Pages from Stockholm - Part 2

Last week I shared the first six pages from Stockholm on our Scandinavian cruise, and now I'm publishing the rest. We had visited the city before and visited the major attractions that interested us, so we spent some time on Stockholm's metro system, dubbed the longest art gallery in the world, looking at the artworks.

These are all pocket pages and, although I do use a few configurations of pocket page protectors, each of these has six 4x6 landscape pockets.

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

75. Universitetet / T-Centralen 

I gave the top four pockets here to Universitetet station which has a series of tiled panels devoted to Carl Linnaeus. The bottom two pockets are for T-Centralen, the only station which all three lines pass through; the walls of the red and green lines' platform are tiled with geometric patterns.

76. Odenplan / Thorildsplan / Rådhuset

Three stations this time, with two pockets apiece. Odenplan had a display from a local college; Thorildsplan is tiled with images in the style of early video games; Rådhuset has a variety of artefacts designed to look like they had sunk through the earth and reappeared in the station below.

77. Solna Centrum

This was the most impressive station, carved from the rock and painted with almost a kilometre of spruce forest below a sunset red sky. There are lots of smaller scenes along the walls highlighting nature, rural depopulation and environmental damage, and cases displaying smaller tableau. 

78. T-Centralen /Kungsträdgården

Back to T-Centralen on the blue line, which here is painted with calming blue vines and flowers. Then four pockets for Kungsträdgården; it means the King's Garden and the station is below a park of the same name where a palace used to stand. The bare rock walls have been adorned with casts of statues from the old palace and one end has a mock excavation site.

79. Underground Overground / Skeppsholmen

Back above ground, we visited the real Kungsträdgården and then walked over to another island called Skeppsholmen for coffee.

80. Stockholm Archipelago

My final page features the Stockholm Archipelago, the collection of 30,000 islands that we sailed through after we left the city.

That concludes my Stockholm scrapbooking and, since it was the last port I scrapped (though not the last we visited), it finishes off my Scandinavia album. I just need to have a check through all the pages for anything that's worked loose, or for any places that need a bit extra, or for places to add a few pieces that I like but haven't found a home on a page yet. Then I'll find an album and make a title card for the front cover.

Next up I have pages to make for my 2024 annual album and also for my 8x8 parkrun album, as I am trying to keep both of those up-to-date this year. I'll also be starting a new holiday album soon for this year's Mediterranean cruise.

Supplies

Cardstock - Core'dinations, The Craft Place, Craft UK

Paper - Pinkfresh Studio Tourist Mode, Pinkfresh Studio Life Right Now, Pinkfresh Studio Out and About, Pinkfresh Studio Simply the Best, Pinkfresh Studio Brighter Days, Pebbles New Addition, Simple Stories

Letters - Pinkfresh Studio, Jillibean Soup, Doodlebug, American Crafts, Studio Calico

Journal Cards - Studio Calico

Stickers - Pinkfresh Studio, Heidi Swapp, 49 & Market

Filmstrip - 49 & Market

Glitter Tape - Unknown;

Enamel Dots - Altenew, 49 & Market, Pinkfresh Studio, Carta Bella, Pretty My Page, Freckled Fawn, My Mind's Eye, Simple Stories

Pages from Stockholm - Part 1

It's been a while since I last shared a round-up of pages, and that's because I have been busy enjoying the summer, interspersed with making a whopping total of eleven new pages for Stockholm, the capital of Sweden, which we visited on our Scandinavian cruise last summer. I'll be sharing those across two posts as there are so many.

I'll start with the sub-title page; I make one of these for every port we visit to divide the album into 'chapters' for each one. I have shared this one before but I'm repeating it with all the new pages for completeness.

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

70. Heart of the City

We moored right in the middle of Stockholm and went ashore by tender. I used two overlapping photos at the top of the page to make a panorama of the old town and added three smaller ones below with some street views.

71. Gamla Stan

First pocket page, with photos of four of the landmark buildings in the old town.

72. The Longest Art Gallery in the World / T-Bana / Östermalmstorg

We'd been to Stockholm before and seen some of the major sights, so this time we explored the T-bana, Stockholm's metro, where many of the stations are filled with art. This page starts with an introduction and a map, then the first station.

73. Stadion

Back to 12x12, partly as I wanted to make a feature of this station and partly because the photos didn't work well in a pocket page. Stadion station is carved from solid rock and painted blue with rainbows to remind people of the blue skies above. This page was my first August DT page for Twilight Crafts, using their Filmstrip cut-file in my layering.

74. Tekniska Högskolan

Another 12x12, on the back of the last. This is the station for the Royal Institute of Technology and is a tribute to various scientific discoveries. I split the page into a half and two quarters on different subjects.

Six more to go, and I'll share those next week.

Supplies

Cardstock - Core'dinations, The Craft Place, Craft UK

Paper - Pinkfresh Studio Tourist Mode, Pinkfresh Studio Life Right Now, Pinkfresh Studio Out and About, Pinkfresh Studio Simply the Best, Pinkfresh Studio Brighter Days, Pebbles New Addition, Simple Stories

Letters - Pinkfresh Studio, Jillibean Soup, Doodlebug, American Crafts, Studio Calico

Journal Cards - Studio Calico

Stickers - Pinkfresh Studio, Heidi Swapp, 49 & Market

Filmstrip - 49 & Market

Glitter Tape - Unknown;

Enamel Dots - Altenew, 49 & Market, Pinkfresh Studio, Carta Bella, Pretty My Page, Freckled Fawn, My Mind's Eye, Simple Stories

March Pages

Happy Easter!

It's time for my March round-up of pages, and this month I've concentrated on my Scandinavian Cruise album from last year, which is a mixture of 12x12 pages and pocket pages. I'd done two ports out of six before Christmas so it was far from finished.

20. Bolette

I actually made this one in February, but it was to be my first March DT page for Twilight Crafts, using their Arrows Where Shall We Go? cut-file (with the wording removed). It will be the final page in the album and has a large pocket to hold our cruise log.

Supplies: Cardstock - DCWV, Craft UK, The Craft Place; Paper - Pinkfresh Studio Simply the Best, Pinkfresh Studio Tourist Route, Studio Calico South of Market; Letters - Pinkfresh Studio; Puffy Stickers - Pinkfresh Studio; Filmstrip - 49 and Market; Enamel Dots - My Mind's Eye

21. City of Roses and Ruins

This is Visby, on the Swedish island of Gotland, a walled medieval city with the ruins of about a dozen churches which were abandoned after the Reformation.

Supplies: Cardstock - Craft UK, Bazzill; Paper - Pinkfresh Studio Tourist Mode, Pinkfresh Studio Out & About, Pinkfresh Studio Life Right Now, Studio Calico South of the Market; Numbers - Jillibean Soup; Stickers - Pinkfresh Studio; Gloitter Tape - The Works;  Enamel Dots - Pinkfresh Studio, Freckled Fawn, My Mind's Eye

22. Drotten

The first church we visited. (The photos on the other side determined which style of page protector to use.)

Supplies: Cardstock - Bazzill; Paper - Pinkfresh Studio Tourist Mode, Pinkfresh Studio Out & About, Pinkfresh Studio Life Right Now; Washi Tape - Unknown; Enamel Dots - My Mind's Eye

23. St Lars

Another church - St Lars or St Lawrence. I titled the pages with the Swedish names but used English names in my journalling.

Supplies: Paper - Pinkfresh Studio Tourist Mode, Pinkfresh Studio Life Right Now; Letters - Pinkfresh Studio; Label - Tim Holtz; Puffy Stickers - Bella Boulevard, Pinkfresh Studio; Glitter Tape - The Works; Enamel Shapes - Doodlebug

24. St Clemens & St Nicolaus

Two more ruined churches share the next page.

Supplies: Paper - Pinkfresh Studio Tourist Mode, Pinkfresh Studio Life Right Now; Letters - Elle's Studio; Enamel Dots - Altenew, Hey Little Magpie

25. St Olaf / Botanical Garden

The last ruined church that I am recording, and a couple of photos of the Botanical Garden that it sits within.

Supplies: Cardstock - The Craft Place; Paper - Pinkfresh Studio Life Right Now, Pinkfresh Studio Simply the Best, Pinkfresh Studio Tourist Mode; Letters - Pinkfresh Studio; Glitter Tape - The Works; Enamel Dots - Pinkfresh Studio, My Mind's Eye

26. Sankta Maria Domkyrka

A page for Visby's Cathedral.

Supplies: Cardstock - Bazzill; Paper - Pinkfresh Studio Tourist Mode, Echo Park Capture Life; Washi Tape - Unknown; Enamel Shapes - Obed Marshall, Maggie Holmes, My Mind's Eye, Carta Bella

27. Visby Ringmur

The last page from Visby is our walk round the city wall.

Supplies: Paper - Pinkfresh Studio Tourist Mode, Pinkfresh Studio Brighter Days, Pinkfresh Studio Life Right Now; Puffy Stickers - Pinkfresh Studio; Label Stickers - Teresa Collins; Glitter Tape - The Works; Enamel Dots - Pinkfresh Studio

28. This Could be the Last Time

This was my second page of the month for Twilight Crafts, using their Bauble Border cut-file. I used two copies and flipped one design over to make a column of six baubles rather than the three on the original cut-file.

Supplies: Cardstock - DCWV; Paper - Ha-Pi Little Fox Un Conte Nordique; Enamel Dots - Simple Stories, Carta Bella

29. & 30. Freddie Mercury - A World of His Own

A double page from last summer when Sotheby's put on a public exhibition of Freddie Mercury's possessions, before they were auctioned. I used the double page sketch from Stick It Down.

Supplies: Cardstock - The Craft Place, American Crafts; Paper - Heidi Swapp Hello Today, Stampin' Up!; Washi Tape - Unknown; Enamel Dots - Papermania, Eyelet Outlet

Finally, I made a card for Mother's Day, also using the card sketch from Stick It Down.

Disclosure - I receive digital cut-files free of charge from Twilight Crafts as part of my DT role. All other supplies are my own.

Stockholm

I'm sharing another sub-title page today for my new Scandinavian Cruise album. I'm making one of these for each place we visited, in order to split the album into 'chapters'. They are all based around the ports' initial letters, cut on my Silhouette and backed with a single photo. 

Stockholm was our fifth stop; we anchored near the old town and this photo was taken from the ship.

In the past I've made all the sub-title pages for a cruise to the same design, but this time I'm mixing it up a bit, apart from the initial letter. For this page, I stencilled a circles pattern across the page and layered the letter S over some vertical strips of paper. I tucked in an acetate filmstrip and added a strip of glitter tape. Then I used a piece from the 6x6 pad to hold my title and a line of embellishments, a mix of stamped and fussy-cut pieces with a few enamel dots.

Supplies

Cardstock - Craft UK, The Craft Place
Paper - Pinkfresh Studio Tourist Mode, Pinkfresh Studio Out and About
Letters - Doodlebug

Filmstrip - 49 & Market

Glitter Tape - Unknown
Washi Sticker - 49 & Market

Washi Tape - October Afternoon

Puffy Stars - Pinkfresh Studio
Enamel Dots - Pinkfresh Studio, Pretty My Page, Twilight Crafts, 49 & Market

Ink - Ranger, Let's Color
Mist - Mister Huey's

Tools
Big Shot & Spellbinders Circle Dies
Studio Calico 'You Are Here' Stamp Set

X-Cut Circle Punches

Stockholm

My Scrapbook Nook are holding another cyber crop in honour of National Scrapbook Day in the US. This time the theme is Movie Madness and the first challenge was to scrap a page influenced by a movie genre. I chose a documentary to scrap the highlights of our day in Stockholm last summer. This is just a summary page to go in the 2011 album. I will be doing a full album for our cruise as well.

I love the colours in the new Pink Paislee papers and I was going to use these flowers in the middle of the page, until I realised just how much I would be covering up with the photos. I changed to just a couple of strips and used a stencil and ink to add some colour to the central panel. My printer chewed up my original journalling tag so this is just white card coloured with chalks.

Supplies

Card - DCWV? plus white scrapbook insert for tag

Paper - Pink Paislee Prairie Hill (Country Meadow)

Ribbon & Thread - from Stash

Ink - Papermania, Versacolor
Chalks - Studio G

Letters - Cut from free paper from Scrapbook Magazine Issue 36

Tools

Tando Creative Harlequin Mask