i love hydrangeas - part II

so the next challenge that i undertook was to choose your fav flower......

i love hydrangeas......i think they are beautiful...plus they remind me of when i was a little girl and we would make trips to visit my grandparents and family living in alabama......in the house in which we use to live, we had lots of hydrangea plants....i can remember picking them and bringing little bouquets of them to my mom and both of my grandmothers.....such a great memory..... so when i heard about this challange...... i knew instantly what i wanted to do.....

so ....i had this picture i had recently taken of my niece....and she was actually smelling some wildflowers in the picture...but i covered them up with hydrangea petals....that i got from some flowering bushes when i worked at old american like a gazillion years ago as a floral designer.....

sooooo i hd been saving them all these years and so i finally put them to good use.....and i think that i proudly displayed them in this layout......i wanted to make the flower petals show a transformation from petals, or blossoms...to butterflies......

i add a piece of cardboard as mat.....and finished it off with buttons, tulle, and a few other touches...now it is ready for submittal ......