Before and After + Mojo Monday #301

 

When Hurricane Sandy hit last fall, we lost a huge tree in our backyard. 

The majority of the tree got cut up and distributed to our neighbors for firewood.  The stump got plopped back into the hole, landing a bit askew, and this spring I added some dirt and some plants from here and there and it's not looking too terribly bad now.

(just ignore the wash line running through the photo)

These photos have absolutely nothing to do with my Mojo Monday card.  But I've made reference to going out to play in the dirt so many times on this blog, I thought I'd let you see a bit of what I accomplished.   Thanks for bearing with me.


Back to blog business..........

Based on this week's sketch:

Here's my Mojo Monday Challenge #301 Card.

The luggage digi image is from Tiddly Inks colored with colored pencils and blended with gamsol ; the sentiment is from CTMH; the background paper with all the passport stamps is actually the flip side of this:

a piece of junk mail, which came with an application to get an American Express card.  I get these every so often and throw everything in the recycle bin except this piece.  This piece I always save to use on a card.

I am entering this card in the following challenges:
Word Art Wednesday Challenge #87 - Anything Goes
Stampotique Designers Challenge #107 - Recycle It
Paper Crafting Journey Challenge - Anything but a Square Card
Cute Card Thursday Challenge #276 - Stars and/or Stripes
Wags n Whiskers Challenge # 107- Cute as a Button
Seema Crafts Challenge - Holiday/Vacation
Make It Monday Challenge #148 - Always Anything Goes with Milk Coffee Stamps
Love to Scrap! Challenge #9 - Anything Goes
Digi Makeover Challenge #96 - Anything Goes
Through the Craft Room Door July 9th Challenge - Anything Goes
Papertake Weekly Challenge - Old, New, Borrowed or Blue  (The turquoise and striped papers are old scraps I found tucked in a basket; the bakers twine is new; you might say I borrowed the image; and the flip side of the BG paper is blue)
Loves Rubber Stamps Challenge #60 - Use a hoarded item (the recycled background)
Natalie's and Amy's Challenge #11 - Trash to Treasure
Freshly Brewed Designs July Month Long Prize Challenge - Take a Vacation
Designed to Color Challenge 15 - A Recipe with Simply Betty Stamps