Squeezed a bit of scrappiness in...

I attended a layout class at Shell's in Rotorua, recently and a group of ladies had great fun following along with Shell's layout class.
We used some lovely new papers she had in, all Krafty, extra thick card stock from My Mind's Eye. A new fave, I tell you, I fell in love with this paper line.
I started out with a picture of my younger brother and his two kids, taken on my trip to South Africa recently, when we were out picnicking at Oribi Gorge. What a lovely day it was too. As always I did not have any journalling ready, so brought it home to finish the journalling off.

Then I moved on to tell the tale of my Fear Factor Challenge. I was spurred on my by daughter to sit in a crocodile pit, eating crocodile meal. The lady we bought the tickets from went on to tell us that the crocodiles had not fed really well that day, at their feed time, so were probably a bit hungry!

It was an awesome experience, especially when one croc, did a swish of his tail and darted into the water. They move very suddenly, enough to scare the living bejeebers out of you!

The family then wanted me to touch one, for a photo opportunity. It was the quickest touch in history, I think. As I was moving it to touch it they swished around to face each other, as you see in the photograph.  I was so ready to hightail out of that pit, I can tell you.

Then another participant and I managed to talk Shell into letting us stay for one more layout as we had both travelled from afar, so spent the afternoon working on this layout. Lots of TH inking, on this kraft resist paper, Here my daughter and I were crossing the swing bridge at Oribi Gorge. It is really high, but another exhilarating moment. A nice family shot there as well to commemorate the day.

All in all an awesome day scrapping with the Rotorua Ladies. Thanks Shell.