Beautiful Day

 

I have just got back from a week-long Spring Fling Garden Tour in the South Island - remember in New Zealand it's SPRING.  An amazing inspirational week seeing gardens - large, small, sculpture, old ones, fairly new ones, as well as *Molesworth Station, museums -Steampunk and aircraft.    Barkers in Geraldine (makes fruit products like sauces, jams etc), Whitestone Cheeses, the fairy penguins coming home from the sea at night in Oamaru, Rainbow Confection (makes sweets), a night in a forest stargazing, two amazing fetes... and much more.   Lots of fabulous breakfasts, dinners, a high tea, paperbag picnic lunches, and on the last night we had a dress up Las Vegas night dinner in Ashburton (AKA AshVegas).  The weather was fabulous the whole eight days - sunny and warm, sleeping with just a sheet over.

*Molesworth Station is a high country cattle station. It is located behind the Inland Kaikōura Mountain range in the South Island's Marlborough District. It is New Zealand's largest farm, at over 1,800 square kilometres (440,000 acres)^[1] and supports the country's biggest herd of cattle. It also hosts government science programs, such as research into bovine tuberculosis and related research into possums.^[2] The station helps rabbit population reduction.^[3]

This is a great technique, I don't know what it's called.  You stamp the image on white card and on coloured card with the same stamp.  Colour the white stamped image if you want, and diecut a panel from the other.  Trim it up and place over the coloured image lining up the stamping.   Sentiment is stamped, embossed in gold, diecut.  Embellished with gold pearls.  Colouring is Copics.

* Thanks Carol Gill - it's called eclipse stamping.

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