Route 3a - Australia

OK racers.. are you all rested up from last week? Good!

We are going to continue our race by jetting down under to Australia!!! This is one place I really want to go to visit! My brother lives in Melbourne now, so maybe this year!!! Anyways....

Covering a total area of 7.69 million square kilometres, mainland Australia is the world’s largest island - but smallest continent.

In distance, the continent stretches about 3700 kilometres from north to south and 4000 kilometres from east to west, making it the sixth-largest nation after Russia, Canada, China, the United States and Brazil.

Australia is also the only continent that is governed as a single country. It is sometimes informally referred to as an 'island' continent, surrounded by oceans.

The most famous destinations to visit is The Great Barrier Reef, which is the world's largest coral reef system composed of over 2,900 individual reefs and 900 islands stretching for over 2,600 kilometres over an area of approximately 344,400 square kilometres. The reef is located in the Coral Sea, off the coast of Queensland in north-east Australia.

The Great Barrier Reef can be seen from outer space and is the world's biggest single structure made by living organisms.



For you challenge this week, you must do a layout, and the photos and or paper must have water in them!
And because we are going "down under", you must have a bit of white space down under on your layout too!!!


Here is my example...


You have until Wednesday March 21st at midnight to get your race completed, and uploaded here!!

I have lots of summer pics left to scrap - perfect!

I also have lots of summer pics! Perfect!

Taht's beautiful, Helen!

Thanks Carla!

That's such a great LO Helen! I loved the way you rolled the paper up!

Thanks Stephanie!!!

I wondered what that was... excellent!

Beautiful Helen.

White space, you are killing me.

Helen, thanks for all the information you are giving us about these places. I enjoy reading the descriptions.

I love your layout, not sure if I have any pics left that I can scrap for this challenge or not.

Love your layout. That's a great flower cluster. This will be a challenge for me because white space "down under" is something I'm not comfortable with.

Think you ladies know our weaknesses , white space & down underness . ...gulp ! if there's a sketch i could find for it , but thankfully i might have the mojo once my house is quiet again say....Tuesday lol , love how fab those flowers are Helen...

Thanks ladies!

And you just need a bit of white space.... mainly make your layout top heavy.. if you know what I mean!!!

Sorry I am bottom heavy and top heavy and belly heavy

Managed to do this one today.Background paper has raised 'bubbles' on it and the photos have much water! And there is some white space even!

Like the embossing on the paper Pat!

Colleen wrote:

Sorry I am bottom heavy and top heavy and belly heavy

My bottom is the only place that isn't heavy LOL

Pat, great layout!!

Colleen wrote:

Sorry I am bottom heavy and top heavy and belly heavy

Me too Colleen!! LOL!!!

Pat, I love that embossed cardstock. Very nice.

I did this one last night then realized I killed my white space! LOL! I might try another tonight.

A pool party for one. Water in the photo, "water" on the tags and on one of the PPs. As much "white space" as that photo (the first one dh printed on his new printer last summer ) allowed!

Hope it's enough Helen!

Kelly awesome LO

Thanks Colleen. I love colour!