A Merry Monday Challenge Card - and some birds and butterflies

What a wonderful October we are having so far! 68ºF with the sun shining but a cool wind. I skipped out on Aqua Fit today to go to Point Pelee for a hike. We walked about 4 hours so that made up for skipping Aqua Fit. There were a couple hundred Blue Jays flying overhead and from tree to tree which was great to see; one bald eagle soaring overhead as well as a few hawks; about 75 turkey vultures; a dozen or more Kinglets and White-crowned sparrows; several flycatchers and a few unidentified birds. Not too many Monarch butterflies – 2 to be exact but here’s a picture of one of them.

 

and here’s a White-crowned sparrow.

 

Today’s card was made for the Merry Monday challenge at www.alwaysplayingwithpaper.blogspot.ca. The challenge this week was to make a card with a bird on it. Well I just happened to have three stamped images coloured up and ready to be made into cards so I pulled them out. This is a Stampin’ Up stamp I borrowed from a friend of mine.

This was coloured with water colour pencils, blended with water. Dies are from Spellbinders and I’m really loving this die. The little tags are from Cuttlebug dies and the gold sentiment, stars, etc. are a peel-and-stick. The background paper is from the stash. I made all three cards in the same design but different backgrounds and different coloured ovals. Here’s the other two.

 

Update on the grandson with a broken arm – he broke it Sunday, stayed home with his mom on Monday and back to school on Tuesday. He is one tough little trooper that one! He was back in school before I got a card made for him!

That’s it for a Wednesday!

Cheers

Violet