Holding the Baby

I've found that scrapping my holiday photos has become a bit of a chore, so I'm changing my approach to scrapping for a while. 

Rather than forcing myself to scrap with a specific set of photos and papers, I'm going 'backwards'. I decided to join in with the 12 Days of Summer Scraplifts over in the Scrap Squad Facebook group, starting from the page design, then choosing papers and photos to suit.

The original layout for the first challenge appears to be by Karlla Dauer and can be found on Pinterest. I chose  pastel papers from Cocoa Vanilla Studios and then sought a photo, coming up with this pair of my husband and nephew where the paper colours match those of the baby bouncer.

Supplies
Paper - Cocoa Vanilla Studio Daydream, Cocoa Vanilla Studio These Days
Letters- Tim Holtz

Enamel Dots - Marianne Designs, Altenew, Simple Stories

Paint - Golden

Tools

Big Shot & Dovecraft Tag Die

Bath Buddies

I'm sharing my latest page for Twilight Crafts and Jenny Wren Cut-Files today; it's one that turned out exactly how I imagined in my head (which doesn't always happen).

I cut the Bubbles Pattern 1 cut-file at about 6" across and used it as a mask with distress inks in each corner of the page to create a border around the layout. I then used structure paste through a stencil to create a smaller circle of bubbles.

I took a couple of old 4x6 photos of my son and nephew in the bath and cut each boy out in a circle, matting them in yellow for a little contrast and using alphabet dies with the same cardstock to cut my title letters. I layered the photos over a few strips of patterned paper and ran my title letters round them.

Supplies

Cardstock - UK Crafts, Bazzill

Paper - My Mind's Eye, Bo Bunny

Structure Paste - Flying Tiger

Enamel Dots - Hey Little Magpie

Ink - Ranger

Mist - Cosmic Shimmer

Tools

Silhouette Portrait

Fiskars Shape Cutter & Circle Template

Big Shot & The Works Alphabet Dies

Heidi Swapp Stencil

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

Castillo de San Gabriel

Another Canary Islands page today; this one's from Arrecife in Lanzarote. We visited a couple of fortresses here - I've already made a page for the Castillo de San José which is now an art gallery; today it's the turn of the Castillo de San Gabriel which now houses a museum of the history of the island.

I printed four photos in thee sizes and shuffled them around until I had an arrangement I liked. This was wider than it was tall so I added torn paper strips to the top and bottom of my page. The fort name fitted in neatly turned on its side next to my largest photo and I cut a row of chevrons from scraps to go across the middle of the page. I put the smaller photos on to tags and chose the flower die-cut for its size to fill the bottom row.

Supplies
Paper - Heidi Swapp Carefree, Jen Hadfield Peaceful Heart
Letters - KaiserCraft

Die-Cuts - Rosie's Studio

Stickers - Heidi Swapp, Studio Calico

Ink - Ranger

Mist - Mister Huey's

Tools

Big Shot & Little B Chevrons Die

Let us Pray

I'm back in San Sebastian, La Gomera, for this page; I have said that I'm creating pages in random order and I mean it!

My page was inspired by Shimelle Laine's Colours and Quadrants class, but it doesn't follow any of her examples in particular. I created my page with four quadrants of paper in two colours and three photos, putting the photos in two separate blocks. 

I often use the name of the building as my title on pages like this, but this church  is La Iglesia de la Virgen de la Asunción, and that's a bit of a mouthful. My journalling mentions the fact that Christopher Columbus prayed here before his voyage to the new world and it's that that inspired the much simpler title that I did use.

I used a journalling card next to the top photo and a selection of die-cuts next to the bottom pair, concentrating on the colour blue from the other two quadrants, and adding a few florals, some stars and gems, and a spattering of white mist (which is almost invisible).

Supplies
Cardstock - UK Crafts, Craft Sensations

Paper - Heidi Swapp Carefree

Letters - KaiserCraft

Die-Cuts - Heidi Swapp, Rosie's Studio

Gems - Love to Craft

Puffy Stars - Rosie's Studio

Ink - Ranger

Mist - Mister Huey's

Tools

Big Shot

Dovecraft Label Die

Dovecraft Leaf Die

Woodware Scalloped Circle Punch

Casas de los Balcones

I'm back in La Palma for this page; our guidebook mentioned Casas de los Balcones so we included them on a walk around the town, a row of old houses with restored wooden balconies.

Supplies

Cardstock - UK Crafts

Paper - Heidi Swapp Carefree, Jen Hadfield Peaceful Heart

Letters - Pinkfresh Studio

Die-Cuts - Rosie's Studio

Stickers - Heidi Swapp

Washi Tape - Little B

Puffy Dots - Jen Gadfield

Ink - Memento, Ranger

Paint - Golden

Tools

X-Cut Circle Punch

Run North Yorkshire Water Park

Today I'm sharing my latest DT page for Twilight Crafts and Jenny Wren Cut-Files. A few months ago I asked Debbie if she could make a compass, and she came up trumps with this design.

I'd imagined using it in a cruise album, but its first outing was something a bit different from that. We had a holiday in Yorkshire at Easter and did the parkrun at North Yorkshire Water Park on the Saturday. This formed part of the 'Compass Challenge' of completing four events with north, south, east and west in their names, so my compass was the perfect embellishment piece.

I split my page in two, using photos from before and during the run in the two halves, and repeating the large paper layers from one half as smaller pieces in the other. I cut my compass from black cardstock at about 4" across, backed just the centre sections with green, and nestled it against the top photo. All my 12x12 parkrun tourism pages have the title Run [Event Name] so I followed that with RUN on a ticket and the name on washi tape across the middle of the page.

Supplies

Cardstock - Bazzill, Craft Sensations

Paper - Simple Stories Hello Today, Pebbles Seen & Noted

Letters - American Crafts, Elle's Studio

Puffy Stickers - MAMBI

Enamel Dots - Simple Stories, Echo Park

Ink - Ranger

Tools

Silhouette Portrait

Big Shot & Dovecraft Label Die

Woodware Scalloped Circle Punch

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

Detour

I've hopped over to the island of La Palma for this page. We visited while the volcano Cumbre Vieja was erupting and knew that we would be seeing it from the sea in an evening of scenic cruising so we didn't arrange a daytime visit. However our coach excursion detoured to give us a drive-by view. We didn't stop, but took loads of photos through the coach window in the hope that some of them would be OK.

I printed the best one at 5" x 7" and used a March sketch from Sketch-n-Scrap as the basis for my page. I followed the paper layers quite closely but moved the title, splitting it into two parts (or title and sub-title) above and below the photo. 

I created three clusters of embellishments, repeating elements such as the cork arrow and puffy stars from other pages, and added my journalling on paper strips.

Supplies

Paper - Heidi Swapp Carefree, Jen Hadfield Peaceful Heart, Paige Evans Bungalow Lane

Letters - American Crafts, Heidi Swapp

Die-Cut - Heidi Swapp

Stickers - Heidi Swapp, Tim Holtz

Puffy Stars - Rosie's Studio

Cork Arrow - Studio Calico

Gems - Love to Craft

Ink - Ranger

Lanzarote

After a very long break, I'm returning to the album for our cruise to the Canary Islands last November. I'll be making pages in random order as inspiration strikes, and I'm easing myself back in with a scraplift. 

I'm making sub-title pages for each of the five islands we visited, and they all follow the same sketch. I've already made the page for La Gomera and now it's the turn of Lanzarote. I'm using 5" x 7" photos for these pages and this one is of the town of Arrecife taken from a fortress just offshore (reached via a causeway).

I started from a white cardstock background this time, added a wash of colour using water and ink, then used the first page as a template for everything on the second.

Supplies
Cardstock - UK Crafts

Paper - Heidi Swapp Carefree, Jen Hadfield Peaceful Heart

Letters - My Mind's Eye

Die-Cut - Rosie's Studio

Stickers - Heidi Swapp, My Mind's Eye

Chipboard - ALi Edwards

Washi Tape - Unknown

Enamel Shapes - Echo Park, Eyelet Outlet

Dots - Nuvo Drops

Tools

Silhouette Portrait

Big Shot

X-Cut Tag Die

Mechanica Birthday Card

It's another card from me today, but this is the last one of 'birthday season' in our family and I'll be back to the scrapbook pages soon.

My niece is studying engineering at university so I used Kanban's Mechanica papers, tearing one into three pieces for my background and using another to back my big Happy Birthday die-cut. I spattered the background with gold paint, and added trios of gems over parts of the rivet-pattern and in opposite corners of the card.