On Kinder Scout

I'm waiting for a delivery of scrapbooking supplies to arrive before I scrap our Austrian holiday, so I'm going back to my 2015 albums for now. We spent a weekend camping in the Peak District in July that year, and I've scrapped most of it, but I had one page missing from the album - the walk that my husband did with some friends on Kinder Scout.

I picked three photos and scraplifted myself (The Queen's Battery), though the two pages are far from identical, and will be in different albums.

Supplies
Paper - My Mind's Eye 29th Street Market, Basic Grey Hipster, Authentique Nestled
Vellum - Doodlebug
Letters - American Crafts Thickers
Tag - Quirky Kits
Stickers - Crate Paper
Washi - Unknown
Enamel Dots - Doodlebug, Teresa Collins
Ink - Ranger
Mist - Mr Huey's, Docrafts

Tumbling Towers

I have another page from our visit to Lyme Park today. There were games laid out in the croquet lawn, so my daughter and I played Jenga and then quoits (though I only have photos of the first). I decided to stack my photos in a column to echo the pieces in the game, and used some Project Life cards for photo mats. I didn't have a suitable background paper, so I made my own from white cardstock and chalks. I journalled on another PL card, and tumbled my title down the page.

Supplies
Cardstock - Bazzill
Chalk - Readicut Crafts
Cards - Project Life Summer Edition
Enamel Dot - Teresa Collins
Letters - Docrafts
Ink - Docrafts

Tools
Woodware Scalloped Circle Punch

Typical Teenager?

Back in the summer, we spent a weekend camping in the Peak District, and my daughter and I visited Lyme Park, which doubled as Pemberley in the BBC's adaptation of Pride and Prejudice.

We wandered through the grounds after visiting the house, and my daughter enjoyed climbing every suitable tree she could find. Obviously I took photos of her up each one, but at the top of this particular tree, she pulled out her phone and took a series of selfies. I envisioned scrapbooking my photo of her taking a selfie in the tree alongside her selfie photo, and last weekend I managed to raid her phone to retrieve her picture.

I used the latest sketch from Scrap Our Stash for my page. It came with the additional requirement of using three types of school supplies, which I've followed rather loosely; I have a paper clip, some sticky tape and notebook paper punched edges.

I used a leaf print paper from Basic Grey for my background, but although I bought several other sheets from the collection, most of them didn't actually work for this page. The arrow print is by Echo Park, and the colours are a perfect match.

Supplies
Paper - Basic Grey Mon Ami, Echo Park Boys Rule, My Mind's Eye Now & Then
Letters - October Afternoon
Stickers - American Crafts Shimelle True Stories, Anita's Glitterations
Paperclip - Doodlebug
Enamel Dots - Trimcraft, Simple Stories
Washi Tape - Unknown
Ink - Docrafts

Tools
American Crafts Notebook Border Punch

Hello Summer

I think that I must have been channelling my inner Shimelle Laine when I was scrapping this page in my head* last week, as she published a similar page before I finished getting mine down on paper. 

* Some days the only scrapping that I manage is in my head - thinking about layouts, choosing co-ordinating photos and papers, or working out my journalling in my head while my body is busy doing something else (especially during the commute to work). 

I started my page from the title piece - Hello Summer - that came with my May/June Quirky Kit. I wasn't sure how I was going to use it when I received it, but we went camping in the Peak District for the very first weekend of the school holidays. The weather wasn't great but this was the start of our summer; if I didn't use the title for this page then I don't know when I would have used it. Most of the other papers came from that kit too; my main addition was the yellow paper to match the title colour.

Supplies
Paper - Pink Paislee Citrus Bliss, Bo Bunny Forever Young, Doodlebug Petite Prints, My Mind's Eye Now and Then
Title - Quirky Kit Exclusive
Wood Veneer - Studio Calico, Creative Embellishments
Word Sticker - Elle's Studio
Washi Tape - The Range
Gems - Papermania
Ink - Docrafts
Mist - Docrafts

Tools
Woodware Scalloped Circle Punch

On the Monsal Trail

Like most scrappers, I find it harder to do double pages than single pages. In fact, I have a list of doubles that I need to do in order to fill some gaps in my albums. I'm filling one of those gaps today because of Challenge 153 at Scrap Whispers - create a two page layout with at least five photos and the title running across both pages.

My photos are from a walk along the Monsal Trail in the Peak District earlier this year and I used six of them for my double page. The trail follows an old railway line and we walked through two of the tunnels.

Supplies
Paper - K&Co Blue Awning, atd, Simple Stories Take a Hike
Letters - Simple Stories
Border Sticker - Crate Paper Restoration
Metal Embellishments - from Stash
Gems - Dovecraft
Ink - docrafts

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

Snow @ Darwin Lake

The March/April team scraplifting game at Scrap Whispers has come to an end and all our pages are being unveiled this week. Three teams of scrappers have been scraplifting each others page in turn, all starting from the same original layout. It's always interesting to see the similarities and differences between the pages and the different directions that the teams can go in.

I was in Georgina's team and had Chelsey's page to lift. I was quite pleased when I received it, because it was quite similar to my own style and I didn't really change anything in the layout. My photos are from Easter this year, when we were holidaying in the snow of the Peak District.

and this is Chelsey's page for comparison:

I kept the three photos (but swapped them over), the two colour background, the stitched square and the two font title, but I replaced the label stickers with strips of washi tape and swapped her flowers for snowflakes. Finally I added some journalling below the photos.

Our team's pages were unveiled on the Scrap Whispers blog yesterday; the others will be revealed on Wednesday and Friday.

Supplies
Cardstock - Papermania
Paper - Sandylion (Snowflakes/Winter Words)
Letters - American Crafts Thickers, Jillibean Soup Alphabeans
Washi Tape - Trimcraft
Thread - DMC
Snowflakes - from Stash

Pub Grub

This page was conceived a few months ago, but it's taken some time to be born. Last summer I took a class from True Scrap 3 called The Perfect Collection. It was taught by Shimelle Laine and she demonstrated a method for quickly producing pages by randomly cutting up ALL your patterned papers and layering up the pieces to make pages. I started with a small collection of five papers from Basic Grey, and I made two pages at the time. I returned to my bag of paper pieces in November and made two more pages. You can see these four by hitting the 'Perfect Collection' label below.

I finished off by piling up my remaining pieces to make one final 'starting point' page and put it aside until I paired it with a suitable photo. That day has finally arrived and I have my fifth and final page from five patterned papers and five pieces of cardstock.

It was an interesting process and one I will repeat in the future (when I find another collection that I can bear to cut up into random pieces). 

Supplies
Cardstock - DCWV Neutral Stack
Paper - Basic Grey Granola
Letters - Paper Cellar
Ink - Dovecraft

Up Above

This is the tenth and final page from the CHA Challenges at Two Peas in a Bucket. I started Challenge 9: Grab 9 Items on Your Workspace Right Now a couple of times before, but diverted those pages to other challenges.

This time, I started by picking my photos and deciding on their placement. I thought that they needed a light coloured mat so I picked aqua and white pages from the DCWV Mat Stack that I keep on my desk in an attempt to use it up. I took the aqua colour from these mats and pulled out the brown and aqua patterned paper from my stash. Then I picked the background - a paper I rejected from another challenge - and just added anything and everything that I had handy and that matched these colours.

The photos were taken from the Heights of Abraham, a park above Matlock Bath in Derbyshire, which is reached by cable car.

Supplies
Paper - Fancy Pant Wave Searcher, K&Co Life's Journey,  DCWV Garden Party Mat Stack
Letters - American Crafts Thickers, Cosmo Cricket Tiny Type
Washi Tape - Trimcraft, We R Memory Keepers
Gems - Making Memories Paper Reverie
Butterflies - Prima
Ink - docrafts

Ribbon - from Stash

Sam & John

As I started this page, I was undecided as to whether it would be for CHA Challenge 8 (use eight different materials) or Challenge 9 (grab nine items in your workspace right now). As I worked I found myself digging into my stash for things and I decided to go for the eight materials.

There are certain similarities with the previous page as I used the circle template again, and a few buttons sneaked into the design too:

My eight materials are: cardstock, paper, mist, chipboard, vellum, border sticker, washi tape and buttons. I've also used thread and ink.

Supplies
Cardstock - DCWV
Paper - Echo Park This & That
Border Sticker - Doodlebug
Letters - American Crafts Thickers
Washi Tape - We R Memory Keepers
Buttons - Meiflower
Thread - DMC

Tools
Fiskars Circle Template

On the Shivering Mountain

CHA Challenge 7 at Two Peas in a Bucket is to combine seven different patterns on a page. I decided that the easiest way to do this is to take my papers from a collection pack. Echo Park's This & That collection has spots, stripes, chevrons, grids, checks, newsprint and woodgrain and I lined them up across the page beneath two photos from Mam Tor, nicknamed the Shivering Mountain because of the frequent landslides.

Supplies
Cardstock - American Crafts
Paper & Embellishments - Echo Park This & That Charming
Letters - Bo Bunny Et Cetera
Ink - docrafts

Boys, Hills & Rocks

I've been on a go-slow with my scrapping this week; it's taken several evenings to complete this double page, even though I had a clear idea where I was going from the start.

My twin aims right now are to do all of the ABC Crop at My Sketch World and to complete my 2007 album. I'm up to F in the crop: "F is for Frog and frogs are GREEN - use green as the main colour on your page."

My photos are from a walk on Bleaklow in the Peak District and the layout is a scraplift of this one by jbarksdale in the gallery at Two Peas in a Bucket.

I still need to add the journalling to the yellow panel, but I need my husband's help with this as this was a walk he did with a friend and our son. I'm posting it before it's finished so that I can move on to G (which I'm pretty sure won't be for G for Green).

Supplies
Card - Bazzill Dotted Swiss
Paper - K & Co Hannah, Basic Grey Perhaps, Basic Grey Plumeria
Letters - Pebbles

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

Thor's Cave

Time for a celebration, this is my 100th page this year. As I have 30-40 pages in an album, I should have finished three by now, but I haven't. I do enjoy jumping from project to project, scrapping whatever takes my fancy, but I sometimes feel I should concentrate on one album at a time. I was hoping this would be double celebration as I am close to finishing my Norway album from 2009, but I am waiting on my husband's help with the journalling as the last pages relate to a hike he did with our son.

My 2012 album is obviously a work in progress, but I also have albums from 2006, 2007 and a Far East holiday that I have started, plus one from a Baltic Cruise last year where I have done a few odd pages. In the spirit of concentrating on one album at a time, I pulled out 2007 over the weekend and turned to photos from our holiday in the Peak District. I had a selection of portrait photos from the Manifold Valley, which brought to mind the six photo layout from Shimelle Laine's 4x6 Photo Love class last year. I only actually had five photos but I replaced the sixth with a large journalling box:

These papers are from an older collection but they are a recent purchase. I had previously dismissed them as a 'Pets' range, but when I saw them in my LSS I realised that the colours are great and while carefully avoiding the paw prints and cute animals there are still enough patterns to be versatile.

Supplies
Card - Papermania Kraft Basics
Paper - Basic Grey Max & Whiskers (Clarence, Gannett, Abbott)
Flowers - Bo Bunny Mama-Razzi
Dew Drops - Papermania
Letters - Basic Grey Nordic Holiday, Lily Bee Design Double Dutch