Stamps Ahead

Week 8 and the final challenge for Retro TV Challenge at Mystical Scrapbooks...Happy Days. Here is my layout  and here is the criteria  The photo is of my great-nephew taken recently.  I love this photo and just had to create a layout to celebrate him.  He turned 4 this month and is growing quickly into a bright and happy person. Let me you of the requirements for this last challenge and what I did to complete the layout. Colour palette - Denim and Silver.  I purchased some denim jeans from a local op shop (about 1 year ago) planning to repurpose them and create bags, cushions etc - alas that has not happened yet.  However, I thought - why not repurpose on the layout. I decided to cut the bottom off one of the legs of to use and when I did that I found out that they had been hemmed up several times - check out the photo above - there was also a staple that someone used for what was probably a quick fix!  Reading more into this than I should, it reminded me of my great-nephew and how ta

 A layout I completed for cyber challenge No 3 at ARTastic Challenges blog  The challenge was to be inspired by the names of the main streets of Hollywood - the ones we associate with all the glitz and glamour - Rodeo Drive, Sunset Boulevard, Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street. I have been to Hollywood many times (sorry, not bragging many of the organised tours I have done in USA end up in Los Angeles (LA) and a stop at Hollywood is included, on this occasion in May 2018 I was staying in Los Angeles before flying to Detroit and then onto Missouri.   As I had visited the main sights I decided that before I left home I would investigate if any scrapbook stores were in the Hollywood area.   Well, I found Once upon a page in Burbank, so off I set.   I left my hotel in LA by bus to travel to Hollywood and Vine to catch three (3) yes 3 buses to my destination in Burbank.   On my layout I have noted what I wrote in my travel diary that day.  I did check as I completed this layout and the sto

 Week 7 in the Mystical Scrapbooking challenge - this time The Adamms Family. Here is my layout  Here is the criteria for this challenge  All criteria met.  My mixed media technique is texture paste applied through 2 different stencils and the required item stickers are the black sticker I have used.  The photo is of my sister and I in December, 2021 at Kirkton Park, in the Hunter Valley of New South Wales - we were celebrating my birthday and it was an excellent reason to dress up for a high tea. Thank you for looking, Margaret

There is a cyber crop over at ARTastic Challenges this weekend - the theme Hollywood.  Here is my layout for Challenge 2. This challenge was to scrap using as inspiration a favourite movie and add two movie related items - Hollywood sign; film strip; Popcorn Box; Admit 1 ticket; clapboard, microphone, directors chair, camera, trophy, Hollywood star.    Many travels that you take inspire you to go to places where movies were filmed or to places that you would like to go once, twice or three times.   French Kiss is a 1995 romantic comedy starring Meg Ryan and Kevin Kline.  Three things I remember from the movie - Kevin Kline's character Luc (with his French accent); travels around Paris where Meg Ryan's character is just missing the Eiffel Tower - something she really wanted to see and eventually does and the train ride they take down to Cannes with beautiful scenery during the trip. My photo was taken in 1995 on top of an open air bus that was a hop on hop off around the city of

Week 6 over at Mystical Scrapbooks and the challenge is the TV show I dream of Jeannie here is my layout Here is the inspiration screen The criteria Pink and White; Tassel, Stencil and from kit - bling. Early this morning I was watching Queens Jubilee concert and was impressed by Jason Donovan singing his iconic "Any dream will do".  And then, I see that this weeks challenge included the word Dream.  The photo is of me at 11 months of age.   I used my stencil with white texture paste, added some white acrylic butterflies, tassel I made with lace and silk ribbon.  The bling from the kit I placed bottom right above those wonderful words.  Yesterday, as I was looking through my stash, I came across the Kaisercraft word "cute" and I immediately put it into the bag for the local op shop thinking I will never use that!  Well, of course it was right for this layout!  I used the only white alphas I could find.  Paper is from Kaisercraft Sage & Grace collection it has a

 Here is my layout for Week 5 - Friends challenge at Mystical Scrapbooks.  Here is the inspiration for this challenge Now a confession - I have never watched an episode of Friends!  True.  My memories of Friends was visiting the set on a tour of Warner studios in Los Angeles a few years ago where we were given secrets to how they filmed the coffee shop.  In a recent post I wrote of when I first met my friend Reta from USA. This photo was taken when she visited with me in Sydney in 1995 and we got together with other friends that we made on our European tour in October 1990.   Reta passed away on 23 February this year aged 99.  A wonderful Southern lady that I will miss but will be forever in my heart. I again raided my stash for papers to use, found some Stampin' Up! 6" squares that I felt met the criteria for rainbow and some gold glitter paper.  The heart I popped under the wood veneer Sydney Harbour Bridge (The bridge is in the background of my photo).  The required item w