Stamps Ahead

The next to last challenge over a Scrap Girls Retreat at home was simply "Get Messy" - here is my layout: Now get messy I did, the kitchen (aka the workroom), the layout all got messy.  First of all I used Tinby Designs Colour Crush watercolour powders to create the background. Now of course, I could not find a spray bottle that had a fine mist, so I had to use one that had only one spray coming out of it.  Never mind I like the result.  Finished of with bits of co-ordinating papers and threads from my stash.  Now I mounted the photograph, of sunrise at Corindi Beach, with foam tape, it fell onto the layout and an angle and of course it would not lift off, and then to boot it buckled on the page. Well and truly messy!!! I enjoyed the process. Thank you for looking, Margaret :)

This is going to be a long post. I have been competing in a challenge over at Soul Scrappers where we were sent a bundle of goodies with which to create a layout.   Here is my layout: This is what I received in the post from the challenge organiser from the USA. And this letter. "I hope you find my challenge challenging ( yes it was ).  I would LOVE to SEE the most BEAUTIFUL SUNSETS, you have EVER seen thru your travels or just being around your home town.( I did not have any sunset photos but I had amazing sunrises taken on my recent holiday - hence the title of my post and layout )".  Included goodies were: playing card diamond sunset quote 4x3 embossed white cardstock 3 black seagulls 4" gold  circle yellow/orange tissue paper red and yellow (4) triangles 6" of ribbon metallic gold streamers Here is how I went about creating my layout. The most challenging for me - those gold streamers.  The first thing I did was iron them, yes you ...

Here is a layout I created for a challenge over at Soul Scrappers  - it is a one word challenge and the word is 'listen'.   Here is my layout: On my recent holiday north I stayed a couple of nights in a cabin at Corindi Beach caravan resort on the way up and loved it so much I stayed for 3 nights on the way home. I left my home early and it was 2 degrees!!!  How do I know that?  Well, as I was driving a strange light came on dashboard of my car....my first thought......I paid so much to have my car serviced before I left, was is wrong? When I could I pulled over, checked the manual and the light comes on when the outside temperature is below 5 degrees....looked at the ambient temperature and sure it was 2 degrees.   It stayed that way until many kilometres up the motorway.   Arriving at Corindi it was 19 degrees!!!  So warm.  I had many beach wanders, I saw dolphins and whales in the distance.  Can you hear the waves?...