Mary & Stuart

I'm sharing a trio of wedding pages today - one conventional 12x12 and two divided pages. When I originally planned this album I was overwhelmed by this set of photos; there aren't a lot of them, but they were mostly single photos or pairs of photos that related to different aspects of the day. It looked like either doing lots of one or two photo pages, or cramming them all onto a double, and I didn't really like either option.

Then I was inspired to use a divided page protector by the fourth video in Shimelle's Return to the Collection class. I don't know why I didn't think of it for myself as I am using them for my Norwegian cruise album, but I didn't. Anyway, this format allows me to put all the different photos together because each one still gets its own miniature 4x6 layout within the divided page.

The 12x12 page features the bride and groom and the rest of the wedding party, and has my only 4x6 vertical photo. The large hearts on the red paper are obscured, but I used pieces of the same paper in the divided pages.

I didn't have enough photos to fill all the pockets - the red hearts makes a good filler, and I included the invitation in another pocket. I've dug into my old stash of wedding stickers and rub-ons too as the colours matched the wedding colours so well.

I've tried to continue the same motifs through the pages, so there are lots of gold lines and hearts and lots of scalloped circles, a few flowers and the same lettering for all the subtitles. I also repeated some stamping in green in several places - the tree stamp that I used has pretty swirly branches and I overlapped those and omitted the trunk to get a mass of swirls across the 12x12 page and on the edges of a couple of the smaller cards.

There is one more page from the day to come - afterwards the bride and groom gave us a professional photo of our children who had been Page Boy and Flower Girl. That one will come next in the album and shares the same colour scheme, but I'll blog it tomorrow.

Supplies

Cardstock - DCWV Neutral Stack

Paper - Fancy Pants Love Story, Sandylion Hearts, Basic Grey True Love 6x6, Crate Paper Story Teller and others

Letters - American Crafts for Crate Paper DIY Shop, Anita's Glitterations

Numbers - Basic Grey Blitzen

Doily - Papermania

Peel-Off Hearts & Lines - probably Anita's

Epoxy Stickers - Royal & Langnickel

Gems - Papermania Dew Drops

Rub-Ons - Unknown

Gold Thread - Madeira

Washi Tape - Unknown

Ink - Papermania

Tools

Woodware Scalloped Circle Punch

Woodware Daisy Punch

Imaginisce Tree Stamp

I am very grateful to everyone who organises blog hops, giveaways and challenges. I have been lucky enough to win stash from a few and these pages would not have been what they are without your generosity. The 6x6 papers and the tree stamp came from these (I just wish I could remember exactly which ones); the washi tape came from a stash swap organised by Scrap365 on Facebook. 

David

This is the page that I made from the third video in Shimelle's latest class - Return to the Collection. The class is about using one collection pack for six pages, but I've pulled in other papers to suit this particular photo.

One thing that Shimelle talked about in her video was the idea of building up an embellishment cluster from the pieces that are in the collection pack. I've had the owl sticker for ages and it's from the sticker pack that matches the doily print paper so I tried hard to use it here. There's some wording on it too, which I've covered up with the frame and the star.

Supplies
Paper - Paper Adventures Vintage Workshop, Crate Paper Restoration, Crate Paper Random, Graphic 45 Kraft Reflections
Letters - American Crafts Thickers
Word Stickers - MME The Sweetest Thing
Owl Sticker - Crate Paper Restoration
Washi Tape - The Range
Frame - from Stash
Gems - Papermania / from Stash

Tools
Fiskars Postage Stamp Border Punch
Woodware Postage Stamp Punch
Hobbycraft Star Punch

Trainspotting

I'm returning to Shimelle's latest class now; Return to the Collection has six videos for six pages from a single collection pack. I have watched all six videos now, but this is only my second page from the class. It features a pair of offset photos, and some stamping on the background which runs under the photo block.

I had gutted the background paper of my first page (Hardwick Hall) when I made it so I started with that piece as my photo mat and pulled in some red cardstock as a second mat.

I do have photos of the trains as well, and my next page will be a companion page for this one.


Supplies
Cardstock - Papermania
Paper - Simple Stories Awesome, Crate Paper Random
Letters - Jillibean Soup
Word Stickers - Crate Paper Restoration
Washi Tape - Trimcraft, The Range
Ink - Ranger Distress Ink, Papermania, StampCraft

Tools
Big Shot & X-Cut Ticket Stubs Die
Studio Calico Doilies Stamp Set
Papermania All Aboard Postmark Stamp
Craft Creatives Alphabet Stamps
Hobbycraft Star Punch
Woodware Tiny Star Punch

Hardwick Hall

A couple of years ago, Shimelle Laine ran a class called The Perfect Collection, where she set out to make as many pages as possible from a single scrapbook collection. She's revisiting the collection pack this month with a new class called Return to the Collection but the focus is slightly different. Rather than making as many pages as possible she is making six pages using papers from a single kit, plus other supplies as required and there is a video for each of the six pages. So far I've watched the first two videos, and made a page from the first one.

I didn't actually use a collection pack as such, but I tried to pull a kit together from my stash. I started from that multi-coloured doily paper, that I love but have never managed to use, and added in some single-colour prints and some neutrals. Despite my willingness to mix collections and manufacturers, the majority of my 'kit' comes from Crate Paper.

Supplies
Paper - Crate Paper Restoration, Crate Paper Random, MME The Sweetest Thing, KaiserCraft Secret Bird Society
Letters - American Crafts
Stickers - Crate Paper Restoration

Tools
X-Cut Corner Punch
Woodware Tag Punch