Gala Buffet

Almost there with the cruise scrapbook, and these pages come from the Gala Buffet on our penultimate evening. The food is beautifully presented, almost too good to eat, and the buffet opens for photographs first before anyone is allowed to eat anything. 

When I first saw this month's double page sketch from Stick It Down, I thought it would be perfect for this set of photos, but I soon discovered that a good proportion of my pictures were portrait rather than landscape in orientation. This wasn't actually too much of a problem and I managed to re-work the block of photos to suit them, and arranged the remainder in a loose 'C' shape on the other page. Not an exact copy of the sketch, but I think you can see it there (even if I did decide to swap the two sides over).

That strip of vellum doesn't appear in the sketch at all but I added it for three reasons - firstly having something that spans both sides of the page helps to tie them together and makes it clear that this is a double rather than two singles. Secondly, I'm working with plain cardstock backgrounds in this album and the left side was too stark without something to cover at least part of that vast expanse of kraft. Thirdly, without it, the photos were 'floating' on the left side of the page; having them all touching the vellum 'anchors' them in place.

Supplies
Cardstock - Craft Sensations, Papermania
Paper - Photo Play Boarding Pass
Vellum - Crate Paper Boys Rule
Letters - Simply Creative
Mistable Stars - Studio Calico
Word Stickers - Tim Holtz
Washi Tape - American Crafts
Enamel Dots - Doodlebug, Stampin' Up!
Pearls - Craft for Occasions
Ink - Ranger
Mist - Docrafts