Stamps Ahead

 Here, are the cards that the ladies in my Friday community group made this past Friday.  This card using Kaszazz Mediterranean papers and stamps.  One of the benefits of being a Kaszazz consultant is that you have access to cards created by other talented artists - in this case my thanks go to Kerry Collins for the inspiration for this card. The greeting inside this card.  The participants really loved this clean and simple design. Many, many years ago on one of my visits to USA I found this stamp set - Hot Air Balloon Collage by TPC Studio and it had lain in my stash for a long time unused.  Time to get it out.  I was inspired by a card Luisa Papercrafts that I found during an internet search, unfortunately I am not able to leave a thank you as it appears the link has closed, so if you are by any chance reading my blog and you are the designer thank you.   I have used Alcohol Ink Markers to colour the balloon and the sun rays.   Bling ...

You probably first thought - what why head to the office when things are not going as planned!  No worries, this office overlooks the beautiful Ocean Beach, Umina Beach, Lion Island at the furtherest point is Palm Beach.  Someone obviously had a sense of humour and it is in a popular spot when you walk along The Esplanade.  I took this photo at the beginning of Covid 19 in the summer of 2020 during one of my walks. I completed this layout for a challenge over at White with 1 Summer Cyber Crop . This is for the first challenge which was to select ONE colour used in the word board below to be added with white and then select ONE of the words which must be included in the title.   I selected the yellowish colour and then the word Lemonade and I made play on "When life.......lemons" I used all Kaszazz products on this layout (with the exception of the black alphas and retired alcohol markers) from Kaszazz Mediterranean Collection.    Thank you for looking,...

Here is my layout using Natalie Pecovnik inspiration on Kaszazz consultant web site.  Again, I have used stamps from the new Mediterranean collection by Kaszazz. The photo was taken at Bell's at Killcare in December 2018, when my sister and I took a friend to dinner there.   My dress (which is more white in real life - the printing made it have more blue) was from Italy and has lemons on it!   Perfect. This time I double embossed the chipboard and I stamped, coloured and cut a few more lemons.  One of the lemons hides an 'oopsy' can you see where it is?  Top left I stamped to heavy and there were black lines I did not want - so one of those cut lemons did the trick. Thank you for looking, Margaret 

My sister had an operation 9 days ago, she is still recovering and whilst I am no longer needed to stay over at her place (she lives only 3 minutes away) I have been helping her with whatever she needs - taking to doctor, buying groceries/medicines etc etc.  And diversional therapy today! Today we went to local community market day at the church she atttends, she was able to catch up with her friends and have a cup of tea, scone and even egg and bacon sandwich.  After, we left it was back to her place and she made these two layouts: I was showing her some photos of the just released Mediterranean Collection.  Included was a layout by Natalie Pecovnik, my sister loved it.    It should be noted I knew she would love the collection. My sister has twigged the original layout a little (it had one photo and she likes to included more photos). Thank you Natalie. Although, both pages could work as a double page she intends to use one for photos from Spain and It...