Tuesday 21 April 2015

Lydford Gorge

I'm continuing scrapping our Easter holiday in Devon, with a trip to Lydford Gorge. It's somewhere we've visited many times, but we still go again whenever we are in the area. It's another National Trust property, with a car park at each end of the 1.5 mile long gorge. Our last visit was in 2008, and it feels like a very long time ago.


I based my page on this month's double page sketch at Stick It Down. I am on the single page design team there, and I never intended to do all the double pages too, but so far I've done so every month.

I started by flipping the sketch, so that my portrait photos of the rapids and waterfalls are on the left side. I also replaced one of the landscape photos with two smaller portrait photos, and then squeezed in two more in place of the smaller square photo in the sketch. I also like it when papers span the gaps between the two halves of a double page, so I moved some of the background papers closer together. I have lots of the Dotted Swiss cardstock, and I've decided to do all my holiday photos on it to make a definite sub-section of my 2015 album.





Believe it or not, I based my colour scheme around the butterfly washi tape as I really wanted to use this. It's from Teresa Collins' Daily Stories collection and although I bought several of the papers I've used most of them now, so I dug around for matching colours, finding papers from American Crafts/Shimelle, Pebbles and We R Memory Keepers that were close matches.

I've really loved these glittery foam Thickers; the narrow font doesn't take up much space, and I've had loads of titles from them without running out of vowels. I am running out of other letters now though, and have resorted to cannibalism to get the ones I need - the Gs are really Cs with additions, and the Rs started out as Ps.

Supplies
Cardstock - Bazzill Dotted Swiss
Paper - American Crafts Shimelle, Pebbles Home-Made, We R Memory Keepers Indian Summer
Letters - American Crafts
Washi Tape - Teresa Collins Daily Stories
Word Stickers - American Crafts Shimelle
Label Stickers - 7Gypsies
Ink - Docrafts

8 comments:

  1. Super double Amanda, plenty of layers and pretty paper. What awesome photo's too! Off to check out Lydford Gorge for a place to visit this summer. xx

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  2. What a great double pager. Love the photos as well. Thanks for playing along with us at Stick it Down.

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  3. Amanda I love your layout. Super colours and great photos. I know what you mean; I can't stay away from the double page layouts either. Thanks for sharing at Stick It Down.

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  4. Beautiful double page Amanda Jane! You picked out perfect papers for these photos.

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  5. Great job with the sketch. Love the layers. thanks for playing at SID.

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  6. I really like what you did with these and may very will be stealing them soon for some chicken pictures I've been struggling with.
    Thanks!
    Rinda

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  7. Beautiful pages! I love how you flipped the sketches. Thanks for joining us at Stick It Down!

    ~Ashley W
    SID Card Team member

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  8. This is just beautiful Amanda!! Thanks for playing along with our double challenge at Stick it Down!!

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