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Saturday 5 May 2012

Geranium Stand and Holiday Story




I had this Delicious Doodles digi, available here, printed already and I decided to colour it last night. I coloured it with my Promarkers before cutting it with my Spellbinders oval nestie and matting on to a pink scalloped nestie. This morning I eventually made the card! The card blank is from Craft UK. The pink card is all available from Papermill, I used two different shades of pink. The pink patterned paper was in my 'pink' drawer and I have no idea where I got it from, sorry. I used my Martha Stewart punch on each long edge before adding to the lower part of the card. The dark pink paper is from Costco. I added a silver metallic decorative square to the top corner and two swirls were added - the top one is a Spellbinder die and the other is a Marianne die. 

We were also invited by Just Keep on Creating to tell a travel story for a separate challenge entry. My husband and I went on a trip of a lifetime in 2010 to visit relatives in Darwin, Australia from our home in the UK.  We did so many exciting things whilst we were there and one of them was going on the Adelaide River Queen boat to see the jumping crocodiles. I took wonderful close up photographs of these huge creatures jumping right out of the water. The guide then told us she was going to dangle some meat from the top deck of the boat and we would see the white bellied sea eagles come swooping down for it. I positioned my camera, waited for the call, clicked....... and caught an image of the empty string dangling! Fortunately my husband's cousin got a perfect shot of the eagle and that's the one that's in our scrapbook. We flew down to visit more relatives in Perth, Manjimup and Augusta and have more photos of where the two oceans meet, the Southern Ocean and the Indian Ocean, spectacular. So many happy memories.

I'm entering my card in to the following challenges:

Just Keep on Creating - Anything Goes and Travel Stories
The Poodles Parlour - Anything Goes

14 comments:

  1. Beautiful card Hazel. I remember your trip hasn't the time flown by. xx Jan

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  2. A very pretty card Hazel, love the image. It doesn't seem 5 minutes since you were planning your trip! Carol x

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  4. Lovely card, love the papers...

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  5. Lovely card Hazel, gorgeous colours, and I love the image. Sounds like you had a fabulous holiday. My daughter, partner and son went to Australia in February for a month, visiting his relatives, and they had a fabulous time. x

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  6. Fantastic card Hazel and such a fab job with the colouring. Wow what an exciting trip that sounds like you had and definately one to remember
    x catherine

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  7. Beautifully colored Hazel! Thanks for joining the Little Miss Muffet Challenge! Hugs Deb

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  8. Hi Hazel,
    This is such a lovely card. A beautifully coloured image that is framed perfectly with the oval shape. you can use this card for a lot of different occasions.

    Looks like you had a fantastic time in Darwin and Perth,Australia is a beautiful country to travel through and I am not just being biased :) :). Travel memories last a lifetime, I will be copying the comment to display in the comments section of challenge 2.

    Thanks so much for sharing your card and travel story at Just keep on creating. I hope you will continue to play along :)

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  9. Beautiful card Hazel.. love the colours and image is coloured just perfect!! Reading your story you sound as bad as me with the camara... (lol) Hugs May x x x

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  10. Great card and colour. Love this image, I have it as well. Just gorgeous, thanks for playing with us at the Poodles Parlour, blessings Hilde

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  11. Lovely card Hazel, love your colour choice on those papers and flowers, thanks for joining us at LMMS. Joey x

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  12. That's so very lovely Hazel, lovin' the colours too! Thx for joining us at Little Miss Muffet and the Pixie Dust Studios!

    Mary J x

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  13. So very, very pretty!
    Sandy

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