LDRS Whispering Meadow for Addicted to CAS Challenge #301

Happy Saturday.

It’s the fabulous Toni’s urn to host our Addicted to CAS challenge this week and she has a code word featuring a color I don’t use very often :-). The color really needed florals, so I just gave into it and went with a floral :-). I pulled out a set I haven’t used for ages called Whispering Meadow from LDRS.

Here’s a sneak peek:

Mmmm… I’m guessing you might have realized what the color is for our challenge!

Here’s our challenge badge:

Yep, pink! I never was one of those girly girls who wore pink, except for the absolutely floofy, pink, shiny party dress my aunt bought me one year. I think I must have been around 9 or 10. It was meant to be worn on “good occasions”. Well, I was invited to my brother’s parents-in-law for lunch, so Mom decided this was the perfect opportunity to show them that I really was a girl. She wrapped me up in the pink party dress, with the big satin bow and sent me off to lunch with the grinches. Seriously, Keith’s mother-in-law is the photo you see when you google wicked mother-in-law!

So, there I was at the storybook wicked MILs house having lunch when the youngest daughter (almost as bad as her mother I might add!) decided we should go riding on her two bikes. Me? I didn’t own a bike, we couldn’t afford one. So, the idea of being able to get on a bike when I don’t normally get to do that, really appealed to me.

I tried to get onto the bike as ladylike as I could with my dress and went paddling down the steep hill. I was half way down the hill, quickly approaching the fast moving cross-traffic at the bottom of the hill, when I tried to apply the brakes. The youngest daughter of the wicked MIL had somehow forgotten to tell me that the brakes didn’t work! WHAT!!!! Seriously, I was on one of the steepest hills in our city – and it’s a city famous for steep hills – and the brakes don’t work. Thanks for telling me! Anyway, I knew there was only one way I was going to get off this bike before hitting cross-traffic and that was to put my feet on the ground and try to stop the bike. That didn’t entirely work, so I had to steer the bike into the curbstone of the sidewalk. I hit it at quite a speed I can tell you. So, I ended up flying over the handlebars of the bike, hitting the limestone wall on the other side of the sidewalk, sliding down the wall and hitting the tarmac and skidding on that before I finally came to a halt.

I was rushed to hospital, fixed up, checked for concussion and sent back to the wicked MILs house. My pretty pink, silky, floofy dress, which was being worn for the first time, was torn to shreds and covered in asphalt. The wicked MIL snatched the dress off my body, with no regard to my cuts and bruises, and dressed me in an ugly cotton dress from the wicked youngest daughters throw out pile. (I know, you can’t make this stuff up, really!)

I was then driven home. I arrived at the door, in the terrible cotton dress, half my head shaved, with my entire face covered in iodine, bruises, stitches and scratches. I knocked on the door and my poor mother met me at the door and said “I’m so sorry love, but Jan’s not here!” I was such a mess, my own mother didn’t even recognize me.

So…… that’s a long way of trying to tell you why I don’t like pink!!!!! :-). Now, where was I? Oh, yeah. A pink card.

I stamped the image and heat set it with clear embossing powder onto hot pressed watercolor paper and used my watercolors to loosely color in the flowers and leaves.

I then ran the dried piece of watercolor paper through my empress with the Textured Notes frame die from Stampin’ Up! I added a couple of pieces of cardstock underneath and then adhered it to the card base.

Here’s my card:

We would love to see what YOU create with Toni’s word for this challenge. As always, the design team have created some fabulous inspiration cards for you.

I’ll be back tomorrow with my Paper Players card. In the meantime, warm hugs and prayers for those of you who need a little lift tonight.

Card recipe:

• Stamps: Whispering Meadow – LDRS
• Dies: Textured Notes – Stampin’ Up!

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