Saunton Sands

Another page with vintage photos today, a trio of beach snaps from Saunton Sands in North Devon. I used a page design from Shimelle Laine's Layer on Layer on Layer class in combination with a challenge from For the Love of Pretty Paper to doodle in colour on a page. My doodling is simple, just outlining each paper, but I did each one in colours to match the different papers.

Supplies
Cardstock - My Mind's Eye Necessities, Bazzill
Paper - Heidi Swapp No Limits, Sandylion
Kraft Tags - Advent Calendar Swap
Chipboard Stars - Studio Calico Mistables
Glitter Tape - Hobbycraft
Enamel Dots - Simple Stories, Doodlebug, My Mind's Eye
Mist - Docrafts

Tools
Silhouette Portrait
American Crafts Mini Stapler
Big Shot
X-Cut Camera Die
Dovecraft Tag Die

22 Today

One of the National Scrapbooking Day challenges at For the Love of Pretty Paper was to make a page using a set of digital papers designed by Leonora from Crafty Templates. The pink, aqua and navy colour scheme didn't immediately spark any ideas for me so I passed over that challenge at first, but later on I found the perfect birthday cake photo to go with the papers.

There were two larger patterned papers (about 6x8 each), four 3x4 cards and a plethora of banners, tags and hearts (though I didn't use the hearts in the end).

I layered up the two larger patterns, used a 3x4 card each side of my photo, tucked the tags randomly into the top and lined up some of the banners at the bottom. I added my age to one card, a word sticker to the other card, and finished with a few enamel dots and a scattering of white sequins.

Supplies
Paper - My Mind's Eye Necessities
Numbers - Fancy Pants
Doily - Advent Swap
Word Sticker - Crate Paper/Maggie Holmes
Sequins - Unknown
Enamel Dots - Echo Park
Ink - Hobbycraft
Mist - Docrafts

Tools
Sewing Machine

The White Lady

I'm going way back in the photo archives for this page (and the next few); back to 1993 when I was living in Devon.

I made it for a stamping challenge from For the Love of Pretty Paper; I had a new set of outdoors-themed stamps that I wanted to try out, but I wanted just one or two photos for that rather than the multiples that I take these days.

The photo that I used comes from Lydford Gorge, a place that I have visited and scrapbooked many times over the years; in particular, it's of the waterfall there, which is called the White Lady.

I started off with the leaf-print paper which I machine-stitched to the page and stamped lines of boot prints above and below it. I stitched the red paper in place too, and then layered up an assortment of scraps, including a circular element that I had cut and then rejected for a previous page. I stamped and cut out the signpost and camera, and added a few small die-cut pieces around the circle and by my journalling.

Supplies
Paper - Crate Paper Journey, Prima Marketing Zella Teal, Basic Grey Mon Ami, Pebbles/Jen Hadfield Warm & Cozy, Crate Paper Mia
Letters - Basic Grey
Die-Cuts - Pinkfresh Studio
ink - Ranger

Tools
Sewing Machine
The Great Outdoors Stamp Set (Creative Stamping Magazine)
Silhouette Portrait & The Cut Shoppe 'Right on Target' Cutfile

One Year On

It's St Valentine's Day, and Shimelle has challenged us to scrapbook with hearts this week, so I have a page with a rare photo of my husband and me together. It's an old photo and the title reflects the fact that we'd been married for a year. However it's not an anniversary photo, but one from some friends' wedding a few weeks later.

Unusually, I picked my background first, followed by a Project Life card to go next to my photo and hold my heart embellishment, then a few papers to go with them.

I shuffled papers for a while, before I decided to adapt a sketch from Stuck?! Sketches. It's a three-photo sketch and I only have one, but the circles were just what I needed to break up the boxiness of the layouts that I'd tried and rejected.

My background paper came from a Quirky Kit last autumn, and the text print heart was an exclusive piece in the same kit. The chalkboard heart was another Quirky Kit item, but from summer 2014. I had three left from the pack and had I intended to use them all when I started the page but it didn't work out.


Supplies
Paper - Pink Paislee Cedar Lane, My Mind's Eye Now & Then, My Mind's Eye Find Your Wings & Fly, Carta Bella Baby Mine
Card - Project Life Sweet Edition
Letters - October Afternoon
Stickers - EK Success, My Mind's Eye Now & Then
Brad - My Mind's Eye Now & Then
Ink - Docrafts
Mesh - from Stash

Tools
Sewing Machine

It's Traditional

Another page for NSD at Two Peas - Challenge 7: Create with Polaroids. This could be a mock-up from a modern photo or you could use paper or stamps with the polaroid shape. I decided to use the real thing - the only polaroid photos that I actually have, two photos of our car covered in balloons and shaving foam after our wedding in 1993.

I used the latest Scrapbook Starting Point from Shimelle, but flipped it around as I found that I wanted my photos to the left of my journalling. I have several sheets of this Rosebud paper that I bought specifically for scrapping our wedding but this is the first page that I've made. 

The title is something that we now say to our children when we can't explain why we do certain things. Just why is it that we decorate the bride & groom's car?

Supplies

Paper - Sandylion Rosebud, MME Wild Asparagus, KaiserCraft Seaside, Pebbles Fresh Goods, Paper Adventures Love Hearts

Vellum - Paper Adventures Cream Ribbon

Letters - Anita's Glitterations

Heart Brad - Kit 'n' Kraft