Cruise Scotland - The Album

I've finished making the pages for the album of our cruise round Scotland last summer, but I have two remaining tasks - to make a title card for the front cover and then to go through all the pages again to add any extra pieces they need, starting with pages that feel plainer than average and then trying to use up my remaining ephemera.

I've used a mixture of 49 and Market Vintage Artistry papers for this album, buying Anywhere for its travel theme and combining it with the Collectors Edition Volume 1 which I already owned. I cut one of my 6x8 papers down to 5x5 for the title card and added strips of paper and glitter tape to the left edge. Pleasingly I had just the right amount of glitter tape left on the roll for this so that's one thing that won't be returning to my stash. 

The album itself is a silver-grey one from First Edition that we were given for our silver wedding anniversary four years ago. Ideally it would have housed that year's cruise but I made enough pages for two albums and couldn't get another the same. I'm glad to have used it now and the grey is a better match to the papers I used this time than to the ones I used for 2018.

Supplies
Paper - 49 & Market Vintage Artistry Anywhere
Letters - American Crafts/Shimelle
Ephemera - 49 & Market Vintage Artistry Anywhere

Word Sticker - Tim Holtz

Puffy Stars - Unknown
Ink - Ranger

Tools

Silhouette Portrait

Big Shot & Dovecraft Label Die

Scrapberry's Compass Stamp

Ullapool

Our Scottish cruise last summer lasted five days and the resulting album has only 16 pages, so I'm at a loss to see why it's taken me so long, but I've now made the final page. This one's for Ullapool, the village beside Loch Broom where we paused and then turned around.

I took a landscape photo and printed it in two 4x6 pieces which I then cropped slightly and overlapped across the middle of my page. I'm low on papers (which is just as well at this stage) so I've cut and stretched several pieces and also made use of the branding strips.

I used the same font with my Silhouette for the title as on all the previous pages, and I'll be glad to have finished with that now. It's been useful for continuity and it has meant I couldn't run out of any letters but that curly font has been a pain at times and I'll choose something else for my next project.

Supplies

Paper - 49 & Market Vintage Artistry Sage, 49 & Market Vintage Artistry Anywhere

Ephemera - 49 & Market Vintage Artistry Anywhere

Glitter Tape - The Works

Gems - Simply Creative

Ink - Ranger

Mist - Mister Huey's

Tools

Silhouette Portrait

Big Shot & Spellbinders Circle Dies

Dunscansby Sea Stacks

I'm going backwards in my cruise album now; this will be the fifth page and was the first sight of our scenic cruising, but I skipped over it earlier after I decided to reprint the lighthouse photo in a smaller size.

It was an early start to the day and the photos are rather misty, but the three are: a stretch of the coast, a closer picture of just the sea stacks (which are at the left end of the main photo) and a close-up of the lighthouse on the cliffs. I'm running low on papers now so I matted the photos on three different scraps and layered them over a large piece of map ephemera and an off-cut from another page. I tucked a journalling piece from a cut-apart sheet into the left of the bottom photo, cut my title in the usual mix of fonts and put a couple of small embellishment clusters together. 

The page is simpler and has less colour than a lot of the others in the album, but I quite like it and didn't feel the need to add any more.

Supplies

Paper - 49 & Market Vintage Artistry Sage, 49 & Market Vintage Artistry Anywhere

Ephemera - 49 & Market Vintage Artistry Anywhere

Gems - Simply Creative, Love to Craft

Ink - Ranger

Mist - Mister Huey's

Tools

Silhouette Portrait

Big Shot & The Works Alphabet Dies

X-Cut Circle Punch

Loch Broom and the Summer Isles

I'm nearing the end of my latest cruise album now so I've not many full 12x12 sheets left. With three photos printed for this page, I stuck a leftover half-sheet from another page (Welcome Aboard) onto basic white cardstock and stacked the photos in a column against it. I then punched a pile of 1" squares from scraps to fill the opposite side of the page.

I used my usual two fonts for my title and added small tile stickers too so I'm entering this page for a challenge at Scrap Our Stash where they asked us to use three or more types of alphas.

The space beside 'Summer Isles' was the perfect shape for this ephemera piece; I placed a geo-tag above the title, journalled below it and added a trio of star gems in the empty spaces.

Supplies

Paper - 49 & Market Vintage Artistry Anywhere

Letters - Jillibean Soup

Ephemera - 49 & Market Vintage Artistry Anywhere

Glitter Tape - The Works

Gems - Simply Creative

Ink - Ranger

Mist - Mister Huey's

Tools

Silhouette Portrait

Big Shot & The Works Alphabet Dies

Au Revoir Bolette

I'm four pages away from finishing my album for our cruise around Scotland last summer, an album which is taking much longer than it should. I'm actually jumping to the last page now with a quartet of photos of the ship and some views which I wanted to include but they didn't fit anywhere else.

I matted the photos individually and then placed them on a large panel of map print paper which I turned into a pocket to hold our cruise log and ship guide. Two of the photos are a bit dark so I'll reprint those and swap them over later.

I added the bunting for a birthday-themed challenge from For the Love of Pretty Paper. My title is in the same mix of fonts that I've used throughout the album,  cut using both my Silhouette and my Big Shot. The small alpha dies were one of my best buys of the last year.

Supplies

Paper - 49 & Market Vintage Artistry Anywhere, Heidi Swapp Wanderlust

Die-Cuts - 49 & Market

Gems - Simply Creative, Love to Craft

Ink - Ranger

Tools

Silhouette Portrait

Big Shot

The Works Alphabet Dies

X-Cut Bunting Die

Marwick Head

I'm sharing another page from our Scottish cruise today, with a single photo of Marwick Head in the Orkney Islands soon after sunrise. 

The photo's about 4.5" x 8" so I trimmed a little off one end to mat it on one of my 6x8 papers. I then layered that over a couple of L-shaped scraps positioned to look like larger pieces and added strips of paper and glitter tape below the photo.

I wanted to put the title above the photo but the descenders on the M and H gave me a potentially awkward space which I filled with stamping for a birthday challenge from For the Love of Pretty Paper. I added another patch of stamping at the bottom to match and then layered embellishments over it and wrote my journalling alongside.

Supplies

Paper - 49 & Market Vintage Artistry Anywhere

Die-Cuts - 49 & Market

Gems - Simply Creative

Ink - Ranger, Memento

Tools

Silhouette Portrait

Scrapberry's Compass Stamp

American Crafts/Shimelle Starshine Stamp Set

Studio Calico Stars Stamp

Heidi Swapp Inspire Stamp Set

The Works Clear Stamp Set

Cape Wrath

After far too long a break, I'm finally getting back to my cruise album for a five night sail around the north of Scotland last summer. This page has a couple of photos of Cape Wrath, at the north-west 'corner' of the country.

I'm working with 49 & Market Vintage Artistry papers for this album, mixing their  newer Anywhere papers and ephemera with their older collections. For this page I used a couple of 6x8 papers to form an L-shape behind my photos and added cut-apart cards to hold my title and journalling. I'd previously cut a filmstrip in two so I tucked in the leftover piece in on the right of the page and made a couple of embellishment clusters next to the photos in opposite corners.

I cut the title on my Silhouette again, giving it a small offset for stability and clarity as it crosses over several layers of paper and photo.

Supplies

Paper - 49 & Market Vintage Artistry Anywhere, 49 & Market Vintage Artistry Coral

Ephemera - 49 & Market

Enamel Shapes - Pink Paislee

Gems - Simply Creative

Tools

Silhouette Portrait

Big Shot & Dovecraft Label Punch

X-Cut Circle Punch

Woodware Postage Stamp Punch

Show Time

I'm hopping back and forth between my cruise album and my DT work at the moment, and today it's the turn of a page from the cruise. I have three photos from the evening entertainment, one from the resident show team and one each from our two guest entertainers (a magician and a comedian).

The layout's quite simple, with the photos in a block alongside a column of journalling with title above and a few tickets below to embellish. I repeated a ticket with some tags at the top left.

Supplies

Paper - 49 & Market Vintage Artistry Sky, 49 & Market Vintage Artistry Anywhere

Ephemera - 49 & Market

Stars - Papermania

Glitter Tape - The Works

Ink - Ranger

Mist - Mister Huey's

Tools

Silhouette Portrait

Big Shot

The Works Alphabet Dies

Dovecraft Tag Die

Sumburgh Head

Back to my cruise album, but I'm no longer scrapping chronologically. We lost most of our scenic cruising on the Sunday due to fog, but I am recording one photo anyway. We had a geologist and a historian onboard who gave lectures on the geology and history of Scotland that shaped the area we were visiting and also provided commentary on the sections of scenic cruising. At one point the geologist told guests to 'use your imagination' as he described the land lost in the fog and I mentally reserved the phrase for use in my scrapbook with my foggy photo.

I based my page on a sketch from Twilight Crafts which they published to celebrate having 300 members in their Facebook group. I played with the layers, added an embellishment cluster above the photo and moved the title across against it.

I dropped the banner as I generally don't like them, and chose tags for the basis of my embellishment cluster to tie this page in to others I've already made.

Supplies

Cardstock - Bazzill

Paper - 49 & Market Vintage Artistry Anywhere

Ephemera - 49 & Market

Word Sticker - Tim Holtz

Glitter Tape - The Works

Star Gems - Simply Creative

Ink - Ranger

Mist - Mister Huey's

Tools

Silhouette Portrait

Big Shot 

The Works Alphabet Dies

Dovecraft Tag Die

Loch Eriboll

Back to my Scottish cruise scrapbook and the afternoon that we spent sailing down Loch Eriboll and back. This should be my only double page in the album and I had planned to use two sheets of Heidi Swapp paper as my background as I only had one of each of the 49 & Market papers. However when I turned over the last page I made, I realised that the other side of that background was the plainish brown from the collection so I could use that instead to make up the pair. 

I had five landscape photos, a smaller portrait photo and a great deal of journalling, which fell into a series of columns across the page. 

I made my title with a mix of one word cut on the Silhouette and one word in puffy stickers, repeating the trick of curving the smaller word around some of the letters in the larger one to eliminate any trapped white space between the words.

Supplies

Paper - 49 & Market Vintage Artistry Anywhere, Heidi Swapp Wanderlust

Letters - American Crafts/Shimelle

Ephemera - 49 & Market

Glitter Tape - The Works

Word Stickers - Tim Holtz

Puffy Stars - Unknown

Gems - Simply Creative

Ink - Ranger

Mist - Mister Huey's

Tools

Silhouette Portrait

Big Shot & Dovecraft Tag Die

That Special Touch Compass Mask

Whiten Head

Whiten Head wasn't on our list of scenic cruising but we were glad we were on deck as we passed as the cliffs, cave and sea stacks were worth seeing. 

I printed a couple of photos, matted them together and layered them over a column of paper strips, which ties in with this month's challenge from Hey Little Magpie.

I built an embellishment cluster to the right of the photos, based around a filmstrip die-cut, and placed my title (cut on the Silhouette) above it. The way the words fitted together left some open space which I filled with some ephemera pieces.

Supplies

Cardstock - Bazzill

Paper - 49 & Market Vintage Artistry Anywhere, 49 & Market Vintage Artistry Collectors Edition

Ephemera - 49 & Market

Gems - Simply Creative

Ink - Ranger

Tools

Silhouette Portrait

Big Shot

Spellbinders Circle Die

Little B Arrow Die

The Old Man of Hoy

Up until now I've been scrappping our cruise in order, but our first piece of scenic cruising was Duncansby Sea Stacks, and I missed printing one of the photos I want for that page so I'm skipping over it for now.

The second sight should have been The Needle, on the coast of the island of Hoy, but that was lost in the mist, which brings us to the Old Man of Hoy, one of the tallest sea stacks in the UK and the subject of this page. It was still misty so the Old Man wasn't easy to see, but the photos have printed quite dark and less distinct than they are on my screen. I've scrapped what I have, but also lightened them for reprinting in the next batch of photos I order, and I'll swap the prints over later.

I started off using one of last month's sketches from Sketch-n-Scrap as it had the two photo sizes I'd printed and the tags at the top tie in with the tags on the last page I made. However, I flipped it horizontally and then played about with the paper layers and moved the title so it wasn't a close likeness by the time I'd finished.

This is the first page where I've used a paper other than those I chose from 49 & Market; the brown map is from Heidi Swapp, but I think it's a good match for the colours and prints of Vintage Artistry Anywhere.

Supplies

Paper - 49 & Market Vintage Artistry Anywhere, 49 & Market Vintage Artistry Sage, Heidi Swapp Wanderlust

Letters - Pinkfresh Studio

Ephemera - 49 & Market

Puffy Hearts - Unknown

Gems - Papermania, Love to Craft

Ink - Ranger

Mist - Mister Huey's

Tools

Silhouette Portrait

Welcome Aboard

Next page for my cruise album and the photo's from the evening of our first full day, which was a formal dinner. There would normally have been a 'Welcome Aboard' cocktail party first; covid cancelled that but I still used the phrase for my title.

I used a sketch by Lisa Sikorski from her new Scrap a Sketch group on Facebook, but played with the size and positioning of the paper layers to suit my shorter tags, cut with my favourite tag die. 

Supplies

Paper - 49 & Market Vintage Artistry Collectors Edition, 49 & Market Vintage Artistry Anywhere

Ephemera - 49 & Narket

Glitter Tape - The Works

Stars - Unknown

Gems - Love to Craft

Ink - Memento

Mist - Mister Huey's

Tools

Silhouette Portrait

Big Shot & Dovecraft Tag Die

Goodbye Dover

I chose the title of this page to reflect that of the last one (Hello Bolette) and they will sit opposite each other in the album. 

I chose a couple of photos for our departure from Dover and matted them together over band of map print paper from the 6x8 pack which I cut and stretched. I ran a branding strip above it and tore a plain strip to go below it.

I'd already earmarked the pink 'Away We Go' piece for this page and I built a cluster of ephemera for it to sit in (including a pair of suitcases which I'd originally thought would be too big to use). That was the only pink apart from the background at that point, so I added the three die-cut arrows and also used it for the main word of my title which gave a better balance to the page.

There's no journalling for once as there was really nothing to say.

Supplies

Paper - 49 & Market Vintage Artistry Anywhere, 49 & Market Vintage Artistry Coral

Ephemera - 49 & Market

Star Gems - Papermania

Ink - Memento

Mist - Mister Huey's

Tools

Silhouette Portrait

Big Shot

The Works Alphabet Dies

Little B Arrow Die

Dovecraft Label Die

Hello Bolette

I very rarely create pages on both sides of a paper these days, but those from 49 & Market are impressively thick, heavier weight than many brands of cardstock, so I didn't hesitate when I noticed that the back of the last page would make a good basis for the next.

This one's an introduction to the ship we cruised on, Fred. Olsen's Bolette which was previously Holland America's Amsterdam and had been refurbished during the cruising shutdown. We sailed on her second voyage and it's unlikely to be the last; we greatly prefer her to Boudicca, the ship she replaced.

I took both photos from atop the White Cliffs of Dover, one of the ship and one of the whole harbour. It's actually quite hard to see Bolette in the bottom photo so I added a small vellum sticker with an arrow pointing at her. I double-matted my pair of photos, with the back layer offset to hold a column of ephemera pieces.

I cut the word 'Bolette' on my Silhouette, and gave it an offset for increased stability as I layered it over the bottom photo. The word 'Hello' gave me more trouble as placing it horizontally gave me trapped space between the two words. I tried a few sizes and fonts of letter stickers before realising that I could curve the word around the 'l' in Bolette.

Supplies

Paper - 49 & Market Vintage Artistry Sky/Coral, 49 & Market Vintage Artistry Anywhere

Letters - Heidi Swapp

Ephemera - 49 & Market

Sticker - Studio Calico

Glitter Tape - The Works

Gems - Love to Craft

Ink - Memento

Tools

Silhouette Portrait

Scottish Seacation

I often don't make the title page of a holiday album until near the end, but this time it's the first one to be done. I've long had the idea of using a map to show where we sailed, possibly in conjunction with a few highlight photos, but in the end it was just the map that I used.

I printed the map from our cruise operator at the right size to mat it on a 6x8 paper with a black and white border similar to those on a nautical chart. By chance, this made the top part the perfect size to frame with one of the ephemera pieces.

I used one of the Vintage Artistry Sky papers as my background, and stencilled a large compass on it before adding my map, tucking a paper strip and a tab on the right side and a quote at the top. I cut one word each of my title on my Big Shot and my Silhouette and layered them over the empty space on my map.

Supplies

Paper - 49 & Market Vintage Artistry Sky, 49 & Market Vintage Artistry Anywhere

Ephemera - 49 & Market

Numbers - Studio Calico

Vellum Sticker - Studio Calico

Washi Tape - Stampin' Up!

Glitter Tape - The Works

Star Gems - Papermania

Ink - Memento

Mist - Mister Huey's

Tools

Silhouette Portrait

Big Shot

The Works Alphabet Dies

Hobbycraft Heart Punch

A New Project - Cruise Scotland 2021

Our cruise to Scotland last month was only a short one and I haven't decided yet whether it will get its own album or be included with the 2021 album. Whichever way it goes I will be basing the pages around 49 and Market's Vintage Artistry Anywhere Collection.

I have the 6x8 paper pack, the ephemera and the washi stickers, but only five of the 12x12 papers as I intend to augment them with the remains of my Vintage Artistry in Color Collectors Edition. That collection had papers in sky blue, sage green and coral and the plainer papers coordinate well with Anywhere. 

The Collectors Edition pack also included washi tape and ephemera, some of which will work with a travel theme (though I don't expect to use the leaves).

Stepping away from 49 and Market, I bought a few sheets of matching cardstock  and went through my stash for other papers (Crate Paper, My Mind's Eye, Heidi Swapp and Simple Stories). I've added in cork arrows and geo-tags and cork-effect stars from Studio Calico along with map print epoxy arrows from Freckled Fawn.

I haven't bought any letter stickers, but I do have a newish set of small letter dies and my Silhouette for larger words. I like a repeating motif and will pull in my trusty compass stamp and a new (to me) compass mask. Finally, I have a few washi tapes, some starry sequins, an assortment of ends of sticker sheets and a couple of part packs of October Afternoon tidbits (from the Travel Girl and Treasure Map collections).

As always, I'm open to adding more pieces to this selection and when I do that I will keep the new pieces with the rest in order to repeat them across the album.