Stamps Ahead

What is Calvinball? Taken straight from the web "Calvinball is the craziest, most unpredictable and exciting online scrapbooking challenge.  It is hosted by Scrap Happy"  Click on this link to find about it. It runs for the entire month of March.  Here is my first layout  In January 2019, my sister and I together with our friends Pene and her mother, Karen went on a cruise to New Zealand.  In Dunedin, we hired a car and drove to Larnach Castle.  It was a great place to visit and one of the first things we did is all have a go quoits on the lawn.   Now back to Calvinball - there are points for all the bits and pieces you use on your layouts, art journal pages etc and even non-paper projects.  You can record your points or not, it is up to you.  So how many points did I get for this first layout?  Here goes 1 for doing a single layout 1 for this blog post 1.5 for publicity points 2 for Permanent Points (this will stay up the entire m...

In January, 2019 on a cruise to New Zealand, one port of call was Dunedin.  We hired a car and headed for Larnach Castle.   On arrival, there was a piper welcoming us.  I loved the stone staircase into the Castle and the weathering of years on the lions. Yesterday, we met up with the friends that we travelled with on the cruise and Karen bought along a large punch that she had and I punched out the white frame you see.  I used Distress Oxide Sprays to match the colours in the photos.  A clean and simple layout. Margaret Crafting in the time of coronavirus.

My layout for another challenge over at Scrappingclearly Share & Inspire Group on Facebook. The challenge was an Easter Hunt.....here are the guidelines:                                              It was hard to select just 5 different colours - I think I managed to get all colours onto my layout. Hidden journalling was the white flower tucked into bottom right of photo. Butterfly bottom right ticked off the adding of an animal - well hope that counts as an animal. See hidden journal tag below. The photo is of my sister in the gardens of Larnach Castle, Dunedin, New Zealand.            Thank you for looking, Margaret 

In my previous post I wrote of winning a prize on the Unmistakable Creations cruise I took in January with my sister and friends to New Zealand.  Here is a layout I have created using the Paisley Days collection I received. The photo was taken at Larnach Castle, Dunedin, New Zealand and with our friends we are having morning tea in their beautiful tea rooms.   Below is a close up of the texture of the background. More on that below. I was inspired by a layout by Lisa Amiet on the Kaisercraft blog. I have left her some love on the blog. I was really taken with the background technique. The background was fussy cut from 12" (30cm) sheet of paper in the pack and smaller pieces adhered with foam tape to create raised surfaces.  I have also raised the photo and several of the smaller embellishments.   Thank you Lisa. I have decided to add this to a Paper Issues (Friends and Fans) Scraplift Sunday (7th April) Challenge - check them out and join the group for ch...

Okay, something different I am participating in a Grab 5 challenge over at Soul Scrappers.  The challenge is to grab 5 older items from your stash (the older the better) or anything you are about to use. There other rules: Take a photo of your items before you start You must use one or more things from each item. Or use a new tool you are yet to try out. Here is my layout: Here is a photo of my before items......I went deep into the bowels of my stash for these! There are 12" square fabric sheets (some sheets had been used as there are scraps in the pack); remnants of a Club Scrap kit from February 2006; Big Honking stickers; Rusty Pickle buttons unopened; Shell stick pins from Jenni Bowlin, also unopened.  With the exception of Club Scrap remnants how long I have had the rest is anyone's guess. I have used the fabric paper for first 2 layers - the fabric paper was not square I just went with it. I have also fussy cut several of the flowers from the fabric pape...