MORE BUTTERFLIES!

Back in August 2013 I saw more butterflies than I had ever seen in my life before or since.  I took some amazing photos of them at Lum's Pond on August 17th and at Mount Cuba on August 30th. This layout is from photos I took at Mount Cuba.

I was inspired for the design of this layout from Shannon's Comic Book challenge over at A Cherry on Top.  

Believe it or not THIS is a comic book!  They sure have come a long way since I was young.

Here is the layout I designed as inspired by that comic.  I had that paper line by American Crafts in my collection for ages.  I was so happy to find the perfect thing to use it on.  I fussy cut several parts of the paper.

And here are a few close-ups-

Two different species of butterflies feeding 

on the same bush at the same time.

some cute tiny little buttons-

a few other buttons -

my favorite photo of the batch!

I hope that you have enjoyed these butterflies as much as I have.  I am also going to submit this layout to Word Art Wednesday for challenge #182 as the butterflies are such a beautiful reminder of the wonder of God's amazing creations!

MORE FROM MT CUBA!

Last week I shared two layouts with some amazing butterfly photos taken last summer at Mt Cuba. Today, I am going to share some flowers.  I created my layout using the second August sketch from Colorful Creations.

Here is the sketch:

I chose to rotate the sketch 1/4 turn clockwise.

I realized after all was said and done that I rotated the sketch but left the 2 diagonal strips where they were...instead of putting them across the bottom where they would be....LOL!

Don't forget to head over to the Colorful Creations blog and check out the other wonderful DT samples and add yours!

HAPPY THURSDAY! (YES I KNOW IT'S FRIDAY BUT I WAS TOO TIRED ON THURSDAY TO POST!)

Yesterday I had a capsule endoscopy.  I was wiped out from the prep procedure and lost the first half of the day - when I intended to head to a museum - instead I spent it in bed.  I had to swallow a little tiny camera that was in a capsule and where a special pouch.  The camera took 5000 photos of my digestive track in search of internal bleeding that is causing my very low red cell count and very low iron.  I was able to take off the pouch at 4 and have something to eat so I gained a bit of strength and was able to do a bit of creating last night - but then I stayed up so late there was no time to write my post.  This morning there was no time either as I had to take my son to work and then I spent a much too short time at Mt. Cuba Center.  What an amazing garden and trails...and it was another day filled with butterflies!  There was also some stunning flowers and interesting tree bark I photographed too.  I must go back there again as I know I did not get to nearly all of it.  

Here is a sneak peak of some photos from my day:

And now back to our regularly scheduled post - 

My creations were 3 cards and 1 layout.  The cards came from sketches for the August Scrapbook.com card sketch challenge.

The first one is Sketch #3:

And my Card:

My second was using Sketch #4:

and my Card:

My last card used sketch #5:

and my Card:

My last creation was a layout.  I created it for the Word Challenge 'SPLASH' on Sunnyside Up Creations and used the Colorful Creations Guest Designer Sketch.

The Sketch:

and my Layout:

Now I'm off to take a quick rest and get in a bit of creating time so watch for another post later or tomorrow (although I will be working on a project for The Krazy Crafting Crew Blog Hop that will be on Sunday so you may not get to see anything until then!  

Hope your weekend is off to a wonderful start!