Blue Ridge Winery

Hello out there, I hope you all are having a fantastic 4th of July commemorating the adoption of the Declaration of Independence 241 years ago on the 4th July 1776!
On the 17th of June Blue Ridge Winery unearthed their new wine, Underground. It had been buried for 9 months, six feet underground! My friend Peggy and I visit the winery every Tuesday, Peg loooves her tasting! We know Randy, the owner of the Winery as he is always nipping in and out during the week. He is one of the most conscientious people I've ever met, definitely the truest definition of Entrepreneur! Their wines are absolutely fantastic, there isn't one I don't like, though my favorite is Sunshine Red! I wasn't there for the unearthing, Peg was, don't doubt that! I tasted it last week, dry red, and I must say extremely good and I only usually cook with dry, not drink it! Here are two pictures, one is the barrel unearthed and the other you see one of the guys 'rolling out the barrel' as they say! 

 Anyway, I wanted to congratulate Randy and his family on the 'unearthing' of his new 'red' so what other way would us card makers do that........yep, make him a card! Now when they first 'buried' the wine, they had a painting made and I tried to, kind of, mimic that painting. Here's the picture of part of the painting (don't tell, but I 'borrowed' all these pics from their Facebook page!). Beneath the painting is my card

I sponged a 5 3/4" x 5 3/4" piece of whisper white with the following colors: Blackberry Bliss (retired), Fresh Fig, Cherry Cobbler, Pumpkin Pie and Peekaboo Peach. For the 'water' I sponged with Pacific Point and Soft Sky. The tree was stamped using Blackberry Bliss and the oak tree from the stamp set 'Lovely as a Tree', one of my absolute favorite sets ever! However, none of my existing stamps have a 'bare branch' tree in the same shape so I drew the branches using my Blackberry Bliss stamp-n-write marker! I embossed 'Congratulations' using some retired Cherry Cobbler embossing powder. I then glued this to a Pumpkin Pie mat and then onto a 6 x 6 Whisper White card base. All in all I had an enormous amount of fun creating this card, I've found, over this past year, that I really love sponging, you can get some absolutely stunning effects with inks and sponges! Anyway, I hope you like my card (and I hope Randy and his family do to, I'm giving it to him tomorrow, we couldn't go today as it was the 4th!). If any of you are ever visiting the Poconos in NE PA I urge you to visit the Winery, you won't be disappointed! There is a link above to their Facebook page. If you have any questions about the card (or the Winery LOL!), please don't hesitate to contact me, my email address is at the top right of this post.