Essex Way Relay

FTLOPP Sketch

I've moved onto September now in this year's album, when our running club entered two teams in the Essex Way Relay, running 81 miles rom Epping to Harwich.

I used the September sketch from For the Love of Pretty Paper for my page. I had photos of seven of our pairs of runners and the plaque at the end of the trail, which I cut to 2.5" circles. I kept one of the circles from the sketch as patterned paper to provide an anchor point for my title (which sits on a branding strip). I had more journalling than would fit on the strips on the sketch, so that went in the middle of the page.

Supplies: Paper - 49 and Market Plum Grove, My Mind's Eye Chalk Studio 2; Letters - Basic Grey; Rub-Ons - 49 and Market; Enamel Shapes - 49 and Market, Stampin' Up!

Scallop Squares Card

A quick post today, sharing a card I made with the Scalloped Square cut-file from Twilight Crafts and Jenny Wren Cut-Files.

I shrunk the digital cut-file down to about 5" across and cut it from five patterned papers from the same 6x6 pad. I then arranged them so that each row and column has all five patterns. I inked all the edges of the squares and also the outside edges of the card, and added my sentiment on glue dots for a little height. The final touch was a few small silver peel-off stars on the green squares.

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

and the Old Castle

This page (and its title) follow on directly from the last and will sit opposite it in the album. It's the fourth from the same weekend so I've kept to the same supplies.

My page design is a variation on one I've used several times before which originally came from Shimelle's A Most Magical Scrapbook class back in 2017.

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

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