Bleeding Heart Birthday Card

Yep, another challenge!! :) I LOVE CHALLENGES!

The challenge this week over at Cute Card Thursday is "Hearts and Flowers."
PaperPlay Challenges is "Hearts and Flowers but no Valentines"

I don't think I've talked much about my gardening here on my blog, but I love to garden.  Growing veggies is my #1 but flowers are a very close second.  

When I read about the challenge over at Cute Card Thursday the first thing that popped into my head was my Bleeding Heart plants.  Last year I took a lot of pictures of the ones in my yard.  I used my own pictures for this card.

The mat of pink circles paper is from the DCWV Spring stack. I printed my picture with my Dell printer onto simple white card stock. I was tempted to print it on glossy photo paper but I knew I wanted to emboss the sentiment and didn't know how that would work out on glossy paper. 

I glued on three little "skittle" gems that have been dyed dark pink.

I embossed the Scrappy Mom sentiment with white embossing powder.

I added a second picture to the inside along with more of the matching paper stocks.

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