Initially, when I saw the colours at
Color Throwdown, my heart sank! I know it is hard to believe for those of you who celebrate Halloween, Thanksgiving and the like, but down in the Southern Hemisphere, our seasons are all around the opposite way, so your Autumn (Fall) is our Spring, and Winter of course is Summer. Obviously there is no Fall harvest, so Thanksgiving just doesn't really fit in to our culture. There are a small number of Trick 'n' Treaters these days, but no one decorates the treats or makes cards! For those of us born here, it never is an issue having it hot at Christmas time. Many of us have family with European origins who still put on the roast, we may just go outdoors to eat.
But back to the colours. I scrolled through the design team's gallery and was delighted to see an almost even distribution of Halloween vs non-Halloween by the design team. Naturally, I am going to try to keep the contribution even also. so it is non-Halloween from me. I know some people relate feathers to Thanksgiving (well, it IS in the Holiday Catalogue!!) but I just like them, for no particular reason. I was sad when
Fine Feathers was retired, but
Four Feathers is just as nice, I think. I stamped out a variety of the four images, cut them with the matching framelits and then chose which I would use. I've paired it with
Age Awareness, a stamp set that I find rather amusing.
The
Zig Zag Textured Embossing Folder is new to my stash, so I ran the Crumb Cake card through the
Big Shot for an interesting texture.
Age Awareness is a photopolymer stamp set so it is easy to line up the different sentiments.
I have my daughter-in-law and her three young children staying at the moment. It is the last few days of the school holidays, but we have had a hectic day starting at 5.45 am with little miss 18 months old shouting out for her mum. Most of us were up by 6.15 and at just after 8 a.m. we decided to head to the indoor pool for a morning of fun. My two other daughters-in-law, and grandsons joined us once we were home, for a picnic on the back lawn. While the mums walked down to the local lake for the children to enjoy feeding the ducks, I rushed to prepare dinner and pop my feet up for 30 minutes.A great day was had by all, and then it all begins again tomorrow morning with a family breakfast to be cooked by my #3 son. I have so much to be thankful for!!!!
Rachel
I am also excited by the fact that my BBB (big brown box) with my pre-order for the Holiday Catalogue arrived on Friday. I had too many errands to run Friday, and the visitors arrived early Saturday, so didn't get a chance to play till now. I have managed to mount a couple of stamp sets, including Four Feathers, which I KNOW will be a favourite. Another stamp set I received this order is from the new-ish annual catalogue. And Many More has 23 sentiments in it, covering babies, birthdays and almost every other event you can dream up. It actually took me quite a long time to put all those stamps on blocks and match up the labels. I've used one and a half on my card - thanks actually has "Give" before it.
