Friday 20 April 2012

On Our Travels with Darcy's Postcard Challenge - Romania














Reading about Romania I was fascinated with the stories of the white storks, the origin of the baby bringing stork stories. There is a big project underway to save them as lots are being killed because they are nesting atop of electricity pylons and then getting electrocuted. I found a picture of them and played about with it in Serif's Photolab before printing it and added some colour with Promarkers.
My page background is some of the earliest Romanian writing with the shield of Romania and a picture shaped like a map of the country showing some of the sites. The pocket shows the beautiful Romanian red peony, actually a first day cover when they made a stamp showing the peony.
Jen x

20 comments:

  1. Love your card and how sad about the birds being killed. I hope that they sort it out with this program. A xx

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  2. I saw about these storks on that latest BBC nature documentry about birds. I love your postcard and the page
    Beryl x

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  3. Love, love, love your postcard...also love that it's unusual. It's fun to see the unique bits of info people find about each country, isn't it?

    Hugs,
    abby

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  4. aw thanks for the info on where babies come from...I mean who knew Storks brought 'em.

    Great Card <3 it

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  5. My daughter likes to order a baby sister, any storks up for the task? I know I'm done with having babies but if they bring them by, all ready and done to enjoy there's enough room for them!!! :)
    Great card, love your storks! ♥

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  6. A very original subject this week. Love the nest on top of the pole. Great book page with lots of wonderful images of Romania.

    Janet xx

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  7. Beautiful work. Good to know where all those babies come from! Valerie

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  8. Your art looks like an etching print. Very nice! Love that bright poppy stamp.

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  9. a lovely postcard and page, a intersting read, thanks for all your info its nice to read about different things...

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  10. what fun and loved the info!!!
    This is what I enjoy is finding out these "tid-bits"!

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  11. Fantastic research! I really love your card. We just had a situation here in NH where they had to relocate some birds that nested on a utility pole.

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  12. great research, I did not know that about the storks, really interesting.

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  13. Oh, I love this! Great postcard and a wonderful book page.

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  14. Brilliant Jen, I love the storks nest
    Trish xx

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  15. Great card with a sweet legend attached (sad they're dying so much though).

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  16. Beautiful work hun..
    hugs and xxx
    Gemma

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  17. Yea someone did a card about the endangered storks in Romania- I almost did that but it didn't seem to fit with my storyline- Love the page as well.

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  18. Your postcard is wonderful! Love it. Your page is very creative too. I had no idea about the poor storks. Hope they find a solution.

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  19. Beautiful postcard, Jen. And thanks for enlightening me about the storks. That was new to me. And thanks also for the get well wishes for my dh.

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