a walk in the apple orchard

This month, Splitcoaststampers.com has been hosting a different Hope You Can Cling To challenge every day. The cards made for this challenge will be donated to the MD Anderson Cancer Center. Each challenge has had a different theme.

My friend Victoria hosted one of the challenges. It required the crafter to make a card inspired by something s/he sees on a walk. I decided to take a trip down memory lane for my walk, and made a card inspired by my memories of walking in my grandparents’ apple orchard when I was growing up. My sisters and I could hardly wait for the apples to ripen enough to eat – and often, we didn’t wait, LOL. We didn’t mind helping to pick the apples because we knew our mom and our grandma would use them to make apple pies, applesauce, apple cobbler, and apple kolache. YUM!

My uncle inherited my grandparents’ farm, and we’ve continued to enjoy the apples from the orchard although most of the trees were uprooted during Hurricane Isabel in 2003. Sadly, the last remaining apple tree was destroyed in a storm this summer. Even though I’m going to miss those apples, I’ll always have the fond memories of the good times and yumminess.

Supplies:
Stamps: Turn Toward the Sun (Lizzie Anne Designs)
Cardstock: Riding Hood Red, Confetti White (Stampin’ Up)
Ink: Onyx Black (VersaFine)
Other: markers (Copic); standard circle and big scalloped circle dies (Nestabilities)