100 Runs

I'm combining challenges again today, three of them in fact, which is the only way to get through them when scrapping time is limited.

First up, Twilight Crafts asked us to scraplift the 7th layout we'd pinned on Pinterest. I don't go there, but I do save pages to an 'Ideas' folder on my PC and this page from Creative Scrappers was the 7th thing in it. By happy coincidence,  the layout also fitted the requirement to use Triangles or Texture for a challenge at Under the Influence of Scrappy Adam. 

My page is simpler, another 8x8 for my parkrun album, and I used an old 6x6 pad for my triangles. My photo was perhaps a little large (or I made the triangles too small) but I made it work.

The third challenge was from Hey Little Magpie who asked us to scrap a photo we love and use cameras. One of my pink papers is a camera print, and I love this photo for the achievement that it represents, turning up to run (or walk) 5k on a Saturday almost every week for two years. This was back in January 2020 and (after an extended pause for Covid) I'm still doing it. Tomorrow will be my 150th run.
 

Supplies

Cardstock - DCWV, Bazzill

Paper - DCWV Romantic Life, My Mind's Eye Chalk Studio, My Mind's Eye Chalk Studio 2

Vellum - Unknown

Letters - Heidi Swapp

Numbers - Studio Calico

Word Sticker - Maggie Holmes

Enamel Shapes - Shimelle. Marianne Designs

Ink - Ranger

Tools

Big Shot & X-Cut Ticket Stubs Die

Xmas

I'm sticking with my new parkrun album for this page, documenting our first Christmas Day run. This was for another NSD challenge, a scraplift of a page by DT member Vik at Lottie Loves Paper.

I went with the obvious Christmas colour scheme of red and gold, cutting down an A4 paper for the background with scraps from a 6x6 pad at the two sides. My papers are much busier than Vik's so I used fewer embellishments, just a couple of ephemera pieces on the right and a smattering of gems.

Supplies

Cardstock - Bazzill

Paper - Serif, Dovecraft

Letters - Tim Holtz

Ephemera - Fancy Pants

Gems - Doodlebug

Ink - Ranger

Tools

Woodware Tag Punch

Starburst Birthday Card

Today I'm sharing a birthday card that I made with the Starburst Square from Jenny Wren Cut-Files for Twilight Crafts.

I cut it from white cardstock at 4.9" to fit on my 5" card with a tiny border and backed it with old papers from Bo Bunny, choosing four patterns which I repeated in rotation. I'm down to scraps from this collection now, but I find that scraps are perfect for making cards.

I stamped my sentiment on a circle of cardstock, matted it and popped it up on foam squares to go right in the middle of my card.

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

Spell It Out

Another page for my parkrun album today, but it comes from the first Covid lockdown when events were suspended. I'm a member of a parkrun group on Facebook where someone challenged us each week to spell out parkrun-related words by photographing street name signs on our daily walks.

Adam's Page

I've taken a couple of word photos for my page and scraplifted Scrappy Adam's sample page for a challenge he set at Hey Little Magpie to use up those random leftover alphas. 

I swapped the two panels over compared to Adam's page, with my alpha stickers around the edge of the page. Adam asked for at least 20 letters and I've easily beaten that but chose to stick to one colour. Having the arrow print paper in the middle may have been a mistake; perhaps I should have chosen a quieter pattern, but what's done is done.

P.S. I did eventually take this page apart and swap the arrows print for a plainer sandstone pattern instead. 

Supplies

Cardstock - Bazzill

Paper - Jen Hadfield Warm & Cozy

Letters - Lily Bee Design, Fancy Pants, Doodlebug, Basic Grey, DCWV

Enamel Shapes - Prima

Ink - Ranger

50 Runs

Back to my parkrun album and more challenges. This page documents the milestone of my 50th run back in January 2019 (I'm on 148 now). It was the obvious choice of photo for a challenge from Hey Little Magpie to use at least six numbers on a page.

I'm trying to use scraps and smaller papers for this album rather than cut into any new 12x12 sheets. I pieced the background together here using scraps, and copied the triangle from the tree paper on the right to hold my title. The orange enamel dots were the last ones in the pack too.

Supplies

Cardstock - Bazzill, Craft Sensations

Paper - Amy Tangerine Shine On

Letters - Basic Grey

Numbers - Basic Grey, Ali Edwards

Label - Pink Paislee

Enamel Dots - Doodlebug

Ink - Hobbycraft

Torre del Conde

A late post today as I am guest designing for Lisa Sikorski at Scrap a Sketch and she releases her new sketches at 8 o'clock each Friday evening.  You'll have seen a few of them here on my blog and I was delighted to be asked to guest for her this week.

It's a two-photo sketch but I've gone for just one with a journalling card instead of the smaller photo. I've also flipped it vertically as that suits the angles in my photo better. That photo is the Torre del Conde, a 15th century tower in La Gomera, built by the first Spanish governor of the island.

Supplies

Cardstock - Bazzill

Paper - Heidi Swapp Carefree, Jen Hadfield Peaceful Heart

Letters - American Crafts

Chipboard Arrow - Ali Edwards

Washi Tape - Unknown

Enamel Hearts - Prima

Enamel Dots - Echo Park, Eyelet Outlet

Ink - Ranger

Tools

X-Cut Circle Punch

Lanhydrock

I'm sharing another 8x8 page for my new 'Parkrun Continued' album today, and this one's from our run at Lanhydrock in April 2019. It's also for another NSD challenge, a scraplift set by Lottie Loves Paper.

My page is simpler than the original, being on a smaller scale and having only one photo. I used scraps again, starting with the floral paper which has the same pattern in opposite colours on the two sides. I used the cream side for my background and the darker side for my photo mat and a strip at the foot of the page. I pulled orange and blue from the photo for the extra paper strips across the centre of the page.

Supplies

Cardstock - Payper Box

Paper - First Edition, Jillibean Soup

Die-Cut - Unknown

Dots - Nuvo Drops

Ink - Hobbycraft

Tools

Big Shot & The Works Alphabet Dies

Woodware Tag Punch

Hobbycraft Small Star Punch

Fell Foot

I have umpteen projects on the go already, but I'm starting another now. Back in 2018 I kept an 8x8 album/journal to document my first year of parkrun. Since then I've made 12x12 pages in my annual albums for significant events but I've found myself wanting to document some of the smaller moments that don't 'deserve' those pages. Therefore I've decided to make a second 8x8 album dedicated to our parkrun adventures from 2019 onwards, and I'm tackling it now as 8x8 pages should be quite quick and easy, perfect for the multitude of National Scrapbooking Day challenges that were published over the weekend.

My first page is from Fell Foot in Cumbria which we ran in December 2019 when we went to the Lake District for a Christmas party. I used a sketch from Twilight Crafts' recent cyber-crop and the corresponding Jenny Wren cut-file to tick off my first NSD challenge, one from Hey Little Magpie to use hexagons on a page. 

I used black cardstock for the cut-file and cut an extra hexagon to go on the right hand side of the page. I backed three of the hexagons with acetate pieces and tucked the extra in on the right of the photo. I then backed another three shapes with patterned paper topped with stars.

I'm using this album to stash-bust too. All the papers were scraps, the rub-on was the last one in the packet and the acetate has been sitting around for far too long.

Supplies

Cardstock - Craft Sensation

Paper - K&Company, My Mind's Eye

Acetate - American Crafts/Amy Tangerine?
Rub-On - Basic Grey

Tools

Silhouette Portrait

Big Shot 

The Works Alphabet Dies

Woodware Star Punch

Disclosure - As a DT member, I received the digital cut-file free of charge from Twilight Crafts.

Send in the Clowns

Happy National Scrapbooking Day! 

Before the madness commences, I have a quick share of a new page that I made for Twilight Crafts and Jenny Wren Cut-Files. I used the Stars Background 2 cut-file with the latest sketch from Scrap a Sketch.

(The sketch was published last night but I'm guest-designing for another one later this month so I got a sneak peek.)

The page is another for my cruise scrapbook and I had three 3x4 photos from a circus-themed show on board. I stacked them up in a column as per the sketch and used the cut-file on the left of the page, cutting it in black and tucking it behind the photo block in place of the swirls on the sketch. I then used some of the inner stars as embellishments along with puffy stars, paper strips, washi tape, word stickers and nuvo drops.

My background paper is from Jen Hadfield Peaceful Heart and is one from the pad that I really didn't think I would use. However the yoga poses have a certain similarity to those struck by the performers in the first photo and the design is mostly covered up so I decided to use it here. Goodness only knows whether I will use the other sheet though.

Supplies

Cardstock - Craft Sensations

Paper - Heidi Swapp Carefree, Jen Hadfield Peaceful Heart

Word Stickers - Tim Holtz

Puffy Stars - Rosie's Studio

Washi Tape - Unknown

Dots - Nuvo Drops

Ink - Ranger

Tools

Silhouette Portrait

Big Shot & The Works Alphabet Dies

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

Mirador de la Concepción

I'm back in my Canary Islands album today, where 'Mirador' is Spanish for 'Viewpoint'; this one is above Santa Cruz de la Palma and was a short stop on a coach trip. I printed a 4x6 photo of the view (which was interesting rather than breathtaking) with smaller photos of the cross there and a red-billed chough which we were told was an emblem of the island.

I was vaguely copying an old (unblogged) page, so lined up my three photos across the page on a band of patterned paper with a large square behind it. My title letters were quite small so I mounted them on a paper strip to give them more impact and I embellished with cork chevrons, puffy stickers and a floral die-cut. These have all appeared on other pages already so I am achieving some sort of continuity across the album.

I've ticked off another Dotty About Flair cybercrop challenge with this page; Sam gave us a tic-tac-toe grid and I chose three photos, splatters and stickers. 

Supplies
Cardstock - DCWV
Paper - Heidi Swapp Carefree, Jen Hadfield Peaceful Heart
Letters - Basic Grey

Journalling Card - Quirky Kits

Die-Cut - Rosie's Studio

Cork Stickers - Studio Calico

Puffy Stickers - Rosie's Studio

Gems - Love to Craft

Ink - Ranger

Mist - Heidi Swapp

Boosted

I'm switching away from my Canary Islands album and back to my 2021 annual album for this page in order to do a challenge from Dotty About Flair which fitted these photos better. it was set by DT member Lisa and she asked us to use her sketch with at least two patterned papers, five circles and a 'more is more' approach to embellishing.

I used a couple of photos of our local community hospital for my page, to mark us having our Covid booster vaccines last December. I didn't take any photos on the day but in retrospect it seemed worth documenting along with some comments on the Omicron variant, so I went back and took the photos a few days later.

I don't buy lots of ephemera so the band of pieces on the sketch was going to be difficult for me. I planned to use a stripy paper for my background and something busier across the middle, but ended up with a grid and some tiles from Vicki Boutin's Storyteller collection which were much more subtle.

I moved the tag out from behind the photos on the sketch, to sit beside them and hold my journalling, and used a piece of branding strip as a shelf for my title to sit on. Following on from that I added another strip at the top of the page and moved the label clusters on the sketch from being central top and bottom to sitting on the strips. I think I failed on the 'more is more' as my embellishment is quite simple - flower stickers, die-cut leaves and labels and trios of enamel dots.

Supplies

Cardstock - Bazzill

Paper - American Crafts/Vicki Boutin Storyteller

Letters - American Crafts

Stickers - American Crafts/Vicki Boutin Storyteller

Washi Tape - American Crafts

Enamel Dots - Simple Stories, Stampin' Up!

Ink - Ranger

Mist - Mister Huey's