Stamps Ahead

Nearly 12 months ago I travelled to USA and I spent part of my time there with good friends "The Baxes".  Here we are at Cracker Barrel waiting for our dinner to arrive The layout was completed for an optional early bird challenge prior to Hillbilly Shenanigans- The Great Papercraft Caper - Virtual Retreat later this month.  Admission to retreat is now finished however they are having another Mixed Media virtual retreat later this year. This challenge required us to use this sketch to complete a layout and we were free to interpret it however we liked - flip it, rotate it, or take just a few elements that inspired! I used Celeb8 Bon Appetite paper and embellishments (except for background red and the larger polka dot papers) from my stash. From memory I have these papers, at least, since 2020! As I am participating in Calvinball 2025 I have also added this layout to Scrap Happy .  Check out Calvinball - a fun papercraft event happening this March - just click on the link ...

Another layout completed today (hopefully one more before the end of the day) for Recipe challenge 1-2-3 Cyber Crop Challenge at Mystical Scrapbooks.   The recipe was1 piece of chipboard (the table setting top right) add 2 photos and lastly a 3 word title.   Mel and I (bottom right) worked together and when Mel and family moved to North Queensland and then Sunshine Coast I have caught up with her and her family several times.  During my recent visit to Coolum with my sister, we had dinner with them one wet and windy night. It was fun to catch up and when I printed the photos we had a little photo bomber right in the centre of the group photo!  He was sitting at the next table with his family and during a short ceasing of the rain he and his sister went outside and walked the brick wall - he looked like he enjoying his moment in our photo! A little bit of stash busting here - papers, ribbon, and chipboard from Celebr8 Bon Appetit collection. Rubons and foam title...