Pages from La Palma

Having made my only missing page from Gran Canaria, I've completed three of the five Canary Islands that we visited in 2021 and I'm moving on to the island of La Palma.

Three of these pages are from a ship's tour we took to see more of the island. It's rare for us to do that but the Spanish public transport websites didn't fill me with confidence that we could make a similar trip by ourselves. 

My paucity of background papers remaining mean that I pulled in an extra paper for one of the single pages and used white cardstock with ink and a stencil for the double.

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

61. Plaza de Espana

I'd already printed three 4x6 photos, so I fell back on an old design favourite, lining them up in a column next to a stack of paper scraps from the rest of the album. I often put the photos on the left when I do this, so I've moved them to the right for a change and added a trio of tags on the left. 

62. Nuestra Senora de las Nieves

First stop on the tour was the Church of Our Lady of the Snows, patron saint of the island. It's quite plain on the outside but a riot of gold decorations on the inside.

63 & 64. Caldera de Taburiente

The main purpose of our tour was to visit the Caldera de Taburiente National Park, a crater formed by the collapse of a trio of volcanoes around 525,000 years ago. I went for a double page, originally printing 10 photos but culling two before I finished. I used four 6x8 paper across the double page, a decision sparked by seeing how nicely the printed design on the right-hand paper sat with the two 3x4 photos.

65. Cumbre Vieja by Night

We were on La Palma at the same time that a volcano was erupting (though well away from it) and we sailed past it in the evening. I've already scrapped a daytime photo and I decided to scraplift the page for the nighttime version. I wouldn't normally use the same page design twice in an album but I thought it would subtly tie the two together. They aren't completely identical as I have a larger photo this time and a different mix of papers.

Supplies: Cardstock - Craft UK; Paper - Shimelle, Heidi Swapp Care Free, Jen Hadfield Peaceful Heart, OneCanoeTwo Willow, Rosie's Studio Salt & Sunsets; Letters - KaiserCraft; Stickers - Heidi Swapp; Journalling Card - Project Life; Glitter Tape - The Works; Washi Tape - Little B; Puffy Shapes - Shimelle, Elle's Studio, Rosie's Studio; Cork Geotags - Studio Calico; Enamel Shapes - Maggie Holmes, Altenew, Violet Studio; Gems - Love to Craft