This is the fourth challenge from the Share the Love Cybercrop and this time we're lifting a page by Mandy Melville for Cocoa Vanilla Studio.
I've swapped Mandy's landscape photo for three smaller portraits, my daughter at each of the three parkruns she completed back in January 2019 (before deciding that she prefers to stay in bed on Saturday mornings).
I based my page on this month's sketch from
For the Love of Pretty Paper and started by cutting the Starburst Square to use as a mask with distress oxide ink behind my photo area. I followed this by cutting the inner parts of Stars Background 2 to give me a selection of stars to spread across the page.
Disclosure - I received the digital cut-files free of charge from Twilight Crafts. All other supplies are my own.
I've used the second scraplift from Scrap Squad's recent Share the Love cyber crop, though I simplified it for the smaller size. I used the same paper collection as last time, but concentrated on the blue papers this time so only a couple of patterns actually repeat. There's no separate title as the event name is emblazoned across the photo.
This is the last page I need to make for the island of La Gomera on our Canary Islands cruise. I had a couple of photos of the main street and a couple more of the oldest church on the island which lies on that street. I considered two pages, but that didn't really feel merited so I ditched one of the street photos and just used the other three.
My title is just the street name, for want of anything better, and I ran the name of the church up the side of its photo block in a similar style to that used on my Vegueta page recently.
I have another few pages to come from Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, but I haven't printed all the photos yet so I'm moving on to our next island which was La Gomera. We had booked a hike in the rainforest here but it was cancelled due to a landslide blocking the road, which left us with a day in the very quiet town of San Sebastián instead. I've previously scrapped four of the six pages that I have planned so it shouldn't take too long to finish with this port of call.
I'd printed two photos for this page, both taken from the same place but looking at different things. I want them both to be in my album, but they are minor parts of the day and I didn't feel that either needed a whole 12x12 page. Therefore I split my page in two horizontally to give each photo its own space with separate titles and journalling. Those titles gave me some trouble as I wanted them to be linked in some way such as alliteration or rhymes. I eventually hit on Volcanic Sands (for the black sand of the main beach) & Faraway Lands (for a tiled floor commemorating Columbus' first voyage to the Americas).
All those As in the title meant that I chose to stamp it rather than run out of letters; I used a tile alphabet set, stamping each letter on white cardstock and cutting them out individually to look like stickers. The stamping looks a bit blotchy in the photo above, but it's much more legible in person. I had journalled on a couple of tags, which left the ampersand of my title 'floating' on the page so I added a flower below it and found something similar to go in the bottom tag.
Another Canary Islands page today and I'm still in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. I have been working chronologically and the cathedral should be next, but I haven't printed all the photos for that yet. Instead, I'm moving forward in the day to a walk through Parque Doromas, a landscaped area with statues and fountains, named after the 15th century chieftain who tried to repel the invading Spanish.
I printed four photos in varying sizes, with no clear plan for the page. I shuffled 6x8 papers and smaller scraps about until I had something pleasing, and then stuck it all down.
My embellishment started from a small epoxy arrow that I found, with the word 'us' in it, which I held for the next page with a photo of us on it. I copied that with a die-cut arrow on each side and built small clusters behind them. The flowers came later, when I realised that the larger one fit perfectly around the word 'hello' and I repeated the motif with a smaller one by the bottom photo.
