Stamps Ahead

This is a layout I created for the May Mystery Bag challenge at Soul Scrappers Challenges The challenge was to add an umbrella or umbrellas to your page.  This photo of my niece taken when she was about 3 and half when we visited her Dad on a building site he was working on - if I remember correctly it was in the Eastern suburbs of Sydney.  I have recently been looking through old photos (to scrapbook, of course) when I excitedly came across this one - Yay, I can do the challenge!  This became a small stash busting challenge for me. Read on..... I delved into my stash - and found the painted kraft cardstock that I was going to use for challenge many moons ago - didn't use it and there it sat waiting for its day in sun! So I cropped it down to a 10" square. Then I found the background paper that I am calling the little umbrellas you put in drinks! The cut out umbrellas were all I had remaining from 2 sheets of Dare 2B Artsy paper and the felt embellishments were from a ver...

Here is another layout I completed today.  The photos were taken at McMasters Beach in February as my sister and I and a friend enjoyed morning tea overlooking the ocean. I was on pinterest and somehow I got onto stash busting layouts and I found one that gave me inspiration for this layout.  I was on Lasting Memories blog and I was inspired by the banners and the note paper punching on the right side of Lesley's layout. I have left some thanks on the blog for her. Papers are from several piles of paper I have laying around - the eagle eyed my spot some Kaisercraft (papers,stickers and rhinestones) and some very old Stampin' Up papers. This is another layout that I am putting into Calvinball 2020 and here are the 'rules' I used. Single page layout Shared with Calvinball2020 facebook page Added to pinterest Circles Handwritten journaling (it is there snippet of today)  Multiple photos Green - stickers that have wording on them Woodgrain paper (temporary ru...