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| by Jackie Ashton |
National Scrapbooking "Day" kicked off on Friday in some groups, and the first page I made was for a scraplift challenge from Hey Little Magpie. The rays on Jackie's page reminded me of a yellow sunburst paper in my scraps box so I started from there, found a matching yellow scrap for the bottom part of the page and moved on to photos.
I didn't have my holiday photos at that point, so was choosing pictures from an old photo album; these dolphin photos were next to the parrots from my last page and suited the rays so were an easy pick.
I combined two of the 'Prompts a Day for the Month of May' from For the Love of Pretty Paper in this page - Animals (2 May) and Stars (3 May) - and it was my wish to use stars for the page that lead to my title, carefully positioned to block out a stray head in the left photo.
Using old photos here also worked perfectly for the first challenge from UK Scrap Addicts. All the challenges have a Star Wars theme and several options within them; for this page I used 1980s photos and a supply we no longer really use (rub-on lettering as part of my title) for the 'Return of the Jedi' challenge.
Supplies
Cardstock - Bazzill, Craft Sensations
Paper - October Afternoon Summertime, Doodlebug, Basic Grey
Letters - Creative Devotion, WHSmith
Border Sticker - Fancy Pants
Journalling Card - Elle's Studio
Word Sticker - Crate Paper
Puffy Stars - Elle's Studio
Washi Tape - The Works
Mist - Cosmic Shimmer
Ink - Hobbycraft
Tools
Bracket Template
Silhouette Portrait
Hobbycraft Star Punch
Big Shot & Dovecraft Star Die
For the Love of Pretty Paper have kicked off the month of May with a 'Prompt a Day' Challenge leading up to a weekend frenzy of scrapbooking at the end of the month. There's no way that I can make a page a day, but the prompts are combinable so I'm starting off with Rainbow (1 May) and Animals (2 May).
I've gone with old photos again, with photos of parrots which are certainly animals and they come in all colours of the rainbow.
I decided on using mists for my rainbow but wasn't confident enough to use them directly on a page so I started by 'painting' a 4" strip of white cardstock with them. That strip sent me towards this month's scraplift challenge from GoGoGetaway, though my finished page didn't look that much like the original in the end, especially as I chose a black background to emphasise the other colours.
Supplies
Cardstock - Core'dinations
Paper - Simple Stories Good Day Sunshine
Letters - American Crafts
Glitter Tape - Hobbycraft
Embellishments - Various Unknown
Puffy Stickers - MRI, Jillibean Soup, Paperchase
Enamel Dots - Echo Park, Teresa Collins
Mists - Docrafts, Mister Huey's, Maya Road
Tools
Craft Creatives Flower Punch
More old photos today, as I tackled a recipe challenge from the GoGoGetaway cybercrop a couple of weeks ago. This one called for two photos, and I had nothing on hand from my cruise album so I went back through my old photo albums and picked a couple from my cousin's first wedding. This was in 1988 and I was a teenager with a film camera so the quality of my photos wasn't great, but was probably normal for the time. I had put four photos in the album but two of them were blurry so I just used the other two for this page. They were poorly framed, but a bit of careful cropping has improved their composition.
Apart from the two photos, the other challenge ingredients were a full sheet of cardstock for the background, six pieces of different patterned papers, ten pieces of ephemera or stickers, eight enamel dots or sequins, a title and journalling.
I based my page on the mid-month sketch from Sketch-n-Scrap (which somehow managed to show up in my Blogger Reading List early even though it was unpublished) though I veered off course as I worked. I wanted to show lots of that pretty floral paper so extended it to the full height of the page (though its width was limited by a piece I'd previously cut from it) and I added extra layers of paper behind the photos. I swapped the photos over compared to the sketch because of the direction that the couple are facing in the one on the left, and moved the title as it fitted so neatly above the photo on the right.
Ten pieces of ephemera or stickers had seemed like a lot, but when you start to build three clusters they don't go very far, and I cut some of mine into two or three pieces in order to spread them further. I fulfilled the recipe with the page as it stands on the left here, but I wasn't completely happy with it and continued with a bit more.
The eight enamel dots from the recipe irked me because they didn't split evenly across my clusters, so I added four more. I also added a line of floral stamping to soften the edge where the floral paper meets the cardstock background.
This was the final finished page
which earned me another 9.5 points in Calvinball 2019. The rules are mounting up now but this was on Day 3 so I scored points for the page, a star, enamel dots, the colour green, floral paper, old supplies, handwritten journalling, stickers, this blog post and sharing on Facebook.
Supplies
Cardstock - Bazzill
Paper - K & Company
Letters - Jillibean Soup
Die-Cuts & Flowers - Unknown
Stickers - My Mind's Eye
Enamel Dots - American Crafts/Shimelle, Echo Park
Ink - Memento
Mist - Tattered Angels
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| Kerry's Page |
I have a bit of an odd page for you today. It's not for my cruise album, it's not for a recent annual album, but once I get to scrapping 1988 I'll have a page ready to go in that one; it's a page I made purely for the fun of playing with paper and inks, because I wanted to take part in the recent 'I is for Ink' week of the Alpha Relay Challenges at For the Love of Pretty Paper, and because I wanted to scraplift the sample page provided by Kerry.
My photo was almost irrelevant so I flipped through old albums looking for something that would suit this page design, and picking one of my physics class on the first Red Nose Day. A school photo took me to Basic Grey's recess collection and, although I only used one paper and one die-cut from it, that set the colour scheme for my page.
Having picked such an old photo for this page, I was also able to complete one of the Weekly Challenges at UKScrappers. These are always in three parts and eClaire asked us to scrap a heritage photo (30+ years), use a hollow frame and use inks. All done, but I have to say that it's odd to think of a picture from my school days as now being classed as a heritage photo.
Supplies
Paper - Basic Grey Kioshi, Basic Grey Recess, Bo Bunny Shabby Princess, My Mind's Eye Now and Then
Letters - October Afternoon
Die-Cut - Basic Grey
Stickers - Basic Grey, Crate Paper/Maggie Holmes
Puffy Stars - Bella Boulevard
Ink - Memento, Ranger, Versacolor
Mist - Docrafts, Mister Huey's
Tools
Creative Embellishments Stars Mask
That Special Touch Grid Mask
Studio Calico Stars Stamp
