Memphis - She loved; They loved

We went to Memphis for a couple of days over Spring Break this year.  My favorite part of the trip was the zoo where we got to see two adorable panda bears!  We are so spoiled with having the free St. Louis zoo so close to us that most zoos have a tough act to follow. But, the Memphis zoo had a lot to offer so we had a really nice time there!  We all really enjoyed the new Teton Trek which had grizzly bears and wolves.  The only other thing we really did was hang out downtown for a little bit.  We all enjoyed the music on Beale Street.  

This layout is a bit unusual for me as I have basically made two layouts in one.  The SHE (loved) on the left side is very feminine with flowers and butterflies in soft colors.   The THEY (loved) on the right side is very masculine with a grunge feel.   

American Crafts Challenge - use 2 AC green products

The ribbon, solid cardstock and dotted cardstock are all American Craft!
Green textured is from Autumn loose papers pack; dotted paper is Letterbox Hello, ribbon is a roll labeled Everyday 2 2008.  Green is my favorite color so I really enjoyed this challenge!
http://americancrafts.typepad.com/studio/2010/03/green-week-challenge.html

scrapFIT Challenge

I had a lot of fun with this challenge! I blog hopped this morning, and I was immediately excited to spend part of my day off from work creating this beautiful layout! I used all of the required elements set out by all of the lovely FIT girls!  I loved the ideas they presented! It was fun to make the paper flowers and also use the lovely butterflies along with the other elements. How can you go wrong with pink and green?! Hope you can see the details well enough! Some of the butterflies have Tim Holtz crackle paint and the others were on glossy paper which was first inked and then salted and left to dry to create a cool look!

Hope you enjoy this layout!

UPDATE:  I ended up being the winner of the Blog Hop! What fun!

Caardvarks Photo Inspiration Challenge / Stamp Simply #130 - A Color Challenge

If you would like to play along:

http://caardvarks.blogspot.com/2010/03/photo-inspiration-challenge.html

http://notimetostamp.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/2010/03/11/stamp-simply-130-a-color-challenge/

NOTE:  Green butterfly has Tim Holtz Crackle Paint; Salmon colored butterflies are on white glossy paper which I inked with shades of pink/salmon/green and then spritzed with water and sprinkled with salt until it dried.  Cut butterflies out with a Martha Stewart punch!