Stamps Ahead

Earlier this week I went on ferry to Dangar Island and then lunch at Hawkesbury River, this time to raise funds for a school and mission in Kenya.   Here are just a few of the photos I took - scrapbooking to follow. Dangar Island is located on the beautiful Hawkesbury River, it is land locked so you need to take the ferry or have your own boat.  For more information on the island click here .  Here I am at the front of the ferry taking in the beautiful weather and the beautiful sights. Dangar Island Ferry Wharf Who cannot love a view with a beautiful gum tree framing the sky and the river.  Taken from the café on the island.  My morning tea with Key Lime Pie.  I love that all of the tables had a hibiscus flower on them. There is no cars or trucks on Dangar Island, just golf buggies to get around - in case of fire take the boat!!! Lunch spot back on mainland at Hawkesbury River Reserve - a few of our lunch companions A great...

Long post today - lots of photos to show you. Over at Soul Scrappers they currently have a challenge based around "On the road again....".  Here is my layout: Participants had to have completed a number of challenges at Soul Scrappers, we were then sent the same packet of goodies - the key is how we use these items to make an original page, using most or all of the goodies supplied. Here is the packet I received.  The colour was deliberately kept to brown/neutral tonings so a further challenge was to add some COLOUR I did end up using all the embellishments in the packet.  The most interesting was the plumbers mesh (bottom right on top of the patterned paper).  I had never even seen this mesh before - it was sticky on one side and everything stuck to it!!!  I used this as a mask (using a red ink) on my background paper - I also did put it on the layout you can see it top left.  One of the fun elements I made was a tag from the pattern...