I've had a new batch of cruise photos printed recently, and that's enabled me to return to the start of the album and make a page for our departure from Southampton. This was a winter cruise so we set sail after dark, hence the title. I printed two photos - a 4x6 of the cruise terminal and a 3x4 of another ship - and arranged them in a block across the page with a filmstrip die-cut to fill in the remaining space.
I've not scrapped much recently, while I concentrated on a major de-clutter and reorganisation of my home-office-cum-craft-room. I've gone back to my Canary Island cruise album now and got re-started with a scraplift. I make sub-title pages for each port of call and had done two previously in the same way (Lanzarote and La Gomera) so it was an easy matter to pull them out and repeat the design.
This one is for the island of La Palma, with a 5x7 photo of the town taken from the ship, matted on a 6x8 paper layered over four different patterned strips. I made a cluster to the left of the photo as I have previously, and repeated the day of the week sticker on the right hand side. I've cut the island name on my Silhouette each time and added the town name above it in smaller letter stickers.
I have another card for you today, one which I made for my adult nephew. I had the idea of cutting the 'Happy Birthday' sentiment with an offset on my Silhouette and layering it over a patterned paper so that the pattern shows through the letter openings. It's hard to explain, but this picture should help:
I used a silver paper from Dovecraft for my background, mixed with pink and grey papers from an unknown collection where I was gifted a few 6x6 papers. I stuck pretty closely to the sketch, with the heart from the sketch becoming a present on my card. I dropped the three dots/gems from the sketch as I felt they would distract from the butterfly pattern.
My parkrun album is all 8x8, and I used the Little Star Circle Border from Jenny Wren Cut-Files and Twilight Crafts for my page. I cut my photo into a circle, matted it to look like an extension of the cut-file, and cut an extra star to go on the opposite side.
