I don't necessarily blog my pages in the order I made them, preferring to group projects or albums together. Now that I've shared all my 2005 pages, I have a few oddments coming up.
Lottie Loves Paper are running a Summer Sketch Challenge until the end of next month, and this page came from the first one posted.
I couldn't match the two portrait photos here, so went for landscape instead, with old photos from the National Tramway Museum in Crich. I considered rotating the whole sketch but the L shape of papers looked best left as it is. Those papers are old too, a collection called Vintage Charm which matched the tones in the photos perfectly.
I've stopped buying Thickers as the price keeps creeping up and I don't get very many titles per pack before I run out of critical letters. This means I am cutting more and more titles on my Silhouette - all the letters I need, in any colour and font I like. This time I layered patterned paper with an offset cut from kraft cardstock.
Supplies
Cardstock - American Crafts, Bazzill
Paper - My Mind's Eye Vintage Charm
Pearls - Scrapberry's
Ink - Ranger
Tools
Silhouette Portrait
Big Shot & Dovecraft Star Die
Hobbycraft Star Punch
Another of For the Love of Pretty Paper's cybercrop challenges gave me another opportunity to finish off a 'starting point' page. This time we were asked to use triangles on a page for the 'Sandwiches' challenge, and I had a page background ready that I'd made when I was experimenting with my Silhouette Portrait a while back.
I went to some theme park photos which match the colours of my papers, but they were quite old and really didn't work with the stark white background.
Flipping through the same album, I picked a couple of photos from my last day at school, more than 30 years ago. They were originally about 4"x5" and I moved them round the page A LOT, before deciding to add a larger triangle to the page (even though it would cover some of my existing smaller triangles). Following that the rest of the page fell into place - crop and mat the photos, title along the side of the triangle, extra strip of paper on the left edge, journalling on strips alongside the top photo and embellishments in opposite corners.
Supplies
Paper - Studio Calico Sundrifter, Studio Calico Snippets, Studio Calico Heyday
Die-Cuts - Jillibean Soup
Sticker - Studio Calico
Enamel Shapes - Marianne Designs
Tools
Silhouette Portrait
I've gone back in time again for this page, with a trio of 1980s photos of my siblings on Cannock Chase.
The page was triggered by a challenge from The Cut Shoppe to use one of their cut-files on the vertical. I chose Very Squarey, which is a square file, sized it to 8x8 to fit the width of my Portrait and duplicated part of it to make it 8x12.
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I realised that the file and photos would work with a Starting Point from Hey Little Magpie, and followed a This or That challenge from Lottie Loves Paper when it came to embellishments. I chose spotty paper, handwriting, enamel dots, word stickers and arrows.
Finally, I linked up with UK Scrap Addicts who asked us to scrap photos from an outdoor game (among other options).
Supplies
Cardstock - Stampin' Up!
Paper - Heidi Swapp Vintage Chic, 4Heures 37 Eiffel Avenue, Carta Bella Fall Blessings
Letters - October Afternoon
Word Stickers - My Mind's Eye
Glitter Tape - Unknown
Washi Tape - Little B
Enamel Dots - Simple Stories
Ink & Mist - Docrafts
Tools
Silhouette Portrait
Woodware Postage Stamp Punch
Woodware Scalloped Circle Punch
Woodware Tag Punch
I'm waiting on order of new photographs before I can continue with my cruise album, so I've decided to try and use up some of the 'starting point' pages that I've made previously. I do these to finish off collections or try out ideas, and then put them aside until I have suitable photos, and I have a few now piled up. I spread them all out on my desk and flipped through an older photo album to see if any would match up.
On this occasion, I paired a couple of photos from Stonehenge with a page I started to use up Fancy Pants' Little Sport collection. The photos were only 5" x 4" but were still a little large for the paper panels I'd stuck down; however they had a lot of grey sky so I cropped them down and matted them on a scrap of cardstock.
Once the photos were in place, it didn't take long to add a title, journalling, a sprinkling of mist and some stars and enamel dots as embellishments.
Supplies
Cardstock - Bo Bunny
Paper - Fancy Pants Little Sport, Colorset
Letters - Basic Grey
Enamel Dots - Simple Stories, We R Memory Keepers
Ink - Hobbycraft
Mist - Docrafts
Tools
Hobbycraft Star Punch
For the last week or so, I've been sharing the pages I made for National Scrapbooking Day challenges in our Facebook group, For the Love of Pretty Paper; Sharlotte set the final challenge, and she asked us to scrap a photo of friends, or about friendship.
If you thought my last two pages were old memories, I'm going even further back in the archives now. I was actually looking for a different set of photos when I came across this pair from a camping trip with some schoolfriends that we did just before we all went off to university.
I'm combining Sharlotte's challenge with the NSD Sketch from Sketch-n-Scrap. When I first saw this one, I felt that it would be adaptable to just two photos and that's what I did, with my journalling taking the place of the third photo on the right.
Supplies
Paper - Crate Paper Pretty Party, My Mind's Eye Find Your Wings and Fly, plus Scraps
Letters - Jillibean Soup, American Crafts
Stickers - Simple Stories Take a Hike, Echo Park This & That, Anita's Glitterations
Butterflies - Prima
Enamel Dots - Teresa Collins
Brads - Papermania
Washi Tape
Ink - Docrafts
Tools
Woodware Postage Stamp Punch
Woodware Scalloped Circle Punch
