Saturday 20 November 2021

Watchet Harbour

Today I'm sharing my second November DT page for Twilight Crafts featuring a Jenny Wren Cut-File.

On my last page for them (In Grandma's Bath) I used the Overlapping Circles Background cut-file as a mask to ink a pattern on my page. Once I'd finished, I decided to re-use the inky mask as a layer on a new page. First I added extra yellow ink to the mask to extend the colour to the edges, then found a photo and rummaged through my scraps box for suitable papers.

My photo is an old one of the lighthouse at Watchet Harbour in Somerset; the anchor print paper was perfect for the theme and the right colour too, then I picked the multi-coloured stripe, chose blue for my background and included red as an accent.

I cut my title in two fonts using my Big Shot and created three embellishment clusters from various pieces which match the colour scheme.

Supplies
Paper - Pebbles New Addition, Glitz Design Uncharted Waters, American Crafts/Dear Lizzy
Label Stickers - Tim Holtz, My Mind's Eye
Cork Arrows - Studio Calico
Floral Puffy Stickers - OneCanoeTwo
Enamel Dots - Altenew, Echo Park, My Mind's Eye
Ink - Ranger
Mist - Mister Huey's

Tools
Silhouette Portrait & Overlapping Circles Cut-File
Big Shot
Sizzix Alphabet Dies
The Works Alphabet Dies

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

Monday 15 November 2021

Show Time

I'm hopping back and forth between my cruise album and my DT work at the moment, and today it's the turn of a page from the cruise. I have three photos from the evening entertainment, one from the resident show team and one each from our two guest entertainers (a magician and a comedian).

The layout's quite simple, with the photos in a block alongside a column of journalling with title above and a few tickets below to embellish. I repeated a ticket with some tags at the top left.


Supplies
Paper - 49 & Market Vintage Artistry Sky, 49 & Market Vintage Artistry Anywhere
Ephemera - 49 & Market
Stars - Papermania
Glitter Tape - The Works
Ink - Ranger
Mist - Mister Huey's

Tools
Silhouette Portrait
Big Shot
The Works Alphabet Dies
Dovecraft Tag Die


Thursday 11 November 2021

In Grandma's Bath

Overlapping Circles
Today I'm sharing the first of my November DT pages for Twilight Crafts featuring Jenny Wren Cut-Files. This time I chose to use a cut-file as a mask, covering half my page with distress inks daubed through the Overlapping Circles pattern.

I continued the circles theme by machine-stitching three circles on the page and matted my photos on three papers from my scraps box. Back to circles in my embellishments as I scattered rain dots around to reflect the bubbles in my nephew's bath.


Supplies
Paper - Junkitz Salsa Celebration, Pebbles/Jen Hadfield Homemade, 
Letters - Doodlebug, Basic Grey
Rain Dots - Cloud 9
Heart Stickers - American Crafts/Paige Evans #Stickerbook
Washi tapes - Unknown
Ink - Ranger
Mist - Cosmic Shimmer

Tools
Silhouette Portrait
Sewing Machine
Big Shot & Spellbinders Circle Die

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

Saturday 6 November 2021

Sumburgh Head

Back to my cruise album, but I'm no longer scrapping chronologically. We lost most of our scenic cruising on the Sunday due to fog, but I am recording one photo anyway. We had a geologist and a historian onboard who gave lectures on the geology and history of Scotland that shaped the area we were visiting and also provided commentary on the sections of scenic cruising. At one point the geologist told guests to 'use your imagination' as he described the land lost in the fog and I mentally reserved the phrase for use in my scrapbook with my foggy photo.

I based my page on a sketch from Twilight Crafts which they published to celebrate having 300 members in their Facebook group. I played with the layers, added an embellishment cluster above the photo and moved the title across against it.

I dropped the banner as I generally don't like them, and chose tags for the basis of my embellishment cluster to tie this page in to others I've already made.


Supplies
Cardstock - Bazzill
Paper - 49 & Market Vintage Artistry Anywhere
Ephemera - 49 & Market
Word Sticker - Tim Holtz
Glitter Tape - The Works
Star Gems - Simply Creative
Ink - Ranger
Mist - Mister Huey's

Tools
Silhouette Portrait
Big Shot 
The Works Alphabet Dies
Dovecraft Tag Die

Tuesday 2 November 2021

Snack Attack

I made this page a few weeks back, and missed blogging it at the time. It was for a challenge from Peartree Cutfiles to use circles on a page. I picked a couple of photos of our son as a baby and the end of an old paper collection to kill. I had no full sheets left so went with a half-and-half background, using a free circles cut-file to cover the join and adding extra circles with candi dots and epoxy dots.


Supplies
Cardstock - Papermania
Paper - Fancy Pants Winterland
Letters & Stars - Rosie's Studio
Candi Dots - Craftwork
Epoxy Dots - Cloud 9 Design
Ink - Ranger

Tools
Silhouette Portrait & PTCF Falling Circles Cut-File
Big Shot & Dovecraft Label Die