Hi everyone. I hope you're having a great weekend. The weather at my house has been more like early April for the last several days. Grey, wet and brrr. I'm hoping today will be an improvement. It's the long Memorial Day weekend to kick off summer, but it certainly doesn't feel much like the start of the summer. 😕
To brighten things up, I want to share a bright butterfly page for Neet's It Must Have Wings challenge at Art Journal Journey This challenge runs through the end of the month, which is later this upcoming week. Plus I've used a variety of media for this page, so I will be linking up to Creative Artiste Mixed Media Blog for their challenge # 115.
I'm also linking up to Gillena's Sunday Smiles.
I used 3 more fabric butterflies. You might remember that earlier this month I mentioned I found a bag of these pre-cut fabric butterflies pieces while cleaning. On today's page I went back to that bag and picked 3 orange ones. I added them to a pink, yellow and orange inked background in my ledger journal.
This time I used some paint to color in the butterfly's body and I added some half pearls. I also drew in the antennae. To finish my page I used an old set of butterfly stamps from Cornish Heritage Farms. I stamped some of the butterflies in this set, and also stamped the quote on some yellow colored paper. Then I fussy cut the quote and added it to my page. While outlining the paper the quote is stamped on, I also outlined the butterflies with same orange Sharpie.
Hope you like it.
Most of my garden plants seem to have fallen behind with the wet and cold weather we're having. Except for the weeds of course, 😏, and sadly it's so far been too wet and buggy to go out and take care of them. But one of my 2 azaleas is blooming. Strange those 2 plants never bloom at the same time. This flowering one was a tiny little plant that my dad found next to one of his azaleas many years ago. He dug that little plant up and gave it to me. I love it when it blooms because it always makes me think of him.
And it's not such a little plant any more either. 😉
It's nice to see something bright and flashy while the skies have been grey. Enjoy the the rest of your weekend and the start of the new week.
That burst of red is enough to fire me up for the day! Thanks for the morning jolt! All the best - David
ReplyDeleteLove the fabric butterflies, great focal point. The colourful flowers are beautiful too.
ReplyDeleteYour blooms are simply gorgeous, Erika!! Love your art journal page. The fabric butterflies are so cheerful, and I love how you continued that theme with the stamped ones. Have a wonderful week ahead! Anita xx (And thank you so much for linking up to our Anything Mixed Media Goes challenge at Creative Artiste! 😊)
ReplyDeleteAzaleas and rhododendrons , plus lilacs are always some of my favorite early blooms, Erika, and thanks to the cooler and very rainy weather we've been having in NH this spring (?) these all seem to be blooming later. The ones in your yard are a wonderful burst of color!
ReplyDeleteGorgeous colours Erika, very vibrant. I have azeleas and rhodonendrons too, white ones, those on one side of the garden are getting more sun than the others, so one side is blooming and the other is not. And now it's raining... about the feathers on my wall-hanging, they were paper, from the free printable. This was one of Birgit Koopsen's designs and she used feathers on a gel plate to make them. Happy long weekend!
ReplyDelete...this azalea will brighten the dullest day.
ReplyDeleteI luv it, your butterfly page is absolutely adorable. Thanks for linking to SundaySmiles
ReplyDeleteMuch♡love
This is fantastic and the butterflies with the pearls and the background with the bags and the colorful painting are so beautiful. A charming page full of ideas.
ReplyDeleteHave a good evening! Hugs Elke
So nice to see happy and bright colors with the grey and gloom looming outside the window. No butterflies yet, but I did have bees. Your azalea is beautiful and so nice a gift from you dad. I hope the sun is out this week and the temps get a little warmer
ReplyDeleteYour azalea looks great. I hear you on the weather and the plants. Hopefully this week will be better.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful colour on your post today.
ReplyDeleteEnjoy the remainder of your weekend and have a good week ahead.
All the best Jan
Aww, what a beautiful memory tied to your azalea! Isn’t it funny how plants can hold such special meaning? That little gift from your dad turning into a blooming beauty — so lovely.
ReplyDeleteAnd yes, the weeds *never* seem bothered by the weather, do they? 😏
Hopefully things dry up soon so you can get out there — bugs and all!
But for now, enjoy that special bloom. It sounds like it’s blooming just when you needed it most.
Isn’t it always the weeds that thrive no matter what? 😅
ReplyDeleteSorry to hear about the cold and wet — makes it tough to enjoy the garden!
But how special that your azalea is blooming — and even more meaningful that it came from your dad.
Plants with a story are the best kind. It’s like a little hello from him every spring.
Hope the sunshine finds you soon!
A colorfully sunny page for summer, love the pink, orange and yellows. Would go perfectly with our lantana, lol. And my gosh, what a beautiful azalea bush, the blossoms are exquisite! Hope it warms up and the sun shines for you soon, xoxo
ReplyDeleteI adore your butterfly page. I love that background. This is a fantastic entry for Neet's theme at AJJ.
ReplyDeleteYour azalea bush is stunning. A real show stopper.
Goodness. Just when I thought the rain had stopped, it has started again. I may need to build an ark before the end of the month.
Good morning, I love your butterfly page and your plant is gorgeous! We have the same weather-very cold with lots of rain some flooding in Missouri too around the rivers. If the woodstove here was fixed-needs a new pipe in the chimney-I would have started a fire for sure last night we have been in the '50s since saturday. I am trying not to turn the heat back on.
ReplyDeleteThird time lucky, I don't know where my comments keep running away to
ReplyDeleteLove your page with the fabric butterflies and how you have blinged them up. At one time I would never have put red with orange but now it has been introduced in the fashion world and it is all over and I just love it. So I like the way you outlined the butterflies and placed them on that background with the stamped ones, Great to see you are working once more in your ledger journal.
How beautiful is your azalea, and how lovely that it has grown so much from when your father gave it to you. Such a special - and such a beautiful plant.
Thanks for joining my challenge at AJJ.
Hugs, Neet xx
Your flowers look great!!! Mine.... nah, and no Butterflies, either, too cold for balcony time... so:Nice to see yours, hugs!!!
ReplyDeleteLove your art journal page. Beautiful layers and design. Thank you for joining us at Creative Artiste this month. Hope to see you back here again soon. Judy DT
ReplyDeleteWhat a brilliant page! I love the way you've done the wings on your butterflies! Gorgeous flowers too!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful summery page, love the fabric butterflies, they add a lovely tactile element. It certainly brightens up a grey damp day. Thank you for joining us at Creative Artiste Mixed Media challenge. Emmax
ReplyDeleteWe could have done with some of your wet weather here in my part of the UK we have seen so little rain & my perennials have really suffered from it, my Azalea has not flowered so well but yours is a beauty. I love your bright and cheerful page Erika really effective created in a ledger journal..
ReplyDeleteMany thanks as always for sharing @ Creative Artiste and joining our May challenge. Creative Hugs & Best wishes Tracey (DT)