Stamps Ahead

Here is my final layout the last 1-2-3 recipe challenge entry over at Mystical Scrapbooks.  The recipe was 1 mixed media product - 2 photos - 3 embellishments. This week a friend gave me a tin of Lyra Aquacolors, that had been given to her also by a friend.  My friend did not think she could use them so passed them on.  I had to look up Google to find out how to use the crayons.  I have used them to make my background and I think I have a lot more to learn.  They are more vibrant that Distress Crayons and Gelatos.  In hindsight I should have put gesso the cardstock before using them.  Oh well!  My embellishments are from my stash. Below is a close up of my watercolouring. Thank you for looking, Margaret

Another layout completed today (hopefully one more before the end of the day) for Recipe challenge 1-2-3 Cyber Crop Challenge at Mystical Scrapbooks.   The recipe was1 piece of chipboard (the table setting top right) add 2 photos and lastly a 3 word title.   Mel and I (bottom right) worked together and when Mel and family moved to North Queensland and then Sunshine Coast I have caught up with her and her family several times.  During my recent visit to Coolum with my sister, we had dinner with them one wet and windy night. It was fun to catch up and when I printed the photos we had a little photo bomber right in the centre of the group photo!  He was sitting at the next table with his family and during a short ceasing of the rain he and his sister went outside and walked the brick wall - he looked like he enjoying his moment in our photo! A little bit of stash busting here - papers, ribbon, and chipboard from Celebr8 Bon Appetit collection. Rubons and foam title...

 I completed this layout for a 1-2-3 recipe challenge at Mystical Scrapbooks Chat This was for a recipe challenge - 1 photo, 2 patterned papers and 3 die cuts (I did only use 3 - the leave I cut in half to balance up the design. The photo of Reta was taken at Freycinet Lodge, Tasmania in 1995.   I first met Reta on 3/10/1990 when we said "hello" on an European Tour and we became firm friends from that time on.  I visited Reta several times when I visited USA  - no USA trip was complete until I either rang her or visited her.  We had great little adventures together visiting places of interest - with me doing the driving on most occasions. Reta did come to visit me in 1995, we met in Tasmania and toured there and then she came to Sydney and we caught up again and then she took off to Cairns and Uluru. Reta was married, however her husband did not want to travel so she took off on her own. On one trip to USA, after her first husband had died, Reta shared with...

 This is a layout I created today for a Shapes Cyber Challenge over at ARTastic .   The challenge was a 'recipe' challenge and here is the recipe : Ingredients Shapes - I used squares and triangles Chipboard - The golden chipboard words Die - Triangle die Stencil - Triangle stencil Method: Choose one shape and use it as many times as you wish. Use at least two pieces of Chipboard.  Die cut at least one shape. Use a stencil The photo is of my great-nephew constructing his Mangatiles.  I loved the shapes in the tiles - so I decided to go with squares and triangles.  I remembered making the origami shapes for a card I created some time ago so I went with that.   Thank you for looking, Margaret