Last of the Trading Cards

These are the last of the trading cards I made just before last weekends retreat. The one at the bottom left I gave to Michael as it was totally recycled including the Ferrar Rocher wrapper and gold foil.
I'm still chasing black annealed steel wire to finish my necklace I made in Nina's class. You'd think it was gold, I've been to three major hardware stores but they haven't a clue. Joe from the retreat has given me the code for the wire now, so I hope that might help, I'll buy a truck load if I ever find it. When I finally finish my necklace I'll post pictures.

More cards

Just a few more cards to take to the Retreat. The penguin card was scanned from a page in one of my altered books and then reduced down to form the background of the card. I then added other things to it to form a new picture.
It's very warm here, high thirties for the next few days and no sign of rain, I suppose it will come eventually. Our gum trees are in flower and dripping with nectar, the lorikeets (small parrots) are in an intoxicated frenzy, noisily fighting over the flowers.
They are the most beautiful colours of purple/blue, orange, red and bright green, mother nature certainly knows how to mix colours