Stamps Ahead

When you think of cruise do you automatically think South Pacific, Alaska, Europe, Northern Lights, New Zealand?  Here is a layout I created today for a challenge on Soul Scrappers Facebook page .  The one word challenge  - use the letters P,C, or B. I chose C for 'Cruise" .  These photos were taken on a lunch time Nova Cruise of the Hunter River in Newcastle. The water was brown due to recent flooding. My sister  is enjoying her prawns and other goodies that were available to us. The photo far left is of the hotel we stayed in for 4 nights - Rydges Newcastle. This was one of the fun things we did as we explored the Newcastle that we remember from our childhood - so different these days. Not quite a South Pacific cruise, but never-the-less we were on the water!  The photos and embellishments (except) the chipboard cruise were from Journey collection by Kaisercraft that were part of my Christmas gifts from her. Thank you for looking, Margaret 

I am participating over at White with 1 challenge Facebook page again this month.  The challenge was to use Cranberry with white. Here is my layout: In 2007 Stampin" Up! had a colour called Cranberry Crisp - it was one of my favourites at the time. I still have the inkpad and reinker in my stash.  So out they came! So first, it was time to reink my stamp pad and then I added some of the reinker to water in a spray bottle.  Then using stamps from the newest Kaszazz collection "Destinations" I went to town with background stamping.  I was inspired by a layout by Karen Schultz on Scrappingclearly   blog where she used stamps and other techniques for her background - I have just gone with stamping and misting.  I have given her a shout out on the blog.  Thank you Karen. I found a little piece of paper to mat my photo as it needed lifting from the black and white of the photo.   The stamps are from Kaszazz Destinations collection. A little bi...