Helsinki

Another day, another sub-title page for my Scandinavian album. This time it's for Helsinki so I based my page around a large letter H which I cut on my Silhouette and backed with a photo of Senate Square.

I've used white cardstock again, which I smooshed with blue ink and stamped with grey stars and yellow arrows. I've mostly used squares and rectangles of patterned paper up to now, so I'm changing that up with triangles today, cutting a 6x6 paper in half and placing it in opposite corners, inspired by an old sketch from Shimelle.

The filmstrip is a smaller version of the piece I used on my Stockholm title page and the cameras are a motif I plan to repeat throughout the album (or as far as I can stretch half a 12x12 sheet anyway). I cut the title letters using my Big Shot and the phrases are snippets from a 12x12 paper.

Supplies

Cardstock - Craft UK, The Card Place

Paper - Pinkfresh Studios Tourist Mode, Shimelle Glitter Girl

Filmstrip - 49 & Market

Stickers - 49 & Market

Washi Tape - October Afternoon

Enamel Dots - Pinkfresh Studio, Hey Little Magpie

Ink - Ranger

Tools

Silhouette Portrait

Big Shot & The Works Alphabet Dies

Heidi Swapp Arrow Stamp

Studio Calico Stars Stamp

Skagen

I'm sharing another sub-title page for my Scandinavian cruise album today. I'm making one of these for each port of call, all based around an 8" letter cut on my Silhouette and backed with a general view photo.

This was our second stop - Skagen in Denmark - and I based the page on a sketch from Scrap a Sketch. I used lots of 6x6 papers for the grid and smudged yellow ink on white cardstock for the background. I then backed my S on a larger paper and added a bit of stamping to peek out around the edges.

The frame around my title is the middle of an acetate filmstrip piece; I think it's supposed to be waste but it was far too pretty and useful to throw away. 

I added extra stickers and paper pieces over my squares, picking up on the travel icons from a mood board challenge from GoGoGetaway last weekend.

Supplies

Cardstock - Craft UK, The Craft Place

Paper - Pinkfresh Studio Tourist Mode, Pinkfresh Studio Out and About, Pinkfresh Studio Life Right Now, Shimelle Glitter Girl

Letters - Daler-Rowney

Acetate Frame - 49 & Market

Stickers - Pinkfresh Studio, 49 & Market

Washi Tape - October Afternoon

Enamel Dots - Altenew, My Mind's Eye

Ink - Hobbycraft, Ranger

Mist - Mister Huey's

Tools

Silhouette Portrait

Studio Light Chevron Stamp

Oslo

I'm back now with the third of my sub-title pages which will divide my cruise album into sections for each port. This was our first stop - Oslo - and I based my page design on this month's sketch from For the Love of Pretty Paper.

I chose a paper with a frame printed on it to match the sketch, and used a stencil to add some colour to the middle. I swapped over the main elements in the sketch, using a larger photo and a smaller title, and straightened them up. 

I'm cutting a large initial letter for each port name and backing them with a general view photo each time. I took this picture of the city from the roof of the opera house.

I turned the smaller photo sideways and used an acetate filmstrip piece as a frame for my title. The paper behind it is from a 6x6 pad and I chose it as the pattern is a lot like a repeating O (for Oslo). I stamped some arrows on the background, tucked in some tags and finished with a few stickers, all required elements for a tic-tac-toe challenge from GoGoGetaway last weekend.

Supplies
Cardstock - The Craft Place
Paper - Pinkfresh Studio Tourist Mode, Pinkfresh Studio Life Right Now

Letters - American Crafts

Filmstrip Frame - 49 & Market

Glitter Tape - Unknown
Washi Sticker - 49 & Market

Washi Tape - October Afternoon

Enamel Dots - Altenew, Pretty My Page

Ink - Ranger, Let's Color
Mist - Cosmic Shimmer

Tools
Big Shot & Dovecraft Tag Die

Vicki Boutin Fernwood Stencil
Heidi Swapp Arrow Stamp

30 Years

I have another page for my new cruise album today, but it's a bit different from the sub-title pages that I've made so far. We celebrated our pearl wedding anniversary the week before the cruise and were given this photo by the cruise line to mark the occasion. 

I've used the Photoframe Starburst cut-file from Twilight Crafts and Jenny Wren Cut-Files for my page, flipping it round to sit in the bottom left corner of my page and backing it with silver-spotted vellum.

I flipped through all the papers in Pinkfresh Studio's Tourist Mode collection (which forms the core of my album kit), and this two-tone blue paper was the best match for the limited colours in my photo. I didn't originally intend it to be a monochrome page but it was hard to introduce anything stronger than white and silver.

Supplies

Cardstock - The Range

Paper - Pinkfresh Studio Tourist Route, American Crafts, Shimelle

Vellum - My Mind's Eye

Letters - KaiserCraft

Tab Die-Cut - 49 & Market

Heart Sticker/Heart Gems/Silver Glitter Tape - Unknown

Ink - Ranger

Tools

Silhouette Portrait & Photoframe Starburst Cut-File

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

Stockholm

I'm sharing another sub-title page today for my new Scandinavian Cruise album. I'm making one of these for each place we visited, in order to split the album into 'chapters'. They are all based around the ports' initial letters, cut on my Silhouette and backed with a single photo. 

Stockholm was our fifth stop; we anchored near the old town and this photo was taken from the ship.

In the past I've made all the sub-title pages for a cruise to the same design, but this time I'm mixing it up a bit, apart from the initial letter. For this page, I stencilled a circles pattern across the page and layered the letter S over some vertical strips of paper. I tucked in an acetate filmstrip and added a strip of glitter tape. Then I used a piece from the 6x6 pad to hold my title and a line of embellishments, a mix of stamped and fussy-cut pieces with a few enamel dots.

Supplies

Cardstock - Craft UK, The Craft Place
Paper - Pinkfresh Studio Tourist Mode, Pinkfresh Studio Out and About
Letters - Doodlebug

Filmstrip - 49 & Market

Glitter Tape - Unknown
Washi Sticker - 49 & Market

Washi Tape - October Afternoon

Puffy Stars - Pinkfresh Studio
Enamel Dots - Pinkfresh Studio, Pretty My Page, Twilight Crafts, 49 & Market

Ink - Ranger, Let's Color
Mist - Mister Huey's

Tools
Big Shot & Spellbinders Circle Dies
Studio Calico 'You Are Here' Stamp Set

X-Cut Circle Punches

Copenhagen

We've just come to the end of a week long cyber crop over in the Twilight Crop and Craft Facebook group, where I set a travel-themed challenge.

This is my sample page, using travel icons on my patterned paper and in my background stamping. It is the first page I've made for the new Scandinavia album, and the sub-title page for the Copenhagen section of that album. I will be making one of these for each of our six ports of call, all based around the initial letter of the port. I plan to cut all the letters on my Silhouette at 8" high and fill them with a photo from each port. 

I made an inky background, spreading yellow evenly across the centre of the page and adding blue via the packaging technique, before stamping arrows, chevrons, travel images and stars over the top.

Supplies

Cardstock - Craft UK, The Craft Place

Paper - Pinkfresh Studio Tourist Mode, Pinkfresh Studio Life Right Now

Sticker - Pinkfresh Studio

Glitter Tape - Unknown

Washi Tape - October Afternoon

Enamel Dots - Pinkfresh Studio, My Mind's Eye

Ink - Hobbycraft, Ranger, Versa Color

Mist - Mister Huey's

Tools

Big Shot & The Works Alphabet Dies

Studio Calico 'You Are Here' Stamp Set

Heidi Swapp Arrow Stamp

Studio Light Chevron Stamp

Various Star Stamps

A New Project - Scandinavia 2023

I know I haven't finished the album for our Canary Islands cruise in 2021 yet, but my slow progress is at least in part because I'm bored of working on it.

So I've decided to put it to one side and start a new album for our latest cruise, Scandinavian Capitals, which we returned from just recently. I've chosen a new collection as the basis for this album, Tourist Mode from Pinkfresh Studio, and have built a larger kit with this collection at the core.

I've bought the 12x12 paper pack, the 6x6 paper pad, puffy stickers, cardstock stickers and enamel dots from Tourist Mode:

I made a previous album, Norway 2019, with the Out and About collection from Pinkfresh Studio; some of the colours and icons from this one are very similar to those in Tourist Mode so I've added my leftovers to the kit. I don't have much (my largest scrap is around 6x12) but they will be useful for die-cutting and tucking in to the layers.

In terms of other collections, I couldn't resist a few pieces from 49 & Market's Vintage Artistry Everywhere. The papers are a completely different style from Pinkfresh Studio, but I think I can mix in the acetate filmstrips, the washi stickers and the enamel shapes. I also bought some simple puffy letter stickers and shape sprinkles from Doodlebug.

One of the reasons that I'm bored of the Canary Islands album is that it's too restrictive. This far through, I haven't done any stitching or used cut-files, and there is minimal mixed media. Therefore, this new album is going to be 'anything goes', a mix of techniques that I hope will form a cohesive whole so long as I repeat each one a few times. 

I have a couple more things that will help with that continuity - a half-sheet of camera print paper (Shimelle Glitter Girl) which I intend to cut up, and a set of Studio Calico stamps which were designed by In a Creative Bubble; these are the same designers that were behind Tourist Mode, and they are a really good match to that collection.

I'll be using other stamp sets too, along with various inks and mists. I'll also be drawing on my scraps and other papers, and once I use something once I'll add it to the kit to repeat it again. I have pulled out far too many washi tapes, but I should be able to narrow those down once I've actually made a few pages.