Parkrun Pages

Having finished my 2025 album, I'm turning my attention to my parkrun album now. I've been sitting on the first page since January since I generally share them in pairs; I count these 8x8 pages as halves in my page count for the year and it's been waiting for a 'twin' to keep the count even.

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

22.5 Wickford Memorial

Catherine's Page

I made this page for week 3 of the January/February series from Scrapbook Challenges UK. We were asked to use yellow, paint splatters, 2+ photos, an animal and the theme of happiness, but we didn't have to use all the prompts. There were bonus points for scraplifting one of three layouts and I chose one by Catherine Lapidge.

I saw Catherine's page as a giant bauble which was perfect for our run at Wickford Memorial parkrun on Christmas Day. I found a couple of Christmassy die-cuts and popped a robin on one for my animal. The background is yellow and I spattered gold paint across the diagonal. I only had one photo and I thought that I would be dropping the happiness theme too, until I found the journalling die-cut. 

Supplies: Cardstock - DCWV; Paper - Junkitz Salsa Celebration; Die-Cuts - Fancy Pants, Pebbles; Ribbon Laser-Cut - 49 and Market; Gems - Love to Craft

23. Whitecliffe Lake

This page comes from from January when we visited a newish event which started in November and immediately became our NENDY (nearest event not done yet). I used the March sketch from For the Love of Pretty Paper for this one.

My paper choice was driven by my scraps box. I sort by size (simply two pizza boxes with large and small scraps) so I went through the 'large' box until I found two papers that went together and then stopped looking. I only had one photo so I used a journalling card instead of the second, an ancient one that I am happy has finally found a home on a page.

Supplies: Paper - Simple Stories, Crate Paper; Journalling Card - My Mind's Eye; Flowers - Unknown; Puffy Crosses - Studio Calico; Washi Tape - Tesco

23.5 Valentines

We toured again in February when our local grass course was a quagmire so we turned to alternatives in parks with solid paths. First up was Valentines Park in Ilford. It was a rainy day so I based my page around a raindrop card and pulled matching papers from my scraps box.

Supplies: Papers - Unknown Scraps; Card - Studio Calico; Labels - Kaitlin Sheaffer; Puffy Hearts - Shimelle; Enamel Hearts - My Mind's Eye, Altenew

24. Raphael

The following week we went to Raphael Park in Romford, and I scraplifted a page by Kirei Baldwin which was one of the '12 Days of Spring' scraplifts in the Scrap Squad group on Facebook recently.

I took all my paper strips from a 6x6 pad which I would love to kill off, and added oddments of embellishments in matching colours, including the same clear stickers with faux stitching that Kirei used.

Supplies: Paper - Basic Grey Mint Julep, Shimelle, Vicki Boutin; Stickers - Pretty Little Studio; Enamel Hearts - Maggie Holmes, Altenew

I have a few more pages to do to bring this album up-to-date, but I haven't printed the photos yet so it's back on hold for now.