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Sunday, 3 January 2021

Friendship

 It is time for the December Card Chain Challenge Reveal.   For December, our prompt was a Tic Tac Toe Board.  


I was sending a card to Renate (which at time of writing this post I don't think she has received). I decided to use all the elements to create this card for her.


I used a bee and a bird image from Gecko Galz.  The background is a New Zealand themed embossing folder featuring the pohutukawa flower.  Once embossed, I swiped the piece with some blue and yellow gilding polish.  I added some washi tape in black and white across the card.  I tore the edges of the friendship sentiment from Décosse's Dynamite Doodles.

I have yet to receive my card for the December Challenge - possibly because I spent Christmas in another city with my son and daughter.  We are fortunate that we are able to travel freely as we have had no community transmission for a number of weeks.

For those unfamiliar with the pohutukawa flower, this is a photo I took while I was with my son and daughter.  It is a tree that flowers during December and has earned itself the nickname of "New Zealand Christmas Flower" as a result!


Update - It finally arrived to Renate on January 7th. 

9 comments:

  1. This is lovely, Suze. Well done for using all the different elemnts of the Tic-Tac-Toe, Jo x

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  2. What a lovely card! And that is a very pretty flower! I was not familiar with it before!

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  3. Fabulous card using the full board, Suze - just love it!! Love the photo of flowers too - when I visited it was late Feb/early March (yrs ago) and I don't remember them so they must be done blooming by then, eh?

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    1. It is a coastal tree so if you only visited inland towns and cities you may not have seen them. They grow well in both Coromandel and Wellington. I think they flower from November through to end of January (depending on the variety).

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  4. Love the design of this card! Renata is one lucky recipient. Beautiful!

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  5. Beautiful card. I like how you use the embossing folder!!!

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  6. A great card Suze - love that pohutukawa embossing folder.
    Stay safe
    Blessings
    Maxine

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