Just the Ticket for Thinking of You

Happy Monday!! I have a quick "thinking of you" card to share with you this morning.
I made this with these challenges in mind:

• Off the Wall Craftiness: Challenge #29
• Limelight Papercrafts: Sketch 59 plus a focus on FLOWERS
• EtsyInspired Challenge: #110, to be inspired by something from the Etsy store Capturing Creativity. I was inspired by these adorable Happy Birthday tickets
• {ippity} challenge: #46, to use "PINK" in your ippity project. Hope this {bright} pink doesn't blind everyone!!

More tree drama on Bliss Road this weekend. We had a humdinger of a Nor'easter last Thursday night into Friday. We ended up getting 3 inches of rain along with high winds. On Friday afternoon, not 20 minutes after DD walked home from school, we heard a horrendous crashing sound outside. Upon investigation we found that a huge pine tree just five feet on the other side of our property line (on town-owned forest land) had been twisted off by the wind about halfway up and fell, quite luckily, away from our house. We are quite thankful that we sustained no damage.

However, there is a paved path through the woods, running parallel to our property line, that leads between our town's middle school and high school. It is traveled by students before and after school and is our own route to both middle school for DD and elementary school for DS, as well as the route we take to walk to our town center. Anyway, this huge pine tree came crashing down smack-dab across the path, effectively blocking it. Again, quite thankfully, there were no students on the path at the time that it fell. But when it was time to meet DS after school, there was no option but to climb through the tree, so we bushwhacked our way amongst the limbs and pine boughs. I left a message for the town department of public works that a tree had fallen across the public path and would need to be cleared away. The sounds of chainsaws buzzing away in the woods next to our house this morning warmed my heart as I worked on this card, and I'm happy to report that all the pine tree wreckage has all been carted off. Our paths are clear again!!

Thanks for dropping by to peek at my little slice of bliss for this Monday!!

Card Recipe:
Stamps: {ippity} Now and Always (blossom and sentiment), Unity Total Cuteness (bracket element)
Paper: SU pumpkin pie CS, various CS from The Paper Company
Ink: Palette noir black, Palette violette, Palette belle rose, SU pumpkin pie
Accessories: scissors, CM scallop corner punch, Stamp-a-Majig, green gem, raffle tickets (from Dollar Tree), paper piercer, hemp cord, needle
Techniques: paper piecing, stitching