city of dreams

A picture of one of the trams in Melbourne, Australia. It took me an age to get going scrapping in any size bigger than 8x8 but I’m really into 8 ½ x 11.

Ingredients

Basic Grey Offbeat collection pack

Maya Road Chipboard

Quickutz fonts: Merry and Moxie

Glossy Accents

bloom

A picture of me Andrew took on the Mamiya RB67. The crop is only about 5% of the frame of the image, you’ve gotta love medium format :)

Ingredients

MME Bloom and Grow

Kanban bling

felt from my mother’s stash

Cor’dinations roy g biv

Autumn Leaves Indian summer buttons

Prima flower

quiet perfection

One of Andrew on the beach at Cradlewell, it’s mock polaroid (a favourite cheat of mine) and the photo underneath is in fact just an off cut of the main image.

Ingredients

Sassafras Happy Place Papers

American Crafts white and black cardstock

Adorn it, tiny etched natural letter stickers

Autumn Leaves Indian summer buttons

Glossy Accents

Uniball Signo white gel pen

fun times

My grandad, way back when, when hula hoops were all the rage.

Ingredients

Cosmo Cricket TSV (which I think is dutch girl)

Autumn Leaves indian summer buttons

Brown Anchor embroidery thread

Hero Arts pearls

friends

Russell, me and Andrew after building the lego boat.

Ingredients

Cosmo Cricket TSV (which I think is dutch girl)

Adorn it tiny etched natural letter stickers

Brown Anchor embroidery thread

American Crafts felt heart

Hero Arts pearls

the lesser spotted fiona

I was captured hiding in the long grass on the sand dunes, almost like a rare bird sighting.

Ingredients

Basic Grey Archaic Collection Pack

Basic Grey Archaic Chipboard

Acrylic Arrow

DCWV Stitching Rub ons

American Crafts Remarks Journalling Block

best place

I never throw away scraps if I think there might be some use in them, so this is hte use I found.

Ingredients

Doodlebug paper scraps

Doodlebug Icon stickers

American Crafts foam thickers

American Crafts flair

Adorn it tiny natural etched letter stickers

Tiles from way back when

from russell with love

I was really pleased when I came up with the title for this layout which is of a lego boat my friend Russell bought for me and my partner. A damn fine evening was spent by all three of us eating , laughing and building it.

Ingredients

Basic Grey Offbeat collection pack

American Crafts brown foam thickers

American Crafts ribbon

American Crafts flair

how you doin'?

Sorry about the blurry photo but it’s raining so I can’t photograph outside.

Ingredients

DCWV Green stack

DCWV Green chipboard

Quickutz reuse dies

Sizzix window and frame making kit

Sizzix Alpha Bubbles alphabet

American Crafts Remarks journalling block

cheekysmile

Going through some of my old stuff I found some Maya Road rubons that I just loved when I bought, used for a few weeks and then forgot for years. So I did this layout with very little else other than the rubons.

Ingredients

Maya Road Inspiration Tranquility Rubons

Papermania Adhesive Gems

American Crafts cardstock

21

I needed a whimsical 21st card quick and inspired by some sassafras papers I made this.

Ingredients

DCWV Green stack

Doodlebug bazzill in ladybug, bumblebee, grasshopper, blue jean, fairy dust, beetle black and lily white

Pebbles Inc duplicates rub on

American Crafts Jewelry Box white chipboard thickers

Cuttlebug Swiss dots embossing folder

American Crafts plastic flowers

Prima flowers

Doodlebug brads

Doodlebug glitter in bumblebee

Glossy Accents

hello bloom & grow

Over on UKS there was a spring sketch challenge. I used MME Bloom & Grow, with the Quickutz Katie alphabet, and Autumn Leaves stamp with Stampin’ Up Pumpkin Pie ink.