Keeping Watch

I'm still in Yorkshire today, with photos from the WW2 Bent Rigg Radar Station which was sited on the cliff top near Ravenscar.

I picked out two paper collections for this holiday (from Simple Stories and Pebbles) intending to mix and match them but, so far, each page has used predominantly one or the other with more being Simple Stories, so this one needed to use the Pebbles papers. I've also made several pages with horizontal bands of paper and only one with vertical bands, so I went for vertical again here. I had half a sheet of spotty paper left from another page and built up the rest of my background from there.

I matted my photos on different colours of cardstock, and arranged them around my title space. I then decided to mat both the title and my journalling card which gave definition to the edges and provided a buffer between the different shades of white. 

Supplies

Cardstock - Bazzill

Paper - American Crafts Shimelle, Pebbles Seen & Noted, Simple Stories Hello Today

Letters - American Crafts, Simple Stories

Sticker - Simple Stories

Puffy Stars - Elle's Studio

Washi Tape - Ebay

Gems - TPC Studio

Ink - Ranger

Paint - Golden

Lost Stations

I recently shared a double page about The Cinder Track, the old Whitby to Scarborough railway line which is now a walking/cycling path, and concentrated on the path itself. Of course, a disused railway line has old stations too and I picked photos of four of them for this page.

Supplies

Cardstock - Papermania

Paper - Simple Stories Hello Today

Stickers - Simple Stories

Washi Tape - Ebay

Enamel Dots - Carta Bella, Simple Stories

Ink - Ranger

Hello

I'm sharing my latest page for Twilight Crafts today, using the Starburst Semicircle from Jenny Wren Cutfiles. 

I cut the design from white cardstock and backed it with five patterned papers which coordinated with a photo of my nephew. I matted the photo on white to match the cut-file and then blue, and used a series of horizontal paper strips to make 'shelves' for photo and cut-file to 'sit' on, rather than having them 'float' on the page.

I then repeated some of the papers on the top and bottom edges of the page, using punches and dies to create pieces to cluster with word stickers, puffy asterisks and enamel dots. My title is a die-cut that had been sitting on my desk for a while in an effort to use it up. The photo's an old one with no memory or story attached, so 'Hello' is as good a title as anything else I could have come up with.

Supplies

Paper - 49 & Market Vintage Artistry, Pink Paislee Atlas, My Mind's Eye, Pebbles

Die-Cut Title - OneCanoeTwo

Puffy Stickers - Studio Calico

Word Stickers - Tim Holtz

Enamel Dots - Simple Stories, Fancy Pants

Ink - Ranger

Paint - Golden

Tools

Silhouette Portrait

Big Shot & Dovecraft Label Die

Woodware Postage Stamp Punch

Fiskars Postage Stamp Border Punch

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

Millennium Mileposts

Following on from my last page, this one relates to the Cinder Track too; the path is part of the National Cycle Network and my page features four of the Millennium Mileposts which dot the network.

There are four designs for these mileposts nationally, but we only saw two different versions. I printed a 4x6 photo of the more detailed milepost, and smaller photos of the other design which we saw three times.

I'm mainly using two paper collections for my pages from Yorkshire, but I pulled in the spotty paper as an extra one here. The scalloped border is a repeat from another page and the yellow tile letters have appeared before too.

Supplies

Cardstock - Papermania, Bazzill

Paper - Simple Stories Hello Today, American Crafts Shimelle, Authentique Natural

Letters - Simple Stories, October Afternoon

Washi Tape - Ebay

Enamel Dots - Simple Stories, Pinkfresh Studio

Ink - Ranger

Tools

Big Shot & Dovecraft Label Die

American Crafts Scalloped Border Punch

On the Cinder Track

Our cottage in Yorkshire backed onto The Cinder Track, a footpath which follows the line of the old Whitby to Scarborough Railway. We walked several sections of it on different days, but I've pulled all the photos of the track onto one double page.

I'm using two complementary paper collections for the pages from this holiday, but only one of them here. There's a bit of cutting and stretching going on as I only had one sheet of the spotty paper, but didn't need any behind the full-height stack of three 4x6 photos.

Supplies

Cardstock - Papermania, Bazzill

Paper - Bo Bunny Seen & Noted

Letters - October Afternoon

Enamel Dots - Carta Bella, Echo Park, Simple Stories

Ink - Ranger

Tools

Big Shot

Dovecraft Label Die

Make & Create 'Wheel' Die

X-Cut Circle Punch

Mallyan Spout

I have umpteen albums on the go at present, but one that I have badly neglected is my 2022 annual album. For the past few years I mostly kept the annual albums up to date as we went along, but this year that's been a failure. We're in October now and I have made precisely five pages. I'm starting to rectify that with our Easter holiday in Yorkshire for which I've made two pages previously.

I try to use a kit of papers for holidays so that they make a distinct sub-section in my annual albums and for this one I have a mix of papers from Simple Stories and Bo Bunny which share a similar colour palette though the Bo Bunny collection is cleaner and brighter than the Simple Stories papers.

I'm jumping off with a page for Mallyan Spout, a waterfall on the edge of the village of Goathland on the North Yorkshire Moors. I printed two 4x6 photos and based my page on the September sketch from For the Love of Pretty Paper. I see the sketch as being a band of patterned paper on a plain background, but I switched it to add pattern to the top and bottom of my page, with a plainer middle section. I had to play with the proportions as my photos are bigger, and I switched the positions of title and journalling, running the title vertically in the reduced space.

Supplies

Cardstock - Bo Bunny, Papermania

Paper - Simple Stories Hello Today, Simple Stories Simple Vintage Coastal

Letters - Simple Stories

Word Sticker - OneCanoeTwo

Gems - Hobbycraft

Ink - Ranger

Tools

Bog Shot & Dovecraft Label Die

American Crafts Scalloped Border Punch

Fiskars Postage Stamp Border Punch

Woodware Scalloped Circle Punch

Cupcakes Birthday Card

Today I'm sharing a birthday card that I made using a Jenny Wren Cut-File from Twilight Crafts. They have several sets of 'elements' on the web-site, which are all themed and a suitable size for card-making. I chose Cupcake Elements, picked two of the cakes and flipped one over to give me three for my card. I backed all the cakes with the same trio of patterned paper and added an enamel dot 'cherry' to the middle one.

Supplies

Card - The Craft Place

Cardstock - Papermania

Paper - Basic Grey, DCWV, K&Company

Washi Tape - Dovecraft

Sentiment - Craft Creations

Enamel Dot - Ebay

Ink - Ranger

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