Lead the Way

I'm only a few pages away from finishing my cruise album, but I've moved over to my 2021 album for this page which I made for Twilight Crafts and Jenny Wren Cut-Files.

Twilight Crafts' challenge this month (in their Facebook group) is to create your own patterned paper so I've combined that with my second DT page for January. I started from a sheet of white cardstock and applied three colours of distress oxide inks through a hexagon stencil. Then I took the Triangle Arrows Background cut-file, shrunk it and welded three together to give me a piece around 5" x 10" which I cut from green cardstock.

I kept the rest of the page quite simple as I didn't want to distract from either the background or the cut-file. I matted two 4x6 photos on the same green cardstock and added a small cluster of stickers to the empty space in the top one. Then I decided to emphasise the triangles by adding enamel shapes to them, and finished off with a spattering of gold paint.

I'm also linking up this page with two other challenges - one to use triangles from Lottie Loves Paper and a tic-tac-toe from Hey Little Magpie where I chose the line of paint, triangles and 2+ photos.

Supplies

Cardstock - Bazzill, Coredinations

Letters - American Crafts

Stickers - OneCanoeTwo

Enamel Shapes - Doodlebug, American Crafts/Shimelle

Washi Tape - Unknown

Ink - Ranger

Paint - Golden

Tools

Silhouette Portrait & Jenny Wren Triangle Arrows Background Cut-File

Hexagon Stencil

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

Marwick Head

I'm sharing another page from our Scottish cruise today, with a single photo of Marwick Head in the Orkney Islands soon after sunrise. 

The photo's about 4.5" x 8" so I trimmed a little off one end to mat it on one of my 6x8 papers. I then layered that over a couple of L-shaped scraps positioned to look like larger pieces and added strips of paper and glitter tape below the photo.

I wanted to put the title above the photo but the descenders on the M and H gave me a potentially awkward space which I filled with stamping for a birthday challenge from For the Love of Pretty Paper. I added another patch of stamping at the bottom to match and then layered embellishments over it and wrote my journalling alongside.

Supplies

Paper - 49 & Market Vintage Artistry Anywhere

Die-Cuts - 49 & Market

Gems - Simply Creative

Ink - Ranger, Memento

Tools

Silhouette Portrait

Scrapberry's Compass Stamp

American Crafts/Shimelle Starshine Stamp Set

Studio Calico Stars Stamp

Heidi Swapp Inspire Stamp Set

The Works Clear Stamp Set

Cape Wrath

After far too long a break, I'm finally getting back to my cruise album for a five night sail around the north of Scotland last summer. This page has a couple of photos of Cape Wrath, at the north-west 'corner' of the country.

I'm working with 49 & Market Vintage Artistry papers for this album, mixing their  newer Anywhere papers and ephemera with their older collections. For this page I used a couple of 6x8 papers to form an L-shape behind my photos and added cut-apart cards to hold my title and journalling. I'd previously cut a filmstrip in two so I tucked in the leftover piece in on the right of the page and made a couple of embellishment clusters next to the photos in opposite corners.

I cut the title on my Silhouette again, giving it a small offset for stability and clarity as it crosses over several layers of paper and photo.

Supplies

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

Ephemera - 49 & Market

Enamel Shapes - Pink Paislee

Gems - Simply Creative

Tools

Silhouette Portrait

Big Shot & Dovecraft Label Punch

X-Cut Circle Punch

Woodware Postage Stamp Punch

Bubbles

Hello and Happy New Year!

Today I'm sharing a page that I made for Twilight Crafts on a background from a Vicki Boutin mixed media pad. There are two pads in the shop and I chose the one from her Let's Wander collection, which contains 36 pages, three each of 12 different designs.

I started from a green and yellow background with gold circles printed on it, and paired it with an old photo of my son. I wanted to show off as much of the background as possible, and found a sketch from Scrap a Sketch which worked with that plan. I rotated both the photo and the layers behind it but positioned the printed mixed media pattern on the right of the page as in the sketch.

I gave my photo a very narrow cardstock mat and then placed it and my title on a piece from a 49 & Market collage stack. I added a couple of clusters above and below the photo that aren't on the sketch, positioned so that the look like one piece running behind the photo.

Supplies

Cardstock - Papermania

Paper - American Crafts/Vicki Boutin Let's Wander

Letters - Paper House

Ephemera - 49 & Market Vintage Artistry, Echo Park This & That

Border Sticker - atd

Washi Tape - Unknown

Rain Dots - Cloud 9 Designs

Puffy Stickers - Heidi Swapp Journal Studio, Studio Calico

Ink - Ranger

Disclosure - I received a discount on the Vicki Boutin Mixed Media pad which I bought from Twilight Crafts.