Sunday Sketch and Stamp Challenge #3

Hard to believe May is almost over!

Here are some pretty pictures of some trees in bloom on our property. I cannot help but take pictures, because where I lived for almost 30 years we only had really large old Oak trees. Our home is now surrounded by woods but the previous owners planted fruit and other flowering trees.

Signs of Spring.

The Cherry trees are blooming, and oh so pretty. Last year we picked a lot of cherries to find out they were not any good. This year Jeff has read up on fruit trees and has bought and used the necessary products to bring about a lot of good cherries. We are having a small cold front. It's suppose to get into the 30's one more night so I am still not going to put anything new into the ground. Boy it is hard not to but it is much harder to go around and cover everything up every night and uncover it all the next morning. So I wait. We do have peas growing though and Jeff planted another row yesterday against another fence. Our ponds are also overflowing the banks and I had plans to plans to plant some new plantings around the front pond this year too. Everything seems to be at a standstill. I'll have to work inside for another week. Here are the pictures Jeff and I took this past week.

I have been trying to add a little note and pictures when each of my grand kids has a birthday. I missed putting a note in about Zaiden's birthday. He turned 4 earlier in April. As you can see he is quite a smiley boy. He got boy toys and plays with them in boy ways. I was going to enter another blog challenge this week but the deadline is tomorrow. I don't think I am going to get anything done. Came home tired today from work, and just wanted to sit and read and snooze. I did run Ladybug up to the vet to get her stitches out and took her for a walk, but that might possibly be all I do this evening since it is already 7:00 p.m.. My incoming at work is so deep that the in basket is sagging. I work for a real estate appraisal firm and everyone that can is re-financing at this time. Busy, busy, busy...Hopefully I'll get creative in the next couple of days and have something new to post.

One card two challenges. I am entering this card in the Scent My Cards cherry inspired challenge and also at Sunday Sketch and Stamp for their first sketch challenge. The red and brown cardstock is core'dinations and the stamps are Stampin'Up. I also used a combination of a white embossing powder and red fun flock for the cherries, and Flower Soft Nut Brown for the stems. The other items I just pulled out from here and there. I mainly work on scrapbook layouts and have not put together a card in a while. Not sure it will stand out next to all the other pretty cards I have been seeing. Need to update my stamps and get some copic markers. But here is my entry!