Parkrun Pages with Scrap Squad

It's that time of year when Scrap Squad publish their '12 Days of Summer Scraplifts', and I've used a few for parkrun pages. These are all 8x8, the photos are all quite similar and I don't generally add titles, so I welcome the scraplifts as a way to get some variety into the album.

I started off with Day 4, scraplifting a page originally made by Morag Cutts for Bramble Fox. 

Working on 8x8 means that my photo takes up proportionately more of the width of the page, so I made my layers wider too, using a 6x8 pad for the layers of patterned paper. With just one photo, I added a mason jar alongside it as a journalling spot, instead of the second photo.

Supplies: Cardstock - Bazzill; Paper - Alchemy Hearts Out and About 2025, Paige Evans Bungalow Lane, Dear Lizzy Neapolitan; Sticker - Pretty Little Studio; Die-Cut - October Afternoon

Next up was Day 8, a page by Laura Alberts for Cocoa Vanilla Studio. 

I rotated the page as I only had one photo again, which was wider than it was tall, so that was a better match for the column of three photos in the original.

I found the white background to be too plain, so added a light smooshing of yellow ink behind the photo.

Supplies: Cardstock - DCWV, Bazzill; Paper - Simple Stories Summer Snapshots; Labels - Kaitlin Schaeffer Printable; Washi Tape - Unknown; Puffy Dots - Jen Hadfield

My third page was from Day 9, a page by Rachel O'Neal for Paper Issues.

I used a set of Vicki Boutin stamps with distress inks on my white background, inspired by the crosses on Rachel's original. I wasn't going to use twine on the tags as I like to keep these pages flat, but the tags looked unfinished until I punched the holes and added the twine.

Supplies: Paper - Simple Stories Summer Snapshots; Labels - Kaitlin Schaeffer Printable; Stitching Stickers - Pretty Little Studio; Puffy Hearts - Shimelle; Washi Tape & Enamel Hearts - Unknown; Twine - The Ribbon Reel

Then I moved on to Day 10, a page by Claire Louise for Papermaze. 

I used my only square photo for this one, rounding the corners instead of framing it as in the original.

I started from the two floral clusters when choosing my supplies, a mixture of Jen Hadfield stickers and Paige Evans papers. 

Supplies: Paper - Paige Evans; Stickers - Jen Hadfield The Avenue, Paige Evans 

Parkrun Pages with Scrap Squad - Part 2

Last post I shared four parkrun pages made with scraplifts from the 12 Days of Autumn event over in the Scrap Squad Facebook group and now I have another four to share. These bring my parkrun album up to date, which was one of the tasks I set myself to complete before I can start my cruise album.

84.5 250 Runs

I completed my 250th parkrun back in July and used the scraplift from Day 8 for this page. Ours is a two lap course so we often get two photos and I generally use the better one, but we had heavy showers that day. It was dry at the start so I risked running without a raincoat. Big mistake and having got soaked through I swapped my sodden shirt for my waterproof for the second lap. Hence I used both photos and printed them small as neither is very good but they contribute to the story.

Supplies: Paper - Kay Miller Designs Simple Pleasures; Letters - American Crafts; Phrase Stickers - Pretty Little Studio

85. Monsal Trail

Moving on to Day 9, and Monsal Trail parkrun which we ran in August while camping in the Peak District. The original had a circular cut-file, lots of stitching and some fussy-cut leaves, but mine is much simpler as I deliberately keep these 8x8 pages quite flat.

Supplies: Cardstock - DCWV; Paper - Docrafts Spring Chic; Making Memories Fresh Anthology; Enamel Dots - Simple Stories

85.5 150 Runs

My husband completed his 150th run this summer, and I've recorded that with Day 10's scraplift and lots of diamond shapes. The original page had a small landscape photo but I chose to crop mine to match the papers.

Supplies: Paper - Dovecraft, Pinkfresh Studio Let Your Heart Decide; Letters - Simple Stories; Washi Tape - Unknown; Enamel Dots - Hey Little Magpie

86. Y Promenad

You might have seen this photo before as I scrapped it recently for my 2024 album on a 12x12 double page as part of a weekend away in Wales. However, it also needs to go into my parkrun album so I went back to the scraplift from Day 4 as that was the only one left that I could make work with a 4x6 photo though I tweaked it so that it wouldn't look too much like South Woodham Ferrers/Day 7.

Supplies: Paper, Die-Cuts & Puffy Stickers - Vicki Boutin Fernwood; Washi Tape - Little B

Parkrun Pages with Scrap Squad - Part 1

I started bringing my parkrun album up to date when I came back from my holiday, and this coincided with the 12 Days of Autumn event in the Scrap Squad Facebook group, so I aimed to do as many of their scraplifts as possible with my parkrun photos. 

These are the first four and they are all 8"x8" so I count them as half-pages in my count for the year as they are roughly half the area of a 12"x12" page.

82.5 Blaise Castle

I started with Day 5, using two small photos offset diagonally with papers from a 6x6 pad. I ran here on the weekend of the Twilight crop back in May.

Supplies: Paper - Dovecraft, Pinkfresh Studio Life Right Now; Enamel Dots - My Mind's Eye

83. South Woodham Ferrers

Next was Day 7, a page with layers of paper across the the top and a single landscape photo. We did this one in August to tick off 'South' in the compass point challenge.

Supplies: Paper - Dovecraft, Vicki Boutin Storyteller; Sticker - Vicki Boutin

83.5 Jubilee

I then went back to Day 1, with three big tags and a single portrait photo from Jubilee parkrun in Spennymoor which we ran en route to our recent cruise.

Supplies: Paper - Dovecraft, Heidi Swapp Wanderlust; Stickers - My Mind's Eye, OneCanoeTwo; Nuvo Drops

84. Hoblingwell 

Then Day 6 with another portrait photo on a large banner. Hoblingwell gave us an H for the Alphabet Challenge.

Supplies: Paper - Fancy Pants Little Sprout, Bo Bunny Little Wonders, Maggie Holmes Chasing Dreams; Glitter Tape - The Works; Stickers - Jen Hadfield; Enamel Dots - Altenew, My Mind's Eye

And Rebecca Makes Three

Another day, another Scrap Squad scraplift, another 8x8 parkrun page.

This is the fourth challenge from the Share the Love Cybercrop and this time we're lifting a page by Mandy Melville for Cocoa Vanilla Studio.

I've swapped Mandy's landscape photo for three smaller portraits, my daughter at each of the three parkruns she completed back in January 2019 (before deciding that she prefers to stay in bed on Saturday mornings).

Supplies

Paper - Crate Paper DIY Shop

Letters - Glitz Design

Ink - Ranger

Tools

Fiskars Shape Cutter & Circle Template

X-Cut Circle Punch

Single-ton

I'm continuing with both Scrap Squad scraplifts from their recent Share the Love cybercrop and 8x8 pages for my parkrun album. The original page that we are lifting was by Liliane Reins, and her split background led me to using a 6x8 paper pad.

The page marks my 'Single-ton' - the achievement of completing 100 parkruns on the same course. I ran my title up the side of my photo and added a journalling sticker in roughly the same place as Liliane's title.

Supplies

Paper - Paige Evans Bungalow Lane

Letters - Simple Stories

Stickers - Heidi Swapp, Paige Evans

Washi Tape - Stampin' Up!

Ink - Ranger

Tools

American Crafts Scalloped Border Punch

Eastleigh

I've scrapped this photo before, on 12x12 as part of my 2021 annual album, but I'm doing it again on 8x8 to go in my parkrun album. 

I've used the second scraplift from Scrap Squad's recent Share the Love cyber crop, though I simplified it for the smaller size. I used the same paper collection as last time, but concentrated on the blue papers this time so only a couple of patterns actually repeat. There's no separate title as the event name is emblazoned across the photo.

Supplies
Cardstock - Bazill

Paper - Amy Tangerine Late Afternoon

Sticker - My Mind's Eye

Ink - Ranger

Tools

Big Shot & X-Cut Camera Die

Scrapberry's Compass Stamp

Run Killerton

I've been concentrating on holiday photos this year, but a few recent challenges have caught my eye while being designs that don't suit that album. The first is a Scrap Squad scraplift from their cybercrop last weekend, the original page being by Nathalie DeSousa.

We spent a long weekend in Devon last summer and took part in Killerton parkrun on the Saturday. I've scrapped a couple of pages from this trip already, using the Storyteller collection from CVS, with white backgrounds and yellow ink so I pulled out the same supplies. 

I cut a 9" circle in my background cardstock here, smooshed yellow ink around the edge and backed the circle with overlapping strips of patterned paper. I chose just one photo, larger than those on the original page, double matted it and tucked in a row of cameras.  All my parkrun tourism pages have the same format of title, being the word 'Run' followed by the event name, so this is Run Killerton, which I placed on one of the plainer paper strips. I journalled around the edge of the circle and embellished with fussy-cut flowers and puffy hearts.

Supplies

Cardstock - UK Crafts

Paper - Cocoa Vanilla Studio Storyteller, Cocoa Vanilla Studio These Days

Letters - Rosie's Studio

Puffy Hearts - Cocoa Vanilla Studio

Ink - Ranger

Tools

Kreaxions Circle Cutter

Afternoon Tea

Well, it's taken me all summer but I have finally reached the end of Scrap Squad's 12 Days of Summer Scraplifts. The last lift is of a page by Melissa Vining, pinned from scrapbook.com.

I took inspiration from the three columns of paper and photos on Melissa's page, but extended mine to cover the whole layout. I used a 6x6 pad from P13's Sugar and Spice collection to make my grid and arranged the boxes with larger pieces in the middle to hold a 4x6 photo that is not part of the original page in any way.

Supplies
Cardstock - UK Crafts

Paper - P13 Sugar & Spice

Letters - American Crafts/Shimelle

Die-Cut - P13

Wood Veneer - P13

Enamel Dots - Pinkfresh Studio, My Mind's Eye

Tools

Big Shot & Dovecraft Label Die

School Days Are Here

I'm continuing with the 12 Days of Summer Scraplifts from Scrap Squad today, and I've reached Day 11 now. This page (by an unknown creator) is built around a series of rosettes, but they are not my thing so I switched to a cut-file instead.

I used the Colour Wheel and Circle Border from Jenny Wren Cut-Files for Twilight Crafts, cut it from white cardstock and backed it with a mix of scraps and 2x2 papers from a Paige Evans swatch book.

I used white cardstock for my background too, as per the original page, and smooshed it with a mix of blue inks. My photo is of my nephew in his first term at school, and I added my title in white letters to echo the white on white of the original page but without using another cut-file. I finished off with some stamping and a few enamel stars.

Supplies
Cardstock - UK Crafts
Paper - Paige Evans Wonders, My Mind's Eye, Studio Calico

Letters - Tim Holtz

Enamel Stars - Doodlebug

Inks - Ranger

Tools
Silhouette Portrait

Amy Tangerine Asterisk Stamp

Studio Calico Stars Stamp

Disclosure - I received the digital cut-file free of charge from Twilight Crafts. All other supplies are my own.

Mama Bear

Back to the 12 Days of Summer Scraplifts from Scrap Squad today. They were published in July but have taken me all summer to do, and it's feeling rather autumnal now. This is day 10, a horizontal design by Loredana Bucaria for Hip Kit Club from June last year.

The light airy colours sent me to my Pinkfresh Studio stash, and a flip through my photo albums for a small single photo threw up an old one of me and my son when he was a toddler. I've always thought I look quite protective of him here so I used that in my title and journalling.

Supplies
Paper - Pinkfresh Studio Indigo Hills, Pinkfresh Studio Escape the Ordinary

Letters - American Crafts

Die-Cuts - Pinkfresh Studio

Stickers - Jen Hadfield, Tim Holtz, Pinkfresh Studio

Paperclip - Doodlebug

Ink - Ranger

Mist - Mister Huey's

Tools

Fiskars Postage Stamp Border Punch

Hobbycraft Star Punch

Big Shot & Dovecraft Star Die

Mark

I'm sharing my take on Day 9 of the 12 Days of Summer Scraplifts today, and it's one where I've veered quite a way from the original page.

I picked a single small photo, but there was no way I could isolate it on the right-hand side of the page, so I decided to move mine across to join the title, paper strips and ephemera on the left side.

I started with white cardstock and coloured it with ink and a stencil. My border papers are more colourful than the original page, and my title letters are plainer for contrast. I tucked my photo into the border and surrounded it with die-cuts, using much larger pieces than those on the original page though.

Supplies

Cardstock - UK Crafts

Paper - Vicki Boutin Storyteller

Letters - Simply Creative

Numbers - Tim Holtz

Die-Cuts - Vicki Boutin Storyteller

Enamel Dots - Carta Bella, Simple Stories

Ink - Ranger

Mist - Maya

Tools

Vicki Boutin Fernwood Stencil

Big Shot & Little B Chevron Die

Baby Beatrix

If the minutiae of Thurrock mapping in the last couple of posts bored you to tears, you'll be glad to see me back to scrapbooking today. The 12 Days of Summer Scraplifts challenges from Scrap Squad ended ages ago, but I am still working my way through them and made this page for Day 8, based on an almost-rainbow of stripes from Laura Rumble who blogs at Beads, Buttons and Birds.

I knew this scraplift was coming up when I placed my last order, and I deliberately added a stripy paper from Pinkfresh Studio just to use for this page. 

The paper had printed stitch lines which I hand-stitched over in matching colours of embroidery thread. I was going to add an assortment of colour-matched embellishments as per Laura's page but I struggled to find pieces that looked good together and I felt that they detracted from my stitching so I kept it plain in the end. I also departed from Laura's original design by using two photos (of my husband's cousin's new arrival) and layering them on a couple of patterned papers.

Supplies

Paper - Pinkfresh Studio Happy Heart, Heidi Swapp Hello Today, HOTP Baby Girl

Letters - American Crafts, Glitz Design

Die-Cuts - Unknown

Stickers - Maggie Holmes

Thread - DMC, Anchor

Enamel Dots - Freckled Fawn, Carta Bella

Messy Eater

Another day, another scraplift. I'm up to Day 6 now in Scrap Squad's 30 Days of Summer Scraplifts, and this time the team selected an original from Jenessa Franco for Paper Issues.

The main elements were four tags, a stencilled background and a single photo. I started with the background but chose a sheet from a Vicki Boutin pad rather than creating my own. I then coloured some tags with inks to match and layered them behind my photo. I started with four of them as per the original page, but they covered too much of the page so I cut back to three.

Supplies

Paper - Vicki Boutin Let's Wander, Shimelle Never Grow Up

Tags - American Crafts

Letters - Maggie Holmes

Stickers - Paige Evans

Label - Unknown

Puffy Stars - Pinkfresh Studio

Ink - Ranger

In the Park

I've reached Day 5 now in Scrap Squad's 12 Days of Summer Scraplifts. The original page by Ginny Hughes has a full page photo with an overlapping stack of ephemera. 

I didn't have such a large picture to hand so I lined up three photos in a column instead and picked out an ephemera pack from Amy Tangerine to go with them. I actually had another smaller photo which was the perfect size for a frame in the pack which I stacked up with an assortment of other pieces, puffy stickers and nuvo drops.

My page is wider than Ginny's so I had some empty space on the right of my photos. I kept it mostly clear but did add a few embellishments, my title and a journalling card.

Supplies

Paper - Paige Evans Whimsical

Letters - Maggies Holmes

Ephemera - Amy Tangerine Picnic in the Park

Puffy Stickers - Jillibean Soup, Freckled Fawn, Elle's Studio

Dots - Nuvo Drops

In the Back Yard

Continuing with the 12 Days of Summer Scraplifts from Scrap Squad; this is the fourth in the series, lifting a page made by Lacey Robin for Paper Issues. 

I chose my photo first, an old one of my cousin's children, and then my papers, a mix of Shimelle and Amy Tangerine designs. In choosing my papers, I decided to make the back triangles all the same and overlaid them with white-based patterns, repeating one of the papers.

I double-matted my photo and moved it across to suit the direction that the children are facing, tucking a label and border strip in around the edges. There was already a lot of colour and pattern on the page so I used plain gold butterflies for embellishment and added puffy stickers and enamel dots. 

Supplies

Cardstock - DCWV

Paper - Shimelle Never Grow Up, Amy Tangerine Brave & Bold, Amy Tangerine Shine On

Letters - Maggie Holmes

Border - Bazzill

Butterfly Stickers - Jen Hadfield

Puffy Stickers - Amy Tangerine

Ladybird - Twilight Crafts

Enamel Dots - Pretty My Page

Ink - Ranger

50th Parkrun

I'm going back to the third of the Twelve Days of Summer Scraplifts now, as hosted by Scrap Squad on Facebook.

Part of the beauty of a scraplift is its adaptability; you can take as much or as little of the original as you want in order to inspire a new page, and this one's at the more minimal end of the scale. I started with the white cardstock background and coloured it with a hexagon background mask but after that I went my own way.

I had a 4x6 photo of my husband doing his 50th parkrun, which I matted and then ran my title down the side. My embellishment is simple and scattered rather than clustered.

Supplies

Cardstock - UK Crafts, Craft Sensations

Paper - My Mind's Eye

Letters - American Crafts

Flair - Unknown

Word Sticker - Tim Holtz

Puffy Stickers - Elle's Studio

Enamel Stars - Doodlebug

Ink - Hobbycraft, Ranger

Paint - Golden

Tools

Hexagon Mask

Big Shot & Little B Chevron Die

Learning to Slide

I'm jumping forward now to Day 7 of Scrap Squad's 10 Days of Summer Scraplifts because Twilight Crafts have an excellent cut-file which works with that scraplift, and I used it for my latest DT page.

The original page by Julie Taylor for Hey Little Magpie has a fan of triangles behind a circular photo, and I used the Wonky Star cut-file for my triangles rather than trying to work out which sizes to cut for myself. I'd originally intended to layer them up in a similar manner to those on Julie's page but once I got going I stayed with the full circle of the cut-file but moved all the pieces closer together.

I used an assortment of Paige Evans papers, cutting the triangles from four patterns which suited the photo of my mum with my son in the park when he was small. That photo was originally 4"x6" but I cut it down to a 3.5" circle which I matted on pale blue cardstock.

With my triangles in place I ran my title around the edge of them following a circular template and went even further from Julie's original page, with just a few puffy stickers for embellishment rather than her much larger cluster.

Supplies
Cardstock - Bazzill

Paper - Paige Evans Whimsical, Paige Evans Truly Grateful

Letters - Studio Calico?

Puffy Stickers - Paige Evans, Elle's Studio

Ink - Ranger

Paint - Golden

Tools

Silhouette Portrait

Fiskars Shape Cutter & Circle Templates

Disclosure - I received the digital cut-file free of charge from Twilight Crafts. All other supplies are my own.

Welcome to Yorkshire

I'm taking on the second Summer Scraplift from Scrap Squad today, but not going so random with the photos as I did on the first. I looked at the page design, a lift from Hip Kit Club, and decided to make the first page (chronologically) for our Easter holiday in Yorkshire this year.

I've already pulled together a kit of papers based around Simple Stories Hello Today and Pebbles Seen & Noted, so that choice was made for me in advance. I made my triangles shallower than those in the original page and moved elements around to suit my single 4x6 photo.

Supplies
Paper - Pebbles Seen & Noted, Simple Stories Hello Today

Letters - Collage Press, Basic Grey

Stickers - Simple Stories, American Crafts/Shimelle, Pebbles/Jen Hadfield

Puffy Flowers - OneCanoeTwo

Washi Tape - Unknown

Enamel Dots - Simple Stories

Ink - Ranger

Paint - Golden

Tools

Big Shot & Dovecraft Tag Die

Holding the Baby

I've found that scrapping my holiday photos has become a bit of a chore, so I'm changing my approach to scrapping for a while. 

Rather than forcing myself to scrap with a specific set of photos and papers, I'm going 'backwards'. I decided to join in with the 12 Days of Summer Scraplifts over in the Scrap Squad Facebook group, starting from the page design, then choosing papers and photos to suit.

The original layout for the first challenge appears to be by Karlla Dauer and can be found on Pinterest. I chose  pastel papers from Cocoa Vanilla Studios and then sought a photo, coming up with this pair of my husband and nephew where the paper colours match those of the baby bouncer.

Supplies
Paper - Cocoa Vanilla Studio Daydream, Cocoa Vanilla Studio These Days
Letters- Tim Holtz

Enamel Dots - Marianne Designs, Altenew, Simple Stories

Paint - Golden

Tools

Big Shot & Dovecraft Tag Die

The Dark Light

Much as I'd like to get my2018 album finished, the photos just aren't inspiring me at the moment so I'm changing tack, picking challenges that do inspire me and then finding photos (from any year) to go with them.

The first one that caught my eye was a scraplift challenge from Scrap Squad, to lift a page by Lacey Robin for Paper Issues. 

Those diamond shapes made me think of the tile print on a paper from Vicki Boutin's Storyteller collection, so I started by chopping it up into individual squares. I picked grey cardstock for my background, and smooshed ink over it in three colours that match the paper. Most of it's been covered by the tiles, but that's the effect I wanted, with just a little peeking out around the edges.

My photo's an old one of Dungeness Lighthouse (which coincidentally we visited again last month so it'll be making another appearance here soon) that I matted on cardstock and then another Storyteller paper. The title gave me some trouble as the lighthouse has been decommissioned so I couldn't use any title based around it shining; it's even been painted black so that is harder to see and doesn't confuse seafarers. Eventually I hit upon The Dark Light and cut it on my Silhouette as I didn't have all the letters I needed in any of my sticker sets. 

Supplies

Cardstock - Colorset?

Paper - American Crafts/Vicki Boutin Storyteller

Letters - Creative Devotion

Stickers - OneCanoeTwo

Enamel Stars - Doodlebug

Ink - Ranger, Memento

Mist - Mister Huey's

Tools

Silhouette Portrait