Better late than never, I have this week's Christmas Cracker finally photographed and ready to share. :D
Now, as you might remember this week's prompt comes in the form of this inspiration pic:
In the list of possible interpretations I mentioned the door... well that got me to thinking about a festive door decorated with a Christmas wreath, and so I went full steam ahead with that idea and ended up with this:
Paper: MME, Crate Paper
Stamps: WPlus9
Dies: WPlus9, PTI, Mama Elephant
Enamel dot: Studio Calico
Pearls: Kaisercraft
Other: Distress Stickles, Stickles, 3D foam
Well I definitely didn't have anything door-like in my die collection, so I cut a panel of paper and on the reverse marked up the panels for a door and scored them with an embossing stylus. I flipped the paper over and used Distress Ink to bring out the embossed lines. I needed a handle for my door, so used one of the woodgrain enamel dots in my vast collection!
I wanted to incorporate the greeting on the wreath so it hopefully looks like a ribbon festooning the wreath and not something funeral! I rolled the banner around a pencil to shape it so it looks a bit more ribbon like. Plenty of Stickles on the red berries of the wreath, then Rock Candy Distress Stickles to accent the bow and give it a festive look. :)
And on a completely unrelated note to Christmas cards it's back to summer and a few examples of test shots with my new little Lumix.
It stood up quite well to very bright sun in the park at the weekend:
Not bad on the old zoom for people shots:
After the rain yesterday, the sun finally prevailed when I was round at my mum and dad's - this shot was a full zoom in from a good few meters away - in the full pic you can even see the detail on the wings:
I managed to snap this little fellow on his rounds looking for slugs:
And on full zoom right at the back of the garden - this blackbird was captured trying to collect as much food to go with those worms as it could shove in its beak:
I had a play trying to capture the detail on the roses, and love how the raindrop glistens in this pic:
There ends the camera testing. The only thing I wish was on the quick menu is the set button for white balance - all the other white balance settings are there, but the set option would have been an ideal one to access directly and not via the menu. But apart from that, I'm happy with the pics so far. :)
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