Showing posts with label Hey Little Magpie. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hey Little Magpie. Show all posts

Monday, 9 May 2022

Fell Foot

I have umpteen projects on the go already, but I'm starting another now. Back in 2018 I kept an 8x8 album/journal to document my first year of parkrun. Since then I've made 12x12 pages in my annual albums for significant events but I've found myself wanting to document some of the smaller moments that don't 'deserve' those pages. Therefore I've decided to make a second 8x8 album dedicated to our parkrun adventures from 2019 onwards, and I'm tackling it now as 8x8 pages should be quite quick and easy, perfect for the multitude of National Scrapbooking Day challenges that were published over the weekend.

My first page is from Fell Foot in Cumbria which we ran in December 2019 when we went to the Lake District for a Christmas party. I used a sketch from Twilight Crafts' recent cyber-crop and the corresponding Jenny Wren cut-file to tick off my first NSD challenge, one from Hey Little Magpie to use hexagons on a page. 

I used black cardstock for the cut-file and cut an extra hexagon to go on the right hand side of the page. I backed three of the hexagons with acetate pieces and tucked the extra in on the right of the photo. I then backed another three shapes with patterned paper topped with stars.


I'm using this album to stash-bust too. All the papers were scraps, the rub-on was the last one in the packet and the acetate has been sitting around for far too long.

Supplies
Cardstock - Craft Sensation
Paper - K&Company, My Mind's Eye
Acetate - American Crafts/Amy Tangerine?
Rub-On - Basic Grey

Tools
Silhouette Portrait
Big Shot 
The Works Alphabet Dies
Woodware Star Punch

Disclosure - As a DT member, I received the digital cut-file free of charge from Twilight Crafts.

Friday, 2 July 2021

Why?

I've gone way back in the photo archives for this page, which I made for the June sketch challenge from Hey Little Magpie.

I picked an 8x8 patterned paper for the central square and smooshed ink onto a cardstock background to frame it. I  switched the photo to the opposite side to suit the slight angle in the way my brother is standing, and added a few paper layers behind it, doodling lines around the edges of each piece and the whole page.


My brother is pulling a face in the photo, probably as a protest against me taking it, so I titled it 'Why?' and journalled an imaginary conversation between us.

Supplies
Cardstock - Unknown
Paper - My Mind's Eye Wild Asparagus
Letters - American Crafts
Flair - Unknown
Swirl Die-Cut - from a Swap
Washi & Word Sticker - Unknown
Enamel Dots - Prima, Simple Stories, Freckled Fawn
Ink - Ranger

Tools
Big Shot
Sizzix Stars Die
X-Cut Ticket Stubs Die

Friday, 4 June 2021

By the Sea

Back to the NSD scrapping now, and I have two pages left to share. I'm still back in the photos archive for this one, which I made for the 'Dadaism' art-themed challenge from For the Love of Pretty Paper. They asked us to use new stash and either a new technique or one we haven't done for a while. My newest stash is the beach-themed Salt & Sunsets collection from Rosie's Studio which led me to old beach photos of us as children,  and I chose stencilling for my technique as this meant I could double up with Hey Little Magpie's stencilling challenge.


Supplies
Cardstock - UK Crafts
Paper - Rosie's Studio Salt & Sunsets
Puffy Words - Rosie's Studio Salt & Sunsets
Die-Cuts - Rosie's Studio Salt & Sunsets
Word Stickers - American Crafts
Washi Tape - Little B
Enamel Dots - Echo Park
Ink - Ranger

Tools
Pretty My Page Circles Stencil

Tuesday, 25 May 2021

I Spy Cake

I'm combining a multitude of elements in this page, driven by NSD challenges at the two sites I decided to follow this year. 

Firstly the 'Fauvism' challenge at For the Love of Pretty Paper asked us to use any two options from complementary colours, a single-coloured paper and a sketch by Lisa Sikorski, and I managed all three. 

Secondly, Hey Little Magpie set a tic-tac-toe challenge, and I chose the left column - one photo, a border punch and stitching.

My single photo is one my husband took of our son eyeing up the cakes after a family funeral. My colour scheme was largely driven by the strip of tea cup paper, which is a branding strip that I thought was too nice to throw away. I considered rotating the sketch to suit a portrait photo better, but that tea cup strip dictated that I kept to the original version.

Aqua sits opposite peach in the colour wheel and I had a 6x6 floral paper that combined the two colours; the rest are all single colour papers.


Supplies
Paper - American Crafts/Shimelle Head in the Clouds, Dovecraft Princess Fairytale, 
OneCanoeTwo Twilight, Make & Create Moments
Letters - Heidi Swapp, Simple Stories
Sticker - American Crafts Shimelle
Enamel Dots - Freckled Fawn, Eyelet Outlet
Thread - DMC
Ink - Ranger
Mist - Heidi Swapp

Tools
Fiskars Circle Template
American Crafts Scalloped Border Punch


Sunday, 23 May 2021

Yes to University of Sussex

I called my 2019 album 'done for now' more than a year ago, but there was a gap in my daughter's story that I wanted to remedy. We looked at various universities for her, including Sussex where she ended up but, although I took photos on some of those visits, I didn't take any at Sussex. Thus the scrapbooks go from us looking at other places to her starting at Sussex without any mention of our visit and her decision to make it her first choice.

When I realised this, I decided to take photos when we collected her at the end of the spring term (March 2020) but Covid disrupted that and I eventually took them in March this year. I particularly wanted spring photos so that they would match the time of our original visit and the trees and flowers would look right.

I took four photos of the buildings that surround Library Square, and used them for the 'Conceptual Art' challenge at For the Love of Pretty Paper. This challenge was an oddity as we had to work from a printed list of instructions without seeing a picture of what the final layout should look like. I'll admit that I didn't follow all the instructions, but I felt it was more important to make a page I liked then to stick to them rigidly and be less happy with the result.


For comparison purposes, here's the original page made by Karen/Scrapdolly who also wrote the instructions.

It all felt too left-heavy to me, so I pushed everything to the right by extending the paper across the top of the page, adding an extra square on top of it and spreading out the layering of the vertical papers and photos. I also rotated the banners at the top of the page, added some labels at the bottom left and dropped the line of bunting.

I also linked up with Hey Little Magpie who set a much more straightforward challenge to use three or more photos on a page.

Supplies
Cardstock - Bo Bunny, UK Crafts
Paper - Pink Paislee/Paige Evans Whimsical
Enamel Dots - Pretty My Page, Freckled Fawn

Tools
Silhouette Portrait
Big Shot
Dovecraft Label Die
X-Cut Pennant Die


Thursday, 13 May 2021

That Green Jeep

I'm back with the second of three pages from a 1980s holiday in Ibiza. We hired a car one day to explore the island, and this page has a photo of my parents in that car, an open top jeep.

I used an NSD sketch from Hey Little Magpie with another art-based challenge from For the Love of Pretty Paper. This one was Classicism which asked for lots of paper, one of three colour palettes and a classic technique.

I'm using Rosie's Studio's Salt & Sunsets collection for my Ibiza pages, which is close to the Mystique colour palette from the challenge. I chose a white cardstock background to match the previous page but still used plenty of paper, five patterns in all, and 
I picked inking my paper edges as my classic technique.


Supplies
Cardstock - UK Crafts, American Crafts, Stampin' Up
Paper - Rosie's Studio Salt & Sunsets
Die-Cuts - Rosie's Studio Salt & Sunsets
Ink - Ranger, Memento
Mist - Tattered Angels
Paint - Golden

Tools
Big Shot
Make & Create Alphabet Dies
Dovecraft Label Die
Rosie's Studio Stillwater Stamp Set

Sunday, 9 May 2021

Getaway

I've ticked off two more NSD challenges today; I'm glad that both groups I'm following have a two-week deadline as it's a less pressured approach.

The first is a simple one from Hey Little Magpie to be inspired by a grid, and the second is the 'Land Art' challenge from For the Love of Pretty Paper. All their challenges are based on different art forms and for this one I chose two map papers and a travel theme from the options available.

My photos are from a cruise to Iceland, Greenland and Norway back in 2017 (one per port of call) which I placed in a grid with a map paper to hold embellishments in the sixth square. This is just a summary page for my annual album; the holiday has one of its own as well. I based that album around Photoplay Paper's Boarding Pass collection, which made it the obvious choice for this page.

Supplies
Paper - Photoplay Boarding Pass, Heidi Swapp No Limits
Title - American Crafts
Die-Cut Leaves - 49 and Market
Phrase Stickers - Tim Holtz
Globe Sticker - Photoplay Boarding Pass
Washi Tape - Unknown
Enamel Shapes - American Crafts/Shimelle
Ink - Ranger

Tools
Fiskars Postage Stamp Border Punch


Wednesday, 5 May 2021

Network Festival

I find the sheer number of NSD events and challenges that are published these days to be overwhelming, so I stick with a couple of groups, For the Love of Pretty Paper and Hey Little Magpie, and combine their challenges whenever possible.

For the Love of Pretty Paper's 'Pop Art' challenge involved the use of bright, bold colours with repetition, and Hey Little Magpie asked for a mixed media background. The brightest photos I had printed were from my daughter's scout camp when they dressed as characters from Scooby Doo complete with cardboard Mystery Machine.

I made my background with blue ink and black stamping, and mounted it on a blue paper to give it a bright border. I matted my photos on identical papers for repetition and placed them above and below a central title. I added a diagonal line of small embellishments in my three colours to finish. There's no journalling yet as I want to check something with my daughter first, but I'll do that in black pen, either below the bottom photo or possibly around the edge of the page.

Supplies
Cardstock - UK Crafts
Paper - Sandylion Blue Stars, Unknown Scraps
Washi Tape - Unknown
Puffy Stickers - Elle's Studio, MAMBI, MRI
Enamel Dots - Echo Park
Ink - Ranger, Dr Ph. Martin

Tools
Silhouette Portrait
American Crafts/Shimelle Sparkle City Stamps

Thursday, 2 July 2020

Christening Day

I'm going back to my childhood for this page; I'm the baby being christened here. I had scans of two photos from the day and they are both quite small (as were the 1970s originals).

A two-photo page meant that I had another go at Hey Little Magpie's NSD recipe challenge (having failed at an earlier attempt when I couldn't make all of the elements work). This called for sewing, fussy-cutting, something shiny and twine or ribbon to go with the two photos.

Original Page
I spotted scraplift challenge #18 from Scrap Squad and made this the basis for my design. The original appears to be a DT page for The Digital Press but I haven't been able to find the original creator.

I chose a soft pastel floral for my triangle but didn't have many other papers that matched it so used Project Life cards for my photo mat and arranged the recipe pieces around them. I added the extra smaller triangle in the opposite corner for a challenge from For the Love of Pretty Paper to use at least two triangles on a page. 


Supplies
Cardstock - Stampin' Up!
Paper - Docrafts Spring Chic
Cards - Project Life
Doily - Dovecraft
Family Charm - American Traditional Designs
Washi Tape - Efco
Flowers - Unknown
Pearls - Scrapberry's
Gems - TPC Studio
Ink - Memento
Mist - Tattered Angels

Tools
Silhouette Portrait
Sewing Machine
Big Shot
Dovecraft Tag Die
X-Cut Bunting Die
Dovecraft Butterfly Stamp
Woodware Flower Punch

Friday, 26 June 2020

40 Years

My 'Starting Point'
Last year, I lightened my scraps box by making some 'starting point' pages, pages that I start off from a co-ordinating pile of scraps, layered up in a pleasing way, ready for a photo to be added later.

Normally I keep these pages as they are and just add more when I finish them, but on this occasion I'd left a hole to be covered by a photo and the photo I wanted to scrap was an old one and too small for the space.

I managed to dismantle my page without damaging any of the papers; I did tear the surface of the cardstock background, but just flipped it over and started again. This time I ran the red scalloped paper vertically, cut the florals down and moved them closer together, stitched a large circle, and added lots of extra layers.


Some of the extra layers came from another moodboard challenge at For the Love of Pretty Paper. Although it was a 'Sea of Green', and we had to use some green, there was no need for a monochrome page. I initially took inspiration from the various plants (hence my return to the starting point page with the floral paper), and then went back to it to see what other elements I could include, such as the stripes from the straws and some polka dot paper.

I also combined this with a challenge from Hey Little Magpie to include stitching on a page. I've seen some lovely chain-stitching on pages recently and decided to try it for myself. It does look pretty, but I'm not sure whether it was worth the extra effort over back-stitching.

Supplies
Cardstock - American Crafts
Paper - Echo Park, Make & Create, Unknown Scraps
Acetate - Pink Paislee Atlas
Letters - Basic Grey, 
Tag - KaiserCraft
Label Stickers - October Afternoon
Heart Brads - Advent Calendar Swap
Puffy Hearts - Studio Calico
Rain Dots - Cloud 9 Design
Gems - Papermania
Ink - Memento

Tools
Fiskars Circle Template
X-Cut Scalloped Border Punch

Wednesday, 24 June 2020

Kingswear from Dartmouth

Up to this point in my National Scrapbooking Day (Weekend? Week? Month??) crafting, I'd been making pages that I would have made anyway for my 2005 and 2020 albums, just tweaking them here and there to fit them to the easier challenges.

However, every year there comes a point when the challenges drive the pages instead, and I've reached that point for this year. This page came from a Lottie Loves Paper challenge to use a set of step-by-step instructions, which needed a single landscape photo. I don't have many single photos these days as digital makes multiples so easy, so I went back for a trawl through my old film photo albums for something suitable. 

This photo was taken in November 1998 so I followed the autumnal feel picked out an assortment of coordinating scraps for the page. I distressed all the edges of my papers for a challenge from For the Love of Pretty Paper and added the line of tags on the left for a challenge from Hey Little Magpie.



I missed Lottie Loves Paper's deadline for uploading this one so I had no qualms about moving, rotating or cropping a few of the papers when I wasn't entirely happy with their designated size or placement in the instructions.

Supplies
Cardstock - Bazzill, Papermania, DCWV
Paper - Carta Bella Fall Blessings, Jillibean Soup Apple Cheddar Soup, Little Yellow Bicycle Acorn Hollow, My Mind's Eye Chalk Studio II
Letters - Basic Grey, Jenni Bowlin
Wood Veneer - Creative Embellishments, Studio Calico
Ink - Ranger
Mist - Mister Huey's, Docrafts

Tools
Big Shot & Dovecraft Tag Die
Woodware Tag Punch

Tuesday, 16 June 2020

Our Heroes

"Our Heroes" is a poem by Matt Kelly about the bravery of our NHS staff in the battle against the coronavirus. When I first read it back in April I knew that I wanted to include it in my scrapbook as part of the story of 2020, but I waited for NSD as I was pretty sure that a rainbow challenge would come up, and that was the perfect motif to accompany the poem.

Sure enough For the Love of Pretty Paper set us a rainbow theme challenge, which I tried to combine with this sketch from Hey Little Magpie.

I printed the poem to take the place of the journalling on the sketch, intending to use blocks of patterned paper in place of the photos. However I couldn't make them work so switched to vertical strips of paper, then punched strips, and eventually I rotated them to run horizontally instead and then the page came together. 



My page doesn't look very much like the original sketch after all that, but hopefully you can still see its origins.

Supplies
Paper - Junkitz, K&Company, Crate Paper, Sandylion, Bo Bunny
Letters - Simply Creative
Phrase Stickers - Tim Holtz
Flair - Imagine That
Star Gems - Simply Creative
Ink - Memento
Mist - Mister Huey's

Tools
Sewing Machine
American Crafts Notebook Border Punch
Fiskars Apron Lace Border Punch
Woodware Scalloped Circle Punch

Monday, 8 June 2020

Stracey Arms Windpump

This was actually the first page that I made for our Norfolk holiday, but I've been blogging them in chronological order for the week and this one comes from our last full day. We'd moored by the Stracey Arms windpump overnight and climbed it in the morning. The Broads are dotted with windpumps like this one which were built to pump water from the surrounding marshland.

The page is dotted with pieces from two tic-tac-toe challenges from National Scrapbooking Day. I chose gold, stitching and enamel dots for Hey Little Magpie, and repeated the stitching with blue letter stickers and a border punch for Lottie Loves Paper. I also knocked off a challenge from For the Love of Pretty Paper by using washi tape. I then repeated several of these elements (along with the various dies used) across all my Norfolk pages to help tie them together.


Supplies
Paper - Make & Create Moments, Simple Stories Sn@p Basics
Letters - October Afternoon, Jillibean Soup
Washi Tape - Hobbycraft
Enamel Dots - Doodlebug, My Mind's Eye, Echo Park
Ink - Hobbycraft
Mist - Docrafts

Tools
Sewing Machine
Big Shot
X-Cut Ticket Stubs Die
X-Cut Explore Die
American Crafts Scalloped Border Punch

Thursday, 4 June 2020

Life on Board

As soon as Shimelle posted the first page from her 'Some Here, Some There' sketch in her class Start with a Sketch, I knew that it was perfect for this trio of photos, and I made the page the same day (although that's a few weeks ago now as I'm posting these in the order of the photographs rather than the order of the pages being made).

This was just after National Scrapbooking Day and I ticked off a couple of challenges with the page. Hey Little Magpie set us a colour palette of light pink, dark pink, sky blue, dark green, mustard yellow and gold. As luck would have it, this floral paper from the pad I am using for this holiday contained all of the colours except gold, and that was easy to add via my lettering, glitter tape and a spattering of mist.

The second challenge was from For the Love of Pretty Paper, and was to fussy-cut some elements for the page. I cut my labels from a free printable and cut a few flowers from the top paper to include at the bottom of the page.




Supplies
Cardstock - DCWV
Paper - Make & Create Moments, Pink Paislee/Paige Evans Turn the Page
Phrase Stickers - Pretty Little Studio
Puffy Camera - American Crafts/Shimelle
Glitter Tape - Hobbycraft
Enamel Dots - My Mind's Eye, Pretty My Page, Echo Park, Stampin' Up!

Tools
Sewing Machine
American Crafts Scalloped Border Punch
Big Shot
Dovecraft Tag Dies
Spellbinders Circle Die

Friday, 29 May 2020

Braving Breydon Water

I'm sticking with our Norfolk Broads holiday for now, and we're actually on the water for this page. Breydon Water links the north and south parts of the Broads and can be tricky to navigate. We went through at low tide, keeping to the marked channel and it wasn't as bad as we'd feared.

My three-photo page uses a tried and trusted formula with the pictures in a column alongside a mosaic of punched squares for the 'Punch It' NSD challenge from For the Love of Pretty Paper. I also punched the scalloped border strip and the column of tags by the journalling card.



My page fits the criteria for three of the Hey Little Magpie challenges and I decided to enter it for their Tic Tac Toe, using the top row of gold, stitching and enamel dots.





Supplies
Cardstock - Stampin' Up!
Paper - Make & Create Moments, American Crafts/Dear Lizzy, Pink Paislee/Paige Evans Turn the Page, Simple Stories Posh
Letters - October Afternoon
Journalling Card - Project Life?
Puffy Camera - Freckled Fawn
Washi Tape - Hobbycraft, Pretty My Page
Enamel Dots - Doodelbug, My Mind's Eye, Marianne Designs, Echo Park
Ink - Hobbycraft
Mist - Docrafts

Tools
Silhouette Portrait
Sewing Machine
Woodware 1" Square Punch
Woodware Tag Punch
American Crafts Scalloped Border Punch

Wednesday, 27 May 2020

Follow the Tracks

I have another page from our Norfolk Broads holiday to share today. I am blogging them in the order they will come in the album rather than the order that I made them and this page comes from our second day. We moored our boat in Coltishall and took a trip from there to Wroxham on the Bure Valley Railway. 



I used a sketch from Shimelle's recent class Start with a Sketch for my page as its scattering of embellishments matched up with an NSD challenge from For the Love of Pretty Paper to do just that. I tried to combine it with a recipe challenge from Hey Little Magpie but couldn't manage to incorporate all the elements. However I did redirect it to their stitching challenge with a line of machine-stitching along the scalloped border strip.

Supplies
Cardstock - Bazzill, Papermania
Paper - Make & Create Moments, American Crafts/Dear Lizzy
Letters - Studio Calico
Journalling Card - Studio Calico
Washi Tape - Unknown
Dew Drops - Papermania
Gems - Love to Craft
Enamel Sots - Stampin' Up!
Ink - Hobbycraft
Mist - Docrafts

Tools
American Crafts Scalloped Border Punch
Woodware Scalloped Circle Punch
X-Cut Small Circle Punch
Craft Creatives Flower Punch

Monday, 25 May 2020

Life on Mars

The majority of the photos in my 'to scrap' pile for 2005 come from a boating holiday we took on the Norfolk Broads. I was planning to make the pages via as many NSD challenges as possible while using the same paper pad throughout, and hoping that they would be compatible.

I got off to a good start with the 'Griddled' challenge from For the Love of Pretty Paper, which was just to create a page based on a grid. I had an assortment of photos from settling into our temporary home (the Broadland Mars) which I felt would work well with a quadrants design.



I was playing with a few ideas for titles until I hit on this one, and it was perfect for a challenge from Hey Little Magpie to use a quote, since they included song lyrics as one of their suggestions for possible quotes to be used.

Supplies
Cardstock - Craft UK, Papermania
Paper - Make & Create Moments, American Crafts/Dear Lizzy
Journalling Card - Studio Calico
Letters - October Afternoon
Word Stickers - My Mind's Eye
Die Cut - Jillibean Soup
Flair - Unknown
Washi Tape - Pink Paislee, Hobbycraft
Enamel Dots - Doodlebug, My Mind's Eye, Eyelet Outlet, Stampin' Up!
Puffy Sticker - Fancy Pants
Ink - Hobbycraft
Mist - Docrafts

Tools
Big Shot
Provocraft Alphabet Dies
Dovecraft Label Die
X-Cut Anchor Die
Scrapberry's Compass Stamp

Saturday, 23 May 2020

Spin Me Right Round

I'm really pleased to have used another of the page kits that I prepared for National Scrapbooking Day; sometimes what I get ready just doesn't fit to any of the challenges that come up. 

I'm staying in 2005 for a trio of photos of my daughter in the park. I even stuck with the title and page design that I planned in advance. That page design comes from a very old class, & Now For Something Completely Different, which ran throughout 2012 at UK Scrappers, and it's at least the fourth time that I have used the May prompts. 




My page is a feast of My Mind's Eye, with pieces from at least five of their lines, and it suits three more National Scrapbooking Day challenges. Hey Little Magpie asked us to use a quote or song lyric, and For the Love of Pretty Paper gave us a pink moodboard. I don't often use pink on my pages, so I took this opportunity to use up all my pink puffy stars in one go for a challenge from Lottie Loves Paper to feature either stars or hexagons.

Supplies
Paper - My Mind's Eye Collectable, My Mind's Eye Lime Twist
Letters - American Crafts, American Crafts/Shimelle
Doily - Dovecraft
Phrase Stickers - My Mind's Eye The Sweetest Thing
Puffy Stars - Pinkfresh Studio
Brads - My Mind's Eye Now and Then, My Mind's Eye Necessities
Gems, Twine & Glitter Tape - Advent Calendar Swap
Ink - Hobbycraft
Mist - Mister Huey's

Tools

Silhouette Portrait
American Crafts Scallop Border Punch

Thursday, 21 May 2020

Junk Models

Having finally finished my Far East album, I've picked random old year to finish off next, and that year is 2005. I sorted through my photos before National Scrapbooking Day and assembled a few supplies, and this is the first one that I tackled. Lottie Loves Paper gave us a step-by-step set of instructions for a page, which was a different sort of challenge from the norm and one that I happily took on.

The mixed media and the circles on this page came directly from the instructions but we could embellish in any way we chose and I went with a scattering of stars, both stamped stars and puffy stickers. This was originally on an all-white background, but after a week or so I trimmed the page down and matted it on bright pink.


There are so many challenges around National Scrapbook Day that pages have to do double, triple or even quadruple duty. This one also matched up with a challenge from Hey Little Magpie to leave some white space on the page, one from For the Love of Pretty Paper to use circles AND a challenge from Shimelle to repeat a stamp (and it makes me happy that two of the three stamps that I used were designed by Shimelle herself).

Supplies
Cardstock - Craft UK, Craft Sensations
Paper - The Paper Loft, Reminisce
Letters - American Crafts
Stars - Bella Boulevard
Ink - Ranger, Hobbycraft
Mist - Mister Huey's

Tools
Fiskars Shape Cutter & Circles Template
Shimelle Circle Stamp
Banana Frog/Shimelle Star Stamp
Studio Calico Stars Stamp

Thursday, 7 May 2020

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