Use those Strips!

Rain, rain and more rain….and its still coming down!....not pounding rain like they predicted, but just a steady rain. We didn’t get the dangerously high winds here either but they did along the shore of Lake Erie. On Saturday we decided to go for a hike through Rondeau Park, which is right along the Lake Erie shore and it was very windy even then….and worse on Sunday. Here is a quick video I took of the waves....hope it works. Lake Erie is the shallowest of the Great Lakes and is usually pretty calm.

It turned out there was a rare-to-this-area bird there – a Great Kiskadee which is usually found around the Texas/Mexico area. I imagine Hurricane Gordon had something to do with him ending up at Rondeau. We went down where it was seen and waited two hours….much longer than we normally wait for a bird…but we knew a lot of the 75 people that were there so it went by quickly. It didn’t show so we left…half an hour later it popped up. We went back before we left the park and after about 10 minutes it popped up and down in a blink of an eye and flew back into the bush. That was it for us! We may go back another day if it’s still around but we don’t go out in the rain….I know, we’re wimps….definitely good weather birders.

Today’s card is another one made from left over strips.

I took two long pieces and cut them down to 1 ½” wide and then cut them diagonally. The background paper is from the same set and it covered the card base. Then I glued on the strips with the skinny ends at the bottom left. Each seam was covered with a silver peel-off. Then I die cut a solid pink circle – Spellbinders – and glued it over the ends and trimmed off the bits over the edge. The sentiment is also a silver peel-off. The butterfly was die cut with an old Cuttlebug die…that I just love…and the embossing folder came with the die set. I added some gems to the body of the butterfly and called it done. This card is entered in this challenge: http://www.scrapyland-blog.com

That’s all for a rainy Monday, September 10, 2018. 

Cheers

   Violet

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