Christmas is Coming

This is my final DT page of the year for Twilight Crafts and Jenny Wren Cut-Files and, since it's an open-ended role, you'll be seeing more from them next year.

I picked the JWCF601 Camera Shutter Lens 1 cut-file for my page using it as a decorative circular element rather than needing to see it as a camera shutter. I daubed the background with pink, green and yellow inks behind the cut-file and backed my photo with laser-cut pieces from 49 and Market's Rouge Cluster Kit. Finally I layered leaves from the same set mixed with bells from Christmas Spectacular following the shape of the lens to make two sections of wreath.

Most of the 49 and Market supplies for this page came from last year's Mystery Box; I haven't bought this year's as I still have plenty left, but they are available from Twilight Crafts and if you  are a fan of 49 and Market they are sure not to disappoint.

Supplies: Paper - 49 and Market Nature Study; Laser Cut Pieces - 49 and Market; Stickers - Shimelle Christmas Magic, American Crafts Very Merry; Washi Tape - Vicki Boutin

Disclosure - I receive digital cut-files free of charge from Twilight Crafts as part of my DT role. All other supplies are my own.

(Page 114 for the year.)

Great South Run

I'm flip-flopping between albums at the moment, here with a new page for my 2025 album. It's a page from October when my husband, sister and brother-in-law all did the Great South Run.

I mostly followed my husband's progress and have photos of him in a few places, only one of an back-view of my sister and nothing of my brother-in-law who I must have missed in the crowd as he passed. Therefore I decided to used the official photos, and left them in their branded frames. My brother-in-law's was poorly framed with him running out of shot but it's all I have.

I based my page on Sketch #188 from Scrap a Sketch, running my photos in a row with a square frame behind them. Taller photos meant less space for the title where indicated so I moved it onto the frame, and I tucked in a journalling card at the bottom. My embellishment is smaller too, with die-cut stars and arrows. The weather was very wet that day, so I cut the stars from a journalling card with a raindrops pattern.

Supplies: Cardstock - Papermania; Paper - My Mind's Eye Market Street; Letters - Doodlebug; Journalling Cards - Studio Calico, Elle's Studio; Phrase Sticker - Tim Holtz; Puffy Stickers - Elle's Studio

(Page 113 for the year.)

Pages from Haugesund

Back to the cruise album now - Haugesund was the first port of call of our Norwegian cruise this summer, a small town on the North Sea coast. 

While making these pages, I was also reviewing what I've made so far; I'm sticking with white cardstock backgrounds and plenty of ink to colour them but I felt the need to make sure that the different styles of inking and the uninked all balance, no method dominates and nothing is so rare that it jars. Of the 14 pages before these, for two ports and some onboard activities, I have:

• Six stencilled pages 
• Five uninked pages
• Two with ink smooshed on the pages via the 'packaging technique'
• One where I swiped ink onto the page directly from the ink pad

While I may need to do a bit more smooshing, this is a technique that I feel should be used sparingly and only when it suits the subject matter. However, it should be easy to make more pages where I colour the cardstock by swiping the ink pad directly over it, so that the only one I've done so far fits in better. 

I've used a 50/50 mixture of letter stickers and cut-files for my titles, and I'm happy with that mixture. Using the same font whenever I cut them on the Silhouette adds to the cohesion of the album as a whole. 

I chose to use hexagons as a repeating shape in this album, a decision which was inspired by a PhotoPlay paper, and I haven't used that paper at all yet. I must rectify that soon. I've also only cut my photos into hexagons once and I'd like to repeat that at least once, if not a couple of times, before I finish.

(The numbers are my page count for the year.) 

107. Haugesund

My sub-title page is similar to the ones I made for Nordfjordeid and Trondheim, but this time I have more photos in a mix of orientations. Using some portrait photos gave me a bit more space on the right, so I got my hexagon stencil out again. The star is a stray one that I found and decided to use immediately.

108. Haraldshaugen

This monument was built in 1872 to mark 1000 years since King Harald Fairhair united Norway. I used my trellis stencil on the background and chose a classic two-photo layout, with my title running vertically. Now I see it on the screen, I'm going to try to move that title down a bit so that it sits  directly opposite the journalling.

109. Kyststien

A couple of photos of views from the coastal path that we followed from Haraldshaugen as part of a circular walk, and one of Kvala Fyr, a tiny lighthouse. I chose to make this one as a 'no ink' page but the edges look too plain now so I might add some ink later.

110. The Rising Tide

I went inky here, picking up the colours from the sea. The four horses of this sculpture are loosely based on the four horsemen of the Apocolypse and are a warning against climate change. More info on this link. 

111. Kvala Batteri

A simple layout and one I've used before, with a stack of three photos and a 6x8 paper cut in two to fill the rest of the width of the page. This battery was built by the Germans during WW2 to protect the town.

112. Our Saviour and the Fishermen

A classic three-photos-across-the-page layout, but I 'bounced' the photos up and down and filled the gaps with a stamp-print paper. This is one where I felt it to be right to repeat the ink-swiping rather than using either stencil again.

Supplies: Cardstock - Craft UK; Paper - Simple Stories Happy Travels, Simple Stories Safe Travels, Simple Stories Summer Snapshots, Alchemy Hearts Out & About 2025, Maggie Holmes Sunny Days; Letters - Basic Grey, KaiserCraft, Tim Holtz; Stickers - Simple Stories, Heidi Swapp; Filmstrip - 49 and Market; Washi Tape - Hobbycraft, Vicki Boutin; Chipboard Star - Studio Calico; Enamel Shapes - Simple Stories, Pink Paislee, 49 and Market, Cocoa Vanilla Studio, Twilight Crafts

Parkrun Pages

Now a couple of pages for my Parkrun Continued album, which is 8x8 in size. I try to use up my scraps on these pages so these both have two part backgrounds. I count them as half-pages so always share them in pairs to keep the page count even.

(The numbers are my page count for the year and I have now exceeded the 105 that I made last year.) 

105.5 Queen Elizabeth

We ran at Queen Elizabeth Country Park in July en route to Southampton for our Norwegian cruise. I had a 12" tall chevron shaped paper scrap which I cut down for the left side and paired with green spots.

Supplies: Paper - My Mind's Eye Wild Asparagus, Bo Bunny Little Wonders; Stickers - Crate Paper, October Afternoon; Enamel Shapes - Carta Bella, Cocoa Vanilla Studio

106. Happy Birthday Thurrock

Our home parkrun celebrated its 10th birthday in October, so I picked a photo of us all at the start line. I had a scrap of birthday paper which I decided to use, leading to a pink and navy colour scheme.

Supplies: Paper - Bo Bunny Little Wonders, DCWV?; Letters - American Crafts; Enamel Dots - Carta Bella; Cake - Unknown

Dartmoor Selfies

Another page for the 2025 album today, and another of my husband's exploits. He walked the Dartmoor Perambulation in August, a modern recreation of a ride round the royal hunting ground made by 12 knights in July 1240 on the instructions of Henry III.

The walk goes through 33 checkpoints and he took a selfie at each one. There's an account of the walk on his blog if you are interested.

I picked 18 photos and arranged them in a circle on my page, with title and journalling in the middle. I used the Boot Tread cut-file from Twilight Crafts and Jenny Wren Cut-Files to fill the corners, cutting it in white and colouring it with three brown and green Distress Inks. 

I wanted to include a map, but I ran out of space so I cut a slit in the page and made a pocket on the back for it to sit in. The lace-printed strip is at the top of the map card, it pulls out easily and I've referenced it in my journalling. 

Supplies: Paper - 49 and Market Nature Study, 49 and Market Hike More; Letters - Tim Holtz; Washi Stickers - 49 and Market; Enamel Shapes - 49 and Market

Disclosure - I receive digital cut-files free of charge from Twilight Crafts as part of my DT role. All other supplies are my own.

(Page 105 in my count for the year.)

Grays 10k

I'm taking a short break from Norway to make a few pages for my 2025 album instead, aiming not to fall too far behind. 

First up is the Grays 10k which my husband ran in September. I printed four photos which fell into two pairs - during and after the race - so I kept them that way on the page.

My colour scheme started from the blue of my husband's vest and led to a mixture of three of Vicki Boutin's collections.

Supplies: Paper - Vicki Boutin Color Study, Vicki Boutin Fernwood, Vicki Boutin Sweet Rush; Letters - Fancy Pants; Journalling Cards - Project Life; Die-Cuts - Vicki Boutin; Washi Tape - Vicki Boutin; Puffy Stickers - Elle's Studio, Jen Hadfield

(Page 104 in my count for the year.)

Pages from Trondheim

Trondheim is Norway's third largest city, and was the fifth place (of six) that we visited on our cruise this summer. It's the second that I'm scrapping though as I deliberately go out of order so that any progression in style from beginning to end is disguised.

(The numbers are my page count for the year.)

98. Trondheim

My sub-title page for Trondheim is very similar to the one for Nordfjordeid, and I've decided to stick with the column of motifs next to a vertical title for each one, but I already know that the number of photos will change for other pages, while still placing them in a block with the journalling.

99. Stiftsgården

This is the royal residence in Trondheim and I have photos of both the front and the back with gardens that are now a public park. I used the sketch from GoGoGetaway's September cybercrop for my page but my photos are considerably larger than those on the sketch, and I chose to use the pair of tags for my journalling so had to make them larger too. This led to me juggling all the different elements around the page to suit my needs, but I believe you can still see the original sketch in the finished page.

100. Kristiansten Festning

I went with a stencilled quadrants for this page, holding three photos plus title/journalling for a fortress on the hill above Trondheim.

101 & 102. Nidaros Cathedral

I made the right-hand side of this pair first, a simple grid of cropped 4x6 photos of the inside of the cathedral, with strips of stripey paper top and bottom. I then repeated those strips on the left side before filling in the middle of the page with the aid of Shimelle Laine's 4x6 Photo Love class (which ran in 2011 but the designs are timeless).

103. Statuary

My last page from Trondheim has six photos of the statues we saw around the city, placed in two rows across a stencilled background with torn paper strips at the sides.

Supplies: Cardstock - Craft UK; Paper - Simple Stories Happy Travels, Heidi Swapp Hello Today, Pink Paislee Memorandum, Shimelle Never Grow Up, Sandylion; Letters - Hobbycraft, Simple Stories, Craftelier, Basic Grey; Stickers - Simple Stories, 49 and Market, Jillibean Soup, Pretty Little Studio; Die-Cuts - October Afternoon; Filmstrip - 49 and Market; Washi Tape - Hobbycraft; Puffy Stars - Bella Boulevard; Enamel Shapes - 49 and Market, Simple Stories, Shimelle, Studio Calico

Trek the Deck

Trek the Deck was a charity event on our cruise, with passengers walking round the promenade deck one morning to raise money for the Teenage Cancer Trust.

This is my second October DT page for Twilight Crafts and Jenny Wren Cut-Files, using the Hexagon Border cut-file cut from black cardstock. I cut my photos into hexagons too, matting them as one piece to layer over the cut-file.

I inked my white cardstock background direct from the ink pad and added a couple of strips of paper down the left of the page before positioning the cut-file and photo block. 

Supplies: Cardstock - Craft UK, Bazzill; Paper - Simple Stories Happy Travels, Maggie Holmes Sunny Days; Letters - Hobbycraft, Creative Devotion; Stickers - Heidi Swapp, 49 and Market; Enamel Shapes - Shimelle, Simple Stories

Disclosure - I receive digital cut-files free of charge from Twilight Crafts as part of my DT role. All other supplies are my own.

(Page 97 in my count for the year.)

Badness

Another cruise page, but we're back on board now. Badness, a Madness tribute band, was one of the best guest acts we've seen on a ship. I followed the First Idea from Shimelle Laine's recent One Two Punch class, which was based around repeating lines of punched shapes.

Supplies: Cardstock - Craft UK; Paper - Simple Stories Happy Travels, Alchemy Hearts Out & About 2025, Shimelle Never Grow Up; JOurnalling Card - Project Life; Puffy Stickers - Bella Boulevard; Washi Tape - Unknown; Enamel Shapes - Latech

(Page 96 in my count for the year.)

Pages from Nordfjordeid

Nordfjordeid was the second port of call on our Norwegian cruise, a small town on the side of the Nordfjord. I try not to scrap the ports in order as it takes a little while for me to settle into the rhythm of an album and I don't want to see any progression in style from the beginning to the end. 

I always start with a 'sub-title' page for each port to divide the album into sections. Up until now, I've gone for general views of the town, but they aren't always very interesting. I often also find myself making follow-up pages with a few smaller images, nothing important enough to merit a page of its own, but together they give a sense of the character of the place and sum up our general meandering. For this album, I'm ditching the overall views and picking a selection of smaller pictures for the sub-title pages. 

(The numbers are my page count for the year.)

93. Nordfjordeid

My sub-title page for Nordfjordeid has five 4x4 photos, but I'll be happy to vary that number and size on future versions. I arranged them in a 2x3 block with journalling and embellishment in the sixth space. I cut my title on my Silhouette, using the negative of the lettering to let the white background show through.

94. Rundehogjen Burial Mound

I used last month's sketch from For the Love of Pretty Paper for this page, flipping it upside down and switching triangles for the hexagons which I'm using in this album. The sketch was a good one as it has two areas, allowing me to separate my photos. The top one, of a nondescript-looking hillock, is a 9th century burial mound where the remains of a burnt Viking ship were discovered in 1874. Ship burials from that time are considered to be royal burials, and so this is probably where King Audbjørn was cremated with his ship and belongings. The bottom photo is an artist's impression of how this could have looked at the time.

95. Sagastad & Myklebust

Nordfjordeid's main attraction is the Sagastad Viking Centre, where they have a full size replica of the ship above, known as the Myklebust ship after the farm where it was discovered.

It's early days for this album, but I've made more pages than I've shared so far and there are definitely some trends emerging:

• I've made all my pages on white cardstock, often coloured with inks whether that be direct from the ink pad, smooshed with water or dabbed through a stencil, so I will continue with that (making lots of the papers I pulled for my kit redundant). 
• I'm finding that the Out and About papers don't mix very well with Happy Travels after all, so I've only used a couple of patterns. 
• My pages are quite minimalist with few layers and flat titles.
• I'm using my Silhouette a lot, including more cut-files than I normally do in a cruise album and cutting a lot of my titles on it too (particularly in the Teen font).
• I have followed my initial thought of using the hexagon as a repeating shape in this album.

Supplies: Cardstock - Craft UK; Paper - Simple Stories Happy Travels, Simple Stories Summer Snapshots, Simple Stories Safe Travels, Alchemy Hearts Out & About 2025; Letters - KaiserCraft, Basic Grey; Stickers - 49 and Market; Filmstrip - 49 and Market; Washi Tape - Hobbycraft; Enamel Shapes - Papermania, Simple Stories, Latech

All Dressed Up

Another cruise page today; this one is from a Celebration Evening (with a formal dress code) and I used the All Dressed Up cut-file from Twilight Crafts and Jenny Wren Cut-Files, making this my first DT project for October.

We tried a few places around the ship to get a photo; none of them was perfect so I used four, printed them in a smaller size and added a sort of sub-title rather than conventional journalling. 

Supplies: Cardstock - Craft UK, Bazzill, Carta Bella; Paper - Simple Stories Happy Travels; Stickers - Simple Stories, Pretty Little Studio, Jillibean Soup; Washi Tape - Hobbycraft; Enamel Shapes - Simple Stories, Latech

Disclosure - I receive digital cut-files free of charge from Twilight Crafts as part of my DT role. All other supplies are my own.

(Page 92 for the year.)

(not) parkrun

I have another page from my Norwegian cruise today. This one will come mid-album and records the (not) parkrun we did on the ship on the middle Saturday of our cruise. I'm going to use hexagons as a design feature in this album so I cut one as large as I could from an A4 paper and arranged my photos on it with a 6x8 paper cut and stretched behind it. After I'd made a few more pages, I returned to this one and added the extra green and yellow hexagons.

Supplies: Cardstock - Craft UK, Bazzill; Paper - Simple Stories Happy Travels, Alchemy Hearts Out & About 2025; Die-Cuts - October Afternoon; Stickers - 49 & Market, Jillibean Soup; Cameras - Project Life Card; Washi Tape - Vicki Boutin, Hobbycraft; Enamel Shapes - Simple Stories

(Page 91 for the year.)

Aurora

I'm starting my cruise album with a page for the ship we sailed on, P&O's Aurora, which is the smallest and oldest shop in the fleet.

This is also my second DT project of September for Twilight Crafts and Jenny Wren Cut-Files, using the Aurora Borealis 2 cut-file which I trimmed down to leave just the name of the ship. I backed it with six colours from the Simple Stories Happy Travels collection which was my starting point for gathering supplies for this album.

Supplies: Cardstock - Craft UK, Bazzill; Paper - Simple Stories Happy Travels, Photoplay Anchors Aweigh; Die-Cut - October Afternoon; Stickers - Heidi Swapp; Washi Tape - Hobbycraft; Enamel Shapes - 49 and Market

Disclosure - I receive digital cut-files free of charge from Twilight Crafts as part of my DT role. All other supplies are my own.

(Page 90 for the year.)

A New Project - Norway 2025

I've brought my 2025 album up to mid-August now (except for a double page where I need photos from my husband) and I've released a few supplies by completing the pages for a 2022 holiday in Yorkshire, so I finally feel free to start work on the album for our most recent cruise. This was twelve nights to Norway on P&O's Aurora, their smallest ship, visiting six ports. We've been to Norway several times before, but this itinerary interested us as four ports were completely new to us and one we hadn't visited since 2009.

I generally build a kit for my holiday albums, and this one started from Simple Stories' Happy Travels collection; I have the collection pack, 6x8 pad and enamel dots. Simple Stories tend to keep the same colours across their collections, so I also have the 6x8 pad from Summer Snapshots for more non-travel patterns to mix with it.

Also on a travel theme, I have the Out and About 2025 collection from a new UK company called Alchemy Hearts; they print in A4 and A5 paper sizes and I have the A4 version. It's a different style from Simple Stories but the colours are close and I hope I can make the two work together. Another new purchase was three sheets from Photoplay's Anchors Aweigh collection which is cruised themed. I particularly like the hexagon print which  I think will lead to me using that shape across the album, as I have a set of dies, some ancient nesting chipboard shapes, a small hexagon stamp, two stencils and various cut-files.

I returned to Simple Stories to pull in the remnants of two older collections - Safe Travels and Hello Today.  Safe Travels is down to one sheet plus scraps and a few die-cuts so it will be good to use that up if I can. The 'A' sides of Hello Today are themed by month, but I am intending to use the 'B' side patterns instead. Not all the papers match perfectly but a lot of them will work, at least in small amounts. 

I've also added the remains of Pink Paislee's Atlas collection which I used for my 2016 Austrian album; the original pad had 48 sheets and I still have a significant amount left along with some insta-cards, tags and enamel geotags. I don't like all of the patterns but the plainer sheets could be useful. 

So far, I only have twelve 12x12 sheets from Happy Travels and a handful left in the other collections, so I turned to my stash for some more. I've pulled quite a few from various manufacturers (including more Simple Stories, My Mind's Eye, Heidi Swapp, Pinkfresh Studio, Crate Paper and Basic Grey) but I'm torn between using some of these as my backgrounds or just going for plain white cardstock with stamping and stencilling. I'll find out what I'm drawn to as I go along and I may reject some of these later on.

In terms of embellishment, the Happy Travels collection pack has a 12x12 sticker sheet as does Hello Today (though I'm not sure how much of it will be useful). I've added the remains of Pinkfresh Studio's Out and About sticker sheet and an old one from Jillibean Soup where I'm drawn to the orange pieces. I have some Project Life cards with the same camera motif in different sizes and colours which I plan to cut up and spread around as a repeating motif. The acetate filmstrips from 49 and Market are also something I can repeat. I have two packs of October Afternoon tidbits and some Pretty Little Studio confetti mix, all of which I would love to use up. 

Going smaller, I have sticker stitching from Pretty Little Studio; arrows and geotags in various colours from Studio Calico, 49 and Market, and American Crafts; puffy stars from Bella Boulevard; puffy words from Rosie's Studio; a travel words sheet from Bramble Fox; the remains of some words and phrases from Pinkfresh Studio's Tourist Mode which I used for our 2023 cruise. I will add more enamel dots to these as I go along.

I haven't photographed my tools, but I have travel-themed stamps and stencils, tile letter stamps, hexagon stencils as mentioned above, plus shape punches and dies, all of which I can repeat. I can also use stamps, dies and my Silhouette for titles.

I have a few sheets of co-ordinating cardstock too (not pictured) and will pull in more as I go along for things like photo mats. One glaring omission is the lack of letter stickers in this kit. I haven't bought any new ones for this album so I will be pulling them from my stash as I go along and once I do use a set I will add it to the kit to use again. I'll also pick my washi tapes later and add them to the box once I get started.

I'll mostly be sharing the pages that I make in batches for each port as I did before for my Mediterranean album. That worked for me as it forced me to make any 'difficult' pages as I went along rather than leaving them all to the end. However it will also mean that my blog goes quiet, with longer spaces between posts.

Pages from Yorkshire

I'm jumping back three years now, to a week we spent in Yorkshire in the Spring of 2022; I'd previously made eight pages (of 12 planned) from this holiday and printed the rest of the photos, but the papers and photos have been languishing in a box ever since. I'm returning to them now as I want to repurpose some of the leftovers to become part of my next cruise album kit.

I knew I had part of two collections in the box - Simple Stories Hello Today and Pebble Seen & Noted - but I also found a treasure trove of other papers, some of which I'd assumed I'd used when I'd been unable to find them and some I had forgotten about entirely. 

(The numbers are my page count for the year.)

85 & 86. On the Cleveland Way

This is the first page chronologically, but the last of this batch that I made as I wasn't happy with my original selection of photos so I printed some new ones and reprinted some old ones in different sizes. They all come from a walk we took along the Cleveland Way between Ravenscar and Robin Hoods Bay.

87. The Long Way Home

This page immediately follows Mallyan Spout, when some of our group opted for a circular walk back to Goathland rather than the direct route that we'd come by.

88. Whitby

A page from Whitby on our final day. I went for a half-and-half background with my three photos in an overlapping stack in one half and everything else in the other half.

89. Whitby Abbey & Caedmon's Cross

A trip to Whitby has to include the abbey and I have two photos of it on this page with a smaller one of a monument known as Caedmon's Cross.

Supplies: Paper - Simple Stories Hello Today, Simple Stories Simple Vintage Coastal, Pebbles Seen & Noted, Echo Park Dots & Stripes; Letters - Simple Stories, KaiserCraft, October Afternoon, Hip Kit Club, Pretty Little Studio; Stickers - Simple Stories; Die-Cut - 49 and Market; Washi Tape - Little B, Ebay; Enamel Dots - My Mind's Eye, Echo Park, Simple Stories

Birthday Lunch

This is one of the quickest pages I've made in a while. I had a single photo from my birthday, which was taken in a restaurant with intense blue walls. I needed a paper to complement that colour and hit upon one of Vicki Boutin's mixed media pads. The printed circles were all edged with the same blue, and felt a tiny bit like birthday balloons. I double-matted my photo, positioned it on the page, added my title, a few embellishments and my journalling. The paper already had some printed ink spatters, so I added a few more then called it done.

Supplies: Paper - Vicki Boutin Let's Wander, Vicki Boutin Fernwood; Letters - Doodlebug; Stickers - Vicki Boutin, Jen Hadfield; Enamel Hearts - Prima

(Page 84 for the year.)

50 Years Young

Sharing a page from June now, when we celebrated a friend's 50th birthday with afternoon tea. I've used two fabulous cut-files from Twilight Crafts and Jenny Wren Cut-Files, making this my first DT project for September.

I cut one of 'Teapot' and three of 'Tea Cup and Saucer' from white cardstock, backed them in pastel papers to match the crockery we actually used, and overlapped them in a row across the page.

I cut my title from the same cardstock and gave it a small blue offset to help give it some presence on the page.

Supplies: Cardstock - Pioneer, Papermania; Paper - Dear Lizzy Stay Colorful, Echo Park Let's Create, Heidi Swapp Sun Chaser, Rosie's Studio This is Us, P13 Sugar & Spice; Washi Tape - Vicki Boutin, Unknown Blue; Puffy Sticker - Cocoa Vanilla Studio; Enamel Dots - Pinkfresh Studio, Violet Studio

Disclosure - I receive digital cut-files free of charge from Twilight Crafts as part of my DT role. All other supplies are my own.

(Page 83 for the year.)

Twilight Team

I'm using up one of the starting point pages that I made recently, finishing the page with photos of (some of) the Twilight Crafts Design Team at our weekend crop in May. I printed three photos, sized to fit the yellow mat in the centre of the page, and placed my fussy-cut camera in the gap.

I'd originally placed three branding strips at the bottom-left of the page to reflect the line of hearts at the top-right, but I've removed them now as it was the best place for my title which didn't quite fit on the strips. I'd kept a journalling card back when I made the starting point, and I've used half of it here.

Supplies: Cardstock - Craft UK; Paper - Cocoa Vanilla Studio Storyteller; Letters - The Robin's Nest; Puffy Hearts - Cocoa Vanilla Studio

(Page 82 for the year.)

Along the Regent's Canal

Wendy's Page

Still catching up my 2025 album, and this page is from May when I walked the length of the Regent's Canal from Limehouse to Paddington. It was inspired by one from Wendy Meffan for Hey Little Magpie, and I also entered it in a Hey Little Magpie challenge to use both stamps and stencils on a page.

I printed 10 landscape photos and ran them in four rows on my page, which is mostly made with supplies from 49 and Market. I've had those leaves for a long time and they were getting a bit battered so it's good to have them on a page at last. I used a cross-hatch stencil and stamped tickets, leaves, random dots and boot-prints among the die-cut leaves for the challenge.

Supplies: Paper - 49 and Market Nature Study; Letters - Doodlebug; Laser-Cuts - 49 and Market Vintage Artistry; Puffy Stickers - Vicki Boutin Fernwood

(Page 81 for the year.)

Norway

I'm trying to catch up my 2025 annual album before I start on the one for our recent cruise to Norway, but here's a page from Norway anyway. It's a summary of our cruise and it will go into my 2025 album; it's also my latest DT project for Twilight Crafts and Jenny Wren Cutfiles.

We visited six places in Norway and I've picked one photo from each, printed it at just less than 2x6" and lined them up across the page with six geotags from the Geocache Icons cut-file.

I wanted to cut the place names too, using a handwriting font, but I couldn't do them small enough, so I fell back on good old peel-off letter stickers as the only other way to manage all the repeats of letters without running out.

All the papers on this page apart from the background are from Simple Stories Safe Travels, and I will be adding the remainder to my Norwegian kit when I assemble it. That background is an old neglected sheet from My Mind's Eye which has 2013 on the branding strip so I am happy to have used it at last.

Supplies: Paper - My Mind's Eye Collectable, Simple Stories Safe Travels; Letters - American Crafts, Anita's; Die-Cut - Simple Stories; Sticker - Simple Stories

Disclosure - I receive digital cut-files free of charge from Twilight Crafts as part of my DT role. All other supplies are my own.

(Page 80 for the year.)