Salt Marsh Half Marathon

My husband's first race of the year was the Saltmarsh Half Marathon, and I went along as support crew, dropping him at the start, pausing twice to see him en route and picking him up at the end.

This page was built around one of the photos I took of a line of runners beside the river, which came out in soft focus and reminded me of a watercolour painting. I decided to print it on plain white cardstock which adds to the softness, and use it in place of patterned paper in the middle of this page. I then layered the before and during photos over the top and the finish photo with a journalling box over the bottom part.

Supplies: Paper - Mintay Golden Days, My Mind's Eye Miss Caroline, Basic Grey Urban Prairie, Shimelle Glitter Girl; Letters - Hip Kit Club, Echo Park?; Die-Cuts - Simple Stories, Pinkfresh Studio, October Afternoon; Enamel Stars - Latech

Away Nights

Another page for my 2025 album, and it's a round-up of the extra runs that our running club organised last summer, in country parks and open spaces across the area. I took part in six of them and double-matted each photo with papers from a 6x8 pad. I then butted them all up together to make a colourful panel in the centre of my page.

Supplies: Cardstock - Bazzill; Paper - Simple Stories Summer Snapshots; Letters - Rosie's Studio; Enamel Dots - Simple Stories

(Page 19 for 2026)

Great South Run

I'm flip-flopping between albums at the moment, here with a new page for my 2025 album. It's a page from October when my husband, sister and brother-in-law all did the Great South Run.

I mostly followed my husband's progress and have photos of him in a few places, only one of an back-view of my sister and nothing of my brother-in-law who I must have missed in the crowd as he passed. Therefore I decided to used the official photos, and left them in their branded frames. My brother-in-law's was poorly framed with him running out of shot but it's all I have.

I based my page on Sketch #188 from Scrap a Sketch, running my photos in a row with a square frame behind them. Taller photos meant less space for the title where indicated so I moved it onto the frame, and I tucked in a journalling card at the bottom. My embellishment is smaller too, with die-cut stars and arrows. The weather was very wet that day, so I cut the stars from a journalling card with a raindrops pattern.

Supplies: Cardstock - Papermania; Paper - My Mind's Eye Market Street; Letters - Doodlebug; Journalling Cards - Studio Calico, Elle's Studio; Phrase Sticker - Tim Holtz; Puffy Stickers - Elle's Studio

(Page 113 for the year.)

Grays 10k

I'm taking a short break from Norway to make a few pages for my 2025 album instead, aiming not to fall too far behind. 

First up is the Grays 10k which my husband ran in September. I printed four photos which fell into two pairs - during and after the race - so I kept them that way on the page.

My colour scheme started from the blue of my husband's vest and led to a mixture of three of Vicki Boutin's collections.

Supplies: Paper - Vicki Boutin Color Study, Vicki Boutin Fernwood, Vicki Boutin Sweet Rush; Letters - Fancy Pants; Journalling Cards - Project Life; Die-Cuts - Vicki Boutin; Washi Tape - Vicki Boutin; Puffy Stickers - Elle's Studio, Jen Hadfield

(Page 104 in my count for the year.)

Brighton Marathon

I'm filling in an April gap in my 2025 album today, a page for my husband running the Brighton Marathon. My daughter and I moved around the course providing snacks and encouragement, but also taking photos of his progress. I have eight photos from the points where we saw him, which I lined up in two rows with the distances on them. I filled the space below with pieces from a 6x6 pad and layered journalling strips over them. 

Supplies: Cardstock - Bazzill; Paper - Pebbles New Arrival, My Mind's Eye Just Splendid; Letters - Simple Stories; Washi Tape - Dovecraft, Unkown; Enamel Stars - Latech

(Page 67 in my count for the year.)

Running Event Pages

My husband is running the Brighton Marathon in April, and he's done three other increasingly long events so far this year. January was a half-marathon in Victoria Park which I've already scrapped; February and March have been two themed 'run as far as you can' events at Cyclopark in Kent where he completed 16 miles and then 20 miles: 

(The numbers are my page count for the year.)

34. Tiaras & Tutus

This page was inspired by a YouTube live from Shimelle Laine in January, though I used an assortment of pocket page cards rather than cut-apart sheets for my version. 

Supplies: Paper - Echo Park Capture Life; Pocket Cards - Studio Calico, Project Life; Letters - Shimelle; Stickers - Shimelle, Tim Holtz, Paige Evans

35. All Stars

This one is my version of the February sketch from For the Love of Pretty Paper, though it morphed a fair bit from the original.

Supplies: Paper - Paige Evans Wonders, Paige Evans Bungalow Lane, Paige Evans Whimsical; Letters - American Crafts; Vellum - Anita's; Mistable Stars - Studio Calico; Stickers - Paige Evans #Stickerbook; Puffy Shapes - Elle's Studio; Washi Strip - Paige Evans