This card was made for a challenge that I am hosting on the S2S thread....come join us and Celebrate with An Aussie.
I decided to honour our forthcoming Australia Day by making this card and wanted to depict a sunburnt country so chose colours that I thought may do this. After lots of sponging and getting inky, water was splashed across the card....after all we are surrounded by water here in Oz LOL.
After die-cutting Australia I decided to use the negative space and insert the letters back in. It still didn't stand out so I did some doodling....first time I've done this on a card and it went a bit wonky but hey no-one's perfect...not even in Australia LOL.
Bling added to show where I live in this beautiful big country of ours.
Happy Australia day for 26th January and in particular to my fellow Aussies on this site.
TFL. Happy day
Date: Wednesday, January 23, 2019 GMT Views: 466
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Registered: January 8, 2011 Location: Sydney, Australia Posts: 40255
Wed, Jan 23, 2019 @ 10:45 PM
Beautifully done!! You sure have depicted the colours of the outback so well, one of the things I loved about visiting Central Australia, apart from the obvious landmarks! I hope you have a happy Australia Day~
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Registered: April 18, 2011 Location: Melbourne, Aus Posts: 51844
Thu, Jan 24, 2019 @ 12:10 AM
Happy Australia Day from me too Jayne. Everything about your sunburnt country cteation is terrific. I guess a lot of people don't know that we are almost the same size as mainland USA, with a population of 3 million less than Texas and we only have 6 States and 2 Territories. Love this!!!
------------------------------ Susie
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Thu, Jan 24, 2019 @ 12:27 AM
Thanks ladies. Happy Australia day to my SCS "mates" over East...I hope it's a good long weekend for you. Yes Susie we are a BIG country and look how big WA is and our little city down the coast away from everyone else LOL.
Have fun
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Sun, Jan 27, 2019 @ 5:13 AM
Very fun!!!
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Wed, Jan 30, 2019 @ 10:57 PM
This is such an awesome card celebrating Australia! Love the great map, with your home highlighted in bling and the gorgeous background depicting both sun and water. Well done!
------------------------------ Stef
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