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

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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

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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.

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Starting Points with Cocoa Vanilla Studio

I made my last page using two collections from Cocoa Vanilla Studio, Daydream and These Days, which I've always stored together as they mix and match quite well. While making that page, I realised just how little I had left, so I decided to make a 'Starting Point' page to use the rest up. That's a term I've pinched from Shimelle Laine for a page I start with no photos in mind, and return later to finish it off. I have a little bundle of these, but I do generally come back to them sooner or later.

I had a few larger scraps but no 12x12 pieces left so I pulled in a piece of Bazzill cardstock for my background. My largest scraps were the floral and the stripe; after shuffling them around with some of the smaller pieces, I placed them vertically with two scallop print pieces between them to form a third column. I overlapped two smaller scraps for a photo mat, imagining either a 4x6 or two 3x4 photos in the space and fussy-cut a floral piece to sit on the right-hand side. Finally, I took all the smallest scraps, die-cut a pile of tags and tucked them in a line between the scalloped and striped papers. I still have a few pieces left from a cut-apart sheet; I'll either add them to the page when I choose the photos or keep the labels and bin the others.

And I also had only a few pieces left from Storyteller so I decided to finish that off too. With no 12x12 sheets left, I used a cardstock background again and filled it with a collage of the largest scraps. I layered a strip of hearts at the top and three branding strips over the bottom part. I chose the yellow to be my photo mat and tucked a few strips in on either side. I fussy-cut the camera which I will definitely use and I have some labels and a journalling card left, some of which I will use if I can once I have the photos.

I'll leave links here to the finished pages once I have made them:

Daydream/These Days - 
Storyteller - Twilight Team

On Yer Bike

We've recently come back from a cruise to Norway, but I want to catch up on my 2025 album before I start a new one for that trip. I've scrapped everything up to the end of April, but only a couple of events after that. However we have quite a quiet life now that the children have left home, and that means my backlog is only one double page and four singles.

I'm jumping to June, when my husband took part in the Thurrock Cycle Marathon. This was a community ride with a choice of seven miles, 21 miles or two laps of the 21 mile course to make 42 miles, so not a marathon at all despite its name. 

I printed four photos from the start area, arranged them in a grid with patterned paper, and took this opportunity to use up as many bicycle stickers and die-cuts as I sensibly could.

Supplies: Paper - Cocoa Vanilla Studio These Days, Cocoa Vanilla Studio Daydream; Letters - Doodlebug, Pretty Little Studio; Stickers - 49 & Market, Maggie Holmes; Die-Cut - Rosie's Studio; Puffy Shapes - Elle's Studio

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Sky Garden

It's time to share my first DT project of the month for Twilight Crafts and Jenny Wren Cut-Files. I've used the Large Scalloped Square cut-file to frame my photos from the Sky Garden in London. This is a free entry public space on the top of the 'Walkie Talkie' or 20 Fenchurch Street. I've been there before in the daytime but this was an evening visit with dinner in the Darwin Brasserie on a work night out.

I took my white cut-file and daubed it with Bundled Sage Distress Oxide ink, then stamped all over it in Mowed Lawn Distress Ink using an assortment of different-sized leafy stamps. I then arranged my photos inside the frame, using one of the Sky Garden name in the middle as my title.

Supplies: Paper - Photoplay Hush Little Baby, My Mind's Eye 29th Street Market; Gems - Unknown

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

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