Parkrun Pages

Having finished my 2025 album, I'm turning my attention to my parkrun album now. I've been sitting on the first page since January since I generally share them in pairs; I count these 8x8 pages as halves in my page count for the year and it's been waiting for a 'twin' to keep the count even.

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

22.5 Wickford Memorial

Catherine's Page

I made this page for week 3 of the January/February series from Scrapbook Challenges UK. We were asked to use yellow, paint splatters, 2+ photos, an animal and the theme of happiness, but we didn't have to use all the prompts. There were bonus points for scraplifting one of three layouts and I chose one by Catherine Lapidge.

I saw Catherine's page as a giant bauble which was perfect for our run at Wickford Memorial parkrun on Christmas Day. I found a couple of Christmassy die-cuts and popped a robin on one for my animal. The background is yellow and I spattered gold paint across the diagonal. I only had one photo and I thought that I would be dropping the happiness theme too, until I found the journalling die-cut. 

Supplies: Cardstock - DCWV; Paper - Junkitz Salsa Celebration; Die-Cuts - Fancy Pants, Pebbles; Ribbon Laser-Cut - 49 and Market; Gems - Love to Craft

23. Whitecliffe Lake

This page comes from from January when we visited a newish event which started in November and immediately became our NENDY (nearest event not done yet). I used the March sketch from For the Love of Pretty Paper for this one.

My paper choice was driven by my scraps box. I sort by size (simply two pizza boxes with large and small scraps) so I went through the 'large' box until I found two papers that went together and then stopped looking. I only had one photo so I used a journalling card instead of the second, an ancient one that I am happy has finally found a home on a page.

Supplies: Paper - Simple Stories, Crate Paper; Journalling Card - My Mind's Eye; Flowers - Unknown; Puffy Crosses - Studio Calico; Washi Tape - Tesco

23.5 Valentines

We toured again in February when our local grass course was a quagmire so we turned to alternatives in parks with solid paths. First up was Valentines Park in Ilford. It was a rainy day so I based my page around a raindrop card and pulled matching papers from my scraps box.

Supplies: Papers - Unknown Scraps; Card - Studio Calico; Labels - Kaitlin Sheaffer; Puffy Hearts - Shimelle; Enamel Hearts - My Mind's Eye, Altenew

24. Raphael

The following week we went to Raphael Park in Romford, and I scraplifted a page by Kirei Baldwin which was one of the '12 Days of Spring' scraplifts in the Scrap Squad group on Facebook recently.

I took all my paper strips from a 6x6 pad which I would love to kill off, and added oddments of embellishments in matching colours, including the same clear stickers with faux stitching that Kirei used.

Supplies: Paper - Basic Grey Mint Julep, Shimelle, Vicki Boutin; Stickers - Pretty Little Studio; Enamel Hearts - Maggie Holmes, Altenew

I have a few more pages to do to bring this album up-to-date, but I haven't printed the photos yet so it's back on hold for now.

Malta Memories

I'm sharing my latest DT page for Twilight Crafts and Jenny Wren Cut-Files today. It's a summary of our holiday in Malta last year, which will go in my annual album for 2025.

I used the frames from the Covid Memes Polaroid cut-file (cutting away the wording) and backed them with eight photos from our trip. I then made a 'MALTA' cut-file to run across the middle in place of the original wording and layered the chipboard word 'Memories' over it. I outlined both cut-files to give them some definition and added a few word stickers and enamel shapes.

This concludes my 2025 album. I have a few pages to make for my 8x8 parkrun album, and I need to make a start on 2026 (five pages on the list so far). I also have plans for a new holiday album project, so look out for that soon.

Supplies: Cardstock - Rosie's Studio; Paper - Rosie's Studio Golden Afternoon; Chipboard - 49 and Market; Stickers - Tim Holtz; Enamel Shapes - 49 and Market

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

(Page 22 for the year.)

The Great Outdoors Challenge

The Great Outdoors Challenge is an annual event with participants planning and walking their own routes from west to east coast-to-coast across Scotland. My husband has done it six times and this double page documents his most recent challenge and will go in my 2025 album.

I originally printed 16 photos and later ditched two so that I could make a 4x4 grid in the middle of the page, with title and journalling in opposite corners. I then filled in the edges with torn strips of patterned paper and created a couple of similar embellishment clusters, happily using up a few die-cut labels and heart stickers of  indeterminate age and origin.

Supplies: Paper - Simply Made Crafts?, Heidi Swapp Wanderlust; Border Sticker - atd; Laser-Cuts - 49 and Market; Stickers - Echo Park, 49 and Market, Pretty Little Studio; Die-Cut Labels - Unknown

(Pages 20 and 21 for 2026 - I count doubles as two.)

Stitched Birthday Card

My first DT project for Twilight Crafts and Jenny Wren Cut-Files this month is a birthday card that I made with a one of the flowers from a stitching cut-file.

I printed out the PDF version of Card Flowers and Border 1 and pricked the holes in a piece of white cardstock by hand. I added distress oxide inks to the outlines and then stitched over the ink with matching threads.

Finally I matted the flower on pink patterned paper and added another piece of the same paper below with my sentiment.

Away Nights

Another page for my 2025 album, and it's a round-up of the extra runs that our running club organised last summer, in country parks and open spaces across the area. I took part in six of them and double-matted each photo with papers from a 6x8 pad. I then butted them all up together to make a colourful panel in the centre of my page.

Supplies: Cardstock - Bazzill; Paper - Simple Stories Summer Snapshots; Letters - Rosie's Studio; Enamel Dots - Simple Stories

(Page 19 for 2026)

Fly-Cruise

Another page for my 2025 album, and this one's a double to document a short cruise we took in November. It was the final week of a 57-night Grand Mediterranean Voyage, with us flying out to Málaga in Spain and sailing back to Southampton via Gibraltar, Lisbon and Honfleur.

I turned to the leftover supplies from a previous cruise album and made a symmetrical page with photos from the four ports on a large bracket-shaped square in the middle. I flanked this with two 3x4 photos of our flight and ship on the left side and a 4x6 of our family on formal night on the right.

Supplies: Paper - Heidi Swapp Sun Chaser, Heidi Swapp Set Sail, Pebbles Seen & Noted, Bo Bunny Early Bird, My Mind's Eye Market Street; Letters - American Crafts; Stickers - Heidi Swapp; Die-Cut - Heidi Swapp; Glitter Tape - The Works; Enamel Dots - My Mind's Eye, Rosie's Studio, Craftelier

(Pages 17 and 18 for 2026 - I count doubles as two.)

Snoopy in the City

Time to share another DT page for Twilight Crafts and Jenny Wren Cut-files. This one is from a sculpture trail I did in London last December which celebrated 75 years of the Peanuts comic strip.

I've used the Covid Memes cut-file; cutting the wording away left me 11 frames which I rotated and filled with photos of 11 of the 12 statues.

I didn't initially have a colour scheme in mind, so looked at my pad of pre-made mixed media backgrounds, picking one which was a yellow/green. I then picked an orange paper that had touches of that yellow/green in the pattern for my cut-file. With eleven photos framed by the cut-file, I added the twelfth in a column on the left with my title and journalling.

Supplies: Paper - Vicki Boutin Let's Wander, K&Company Mira, My Mind's Eye Miss Caroline; Letters - Hip Kit Club, Shimelle; Journal Cards - Studio Calico; Stickers - My Mind's Eye, Studio Calico, Jen Hadfield, Latech

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

(Page 16 for 2026.)