Summer's here at last!

Morning All, thanks for stopping by. First week of the school holidays over already and finally the sun came out. I spent a few lovely days in Scotland with Jenni but couldn't stay long because my daughter Rachael and her friend are staying for the whole month working at the Edinburgh Festival. We spent a lovely day in Edinburgh with our younger sister Karen at the reopening of the Chamber Street Museum which was fantastic,well worth a visit. The only  disappointment was the fact that they have removed the fish tanks from the grand entrance which have always been there and are a memory from our many childhood visits. Also Jenni had donated some catfish which had become too big for her tank at home and we kind of want to know what happened to them. No-one seemed to know!

While I was there we had a chance to get out in the garden and that is what inspired my card this time. The summer holidays is our theme  over at Cardmadfairy's Digi Days, which is when I get to spend time in the garden enjoying all the flowers and hopefully butterflies, although there have not been so many of those this year.  We are sponsored this time by Sandra who is one of the DT and she has put together a prize of bits and pieces to add to your stash.

For my card I used two different Cardmadfairy images, the A4 sheet of dotty flowers and the butterfly. Isn't the butterfly fab? I wanted it to be the main focus of the card but the thing I love about digi stamps is you can make them any size you like. 

The patterned paper is from the new pad I recently bought but I only used a little so the card didn't look TOO busy! The plain papers are Basic Gray. The metal corners have been in my stash since the world began!
I would like to enter the following challenges.
http://craftycardmakers.blogspot.com/  butterflies
http://kaboodledoodles.blogspot.com/ In the garden
http://anythingchallenge.blogspot.com/ flowers
http://creativecraftchallenges2.blogspot.com/ summertime
http://divasbydesignchallenge.blogspot.com/ summer
http://ilovepromarkers.blogspot.com/ things with wings
http://thepapershelter.blogspot.com/ flowers
http://stampwithsarahkay.blogspot.com/ summer
http://craftuscrazy.blogspot.com/ anything goes in August
http://aifactorychallenges.blogspot.com/ anything goes