Old & New

Lisa-Jane's Page

UK Scrap Addicts only had one challenge for National Scrapbooking Day, and it was nice and straightforward - to scraplift any page by any of their design team.

The next photos in my 'to scrap' pile were a pair of 4x6 prints so I looked for a page to suit them. The current fashion for single-photo pages meant that I had to go back to December for one from Lisa-Jane Johnson. 

I rotated her page and worked with scraps from my  kit to make the closing page of my Far East album. I took these photos on the way to the airport; an old fishing jetty and the new bridge from the island to the mainland. 

Supplies
Cardstock - Bazzill Swiss Dot
Paper - K&Co Hannah, DCWV Far East
Letters - American Crafts
Glitter Tape - Hobbycraft
Washi Tape - Unknown
Ink - Ranger

Tools
Big Shot
X-Cut Camera Dies
Woodware Postage Stamp Punch
X-Cut Small Circle Punch

Smile

The Original Page

This is the penultimate page that I'm making from Malaysia, and it's a replacement for one I made back in 2012. I made the original page with four overlapping rectangles of patterned papers, but those papers don't appear elsewhere in the album, I hate all the rounded corners and the embellishment is limited to a few nondescript cross stitches. 

I started the new page on National Scrapbooking Day with a scraplift challenge from Hey Little Magpie. We had a choice of two pages from Rachel Millington to lift and I chose one with a large slanting panel filling most of the page.

I made it harder for myself because my photo was landscape while hers had been portrait, so I had to play with the positioning of the elements on the page to make it work for me. This meant running my photo off the side of the central panel and moving my embellishment above the photo rather than running it alongside. My title (rescued from the original page along with scraps of the pink paper) is smaller than hers and that opened up space for a large tag with my journalling.

I layered a second tag under that journalling tag, and with three more punched tags at the top right, I'm also linking up with Shimelle's second NSD challenge - to use lots of tags.

Supplies
Paper - DCWV Far East, Kit 'n' Craft, Crate Paper Mia
Letters - Crate Paper
Border Sticker - atd
Glitter Tape - Hobbycraft
Rain Dots - Cloud 9 Design
Thread - Anchor
Ink - Ranger

Tools
Fiskars Apron Lace Border Punch
Woodware Tag Punch
X-Cut Small Circle Punch
Big Shot & X-Cut Tag Die
Inkadinkadoo Camera Stamp

Family Snapshots

When I returned to my Far East album (a ten year old project) I divided my existing pages into four categories - done, tweak, re-work and replace. I'm almost at the end now and I'm happy with most of the existing pages but this one was missing something.

The papers I used here are unique to this page rather than repeating through the album, but I decided to run with that as they aren't far from the overall colour scheme. The embellishment is different too, so I decided to add a bit more that is more similar to that on the other pages. I moved the journalling tag back a layer which opened up a space next to the title for a small cluster of paper pieces and die-cuts. I finished that cluster with a trio of pearls, which I repeated near the original lines of thread at the top right and bottom left. Small changes I know, but I'm happier with this page now.

Supplies
Paper Echo Park Yours Truly, HOTP Asian Writing, K&Company 
Letters - Jillibean Soup
Buttons - Meiflower
Embroidery Thread - Anchor
Coin/Token - bought at Kek Lok Si
Tag - from Stash
Brad - Papermania
Pearls - Kanban

Tools
Big Shot
Dovecraft Tag Die
X-Cut Camera Die

Khoo Kongsi

Wedding pages are all done now, so I just have a few more pages to make from our trip to Singapore and Malaysia back in 2009 and then I'll be done and another album can join its fellows on the shelf. We had another couple of days in Penang after the wedding but I've already made most of those pages in the past and am either leaving them alone or only adding a few extra pieces. I have one new double (this one) and two singles that I am going to re-do.

Khoo Kongsi is the Chinese clanhouse where the Khoo family (to which our bride belongs) gather to worship their ancestors. There are a number of kongsi in the city, built by the various immigrant families as they settled here in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

I went for a double page for eight photos in assorted sizes. I was happy with the way I was arranging the pictures but had a real struggle with my paper layers until I finally ditched my original background and switched to the Hannah collection from K&Company. I used this a lot at the start of the album but recent pages have used other collections instead.

As I'm sure you know, it was National Scrapbook Day yesterday, though it's turned into a multi-day event now and often starts on the Friday with challenges running remaining open for a couple of weeks. 

The first challenge that I saw published this year was from Hey Little Magpie, and was to not use white cardstock. That was an easy one for me where this album is concerned and I duly avoided it for this page.

Supplies
Cardstock - Papermania, Bazzill
Paper - K&Co Hannah, DCWV Far East
Letters - American Crafts
Die-Cuts/Tags - K&Co Hannah
Glitter Tape - Hobbycraft
Rain Dots - Cloud 9 Design
Ink - Ranger

Tools
Woodware Postage Stamp Punch

Mr & Mrs

I've scrapped all photos from my brother-in-law's wedding day and evening now, but I need one more page to fill a gap before some doubles from the last day of sight-seeing we did in Malaysia.

I picked my favourite shot from their wedding photoshoot (held a few weeks earlier), printed it at A4 (210mm x 297mm) and matted it on red cardstock to be 12" tall for this page. Shimelle made several pages with 12x8 photos in her A Most Magical Scrapbook class, and I scraplifted one of them here for a page with two diagonal clusters of layers, one large and one small.

I'm still sharing pages from the Easter Cybercrop at For the Love of Pretty Paper; the challenges were all chocolate-themed and this was for "Picnic" which was to scrap an outdoors photo.

Supplies
Cardstock - American Crafts, Stampin' Up!
Paper - 7Gypsies, K&Co Hannah, KaiserCraft A Touch of Gold
Letters - Pebbles
Glitter Tape - Hobbycraft
Gems - Love to Craft
Ink - Ranger

Tools
Big Shot
X-Cut Ticket Stubs Die
X-Cut Camera Dies
Woodware Scalloped Circle Punch

Dance the Night Away

I've finally reached the last page from my brother-in-law's wedding, but there will be one more bridal page to come from a separate photoshoot as I need an even number to fit the space in the album.

This one features the dancing after the evening banquet and I picked five photos for my own version of 'The Trio' sketch from Shimelle's Start with a  Sketch class, a sketch originally designed for three photos.

The Easter cybercrop at For the Love of Pretty Paper closed yesterday, but I entered this page before the deadline. All the challenges were chocolate-themed and this one was for "Celebrations", to scrapbook a party.

Supplies
Cardstock - Payper Box, Bazzill
Paper - 7Gypsies, DCWV Far East
Letters - American Crafts, Tim Holtz
Glitter Tape - Hobbycraft?
Puffy Hearts - American Crafts
Gems - Love to Craft
Ink - Ranger

Tools
Fiskars Shape Cutter & Circles Template
Big Shot
Dovecraft Label Die
The Works Patterned Circle Die
Woodware Small Star Punch

In the Ballroom

This page will come just before the last one, and sit opposite it in my album. It's the second page that I've made made from the 'Go for the Grid' sketch in Shimelle's current class, Start with a Sketch, but they don't actually look too much alike.

This one is from the evening of the wedding when we had a formal banquet in the Grand Ballroom of the hotel. I've used five photos in a chequerboard with the same patterned paper on all the other squares. I cut a window in the top square to reveal the front of the banquet menu which is tucked into a pocket behind the page.

My journalling is mostly about the food that we ate; I didn't take any photos of the dishes themselves so I made sure to pick a couple of pictures which do have food in them.

The food theme means that this is another challenge ticked off in the chocolate-themed Easter Cybercrop at For the Love of Pretty Paper; "Munchies" was to make a foodie page.

Supplies

Cardstock - DCWV, Stampin' Up!

Paper - DCWV Far East, Teresa Collins Christmas Cottage, Dovecraft Eastern Promise

Letters - American Crafts, Fancy Pants, Creative Devotion

Flowers & Metal Hearts - Advent Calendar Swap

Puffy Hearts - American Crafts

Glitter Tape - Hobbycraft?

Washi Tape - Dovecraft

Gems - Love to Craft

Ink - Ranger

Tools

Big Shot

Dovecraft Label Die

Spellbinders Circle Die

Little B Arrow Die

Fiskars Shape Cutter & Circles Template

Cake and Champagne

Having made a few wedding pages now and planned out the rest, there are going to be nine, one double and eight single. It's a crazy number but there were so many parts to the day that I want to record. 

There was a big stage in the hotel ballroom and the bride and groom used it for the speeches, cutting the cake and pouring a fountain of champagne. Three photos on this page, which is a scraplift from A Most Magical Scrapbook.

And, of course, it's another page for the chocolate-themed Easter cybercrop at For the Love of Pretty Paper; this is "Twix" which was to use stripes.

Supplies
Cardstock - American Crafts, Inspire Me Papers
Paper - DCWV Far East Stack, K&Co Hannah
Letters - Tim Holtz
Word Stickers - Pretty Little Studio
Gold Seals - Advent Calendar Swap
Glitter Tape - Hobbycraft?
Pearls - Artoz
Gems - Love to Craft
Ink - Ranger

Tools
Big Shot & Dovecraft Label Die
Woodware Postage Stamp Punch
Woodware Scalloped Circle Punch

Clap Your Hands

I'm continuing with pages from the wedding of my brother-in-law in Malaysia; we had a formal dinner in the evening and I took these photos of the children of the two families together. They didn't speak the same language but were interested in each other and ended up playing clapping games alongside each other while we were waiting to go into the ballroom.

I've been making the wedding pages with a subset of the album kit that I assembled but I'm running low on 12x12 paper now so I made this page with four 6x6 papers as my background instead. I stacked my photos in a column and tucked in various scraps down one side.

Two of the papers are predominantly green and black here so I'm ticking off the "Green & Black's" challenge from For the Love of Pretty Paper's chocolate-themed Easter Cybercrop.

Supplies
Cardstock - Bazzill, American Crafts, Stampin' Up!
Paper - Dovecraft Eastern Promise, 7Gypsies
Letters - American Crafts
Label - Quirky Kits
Gold Seals - Advent Calendar Swap
Washi Tape - Dovecraft
Enamel Dots - Simple Stories, 
Ink - Ranger

Tools
Fiskars Apron Lace Border Punch
Woodware Postage Stamp Punch

Dress to Impress

Another wedding page today, and it's back to the more formal straight lines of my earlier pages. After the daytime ceremony in the bride's family home, they held a formal dinner in a hotel in the evening. I picked out a couple of posed photos for this page, one has the bride and groom with both sets of parents and the other has them with the groom's (our) immediate family.

A two-photo page means that I can tick off "Double Decker" in the chocolate-themed Easter Cybercrop at For the Love of Pretty Paper. Three down, 17 to go (though I'm pretty sure I'll skip over some of them).

Supplies

Cardstock - Bazzill, Payper Box

Paper - 7Gypsies, Dovecraft Eastern Promise

Letters - Love to Craft

Glitter Tape - Hobbycraft?
Washi Tape - Dovecraft

Gems - Love to Craft

Ink - Ranger

Tools

Big Shot & Spellbinders Circle Die

Craft Creative Flower Punch

Focus

My last two wedding pages have been quite formal and used lots of straight lines; I've gone more casual with this one because the subject matter is also more casual. Rather than concentrating on the bridal couple, the page is about the sheer number of photographers pointing their cameras at them. I picked a quartet of photos and worked with Sketch 5 from Shimelle's current class, Start with a Sketch.

I've also completed another of the chocolate-themed Easter Cybercrop challenges with this page. "Mini Eggs" was all about the little things (like brads, sequins, enamel dots or gems) and I have five clusters of little things spread across the page.

Supplies
Cardstock - Bazzill, DCWV
Paper - 7Gypsies, Pink Paislee Auburn Lane, K&CO Hannah, First Edition, Dovecraft Eastern Promise
Vellum - The Works
Letters - American Crafts
Glitter Tape - Hobbycraft?
Enamel Stars - Freckled Fawn
Enamel Dots - My Mind'e Eye
Gems - Love to Craft
Ink - Ranger
Mist - Docrafts

Tools
Big Shot
X-Cut Camera Dies
Spellbinders Circle Dies
Woodware Postage Stamp Punch

His & Hers

My last page was a double for the wedding ceremony of my brother-in-law and his new wife; I have several more wedding pages to come and the next few will have a pair of 4x6 photos each time so I want to make sure they all look a bit different. The first one has photos of the families of the bride and groom, which I placed in opposite corners of a central block, and then filled in the gaps with multiple strips of patterned paper, repeating the papers that I used on the last page I made.

Lots of patterned paper generally leads me to minimal embellishments and on this occasion I just used a scattering of puffy hearts and some glittered dots from my pack of letter stickers.

I'll be trying to combine as many wedding pages as possible with Easter Cybercrop challenges from For the Love of Pretty Paper; they are all chocolate-themed and this is the first one that I've ticked off - the M&Ms challenge - to use alliteration.

Supplies
Cardstock - Bazzill
Paper - 7Gypsies, Pink Paislee Auburn Lane, Dovecraft Eastern Promise
Letters - Hobbycraft
Border - Unknown
Puffy Hearts - American Crafts, Studio Calico
Ink - Ranger

A Different Wedding Ceremony

I'm trying to work my way through my Far East album in order so that the single sand doubles fit together properly, and I've finally reached the reason for the trip - the wedding of my brother-in-law to his Malaysian fiancée. Her family has Chinese heritage so the ceremony was based on Chinese traditions including a tea ceremony.

I had previously made an 8-photo double page for just the tea ceremony but I never liked it and I'm happy to bin it and start again. My new page has eight photos again but only two are from the tea ceremony now, with six from other parts of the day. I went for a grid this time, with alternating rectangles of photos and patterned paper, based on the 'Go for the Grid' sketch from Shimelle Laine's new class Start with a Sketch.

I rescued the embossed cardstock from my old pages and plan to spread it across all the wedding pages I make this time. I used four strips here above and below the grid, with the main background being plain cardstock instead.

Supplies
Cardstock - Unknown Embossed, Stampin' Up!
Paper - Dovecraft Eastern Promise, 7Gypsies
Letters - Webster's Pages
Vellum & Hearts - Unknown
Washi Tape - Dovecraft?
Gems - Love to Craft
Ink - Ranger

Tools
Silhouette Portrait
X-Cut Small Circle Punch
Crayola Flower Punch

Jalan Penang and Lebuh Muntri

That title may seem like gobbledegook, but they are the names of two of the streets in George Town. Jalan Penang is the main shopping street (pictured on the right of this double page) while Lebuh Muntri is a quieter side street (on the left side).

My page was loosely based on the May 2018 double page sketch from Stick It Down, but it took on a life of its own with a wider central panel and more photos.

I ran my title vertically and it doesn't show up as well as I'd thought it would on the patterned background. I would  like to have outlined the letters in white pen but mine has dried up so that's a job for the future when I can get a new one.

Supplies
Cardstock - DCWV
Paper - Dovecraft Eastern Promise
Letters - KaiserCraft
Washi Tape - Dovecraft
Pearls - Scrapberry's
Ink - Ranger

Tools
Big Shot
Provocraft Alphabet Dies
Little B Arrows Dies
X-Cut Ticket Stubs Die
Spellbinders Circle Dies
X-Cut Small Circle Punch

Time at the Pool

We were out in Malaysia for my brother-in-law's wedding, so lots of family members were staying in the same hotel. We tended to do our own thing in the mornings and then meet up by the pool in the afternoons. I knew I needed a pool page, but assumed it would be a single until I came to select my photos. I couldn't whittle it down past six and didn't want to print them too small, so came to the decision to make a double here.

I turned to Sketch Support to see if they had a suitable sketch and found this one which I could easily adapt to suit my mixture of photos. I dropped the banners, added an extra paper layer behind my photos and moved the border pieces to the bottom of the page.

Supplies
Cardstock - DCWV
Paper - My Mind's Eye Collectable, DCWV Far East, K&Co 
Letters - Collage Press, KaiserCraft, Webster's Pages
Puffy Hearts - American Crafts/Shimelle
Epoxy Stars - Latech
Peel-Offs - Konica
Glitter Tape - Hobbycraft?
Ink - Ranger

Tools
Big Shot
Dovecraft Label Die
Spellbinders Circle Die
Woodware Scalloped Circle Die

Family

I have another 'makeover' page to share today. I was regretting the red bling on the original version (added as part of a challenge) and went back to it to see what I could do to improve it but I found that all the adhesive had failed and the page was falling apart. The only thing that was firmly stuck down was that bling so I decided to reprint the photo and start again.

I re-used the background, but I cut it down a tad and matted it on cream cardstock to contain the bold pattern. I also re-used some of the paper layers but with the other sides showing this time. I kept the journalling tag and rescued the red lettering to use that again too.

Supplies
Cardstock - Bazzill
Paper - DCWV Far East, First Edition J'Adore, Dovecraft Eastern Promise
Letters - My Mind's Eye
Washi Tape - Trimcraft
Gems - Simply Creative
Ink - Ranger

Tools
Big Shot
Dovecraft Label Die
Spellbinders Circle Die
Crayola Flower Punch

Curry for Breakfast

This is one of the pages in my Far East album that just needed a little tweak. It jarred with me as I turned the pages of the album because of the way I'd angled the papers here, which is a contrast to most of the other pages where everything is much more rigidly lined up.

I was able to take the page apart, ink all the edges and put it back together again with much smaller angles and an extra layer of paper (cut in two) at the sides. I replaced the embellishment clusters as they originally were but added a couple more dots to each one.

Supplies
Paper - Bo Bunny Et Cetera, KaiserCraft Up, Up and Away, Kit 'n' Craft
Letters - American Crafts, Pebbles
Dew Drops - Papermania, Cloud 9 Design

Tools
Fiskars Postage Stamp Border Punch
Woodware Scalloped Circle Punch
X-Cut Small Circle Punch

Little India

I've finished the Singapore section of my Far East album now, so I'm moving on to Malaysia where we stayed in George Town on the island of Penang. On the whole, I made my Malaysian pages later than my Singaporean pages, so I'm happier with more of them but there are still a few that require my attention.

I had two niggles with this page from the Little India district of George Town - I really wish I'd matted the photos, and I don't like the title/journalling cluster; it feels disconnected from the photos due to both the physical separation and the use of circles and rounded corners when the rest of the page is made up of straight lines.

It was easy enough to lift the original photos from the page, mat them on brown cardstock and replace them; while doing that I also swapped over the two landscape photos so that the general view is now at the top and the close-up at the bottom. 

I wanted to keep the title circle, but it's quite small and the same colour as the paper behind it so I matted it on glittered cardstock and die-cut three smaller circles from the same paper so that I could repeat both the colour and the shape around the page. I still had a couple of off-cuts of these papers in my scraps box so I was able to use one of them for a new journalling box. I added foam squares to my title circle and overlapped it with two of the photos and the journalling box so that it all feels more connected and coherent now.

Supplies
Cardstock - DCWV, American Crafts
Paper - Fancy Pants Summer's End
Lace Border Sticker - Crate Paper Random Collection
Peel-Off Letters - Gold Label
Ink - Papermania, Ranger
Ribbon - from Stash

Tools
Fiskars Shape Cutter & Circle Template
Kreaxions Circle Cutter
Big Shot & The Works Circle Die

Singapore Flyer

After a detour through the decades for the recent cybercrop challenges, I'm returning to my Far East album today. Last month, when I first returned to this old, stalled album, I divided the pages into four categories - leave, tweak, re-work and replace, and today's page is of the 'replace' variety. I had already scrapped our ride on the Singapore Flyer, but I'd done so on two mis-matched single pages that made me cringe every time I looked at them, so they had to go.

I made and blogged the old left-hand page back in 2011 (right) and it's not too bad in itself; if it was just a single page then I would probably add something to (or replace) the odd trio of punched circles by the journalling and call it done. However, I originally made another page on a blue background with views of the city taken from the Singapore Flyer, the two don't work together at all, and I decided to replace them with a proper double rather than try to make a new single page to complement this one better.

I like both the semi-circle on the above page, and the background paper that I'd previously used; luckily I was able to salvage enough of the old background paper to re-purpose it for a new semi-circle. I had some memorabilia that I wanted to include on this page, our tickets are tucked behind the top photo and I made a pocket for our 'Flight Guide' from the pink Chinese character paper.

Supplies
Cardstock - Bazzill
Paper - DCWV Far East Stack, K&Co Hannah
Ribbon - DCWV
Washi Tape - October Afternoon
Glitter Tape - Hobbycraft?
Word Stickers - Tim Holtz
Brads - 7Gypsies
Raindrops - Cloud 9 Design

Tools
Fiskars Apron Lace Border Punch
Big Shot & Spellbinders Circle Die
Woodware Postage Stamp Punch
Silhouette Portrait

A Trip of Two Islands

This page is a new one, and will appear quite early in the album; it doesn't have any photos but instead I used a map of south east Asia (printed from the internet) which shows the locations of Singapore and Penang, the two places we visited.

I'd originally left a gap in the album for it, but as I added pages, turned doubles into singles and singles into doubles, I wasn't sure whether to make this one or not. In the end, I needed one more page to even things up before a series of doubles so that decided it for me.

I based my page design on Xochitl's Birthday Scraplift in the Scrap Squad Facebook group, a lift of a page originally made by Rachel O'Neal for Paper Issues.

I only had one picture (my map) so I extended it across the page by placing it on a 4"x11" strip of patterned paper with a journalling tag. I copied the large triangle of patterned paper on a square of cardstock, but chose coloured rather than white for my page. I moved the embellishments from their positions in the original page, making three clusters based around postage stamp style stickers.

Supplies
Cardstock - Bazzill
Paper - DCWV Far East Stack, We R Memory Keepers Quoted
Letters - Jillibean Soup, Basic Grey
Tag - K&Co Hannah
Stickers - One CanoeTwo Stickerbook
Glitter Tape - Hobbycraft?
Peel-Offs - Unknown

Tools
X-Cut Small Circle Punch