Tea for Two

I'm sharing another page for Twilight Crafts today and this one uses two Jenny Wren Cut-Files. I went for the Tea for Two file as I had photos from an afternoon tea to scrap, and also chose Cupcake Elements so that I could fill the open Os of the title with tiny cupcakes.

I used the remains of Vicki Boutin's Storyteller collection for my page, and the pieces I had left dictated the layout of the page to some extent. I used a couple of strips across the top of the page, added a branding strip across the bottom and matted my photos on the only suitable pattern that was large enough to hold them.

I'd originally thought of backing the title with several colours from a stripy paper, but changed my mind as the page came together, sticking with a peach which was close in colour to my photo mats.

Supplies

Paper - American Crafts/Vicki Boutin Storyteller

Washi Tape - Little B

Enamel Shapes - Prima

Gems - Simply Creative

Ink - Ranger

Tools

Silhouette Portrait

Disclosure: I received the cut-files free of charge from Twilight Crafts. All the supplies are my own.

Loch Eriboll

Back to my Scottish cruise scrapbook and the afternoon that we spent sailing down Loch Eriboll and back. This should be my only double page in the album and I had planned to use two sheets of Heidi Swapp paper as my background as I only had one of each of the 49 & Market papers. However when I turned over the last page I made, I realised that the other side of that background was the plainish brown from the collection so I could use that instead to make up the pair. 

I had five landscape photos, a smaller portrait photo and a great deal of journalling, which fell into a series of columns across the page. 

I made my title with a mix of one word cut on the Silhouette and one word in puffy stickers, repeating the trick of curving the smaller word around some of the letters in the larger one to eliminate any trapped white space between the words.

Supplies

Paper - 49 & Market Vintage Artistry Anywhere, Heidi Swapp Wanderlust

Letters - American Crafts/Shimelle

Ephemera - 49 & Market

Glitter Tape - The Works

Word Stickers - Tim Holtz

Puffy Stars - Unknown

Gems - Simply Creative

Ink - Ranger

Mist - Mister Huey's

Tools

Silhouette Portrait

Big Shot & Dovecraft Tag Die

That Special Touch Compass Mask

Puddle Season

I recently joined the design team at Twilight Crafts for a three month term, and today I'm sharing my first creation for them, featuring the umbrella cut-file from Jenny Wren Cut-Files. 

My photo's an old one of my nephew which I've scrapped before but my old page makes me cringe whenever I see it, so it was time for a re-do.

I chose papers from Cocoa Vanilla Studio's Daydream collection for my  new page and paired them with puffy stickers from their newer These Days collection as the colours and patterns are very similar.

I don't have any ephemera from either collection but I was able to cut the rainbow and the flower clusters from two 12x12 papers.

Supplies

Cardstock - Bazzill

Paper - Cocoa Vanilla Studio Daydream

Letters - KaiserCraft

Puffy Stickers - Cocoa Vanilla Studio

Enamel Dots - Echo Park?

Mist - Cosmic Shimmer

Tools

Silhouette Portrait

Disclosure: I received the cut-file free of charge from Twilight Crafts. All the supplies are my own.

Whiten Head

Whiten Head wasn't on our list of scenic cruising but we were glad we were on deck as we passed as the cliffs, cave and sea stacks were worth seeing. 

I printed a couple of photos, matted them together and layered them over a column of paper strips, which ties in with this month's challenge from Hey Little Magpie.

I built an embellishment cluster to the right of the photos, based around a filmstrip die-cut, and placed my title (cut on the Silhouette) above it. The way the words fitted together left some open space which I filled with some ephemera pieces.

Supplies

Cardstock - Bazzill

Paper - 49 & Market Vintage Artistry Anywhere, 49 & Market Vintage Artistry Collectors Edition

Ephemera - 49 & Market

Gems - Simply Creative

Ink - Ranger

Tools

Silhouette Portrait

Big Shot

Spellbinders Circle Die

Little B Arrow Die

Fireworks Birthday Card

It's my nephew's 18th birthday today, and I initially struggled with his card. I pushed a few design ideas around but nothing that I was happy with. Eventually I did what I should have done in the first place, and turned to the Sketch-n-Scrap blog.

This was their first sketch for World Cardmaking Day and I paired it with Echo Park's Magical Adventure 2 6x6 pad. This collection is Disney-themed but the b-sides are more versatile and the pad provided me with a set of co-ordinating papers. I based the card around the fireworks paper as being suitably celebratory.

The Old Man of Hoy

Up until now I've been scrappping our cruise in order, but our first piece of scenic cruising was Duncansby Sea Stacks, and I missed printing one of the photos I want for that page so I'm skipping over it for now.

The second sight should have been The Needle, on the coast of the island of Hoy, but that was lost in the mist, which brings us to the Old Man of Hoy, one of the tallest sea stacks in the UK and the subject of this page. It was still misty so the Old Man wasn't easy to see, but the photos have printed quite dark and less distinct than they are on my screen. I've scrapped what I have, but also lightened them for reprinting in the next batch of photos I order, and I'll swap the prints over later.

I started off using one of last month's sketches from Sketch-n-Scrap as it had the two photo sizes I'd printed and the tags at the top tie in with the tags on the last page I made. However, I flipped it horizontally and then played about with the paper layers and moved the title so it wasn't a close likeness by the time I'd finished.

This is the first page where I've used a paper other than those I chose from 49 & Market; the brown map is from Heidi Swapp, but I think it's a good match for the colours and prints of Vintage Artistry Anywhere.

Supplies

Paper - 49 & Market Vintage Artistry Anywhere, 49 & Market Vintage Artistry Sage, Heidi Swapp Wanderlust

Letters - Pinkfresh Studio

Ephemera - 49 & Market

Puffy Hearts - Unknown

Gems - Papermania, Love to Craft

Ink - Ranger

Mist - Mister Huey's

Tools

Silhouette Portrait

Welcome Aboard

Next page for my cruise album and the photo's from the evening of our first full day, which was a formal dinner. There would normally have been a 'Welcome Aboard' cocktail party first; covid cancelled that but I still used the phrase for my title.

I used a sketch by Lisa Sikorski from her new Scrap a Sketch group on Facebook, but played with the size and positioning of the paper layers to suit my shorter tags, cut with my favourite tag die. 

Supplies

Paper - 49 & Market Vintage Artistry Collectors Edition, 49 & Market Vintage Artistry Anywhere

Ephemera - 49 & Narket

Glitter Tape - The Works

Stars - Unknown

Gems - Love to Craft

Ink - Memento

Mist - Mister Huey's

Tools

Silhouette Portrait

Big Shot & Dovecraft Tag Die

Goodbye Dover

I chose the title of this page to reflect that of the last one (Hello Bolette) and they will sit opposite each other in the album. 

I chose a couple of photos for our departure from Dover and matted them together over band of map print paper from the 6x8 pack which I cut and stretched. I ran a branding strip above it and tore a plain strip to go below it.

I'd already earmarked the pink 'Away We Go' piece for this page and I built a cluster of ephemera for it to sit in (including a pair of suitcases which I'd originally thought would be too big to use). That was the only pink apart from the background at that point, so I added the three die-cut arrows and also used it for the main word of my title which gave a better balance to the page.

There's no journalling for once as there was really nothing to say.

Supplies

Paper - 49 & Market Vintage Artistry Anywhere, 49 & Market Vintage Artistry Coral

Ephemera - 49 & Market

Star Gems - Papermania

Ink - Memento

Mist - Mister Huey's

Tools

Silhouette Portrait

Big Shot

The Works Alphabet Dies

Little B Arrow Die

Dovecraft Label Die