Parkrun Pages with Scrap Squad - Part 2

Last post I shared four parkrun pages made with scraplifts from the 12 Days of Autumn event over in the Scrap Squad Facebook group and now I have another four to share. These bring my parkrun album up to date, which was one of the tasks I set myself to complete before I can start my cruise album.

84.5 250 Runs

I completed my 250th parkrun back in July and used the scraplift from Day 8 for this page. Ours is a two lap course so we often get two photos and I generally use the better one, but we had heavy showers that day. It was dry at the start so I risked running without a raincoat. Big mistake and having got soaked through I swapped my sodden shirt for my waterproof for the second lap. Hence I used both photos and printed them small as neither is very good but they contribute to the story.

Supplies: Paper - Kay Miller Designs Simple Pleasures; Letters - American Crafts; Phrase Stickers - Pretty Little Studio

85. Monsal Trail

Moving on to Day 9, and Monsal Trail parkrun which we ran in August while camping in the Peak District. The original had a circular cut-file, lots of stitching and some fussy-cut leaves, but mine is much simpler as I deliberately keep these 8x8 pages quite flat.

Supplies: Cardstock - DCWV; Paper - Docrafts Spring Chic; Making Memories Fresh Anthology; Enamel Dots - Simple Stories

85.5 150 Runs

My husband completed his 150th run this summer, and I've recorded that with Day 10's scraplift and lots of diamond shapes. The original page had a small landscape photo but I chose to crop mine to match the papers.

Supplies: Paper - Dovecraft, Pinkfresh Studio Let Your Heart Decide; Letters - Simple Stories; Washi Tape - Unknown; Enamel Dots - Hey Little Magpie

86. Y Promenad

You might have seen this photo before as I scrapped it recently for my 2024 album on a 12x12 double page as part of a weekend away in Wales. However, it also needs to go into my parkrun album so I went back to the scraplift from Day 4 as that was the only one left that I could make work with a 4x6 photo though I tweaked it so that it wouldn't look too much like South Woodham Ferrers/Day 7.

Supplies: Paper, Die-Cuts & Puffy Stickers - Vicki Boutin Fernwood; Washi Tape - Little B

Parkrun Pages with Scrap Squad - Part 1

I started bringing my parkrun album up to date when I came back from my holiday, and this coincided with the 12 Days of Autumn event in the Scrap Squad Facebook group, so I aimed to do as many of their scraplifts as possible with my parkrun photos. 

These are the first four and they are all 8"x8" so I count them as half-pages in my count for the year as they are roughly half the area of a 12"x12" page.

82.5 Blaise Castle

I started with Day 5, using two small photos offset diagonally with papers from a 6x6 pad. I ran here on the weekend of the Twilight crop back in May.

Supplies: Paper - Dovecraft, Pinkfresh Studio Life Right Now; Enamel Dots - My Mind's Eye

83. South Woodham Ferrers

Next was Day 7, a page with layers of paper across the the top and a single landscape photo. We did this one in August to tick off 'South' in the compass point challenge.

Supplies: Paper - Dovecraft, Vicki Boutin Storyteller; Sticker - Vicki Boutin

83.5 Jubilee

I then went back to Day 1, with three big tags and a single portrait photo from Jubilee parkrun in Spennymoor which we ran en route to our recent cruise.

Supplies: Paper - Dovecraft, Heidi Swapp Wanderlust; Stickers - My Mind's Eye, OneCanoeTwo; Nuvo Drops

84. Hoblingwell 

Then Day 6 with another portrait photo on a large banner. Hoblingwell gave us an H for the Alphabet Challenge.

Supplies: Paper - Fancy Pants Little Sprout, Bo Bunny Little Wonders, Maggie Holmes Chasing Dreams; Glitter Tape - The Works; Stickers - Jen Hadfield; Enamel Dots - Altenew, My Mind's Eye

Nomads on Tour

Things have been quiet around here as we've been away on a cruise round the Mediterranean, and then I had to create something to share with you. I'm itching to make a start on my cruise scrapbook but it will have to wait as I have a few things I want to do first, such as finishing my 2023 album and bringing both my parkrun album and my 2024 album up to date.

I'm starting with 2024 and a double page for a weekend in Wales last month. This was organised by a member of Thurrock Nomads, our local running group, with the aim of doing a parkrun on Saturday morning followed by a walk up Pen y Fan in the afternoon. I made both halves of the page using Jenny Wren cut-files from Twilight Crafts as my DT projects this month, with Picture Wheel on the left and Road Sign 2 on the right.

(These are pages 81 & 82 for my page count this year.)

Supplies

Paper - Make & Create Moments, My Mind's Eye Vintage Charm, Make & Create Grunge Dreams, My Mind's Eye Necessities

Letters - American Crafts, Paige Evans

Stickers - OneCanoeTwo, Paige Evans, Pretty Little Studio, 49 & Market

Die-Cuts - OneCanoeTwo

Enamel Dots - Altenew, Maggie Holmes

Disclosure - I receive digital cut-files free of charge from Twilight Crafts as part of my DT role. All other supplies are my own.

Pages from Stockholm - Part 2

Last week I shared the first six pages from Stockholm on our Scandinavian cruise, and now I'm publishing the rest. We had visited the city before and visited the major attractions that interested us, so we spent some time on Stockholm's metro system, dubbed the longest art gallery in the world, looking at the artworks.

These are all pocket pages and, although I do use a few configurations of pocket page protectors, each of these has six 4x6 landscape pockets.

(The numbers that follow are my page count for the year.)

75. Universitetet / T-Centralen 

I gave the top four pockets here to Universitetet station which has a series of tiled panels devoted to Carl Linnaeus. The bottom two pockets are for T-Centralen, the only station which all three lines pass through; the walls of the red and green lines' platform are tiled with geometric patterns.

76. Odenplan / Thorildsplan / Rådhuset

Three stations this time, with two pockets apiece. Odenplan had a display from a local college; Thorildsplan is tiled with images in the style of early video games; Rådhuset has a variety of artefacts designed to look like they had sunk through the earth and reappeared in the station below.

77. Solna Centrum

This was the most impressive station, carved from the rock and painted with almost a kilometre of spruce forest below a sunset red sky. There are lots of smaller scenes along the walls highlighting nature, rural depopulation and environmental damage, and cases displaying smaller tableau. 

78. T-Centralen /Kungsträdgården

Back to T-Centralen on the blue line, which here is painted with calming blue vines and flowers. Then four pockets for Kungsträdgården; it means the King's Garden and the station is below a park of the same name where a palace used to stand. The bare rock walls have been adorned with casts of statues from the old palace and one end has a mock excavation site.

79. Underground Overground / Skeppsholmen

Back above ground, we visited the real Kungsträdgården and then walked over to another island called Skeppsholmen for coffee.

80. Stockholm Archipelago

My final page features the Stockholm Archipelago, the collection of 30,000 islands that we sailed through after we left the city.

That concludes my Stockholm scrapbooking and, since it was the last port I scrapped (though not the last we visited), it finishes off my Scandinavia album. I just need to have a check through all the pages for anything that's worked loose, or for any places that need a bit extra, or for places to add a few pieces that I like but haven't found a home on a page yet. Then I'll find an album and make a title card for the front cover.

Next up I have pages to make for my 2024 annual album and also for my 8x8 parkrun album, as I am trying to keep both of those up-to-date this year. I'll also be starting a new holiday album soon for this year's Mediterranean cruise.

Supplies

Cardstock - Core'dinations, The Craft Place, Craft UK

Paper - Pinkfresh Studio Tourist Mode, Pinkfresh Studio Life Right Now, Pinkfresh Studio Out and About, Pinkfresh Studio Simply the Best, Pinkfresh Studio Brighter Days, Pebbles New Addition, Simple Stories

Letters - Pinkfresh Studio, Jillibean Soup, Doodlebug, American Crafts, Studio Calico

Journal Cards - Studio Calico

Stickers - Pinkfresh Studio, Heidi Swapp, 49 & Market

Filmstrip - 49 & Market

Glitter Tape - Unknown;

Enamel Dots - Altenew, 49 & Market, Pinkfresh Studio, Carta Bella, Pretty My Page, Freckled Fawn, My Mind's Eye, Simple Stories

Pages from Stockholm - Part 1

It's been a while since I last shared a round-up of pages, and that's because I have been busy enjoying the summer, interspersed with making a whopping total of eleven new pages for Stockholm, the capital of Sweden, which we visited on our Scandinavian cruise last summer. I'll be sharing those across two posts as there are so many.

I'll start with the sub-title page; I make one of these for every port we visit to divide the album into 'chapters' for each one. I have shared this one before but I'm repeating it with all the new pages for completeness.

(The numbers that follow are my page count for the year.)

70. Heart of the City

We moored right in the middle of Stockholm and went ashore by tender. I used two overlapping photos at the top of the page to make a panorama of the old town and added three smaller ones below with some street views.

71. Gamla Stan

First pocket page, with photos of four of the landmark buildings in the old town.

72. The Longest Art Gallery in the World / T-Bana / Östermalmstorg

We'd been to Stockholm before and seen some of the major sights, so this time we explored the T-bana, Stockholm's metro, where many of the stations are filled with art. This page starts with an introduction and a map, then the first station.

73. Stadion

Back to 12x12, partly as I wanted to make a feature of this station and partly because the photos didn't work well in a pocket page. Stadion station is carved from solid rock and painted blue with rainbows to remind people of the blue skies above. This page was my first August DT page for Twilight Crafts, using their Filmstrip cut-file in my layering.

74. Tekniska Högskolan

Another 12x12, on the back of the last. This is the station for the Royal Institute of Technology and is a tribute to various scientific discoveries. I split the page into a half and two quarters on different subjects.

Six more to go, and I'll share those next week.

Supplies

Cardstock - Core'dinations, The Craft Place, Craft UK

Paper - Pinkfresh Studio Tourist Mode, Pinkfresh Studio Life Right Now, Pinkfresh Studio Out and About, Pinkfresh Studio Simply the Best, Pinkfresh Studio Brighter Days, Pebbles New Addition, Simple Stories

Letters - Pinkfresh Studio, Jillibean Soup, Doodlebug, American Crafts, Studio Calico

Journal Cards - Studio Calico

Stickers - Pinkfresh Studio, Heidi Swapp, 49 & Market

Filmstrip - 49 & Market

Glitter Tape - Unknown;

Enamel Dots - Altenew, 49 & Market, Pinkfresh Studio, Carta Bella, Pretty My Page, Freckled Fawn, My Mind's Eye, Simple Stories

Mug Makeover

Just a quick post today, with a share of a coffee mug makeover.

We picked up a couple of these mugs at the end of a conference when the exhibitor just wanted to get rid of them all. They are a decent size with a well-fitting lid, but had an advert on them which I decided to cover up.

I acquired some adhesive vinyl then used my Silhouette to cut both a circle large enough to cover the original advert, and the initial A in a stencil font sized to fit the circle. Quick and simple, but I now have a personalised mug rather than carrying an advert around with me.

Before and After

I've never used vinyl before, and don't know how well it will stand up to being washed. Hopefully it will last at least a few months and won't all peel off straight away.

Summer Scraplifts with Scrap Squad - Part 2

The Scrap Squad group on Facebook generally post a scraplifting challenge once a week, but sometimes they do longer seasonal events and earlier this month they ran '12 Days of Summer Scraplifts'. I shared four pages in my last post, and now I'm back with another 

Please click on the links to see the original pages.

66. Twilight Crop (2024)

The page for Day 6 was based around circles, and I used it to record the Twilight Crafts weekend crop back in May. I cut circles from photos of the room, but had to keep my main picture as a rectangle as a circle wasn't going to work.

Supplies: Paper - Paige Evans Truly Grateful, Make & Create Moments; Letters - American Crafts; Puffy Stickers - MAMBI; Enamel Dots - My Mind's Eye

67. Family & Fireworks (2017)

Day 7 was a multi-photo grid, so I went back a few years to this set of photos from Bonfire Night which I had previously printed but never scrapped. My title was inspired by the original page which was called Sun & Sea, with a large ampersand.

Supplies: Cardstock - Craft Sensations, Bazzill; Paper - Echo Park Magical Adventure 2; Ampersand - American Crafts; Word Stickers - Tim Holtz; Washi Tape - Simple Stories; Enamel Shapes - Prima, Labelshop

68. Soapbox Racers (2024)

This was just the loosest inspiration from Day 9, which had two rows of triangles which looked to me like bunting. I pulled out a bunting-printed paper to fussy-cut but then decided to leave it whole as my background. I had two photos from when my niece took part in Red Bull's Soapbox Race and they are much bigger than the one on the original page, so my page ended up looking quite unlike it. I still need to journal but I wanted to speak to my niece first.

Supplies: Paper - Simple Stories Awesome Boy; Letters - American Crafts; Sticker - The Paper Studio; Enamel Dots - Hey Little Magpie, Simple Stories

69. Cruise Scandinavia (Scandinavia 2023)

The twelfth and final scraplift of this event was based on a large photo taking up most of an A4/8.5x11" page. I had no photos that big, but I did have a map of our cruise route that I printed on A4 paper for the title page of my Scandinavian cruise album.

 

Supplies: Paper - Pinkfresh Studio Tourist Mode, Pinkfresh Studio Out & About; Letters - Basic Grey, Pretty Little Studio; Numbers - Violet Studio; Die-Cuts - 49 & Market; Stickers - Pinkfresh Studio, Studio Calico, MAMBI; Gems - Prima; Enamel Shapes - Marianne Designs, Docrafts, Studio Calico, Stampin' Up!