Stamps Ahead

 Week 7 in the Mystical Scrapbooking challenge - this time The Adamms Family. Here is my layout  Here is the criteria for this challenge  All criteria met.  My mixed media technique is texture paste applied through 2 different stencils and the required item stickers are the black sticker I have used.  The photo is of my sister and I in December, 2021 at Kirkton Park, in the Hunter Valley of New South Wales - we were celebrating my birthday and it was an excellent reason to dress up for a high tea. Thank you for looking, Margaret

Week 6 over at Mystical Scrapbooks and the challenge is the TV show I dream of Jeannie here is my layout Here is the inspiration screen The criteria Pink and White; Tassel, Stencil and from kit - bling. Early this morning I was watching Queens Jubilee concert and was impressed by Jason Donovan singing his iconic "Any dream will do".  And then, I see that this weeks challenge included the word Dream.  The photo is of me at 11 months of age.   I used my stencil with white texture paste, added some white acrylic butterflies, tassel I made with lace and silk ribbon.  The bling from the kit I placed bottom right above those wonderful words.  Yesterday, as I was looking through my stash, I came across the Kaisercraft word "cute" and I immediately put it into the bag for the local op shop thinking I will never use that!  Well, of course it was right for this layout!  I used the only white alphas I could find.  Paper is from Kaisercraft Sage & Gr...

 Here is my layout for Week 5 - Friends challenge at Mystical Scrapbooks.  Here is the inspiration for this challenge Now a confession - I have never watched an episode of Friends!  True.  My memories of Friends was visiting the set on a tour of Warner studios in Los Angeles a few years ago where we were given secrets to how they filmed the coffee shop.  In a recent post I wrote of when I first met my friend Reta from USA. This photo was taken when she visited with me in Sydney in 1995 and we got together with other friends that we made on our European tour in October 1990.   Reta passed away on 23 February this year aged 99.  A wonderful Southern lady that I will miss but will be forever in my heart. I again raided my stash for papers to use, found some Stampin' Up! 6" squares that I felt met the criteria for rainbow and some gold glitter paper.  The heart I popped under the wood veneer Sydney Harbour Bridge (The bridge is in the background...

Week 4 of the Retro TV Show Challenge at Mystical Scrapbooks.  This week Beverly Hillbillies. Here is my layout: Here are the requirements for this week - settle back for a long post. I have written many times on my blog regarding a suitcase of family photos and memories.  Dad was alive at the time and was able to fill me in on many of the photos.   A bit of background, my fathers parents had a dairy in Morriset delivering to residents and shops in the area.  They were considered an essential service during the 2nd World War and my Dad and his brother worked the dairy. Dad told me he made this horse cart to assist in the deliveries.  Crawford Road, Morriset was named after my grandfather.  Some information about the photos. My dad, on the cart - he even wrote his name on the side. This was before he was married to our mother, so I would say in these photos he is in his mid-twenties. He would later leave the farm to join the Police Force and he was ther...

 Here is a layout I created for week 3 of Mystical Scrapbooks Retro TV show competition This week's inspiration - Lassie (a female Rough Collie dog) that ran from 1954 to 1974.  I remember as a family sitting down to watch together the tales of Lassie and her friends, both animal and human. What I here you ask - you have not a dog on your layout?  The design team were inspired by Lassie and the beautiful scenery in the show and that is what they used for their challenge. I have used Kaisercraft Marigold collection.  The photo of me was taken earlier this year and the papers suited the Boho dress I was wearing.  I have fussy cut flowers from 2 sheets of paper and layered them up on my layout. The string was used to create a banner. There was a sticker sheet in the paper collection I have used words that inspire me as I live my life.  Of course, I could not let the layout go without some 'bling'! Below you can see the layering of the fussy cut flowers. Thank ...

 Week 2 of the Retro TV Shows over at Mystical Scrapbooks  and here is my layout  and, here is the challenge criteria (The Brady Bunch 26th Sept, 1969 to Mar 8, 1974): My photo is of my sister and I enjoying morning tea at Yandina Heritage Cottage, Queensland.  We had scones - pumpkin scones for me and ginger scones for my sister.  If you are ever in this area why not pay them a visit. For my layout, when I read it I immediately thought I would use my myriad Project Life cards to make a grid background - however, I could not find cards that had the blue I was after.  I made my own cards and fussy cut papers using AB studio "The Other Side".   The title, was Kaisercraft, from my stash.  The white square will be for my journaling.  Thank you for looking, Margaret

 Here is a layout I have created for Retro TV Shows Competition at Mystical Scrapbooks The challenge was to be inspired by the TV show "Bewitched" - twitch or wiggle your nose now! This is an 8 week competition that is points based with 1 challenge per week.  Bonus points if you use items from a embellishment pack that needed to be purchased, and I did - the stars.  Now I had a very big challenge - I do not do Halloween nor do I do witches/witchcraft, fantasy etc, therefore no papers on those themes, so I found an old piece of Stampin' Up! paper in my stash.  A little bit of research assured me that "teal" was appropriate Halloween colour.   The witch and broom was a free clip file that I printed out - okay it suited the title of my layout.  The black cat and the small quote were from a Close to my Heart stamp set You're the GOAT (Greatest of All Time).  My journaling is on the tag behind top left photo. On 19th April, I flew to Sunshine Coast in ...