taking in as much of my little girl at this particular stage in her life as possible. Yesterday I watched her in her first Track & Field Day and her first softball game. I love sitting back and watching her reaction to these new experiences...always amazed at her happiness and desire to get the most out of life. She takes life on with a big smile and is such a great example to me. I am very timid and quiet by nature, shy but content to be in my own little world, and she is completely the opposite. So much stronger and outgoing than I have ever been and I am grateful for that.
With summer coming quickly and plans being made about how we'll fill our days, I'm getting anxious to plant our garden this weekend to enjoy some summer veggies. I ran across the photo below and was instantly inspired by it and grew more anxious to get my garden underway.
My card uses Crate Paper's DIY Shop paper, dies, and dimensional stickers, Graphic 45 French Country paper, a Tim Holtz metal clip, a Maya Road butterfly trinket pin, and May Arts trim.
There isn't much I love more than a beat up, old, weathered, chippy, red chair. But those veggies and those flowers!...I'm craving summer. I love it when a photo makes me happy like this.
Hope your day is beautiful.
Melis
What a beautiful card, Melis! I love that inspiration photo, too. I have a red wooden footstool that was my Dad's as a little boy and I treasure it. I had to smile reading about how your daughter is so outgoing and you are shy and timid and content in your own little world because I, too, am exactly that way and my son I so outgoing. I envy his ease of mixing with people and activities because it has always been somewhat painful for me to do. I am so glad he is the way he is.
Posted by: Patty O'Malley | April 30, 2013 at 03:53 PM
Melissa your card oozes summer from every corner, love it to bits!
Posted by: Lisa | April 30, 2013 at 07:25 PM
LOVE this one... but there isn't anything on your blog that I don't love :)
Oh, I would love to have that chair in my garden :) I am so anxious for summer too!
Posted by: Meredith | April 30, 2013 at 08:41 PM
Beautiful card Melissa! That red wooden chair speaks to me. I had one like it that finally wore out and fell apart last year. I grabbed a can of spray paint and promptly painted my metal garden table the same shade as I missed my "pop" of red on my backyard patio. Red is such a fun color and it just makes me happy! Thanks for sharing! :)
Posted by: Jill Norwood | May 01, 2013 at 12:31 AM
Looking at your card makes me feel happy. It really does look like Summer! It's the summer I remember as a child, perfectly free and enjoying the outdoors.
Posted by: KATHY H | May 01, 2013 at 09:17 PM
Fab card! Great colors, mix of patterned papers, lovely flowers, everything is so pleasing to the eye! Great chair and those vegies look sooo good. Don't have a garden anymore. I look forward to the farm stands opening, selling their produce, flowers and plants. :)
Posted by: Gabby | May 02, 2013 at 01:16 AM
While at an antique store a few weeks ago, I found that very same chair...all beat up and needing a home. It's painted a robin's egg blue, and was only $15. I snatched it up and ran with it! LOVE the red as well.
Karen
Posted by: Karen L | May 04, 2013 at 11:46 AM