These pics were taken at the Maleny bird park and gardens while holidaying recently in Queensland.  I thought the bird papers were perfect for a bit of fussy cutting.  I die cut out lots of the small eucalyptus die.  The "adventure" is a stamp which I used as a title.

There is a map of Australia in this collection and the really cool thing is that there is also a die that matches the stamp making it super easy to cut out.  I tucked that under the right hand side and just showed the "east coast" of Australia as thats where we were.

The little dragon fly I cut twice and covered the top die cut with the awesome new Card Deco inks in the pigment Golden Red.  It leaves a beautiful shimmery colour. 

Tucked under my photo layer on the left hand side is a new hot foil stamp - Australian Flourish.  This is a two piece set.  I used the flourish by inking it first and then die cutting it.   Then I did it again but just left what ink was on the foil stamp so it left a really soft impression.

You can see in the close up

So for my next layout I wanted to scrap this photo of my eldest boy on his climb to the top of the Sydney Harbour Bridge.  I also wanted to pop it in a frame for him so I decided to go with a smaller size layout that being an A4 size page. 

I love to do this size every so often.  Just makes for a change.

So to start I stamped a couple of those Silver Princess blossoms onto my white background with the black Card Deco ink.  I then added a little colour to them again with the Card Deco ink in Cappuccino.  I made a paper cluster for my photo to sit on . 

The mini bridge and Opera House stamp was perfect for my photo!

I then fussy cut some of those bottle brush from the papers and also die cut out the map of Australia.  I die cut it once from heavy cardstock and then used piece of the map papers from the 6 x 6 pad to cover over the top.  While I was busy die cutting I also cut a few of the gumnuts die to tuck in and around my page.

To finish off I used a simple title - Adventure.  This I die cut 3 times from heavy cardstock and then added the Card Deco Golden Red pigment ink over the top. 

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Joanne Simons 

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