A few weekends ago I was away on a Scrapbook Retreat with some lovely ladies including my good friends Lisa-Jane and Jennifer, staying in a beautiful barn deep in the Dorset countryside.
We spent our days chatting, eating yummy, home baked cakes, drinking tea/coffee/wine, enjoying leisurely strolls around the farm land and some of the ladies went in the swimming pool/hot tub/gym although I decided that wasn't really my "thing". There was much laughter and of course lots of playing with pretty papers!!
I managed 8 layouts in total over the weekend - fairly productive for me!
Today I'm sharing two of the layouts, both feature photos taken from the same day out at the beach last Summer.
Beach Day Layout
Regular readers will know I live near the south coast and scrap rather a lot of beach photos. It's getting tricky coming up with different titles - hence the somewhat uninteresting and predictable title of "Beach day" for this page!
I'm afraid I didn't take note of the papers I used as most of them were out of my "Scraps" Box.
I've been waiting for just the right layout to use this lovely Happy Scatter Sandcastle wood piece on and I think it fits perfectly with these photos.
I've been waiting for just the right layout to use this lovely Happy Scatter Sandcastle wood piece on and I think it fits perfectly with these photos.
I added a couple of stickers, a splatter of gold Heidi Swapp Colour Shine and a few enamel dots and it was another fabulous "Beach Day" recorded and in the album.
Little Surfer Girl
For this page I used a photo of my daughter taken on the same beach trip as the first layout.
She loves to use her body board in the sea and will quite happily spend a whole afternoon splashing about and trying to "catch a wave"! This particular day she was using a brand new board purchased on the way to the beach as her old one had broken. It's a bigger board than her previous one and so she felt like a proper "Little Surfer Girl"
Papers and stickers are from Simple Stories "Good Day Sunshine" collection and I used my favourite Stampin Up Chevron punch to punch out the coloured chevrons from small scraps.
I'll be back soon with more layouts from the retreat.
Thanks for popping in today - please do leave me a comment to let me know you stopped by!
3 comments :
Two beautiful layouts :)
These are both lovely fun layouts Sarah, and sounds like you all had a fabulous time - my idea of a perfect getaway!!! :o)xxx
Those layouts are great. Wasn't it gorgeous at the beach this weekend? :) x
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