Blueberry Anniversary Card - Shabby Naturalist

May is a month of Anniversaries, to be sure.
So while I was at it for other family members and friends, I went ahead and made
an anniversary card for DH.

Our first date was picking wild blueberries up at Graveyard Fields
on the Blue Ridge Parkway, then hiking a few miles to a nice waterfall.
It's an amazing part of the Nantahala wilderness area where a forest fire
swept through over a hundred years ago and cleared out a bunch of old-growth spruce
that had previously been blown over by a storm.
Not the entire bald meadow is covered in high mountain blueberry bushes.
You do have to watch out for bears, but it is well worth it.
And, at least for me, blueberries turned out to be fateful.

I knew that as soon as we had a garden, I would grow blueberry bushes, to remember.
And I have.  They are thriving.  I grow Misty, Patriot, Brightwell, and Powderblue varieties.
Just down the street, within walking distance, is a very nice gentleman who has covered almost his entire property with a mini-blueberry farm and some peach trees.  We go there to pick from
Mr. Rivers every summer, but for backyard berries all the time our bushes are wonderful.

And speaking of blueberry farmers,
For C.R.A.F.T. we are to be inspired by a book, so with these blueberries I'd like to
share Robert Frost's delightful poem, Blueberries. 
Follow the link to read and enjoy!

Here are the challenges:
 

Daring Cardmakers: Wedding / Anniversary

C.R.A.F.T. #361: Inspired by a Book
(see poem link above)
 

Creative Knockouts #139: Lots of Layers

 

Cards and More Challenge #157: Focus on Die Cuts

(a new-to-me German challenge - how exciting!)

 

Fashionable Stamping Challenge #110: Blue, Yellow, White
 

The Sketch File May Corner Trio Sketch: 

 

 Materials Used on this Card:

 

Card Base Cardstock {K & Company}

Stamping Cardstock {Rustic white - Papertrey Ink}
Ink {Ranger Archival Black}

Patterned papers {Collectable and Lost & Found 2 by jen Allyson - My Mind's Eye}

Stamps {Flourishes}
Bee rub-on {Basic Grey}
Cardstock sticker {Stick-abilities by TPS}
Wooden spool end and antique brass brads {Spare Parts by TPS}
Dies {Spellbinders Nestabilities and Flourishes by Cuttlebug}
Eyelet lace Edge Punch {Martha Stewart}
Cotton twine

 

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Be well and enjoy the sunshine,

--Kathryn