Challenge YOUrself

 The theme at Challenge YOUrself is friends

I've done this challenge most years, so this year I thought about work friends. I spent 7 years teaching at a particularly tough school. This was over 20 years ago. The 3 people in the photo were very helpful and friendly. I'm wearing a white blouse in this photo. 

The paper had the plants on it, but I fussy cut the dragonflies and added them as part of the background. The 3 green and black tabs added contrast and matched Betty's top. 

Scrapbooking at The scraproom.

 

This is the throwback sketch at the Scraproom. I used photos of frigate birds we saw on the Panama cruise.

I used the branches paper as my background plus a white corrugated card for my matting.

My journal space was cut from a larger rectangular card. I used washi tape for my strips plus a marching heart. Where there are branches on the sketch I used seaweed from a Jolees creations set of fish.

sunset layout

 This layout is another one of my forgeries. I kept it reasonably simple to make the photo stand out. It was the last sunset on my cruise and how special it was!

Lasting Memories

 This layout is for Lasting Memories where they want us to use the letters in the word, charm.

My list is C=circles, H=hearts A=anchor R=ricrac M=made background.

I used another forged paper from my Counterfeit Kit. One of my mats is another forged paper offcut. The anchor picture is from St Tropez by Prima.

The photos are from our arrival in Costa Rica. I was very excited to be there.

Sketch n scrap

 

This is the sketch for sketch n scrap.

I adapted it to fit my landscape photos. I used 2 of my forged papers. The background had light stamping in 2 of the corners. The other had fine coloured pencil lines.In between is a pink paper with swirls.

Where strips are required I used washi tapes including the bright pink and aqua across the bottom (I seldom use that one) I mixed my alphas in the title and finished off 2 sheets of words. The flairs are from Bee arty and the pink asterisks are from a set of alphas.

Soul scrappers This and That.

 My next layout is also for Soul Scrappers . This and that challenge is like a recipe challenge.

I chose the yellow side.

Everything on here is from my kit. I'm very pleased to use that typewriter postcard.

Yje arrows,photo corners and a;phas are all chipboard.

Soul Scrappers BOLD challenge

 I used one of my forgeries for a BOLD layout with BOLD title. The paper suited this challenge.

The best part was I got to use up some big alphas I had for about 15 years.

The pyramid shape is obvious in Chiapas everywhere!