Sherborne

This page follows directly from the last one in my album, as we stayed overnight in Sherborne after the Giant's Head Weekend before returning home. I've used the same supplies to link the pages together as being part of the same trip (though I had to find a new woodgrain as I'd used two whole sheets as the background of the last double page). 

I had three photos of historic buildings which I'd printed at 4x6 and 4x4 so they took up quite a lot of the page. The layout was largely driven by the sizes of papers that I had left and what would fit where behind the photos.

Supplies: Paper - Heidi Swapp Wanderlust, Cocoa Vanilla Studio Heart & Home, Photoplay Family Ties; Letters - American Crafts; Washi Tape - Vicki Boutin; Enamel Dots - Simple Stories, Echo Park, My Mind's Eye

Giant's Head Weekend

I'm in June now for my 2026 album, and a running/camping weekend spent in Dorset, near the Cerne Abbas Giant which gives his name to the event. I've gone for a double page, using the 'Kicked Up Quadrants' sketch from Shimelle's 2020 class called Start with a Sketch, so I have separate areas for the camping, my 10k race, my husband's half marathon and a visit to the Giant afterwards.

 

Supplies: Paper - Cocoa Vanilla Studio Heart & Home, Heidi Swapp Wanderlust; Letters - Hip Kit Club, Glitz Design; Stickers - Heidi Swapp; Washi Tape - Vicki Boutin; Puffy Hearts - Cocoa Vanilla Studio, Hip Kit Club

Walking Hadrian's Wall

My husband walked the length of Hadrian's Wall (84 miles) in July, and I wanted to used the A4 Wall cut-file from Twilight Crafts and Jenny Wren Cut-Files for the page. 

I also had a stack of photos to include, which didn't leave much space to incorporate a cut-file, so I chose to use it as a stencil instead, covering a sheet of grey cardstock with bricks for my background.

I then proceeded to cover up most of my work, adding rub-ons to the sides and arranging my photos in four rows with the title in the middle. I had two photos of Hadrian which looked good as circles, so I cut down my husband's finish photo to match and journalled on a circle too.

Supplies: Cardstock - Bazzill; Paper - Jen Hadfield Peaceful Heart, My Mind's Eye Now and Then; Rub-Ons - 49 and Market; Puffy Stickers - Vicki Boutin

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

A Year in Normandie

This page will follow directly after my Escher page (as we visited the two exhibitions on the same day) so I've used some of the same papers and lettering, and the same overall colour palette, though the lighter background makes a big difference.

A Year in Normandie is made up of 220 iPad drawings which capture the changing seasons, and fit together to form a 90m long frieze which was displayed in the Serpentine Gallery this summer. I picked out eight photos of my favourite paintings, double-matted them along with blocks for my title and journalling, and then butted them all together in a grid, in a similar way to how the individual paintings were joined together to form the frieze.

Supplies: Paper - DCWV Romantic Life, Crate Paper Random, Sandylion Orange Dots, Basic Grey Perhaps, Simple Stories Summer Snapshots,  4heures37 Eiffel Avenue; Letters - Crate Paper, Jenni Bowlin; Washi Tape - Unknown; Puffy Stars - Rosie's Studio

Escher at Somerset House

As the title says, this is a page for the exhibition of Escher's work that we saw at Somerset House in July. I split the layout into two areas, with three of my favourite artworks in the top part. The exhibition had several interactive galleries and you could place yourself inside Escher's 'Hand with Reflecting Sphere' so the bottom part of the page has three versions of that - Escher, myself, and my husband.

Supplies: Paper - Crate Paper Random, Crate Paper Restoration; Letters - Hobbycraft, Jenni Bowlin; Stickers - Crate Paper, 7Gypsies; Washi Tape - Vicki Boutin; Enamel Dots - Hey Little Magpie, Rosie's Studio

Journey Around Britain

This is the fourth of four pages for our main summer holiday. We took two back-to-back cruises with a relocation in between. Thus the four pages are one for our cruise to Iceland, one for a day walking the Fife Coastal Trail from Rosyth, one for a day walking/running the Tyne Trail from Port of Tyne, and this one for our cruise around Britain.

I decided to use another cut-file, and chose Nine Messy Circles from Twilight Crafts and Jenny Wren cut-files, making this my second DT page this month. However, I wanted some space at the side of the page so I chopped the cut-file down to use just six messy circles and tucked them under a strip of map print paper which holds my journalling and embellishment.

I cut five photos to 3" circles, which nestle just inside the cut-file. I have one of each of our four ports and one of my husband and me on a golfcart we hired to explore St Mary's in the Isles of Scilly. I used the sixth circle for my title, running letter stickers around the word Journey.

Supplies: Paper - Simple Stories Sub Zero, Photoplay Travelogue; Letters - Rosie's Studio; Stickers - Photoplay, Heidi Swapp; Filmstrip & Ticket - 49 and Market; Label Die-Cut - Unknown; Puffy Words - Rosie's Studio; Enamel Dots - My Mind's Eye, Craftelier, Violet Studio

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

Fife Coastal Path

We had two changeover days on our cruises this summer as the ship relocated between the two and we stayed onboard. The first was in Rosyth, and we spent the day walking from Rosyth to Inverkeithing along the Fife Coastal Path.

It's another grid page, loosely based on one from Shimelle's recent Clear the Desk Live class. Hers had four photos but I adapted for six (and moved the title onto the side). All my papers and embellishments apart from the background come from a Heidi Swapp collection that I originally used for the Mediterranean cruise that we did in 2024.

Supplies: Paper - P13 Lady's Diary, Heidi Swapp Set Sail; Letters - Basic Grey; Stickers & Die-Cuts - Heidi Swapp; Enamel Dots - Simple Stories, Violet Studio