Pentre Farm

We spent a week in Wales at Easter, staying in a cottage on this farm in Monmouthshire so I've scrapped a picture of the cottage and the adjacent church as an introduction to the holiday pages in my 2016 album. I used a sketch that Laura Whitaker designed for Imaginisce, though I flipped it horizontally as I wanted my photos to be the other way around.

I stitched the large circle on the sketch with my sewing machine, going round three times to give the circle some weight. 

There have been 12 prompts so far this year in the Scrap Like You Mean It series at UKScrappers; I've missed a few and need to go back and do them, but this page fits with the current prompt - to use a needle and thread.

Supplies
Paper - My Mind's Eye Vintage Charm
Letters - Elle's Studio
Buttons - Mei Flower
Wood Veneer - Maya Road, Studio Calico
Pearls - Scrapberry's
Ink & Mist - Docrafts

Tools
Sewing Machine
Big Shot & Poppy Stamps Small Leafy Sprig Die

A Challenging Day

Last weekend Shimelle Laine hosted an online scrapbooking weekend, with ten challenges that will remain open until the end of next Sunday. The first one was a recap of the five weekly challenges that she has posted so far this year: scrap a selfie; use hearts; mix old and new; make a monochromatic page; or be inspired by maps and globes. I've actually done all five already, so I'm choosing to repeat the selfie challenge; this also ties with a recent prompt in the Scrap Like You Mean It forum on UKScrappers - to scrap a funny face.

My daughter's an Explorer Scout and each year the district organises a District Commissioner's Challenge. This year it took place in London; they had a list of questions to answer, and each answer had to be illustrated with a team photo at the appropriate landmark. Luckily for me, my daughter was nominated to take the photos so I had easy access to them for this page.

I picked six photos and started my page with Sketch 100 from Sketch-n-Scrap, which I rotated to accommodate a column of photos. I had a reasonable amount of journalling to include so the right hand side of my page ended up veering away from the top part of the sketch.

Supplies

Cardstock - Bazill, Papermania

Paper - Echo Park Note to Self, Echo Park This & That

Letters/Stickers - Echo Park Note to Self

Pearls - Scrapberry's Vintage Circus

Ink - Ranger

Mist - Mister Huey's

Tools

Big Shot & Little B Arrows Dies

Hobbycraft Film Reel Stamp

Scrapberry's 'Around the World' Stamp Set

Amy Tangerine Camera Stamp

Around the Bay

The bay in my title is Red Bay, the name of both the village we visited in Labrador and the bay where it is situated. The buildings in the village are strung out along the shore, and we walked about half way round. I picked three photos for my page, two of the village and one of the church.

This led to me tackling the third prompt from the Scrap Like You Mean It series at UKScrappers - "Scrap with Three" - and I decided to see how many trios I could incorporate into my page.

I'm also linking with Rochelle Spears; her part of the Scrappy Friends trio of challenges for March is a 'This or That' challenge - to use either chevrons or polka dots (but not both). 

It's a simple layout, and one that I've used before in various guises, but it's so useful that I know I will use it again.

Supplies

Cardstock - Colorset

Paper - Heidi Swapp No Limits, Graphic 45 Artisan Style, Pink Paislee Memorandum

Card - Project Life Sweet Edition

Letters - American Crafts

Wood Veneer - Studio Calico

Brads - My Mind's Eye

Tools

Fiskars Postage Stamp Border Punch

Shimelle & Me

I made this page for a couple of challenges: UKScrappers are running a new series called Scrap Like You Mean It, and the first prompt was to scrap in your favourite colour; Shimelle's latest weekly challenge is a monochromatic page.

I chose blue for my page; I'm not sure that it's truly my favourite colour but I use it a lot in my scrapbooks. I picked a mottled blue paper for my background and decided to work with a background cut file and fill the various openings with different blue papers. 

I selected the Pie Chart Background from Laura Whitaker, but her original file is 12x12 for a Cameo and I have the Portrait which can only cut an 8" width. I initially just resized her file, but then I thought that an 8x8 background would be almost covered by my photo. My next step was to copy and flip the file, weld two together and resize again so my final pie chart background was roughly 6x12. 

I normally choose a photo before I start my pages, but on this occasion I did almost all my background work before picking one. I did a quick flip through my most recent photos and picked one of me with Shimelle at a mini-book workshop last September, which I printed at 4x4 and matted twice.

I used my Portrait again to cut the word 'Shimelle' in her own handwriting (sourced from the internet) and finished my title with silver glitter Thickers; I used a gem for the dot on the 'i' and more gems next to the photo. Finally I journalled around the edge of the page as a border.

Supplies
Paper - My Mind's Eye 29th Street Market, My Mind's Eye Bright 6x6 Pad, Crate Paper Neighbourhood 6x6 Pad, Scraps
Letters - American Crafts
Gems - Mark Richards
Ink - Docrafts

Tools
Silhouette Portrait
Laura Whitaker 'Pie Chart Background' Cut File
Fiskars Shape Cutter & Circles Template