Wednesday, June 19, 2013

The Summer of Color: Week 2!


This week's colors for the Summer of Color are orange and hot pink!  What a great color combination for summer, don't you think?!  I immediately thought of my favorite flower:  The Bleeding Heart!  For me, when it blooms, it is the first sign of summer!! (and a wonderful childhood memory for me, I blogged about it a little while ago.)  My mom's bleeding heart bush was beautiful and had to many blooms on it. 



So without further ado, here is my page created with photos of my very own bleeding heart bush.  It is still in it's baby stages, but I am so happy that it survived last year!



And speaking of orange and hot pink, here are some photos of the sunrise that I took this morning.  It was spectacular!!




I can't begin to tell you how much I have loved seeing all of the amazing inspiration from the participants of the Summer of Color3!  Please check out Kristen's blog if you have a chance!

 . . . and thank you so much for taking time out to visit my blog today!  

58 comments:

  1. Oh- quite the sunrise! That will make an awesome layout! And speaking of awesome- I really like the bleeding hearts page. It's delicate and bold at the same time.

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  2. What a lovely way to start the day- watching the sunrise! The clouds look amazing, Sharon. I've never seen Bleeding Hearts in person, can you believe that? How whimsical that they hang so delicately like dangling hearts. Love the LO you made and the unique scaled horizontal design with the flower pictures. Summer starts on Friday- enjoy!
    xo

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  3. Lovely work and gorgeous photos! Valerie

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  4. Exquisite layout!!. The colors are so gorgeous and perfectly mimicking the bleeding hearts :). Gorgeous sunrise too!

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  5. HI.. Your layout looks wonderful.. the back ground details are amazing.. and what magnificent sun rise too... stunning colors in the sky!!

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  6. Beautiful lay out and the pics are great, too! :)

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  7. LOVE your bleeding heart bush and the accompanying artwork you made using a photo of it!! And, that sunrise is just awesome, too!

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  8. Gorgeous scrapbook page. The sunrise photos are magnificent!!

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  9. Sooooooooooo gorgeous!! LOVING the colors and the banner!!

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  10. Lovely page with great colors! Love your photos too!

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  11. I love your layout! I'm a big fan of bleeding hearts and have 3 pink ones and one pure white one in my garden. They are so old fashioned and romantic. Your layout was the perfect compliment to them. That sunrise is gorgeous!

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  12. Fabulous sunrise photography! your Bleeding Heart inspired journal page is gorgeous and i love the quote:)

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  13. Your layout is fantastic! I love the color and the vertical journaling is so cool.

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  14. Hi thanks for your comment about my seahorse, I am BJ not Valerie btw - LOL I think the previous comment confused you. Love you bleeding heart LO. My bleeding heart didn't come up well this year as I think the late snow stunted it, such a shame but so nice to see yours. BJ#13 thanks for visiting.

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  15. Beautiful images of summer. Gorgeous skyline. You are a great photographer.

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  16. Gorgeous Sharon- the pics and your lo!!

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  17. all of your hot pink and oranges are beautiful.

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  18. No probs Sharon - easily done, I thought it was rather funny really.. BJ aka NOT Valerie - ROFL

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  19. Wonderful bleeding heart, dear Sharon. Love this bloom too! Your painting/ collage is also full of Beauty. Hugs Erika

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  20. Just GORGEOUS!!!! :) I never think to use those colors together - thank you for the inspiration!

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  21. Gorgeous layout, simple yet very powerful! The background really does it. Great use of the pink & orange combo. I need to get me some bleeding hearts, too!

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  22. Hi Sharon. Love "That Girl" on your sidebar. I donate to St. Jude so I always get very nice letter signed by Marlo Thomas. Your work for SOC is very nice. I love those two colors together. The bleeding hearts are very hard for me to grow, they are beautiful. Thanks for stopping by my blog.

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  23. I am so glad I have some sense of humour left after my dealings with my son's school. Crafting is my haven and what's in a name anyways ROFL. Just for interest I was named after Billie Jean King née Moffet all those years ago. BJ aka Billy-Jane and that's for real this time!

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  24. Beautiful bleeding heart inspiration and your sunrise is gorgeous!

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  25. Hello Sharon, so happy to see your SOC post today!! LOVE LOVE your layout and what a special memory to have also. These colors this week are gorgeous and yummy, love them. You know that sunrise picture is a favorite for me too. I'm sure some of mine would match this week's colors.
    Hope you are doing well and enjoying the summer days with your girls. Take care and see you next week! HUGS!

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  26. Really beautiful page, I especially love bleeding hearts, and what a great way to use them. Beautiful photos as well, thanks for sharing them!

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  27. Gorgeous Page and your Photos of Sunsets are just breathtaking! Thanks for making my evening:)

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  28. Beautiful photos and I like your art. The quote is great!

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  29. I love this post with all the color and wonderful sunset...gorgeous!! Your soc is awesome!!

    Hugs Giggles

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  30. Wow Sharon this is just an amazing creation for this week's summer of colour - really stunning!

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  31. What a smashing sunrise-photo. You did it in the right moment. Your orangwe-pink page is gorgeous!

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  32. The sunrise pics are Fantastic!!! The colours are so great!
    Nice work:)
    Deepa
    http://deepazworld.blogspot.in/

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  33. Thank you for your kind words about my post! I'm so happy to return the compliment, you SOC pictures are absolutely gorgeous, love the LO but the sunrise is spectacular! see you next week?

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  34. I love both your mom's and your bleeding heart bushes and the photos of your sunrise make our South Florida sunsets look lame by comparison. Wow! Thanks for the inspiration this morning. You have a beautiful, feel-good blog! PS - Loved "That Girl" when I was a kid! :)

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  35. Beautiful sunset pics....and your pink and orange LO is wonderful...love the background and the little banner bunting :)

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  36. Oooh I love what you've done with your page! And stunning sunrise photos too!
    Zoe @ Top Floor Treasures

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  37. What beautiful photos to go along with your scrapbook page. Those bleeding hearts are beautiful. We don't see them in this part of the US.

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  38. Beautiful! I love your page, and the sunrise is spectacular.

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  39. that bleeding heart bush was gorgeous and I can see how it inspired your page... and the sunsets were stunning as well... a fabulous take on the week 2 prompts...xx

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  40. Sweet scrap page and a really beautiful sunrise. ..x

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  41. Wow Sharon, the bleeding heart is really worth being integrated into your layout.
    I love your background too and together with your words your layout matches this week's theme perfectly! A really beautiful artwork!

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  42. What a delightful display of this week's SOC palette. I'm love bleeding heart plants - it's so much fun seeing a stem of hearts. And what gorgeous photos of the sunrise! Nice to have mother nature playing along with this week's challenge too. ;-)

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  43. Wow, that is a fabulous sunrise - what amazing colours. I love your page layout - the background texture is beautiful - I really like the subtle stencilling and colours - Bleeding heart is a favourite of mine too - I have a pink one in the garden but am really after getting a white one as I have a thing about white flowers, and it really is beautiful in white too!

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  44. Your page is lovely, love that background! And that sunrise .... WOW! Spectacular indeed!

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  45. What a wonderful post.... your 'Bleeding Heart' is so pretty as is your layout and I just LOVE your sunrise photographs.

    Karen x

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  46. Love your page it is wonderful, can see how the bleweding heart inspired you, it is beautiful.

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  47. What a beautiful spread. You pulled it altogether so well. I love it.

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  48. Your post is so pretty.Artwork and photos.I thought of sunrise too when I first saw the colors.

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  49. I love your SOC page, it is absolutely beautiful. And the sunrise pics are gorgeous too. WOW!

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  50. your heart page is so pretty and the photos of the sunset are just amazing!

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  51. What a beautiful page and stunning photos - I love that you've shown natural examples of the colour combo. Gorgeous!

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  52. Wow...love your page and love your background and styling! Simply gorgeous in everyway...and the photo is super too!

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  53. I love your page! I love seeing all the pretty layers together and that darling little banner. Beautiful. Looking forward to seeing next week's creation!! :)

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  54. I love your page! Tangerine and hot pink are usually so loud together, but you've made them soft, yet summery.

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  55. Oh wow, what a gorgeous page! I love the composition and LOVE how you added your flower pictures to the layout. What wonderful memories and art! xoxo

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  56. The sunrise photos are fantastic! And your artwork is so lovely!

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  57. Oops, I missed this one last week. Better late than never. :). The bleeding heart photos are perfect for this color combo, and the sunset photos are gorgeous!

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