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