Stamps Ahead

This past weekend I participated in a Colour Cybercrop over at Mystical Scrapbooks.  Here are the 3 layouts I created for the 3 challenges. Challenge 1 - create a monochromatic layout.  Photo was of sunrise on 22nd April, 2022 at Coolum Beach, Queensland.  I loved the moodiness of the photo. Challenge 2 - a layout showcasing "Orange" Challenge 3 - be inspired by a colour palette above. My sister and I were on a short holiday over the Anzac week and we had limited scrapbook supplies with us. My sister had purchased a paper pack at Spotlight and I used 3 sheets from this pack to create my layout. Torn paper, simple line stitching, fussy cutting and a chipboard from another project I was working on. The colours are more muted than the provided colour palette. Thank you for looking, Margaret  

 I completed this layout today.   The designer of the layout was Natalie May (2017) and I purchased it in kit form - the kit included the paper, stencil, chipboard and hardware.   Everything else I used came from my stash. The photo is of my great nephew doing a spot of whale watching.  Thank you for looking, Margaret

This layout is for a challenge over at Soul Scrappers . More about that later. The challenge was to use a close up photo of your eye/eyes on your page and to include a quote about eyes. My selfie photos were taken whilst I was getting ready for the wedding of a young lady I have known since the day she was born. I was staying in an apartment close to the wedding venue. I looked in the bathroom mirror and my first thought was "oh no it is true I have square eyes! What my mother used to say to us as kids came true!". Of course, that was a what we would now call an "old wives tale". In fact, what I saw was my reflection in the square mirror...an optical illusion!" Here is a one of the photos so that you can see those square eyes of mine - wow that sounds like a song title! My layout was initially inspired by a photograph in Art Journal Freedom a book by Dina Wakley...see below.    Whilst she used paints I got out my gel plate and acrylic paints...

Here is a layout I have created for a challenge over at Soul Scrappers .   This time it was a Pick 3 challenge but first my layout: The photos were taken at a team weekend away, in September, for the Kaszazz team of which I am a part of. Lucy our team leader was not in these photos as she was behind the camera. We stayed in a townhouse in Toukley on the shores of Tuggerah Lakes, north of where I live.  On seeing all the seaweed on the beach in front of the townhouse the idea was struck to create Kaszazz on the sand with the seaweed. And then there was an idea to have us create the letters of Kaszazz - well that created much laughter as we just could not seem to get it just right! This clean and simple layout uses all products available from Kaszazz. Yes, I am a consultant. Thank you for looking, I hope to get more time in next few weeks to complete more scrapbook layouts. Margaret :)

Here is my second layout for cyber crop over at Paper Issues - it was called 'Frost the Cake' and the requirements were to use strips of different paper or stripes of different paints on the background. I went with bold stripes of acrylic paint applied with a credit card to white cardstock.  Here are the tubes of nothing fancy colour (which I have had forever) that I used as well as a photo of the background before adding photo etc. I love how the colours blended into each other.  The hardest part - waiting for it to dry!!! The photo was taken on the wharf of  Nukuʻalofa, in Tonga  with the locals greeting us as the ship docked there.  So colourful and such warm and happy people. I have used a favourite stencil by Tim Holtz and I applied Opaque Texture Paste to it. I want to finish with a fantastic quote I found: "Paint your life in bright colours and bold strokes."  Hallmark Thank you for looking, Margaret :)