Scraptherapy's October Sketch Challenge

As usual, I loved Mandy's sketch and here is in interpretation.  I started the layout at mini retreat in Babind and then finished it off at hom.  I didn't really do much more to it.  One of my "experiments" went wrong so I had to fix that, and then I decided to leave well enough alone!

The photo is of Nim as a puppy - he looked so cute with his toys - and he was about the same size!

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Mini Retreat in Babinda

Well, it seems like a long time ago now, but what a fabulous weekend I had in Babinda with everyone at our mini retreat at Scrap Therapy!

I stayed with my good friend Nerida (my partner in crime) in Cairns and we travelled to Babinda on Saturday morning.   It was so good to catch up with Lee-Anne and Danny.  Their daughter Tara was there, as was the grandson Declan.  I had met Tara previously - not that she remembered - and Declan is just so cute!

There were 8 of us in the crop room - a really good number and to scrap with a shop at your disposal is just amazing!!!!  I did show SOME restraint (DH sitting on my shoulder!  He so doesn't understand! :-() and was quite happy with the end results.

Lee-Anne gave some classes with some great techniques and ideas.  All in all, a great weekend.

Funnily enough, it reinforced that I don't miss Cairns one little bit.  I miss the people, but not the place.

Oh yes - I revisited my old work place and got to see most of  the people I used to work with.  Lots of changes, lots of new faces, but so good to catch up with the "old" faces.

Now to show what I did at retreat.  I have a few still up my sleeve - I think they might need a bit of titivating before I show them!

 

This was one of the classes.  It was using the leaf stencil and an ink pad swiped over the page to make your own background.  What I found amazing was that I had these photos in my pile to scrap and they were perfect!

 

Another class - we swiped a paint dabber over the background (the lid came off mine hence the big blob down the bottom!)- we made the tag and 3 different flowers.  One of the them is with a sticky backed foil - amazing!

 

This one is with one of my Lime Tart kits.  It is a shameless scraplift, but also amazingly different!

The photo was supposed to be of the track through the forest, and when it was printed, there was a little face in the corner! Everyone else plays Where's Wally - we play Where's Livvie!

 

 

This one is my gorgeous grandson Thomas.  The layout was inspired by White with 1 this month.  The criteria was white with yellow and stars.    I love how it turned out.

 

This is a photo of my eldest, beautiful granddaughter Caitlin.  A real tom boy.  At least I got to use pink, as she had a pink top on!

This is one I have long wanted to scrap.  It is from scrappy camp 18 months ago.  I have been waiting for music notes!  And the shop had this die - Lee-Anne said she had to try it out before she sold it, so I was lucky, wasn't I?  (The title came about because on that weekend, I had a silly ditty going through my head - it ends with, "But......we all know frogs go....La Di Da Di Da!" and of course our whole table ended up singing it!   I think the other girls got a tad tired of it.  When we came back after having these photos taken, we all found little cut out frogs at our places!  I can't actually find my frog  at the moment, but will put it on the layout when I find it.)

Thanks for looking.  I will put the others up when I finish titivating. x