Pages from Mahón

I'm going back to my cruise album now, tackling one place at a time and moving to our sixth port of call which was Mahón, the capital of Menorca.

14. Mahón

The first page is, as always, a sub-title page that divides the album into sections. I printed two 4x6 photos and separated them with my title. The strip on the left was driven by the numbering on the paper, which looked like it needed something more on that side.

15. Trepucó

The first thing we did was walk out of town to see the remains of a Talaiotic settlement from the period 1200BC to 200BC, which was characterised by stone buildings known as talaiots and T-shaped stone megaliths called taulas. 

16. Església el Carme

At this point, I had to decide whether to put my titles in English, Spanish or Catalan for the next few pages. I decided on Catalan, because that's the version on a sign on my next page, even though it meant more pesky accents. I printed three 4x6 photos of the church (built for an order of Carmelite nuns) and arranged them with a journalling card on uneven quadrants of paper, making use of offcuts from other pages.

17. Mercat Claustre del Carme

The cloisters of the last church now house a market and I printed three photos, one large and two small. The scale of the building in each one meant that I didn't want to put them in a block so I found an older page and scraplifted myself.

18. Església de Santa Maria

Another church, and I had a trio of photos which were very similar to the set from Església el Carme, and very close to them in the album, so I had to find a different layout for them. I ended up with another scraplift which does use four quadrants of paper again but the photos overlap them and the page looks different enough for me.

19. Parc des Freginal

Finally, a few photos from a park that's hidden away and took some finding, with  with the entrance being a passageway through a building. This was where I saw my first hoopoe. I printed six photos, but dropped down to four for the page, arranging them in a square block with my title down the side and washi tape at the top and bottom of the page.

Supplies: Cardstock - My Mind's Eye Necessities; Paper - Heidi Swapp Set Sail, Photoplay Travelogue, Cocoa Vanilla Studio Heart & Home, Craft Sensations Dreamy Pastels, Pinkfresh Studio Simply the Best, My Mind's Eye Now and Then; Letters - American Crafts, Creative Memories, Basic Grey; Stickers - Heidi Swapp, Photoplay, Studio Calico; Filmstrips - 49 and Market; Washi Tape - Little B, Vicki Boutin, Stampin' Up!; Glitter Tape - The Works; Enamel Shapes - Simple Stories, Hey Little Magpie, Twilight Crafts, Maggie Holmes, Altenew, Cocoa Vanilla Studio