Dunscansby Sea Stacks

I'm going backwards in my cruise album now; this will be the fifth page and was the first sight of our scenic cruising, but I skipped over it earlier after I decided to reprint the lighthouse photo in a smaller size.

It was an early start to the day and the photos are rather misty, but the three are: a stretch of the coast, a closer picture of just the sea stacks (which are at the left end of the main photo) and a close-up of the lighthouse on the cliffs. I'm running low on papers now so I matted the photos on three different scraps and layered them over a large piece of map ephemera and an off-cut from another page. I tucked a journalling piece from a cut-apart sheet into the left of the bottom photo, cut my title in the usual mix of fonts and put a couple of small embellishment clusters together. 

The page is simpler and has less colour than a lot of the others in the album, but I quite like it and didn't feel the need to add any more.

Supplies

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

Ephemera - 49 & Market Vintage Artistry Anywhere

Gems - Simply Creative, Love to Craft

Ink - Ranger

Mist - Mister Huey's

Tools

Silhouette Portrait

Big Shot & The Works Alphabet Dies

X-Cut Circle Punch

Loch Broom and the Summer Isles

I'm nearing the end of my latest cruise album now so I've not many full 12x12 sheets left. With three photos printed for this page, I stuck a leftover half-sheet from another page (Welcome Aboard) onto basic white cardstock and stacked the photos in a column against it. I then punched a pile of 1" squares from scraps to fill the opposite side of the page.

I used my usual two fonts for my title and added small tile stickers too so I'm entering this page for a challenge at Scrap Our Stash where they asked us to use three or more types of alphas.

The space beside 'Summer Isles' was the perfect shape for this ephemera piece; I placed a geo-tag above the title, journalled below it and added a trio of star gems in the empty spaces.

Supplies

Paper - 49 & Market Vintage Artistry Anywhere

Letters - Jillibean Soup

Ephemera - 49 & Market Vintage Artistry Anywhere

Glitter Tape - The Works

Gems - Simply Creative

Ink - Ranger

Mist - Mister Huey's

Tools

Silhouette Portrait

Big Shot & The Works Alphabet Dies

Cards with Cut-Files

Colour Wheel and Circle Border

I tend to think of cut-files going hand-in-hand with scrapbook pages, but if you pick the right ones they can be used for cards too. I made a couple of cards for February birthdays as my latest project for Twilight Crafts and Jenny Wren Cut-Files.

I chose the new Colour Wheel and Circle Border cut-file for the first card, turning it sideways and cutting it from grey cardstock. I covered a 5" x 7" card with a piece of patterned paper from my scraps box and backed the cut-file with  old mottled pink paper. I placed the letters H-A-P-P-Y on the five segmented circles, cut BIRTHDAY on my Big Shot and embellished with a selection of puffy flowers.

Stars Background 1

I made a second card using Stars Background 1, cutting it down to the first three rows to suit the shape of my card. This time I daubed distress ink over the card to colour it instead of using patterned paper. 

Rather than backing the file in the conventional manner, I cut it twice, using navy cardstock for the outline and a 6x6 star patterned paper for the stars, then placed each  patterned star inside the corresponding cardstock outline. I matted a sentiment banner on the same navy cardstock and attached it with foam squares.

Supplies

Cards - The Craft Place

Cardstock - Bazzill, Stampin' Up!

Paper - HOTP Garnet, Echo Park Magical Adventure 2

Letters - American Crafts

Sentiment - Craft Creations

Puffy Stickers - American Crafts/Amy Tangerine Late Afternoon

Ink - Ranger

Tools

Silhouette Portrait

Big Shot & The Works Alphabet Dies

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

Let's Get Sketchy is Back

I do like a sketch to get me started with a scrapbook page, and I've used lots of them from Let's Get Sketchy from the time I found them back in 2014 up to last summer when the blog took a break.

Now it's back and looking for a new design team for six months from March.

I'll be applying. How about you? Hop over to read all the requirements.

Au Revoir Bolette

I'm four pages away from finishing my album for our cruise around Scotland last summer, an album which is taking much longer than it should. I'm actually jumping to the last page now with a quartet of photos of the ship and some views which I wanted to include but they didn't fit anywhere else.

I matted the photos individually and then placed them on a large panel of map print paper which I turned into a pocket to hold our cruise log and ship guide. Two of the photos are a bit dark so I'll reprint those and swap them over later.

I added the bunting for a birthday-themed challenge from For the Love of Pretty Paper. My title is in the same mix of fonts that I've used throughout the album,  cut using both my Silhouette and my Big Shot. The small alpha dies were one of my best buys of the last year.

Supplies

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

Die-Cuts - 49 & Market

Gems - Simply Creative, Love to Craft

Ink - Ranger

Tools

Silhouette Portrait

Big Shot

The Works Alphabet Dies

X-Cut Bunting Die

Run Eastleigh

For a couple of years I kept on top of my annual albums as I went along, finishing 2019 in February 2020 and 2020 a year later. Here we are in February 2022 though, and my 2021 album is far from finished. I was alright until May, then there is a gap for my birthday, a few more pages done for June and July and then it fizzles out with only one page done for August to December. I really need to get on top of this before we get too far into this year as it looks like being a busy one. 

I'm starting with a page which I made for Twilight Crafts with a Jenny Wren Cut-File. The file is their Hexagon Background which I shrank down and duplicated to give me a patchwork of shapes to back. 

My photos are from Eastleigh parkrun which my husband and I ran in November. Their colours are decidedly autumnal so I chose Amy Tangerine's Late Afternoon collection and pulled out all my orange and yellow scraps.

Whenever we run away from home, I title the page with RUN and the parkrun name and this was no exception. I then took three asterisks from my chipboard letter pack and used them on three plain orange hexagons to start off some simple embellishment clusters.

I added my journalling to the page after I took these photos.

Supplies
Cardstock - American Crafts, Payper Box

Paper - American Crafts/Amy Tangerine Late Afternoon

Letters - Pink Paislee, Basic Grey

Die-Cuts - American Crafts/Amy Tangerine

Puffy Stickers - American Crafts/Amy Tangerine?

Word Stickers - Tim Holtz

Enamel Dots - Freckled Fawn, Simple Stories, Pretty My Page

Ink - Memento

Tools

Silhouette Portrait & Jenny Wren Hexagon Background Cut-File

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