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As today was Wednesday we had our evening crop at Chook Scraps and I made a card for the challenge over at Darkroom Door. The challenge is to create something using Darkroom Door photochips. This is the card I made and I am quite pleased with how it turned out.
I was blog hopping today and I found a tutorial on this technique at Split Coast Stampers. It looked easy and effective so I tried it out and made these three cards.
This first card I have used one of the robot stamps from Darkroom Door's robot set. This set is great for boy cards and it has heaps of funky sentiment stamps as well as three robot stamps. The patterned paper is from the Cosmo Cricket Nutmeg range.
On the following two cards I have used Penny Black stamps (just love these stamps for cards) and the patterned papers are scraps I had left over from some older My Minds Eye Papers.
On Easter Monday we went looking around Margaret River - finding some of the cows that are on display in the Cow Parade. There were a few that I liked but here are a couple of my favourites -
Brahman the Barman - very clever
Dame Edna's Tea Party - just like the way this one looks
Mum liked this one - The Cow Shed
And of course you need a couple of beach scenes if you go to Margaret River.
And most definitely a couple of the surfers.
And lastly just one of the beautiful water.
On Saturday 3rd April Phill and I drove down to Margaret River to spend Easter with Mum and Dad. On Easter Sunday there was a hot rod show at one of the wineries so we drove out to have a look. Here are a few photos I took.
Just love the number plate on this one - there were a few clever number plates.
I love how this one still has the original paint job - it even had the hand on a lever that you lift up to indicate when you are turning.
And I just love the look of this car against the background of grape vines.
This was the day that Perth was hit by the worst storms in years and many cars there were hail damaged with a lot being written off by insurance. Later that night we also had thunder, lightning and lots of rain - couldn't get any photos of the lightning but here's a couple of the rain.
Well I'm up to the 20th of March now and yes I know I haven't had a photo for every day but just trying to catch up at the moment.
On the 20th of March we had this beautiful race horse goanna visit our yard - although he was relatively small he did make a good photographic subject.
The night of the wedding we stayed a beautiful place called Kendenup Lodge. It is out of the way and not much to look at but it is definitely 4 star and delightfully rustic.
Here are a few shots I took the morning after the wedding -
This is the Lodge where we stayed. We were the only guests this night so had the whole place to ourselves. As you can see the building is all made out of recycled materials but the rooms are all very new, modern and comfortable.
Outside in the grounds there is a full sized chess set. This photo also shows the beautiful, secluded bush surroundings.
Of course there was the obligatory farm dog and a lovely, friendly old boy he is too.
And of course the rustic wagon wheels.
I really love the vintage feel of the Darkroom Door stamps and being unmounted rubber stamps they stamp up beautifully.
For these cards I have used the Darkroom Door Melody stamps and the Darkroom Door Legato Paper. Of course I have used my trusty Walnut Stain Distress Ink and my all time favourite Versmagic Jumbo Java.
March 13th was a special day for our family as my step-daughter got married so of course I took enough photos that day to post one everyday for more than a year :)
I am sharing a few - not of the bride or the wedding party but of some of the paraphernalia that always surrounds a wedding.
First off the bridal cars
DH drove the car that carried the bride and here he is getting in the car to go and pick her up.
This is where the wedding took place.
And here are two of the table settings - I made the place cards and menus.
I have made a few cards this year due to the fact I have been running card making classes once a week at the shop and I thought I might share some of the ones I really like. These first lot were made using stamps from Darkroom Door Garden Greetings Stamp Set. The patterned paper is from Websters Pages.
The flowers are stamped on vellum with black pigment ink, embossed with clear embossing powder and coloured with chalk then cut out.
