Outback

Just a simple LO of my parents, my husband and I prior to seeing the Australian Outback Spectacular which is a dinner and show performance with lots of horses. It is a fantastic performance and pretty good food in case you're ever on the Gold Coast and looking for something to do. I love the Dusty Attic chipboard I've used on this. They're not a brand I normally use but there was heaps available at the retreat.

 

 

This was going to be for Sketchabilities challenge #76 however I didn't get home and get the LO uploaded in time. :(

 

Thailand Honeymoon

I have so many wonderful photos and memories of our honeymoon to Thailand but I've only really scrapped one page so far because I'm planning on creating a minialbum instead. There has been very little progress on the album recently so I figured it was time to do up a LO instead. The photos show our treking group at the end of out three-day mountain trek which included the elephant riding, bamboo and white-water rafting and staying with village tribes. On the way up the mountain to start the trek we stopped off at the tiger park. The other photo is from our villa in Koh Samui, a wonderful little relaxing island.

This LO fulfills LOTS of different challenge requirements. Firstly, it is based on Sketch #68 over at Sketchabilities. I've rotated the sketch counterclockwise to better suit my photos and paper. When I first saw this sketch I thought it wasn't for me as it's fairly complicated and details but I've simplified it down for this LO.

The Weekend Warm-up activity # 26 over at ScrapFIT was to use a minimum of four photos on your LO, so I've achieved that.

Bird is the Word has released their new work for the month which is 'future'. I've used that in my journalling below the photos.

And lastly, the Use It Tuesday challenge #29 is 'anything goes'. I have used so very old Kaisercraft patterned paper to create this LO, I think I've had it sitting in my stash for years.

Hand-Me Down

I found these photos while I was making the photo wall for my brother's 21st last year and just knew I had to scrap them! This was one of my favourite jumpers when I was a kid. The papers are mainly a Kaisercraft Christmas range called Merry Melodies but the colours were perfect for the photos. I'm trying to use more patterned papers and more embellishments in my LOs at the moment. Lots of yummy handmade embellishments on this one, none of which were made by me. :) Flowers are from Pretty Paper Petals, red doily by my mum, buttons by Lil Red Rocket.

This LO was inspired by the fantastic sketch below from Sketchabilities #65. I've only just found this site but I like the look of the sketches there. I've interpreted the sketch a lot more than I normally do but hopefully you can still see the elements I've kept.