Floral birthday watercolouring

My dear friend Yvonne celebrated her birthday yesterday.  I had a call from her hubby on Wed asking me if I would take her out for a drink to celebrate after work so he could cook a nice meal for her - without her trying to help out... so I did.  I picked her and one of her work friend's as well and we headed off to try out a local Wine Bar.  Very nice... especially as we got there with 5 mins to spare for the happy hour!   So once I dropped her friend home, we headed to her place and had a lovely meal with her daughter and grandchildren, her son and his fiance and her brother -in-law and his son and us...My hubby assisted hers in cooking a lovely three course meal.

I had made her this gorgeous (if I say so myself) watercolour floral card.

The image is a digi stamp from Make it Crafty.  I printed it onto some watercolour paper and used my Altenew watercolour paints and some paints from Koh-I-Noor.  Once I finished, the printed lines were a bit dull looking so I took a fine tip marker to draw around the edges.  This really made the image pop.  I added some gold Wink of Stella to colour the Hello and added the little white embossed sentiment from an Altenew set. 

Today was a beautiful sunny spring day and I was outside for quite a bit of the day.  Our swan plant is full of Monarch Butterfly caterpillars and I managed to get a photo of one of them beginning it's transformation

I will have to keep an eye on it to see if I can get a photo of the butterfly as it emerges.

Hope you all have a great weekend... Daylight Saving starts tomorrow... so one hour less sleep for me tonight, but that means Summer is on it's way!