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It's Sabrina here as your hostess this week. Okay, so I know it's summer time (Northern hemisphere) and people travel a bit more for holidays, but today we are going to learn about your local area - local landmarks, something your town or region is famous for. If there really truly isn't anything you can think of, you could use your State bird or State flower.
I learnt something new myself when I was looking up what Dublin is famous for. I had been thinking of doing a card with a Georgian door, another option was something Guinness-related, and we also have one of Europe's largest urban parks. In the inaugural International Large Urban Parks Awards in 2018 ( organised by World Urban Parks) the two parks which won gold were our Phoenix Park and Sydney's Centennial Park.. Since the park has a herd of deer, it's a great theme for cards.
But I also learned that back in 2010 Dublin became UNESCO's 4th "City of Literature". There are now 39, so maybe it's not as unique as it was 12 years ago, but it's still something.
So my card features books - and my foiled panel is a photocopy from a child's fairytale in both Irish and English, written and illustrated by Micheál Mac Liammór, actor, designer, dramatist, writer and impresario, one of the founders of the Gate Theatre. Don't be fooled by his name, though - he was originally English.
Upload your creation with a local landmark using the keyword WT907, and then come back and share a link here - that makes it easy for people to find your card
If you're not sure how to add a link, here's how: 1. Open 2 windows or tabs: one for your card in the gallery, and one for this thread 2. In this thread, click on reply and type anything you want to show before the link. 3. Go to your card window. Highlight the address for your card. (It says www. splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/showphoto..... and so on) 4. Click EDIT. Click COPY 5. Go back to this thread. Click PASTE.
Thanks as always to the rest of the team for their "stay local" cards.
This has been such a fun challenge., I love reading all the stories of where people live from beer drinkers in Belguim to how Sugarland got its name in Texas and everything in between.
I have only lived in Texas for 14 months so I am still not sure what nearby big city Dallas specifically is known for (at least that I could stamp) but I knew the whole state had a few things. One of them is Blue Bell ice cream. The other is the state flower, the bluebell. I actually made the ice cream card some time ago but today, took off the image, stamped some bluebells, glued the ice cream back on, colored the previously black swirls around the ice cream blue and stamped a few more bluebells.
Trees came to mind when thinking about my region or state...I live in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains about 30 miles southeast of Seattle. I have MANY cedars and firs surrounding my immediate area as this area is very wooded; thus, a snow-laden wintery tree seemed just right for my card's focal point!
Washington state in the Pacific Northwest is full of beautiful mountains that are filled with majestic evergreen trees, most common in my immediate area are cedars and firs. They fill the forests full of picture-perfect, snow-embellished "Christmas" trees on a wintry drive across the state from from Seattle to Spokane!
WT907 - I Live HERE - 07/28/2022
