Baby Girl and Pink Spring

My project is below,
but I had to tell you about 'the storm'!

Now that a week has passed, I wanted to share with you
the storm we had on Feb 28th.
The saying 'out like a lion and in like a lamb' has so far been true
as we certainly had our lion that night.

We had 3 tornado's touch down about 9pm 
without any warning at all, and our home sat
dead center in the middle of all three.
I thought it was going for sure, as our closet doors in the master
bedroom were rattling (all windows were closed.).
You can see why with the picture below of the temps we had
going from the 60's to 30's in short order!
We are the blue dot you see before it got here, it hit about 40 minutes later
and the picture shows it over  (covering) Lake Michigan, it was a HUGE storm.  We are about 25 miles east of Lake Michigan

My hubby was up in the garage (our home sits down in, tucked on a creek)
in his man cave watching TV and hardly even heard it.
Me, on the other hand was terrified as I heard the roar
and trees coming down and snapping, all sounds I hope to never hear again.
In talking to the neighbors behind us and across the creek,
they thought all their windows were going to blow in,
they had monster big trees uprooted, as we did in our woods,
the hubs spent Sunday cleaning out trees with the backhoe that had fallen
 in and across the creek
We were very lucky  the tornado went over us
and never touched ground here,
I hid in the hall linen closet as we have no basement or
bathtubs to get in, just walk in showers.
It touched down 3 miles north of here and 8 miles east of us and 8 miles south!

Here is one of the pictures of a big tree uprooted at my step-son's farm,
he was lucky like us as it never touched it's ugly tail down.
(sorry the picture is so blurry, took it from a distance on my phone).

Okay now that, that is out of the way, moving on!

 I saw a 'new to me' challenge

and wanted to join in since I just won a beautiful packet of papers

that just happened to be Lemoncraft and I need a baby card.

The challenge is Pink Spring and is from Lemoncraft themselves

using the pretty mood board below for inspiration.

The papers I am using are Tiny Miracles.....

so very dainty, soft and dreamy!

I went with a baby card for my 'Pink Spring' creation.

Most of the papers are all Lemoncraft,
this is my first time using them and I have to say they are a fabulous quality!

I started with the pink gingham background (part of the paper pack)
and stitched it down (I am surprised I survived that as my sewing table
is an avalanche of 'stuff').....but sometimes I think stitching just adds so much!

I die cut a star, giraffe, and some leaves and such to add to my flower
'arrangement'.
I have to admit, I have been 'die-ing'  to die cut that silly giraffe..lol!
He kind of looks like he is eating the leaves of the flowers.
(all dies used are listed below)

I added a few gingham 'candi's' to finish.

Entering the following challenges:
Lemoncraft .... Pink Spring (x)
Dragonfly Dreams .... Girlie + Die Cuts/Punch (m)
Scrapyland .... ATG (4/02)
Scrap and Craft ....Celebrations (birth of a baby) (m)

Products Used:

Papers:  Lemoncraft

Dies:  CLD Whimsical Giraffe,

CLD Stacker Flower #1 Leaf,

PoppyStamps Sylvan Sprig,

Marianne Star

Various flowers, candi's