SK8R Girlz

I'm back on The Mad Scrapper blog today with another page using papers from Cocoa Vanilla Studios' Legendary collection in conjunction with some mixed media in coordinating colours.

You can read all about it over at The Mad Scrapper.

The photo is of my daughter and her friend on roller-skates at sunset and will go in her University Years album. No journalling yet as she will do that next time she's home (whenever that might be).

Supplies
Paper - Cocoa Vanilla Studios Legendary*
Letters - American Crafts*
Word Sticker - Tim Holtz
Ink - Ranger
Mist - Mister Huey's, Docrafts

Tools
Silhouette Portrait
Hexagon Mask
Creative Embellishments Stars Mask
Hobbycraft Star Circle Stamp
Heidi Swapp Arrow Stamp
Studio Calico Stars Stamp

* Disclosure - I received the papers and letter stickers free of charge from The Mad Scrapper as part of my Design Team role. 

Mirror, Mirror

Our daughter has been at the University of Sussex for a year now. Before she went, I offered to make her an album for her experiences if she supplied me with the photos. It took her almost a year to organise, but she presented me with a memory stick just before she went back this term so I'm finally able to make a start for her.

I'll be tackling them in random order as inspiration strikes or suitable challenges arise, and I'm starting with the first September challenge from For the Love of Pretty Paper which is to scrap a selfie.

I recently rediscovered a set of Freckled Fawn stickers which I'd forgotten about. I received them as part of a prize a couple of years ago but they're not really my thing so they've sat around ever since. I decided that these fell into my 'use it or lose it' category and that if I didn't use them soon then I should either sell them or give them away.

I was so happy to find the perfect paper to go with my stickers, a stripe from Heidi Swapp that not only matched all the colours but the stripes were at the right angle for the diamond shapes to sit neatly between the lines.

I cut my title on my Silhouette because few alpha sets have six Rs, and this also meant that I could reflect the second word.

I have plenty of colours and patterns on the diamonds and I didn't want to clutter the page with too many other embellishments so I just added a trio of black puffy stickers, magenta enamel diamonds overlapping a few of the cardstock diamonds and a smattering of jade enamel dots.

Supplies
Paper - Heidi Swapp Hello Today, HOTP Garnet Sarabook
Stickers - Freckled Fawn Chit Chat
Puffy Stickers - Heidi Swapp Journal Studio
Enamel Shapes - Heidi Swapp, Ebay
Ink - Hobbycraft
Mist - Maya Road, Mister Huey's 

Tools
Silhouette Portrait

Plan B

This page documents our day in Olden on our 2013 cruise to Norway. We'd planned to use the local bus to visit a nearby glacier, but it was already full when it reached us so we had to rapidly find a Plan B.

We collected a map from tourist information and spotted a waterfall and a lake up the valley, so decided to explore. I lined up three landscape photos (river, waterfall and lake) in a column on my page and added a smaller one of the church.

This was our last port of call and it's the last page I'm making so I put all my scraps to good use in a column next to the photos, repeating papers from the previous seven pages I've made.

Supplies
Cardstock - Papermania Basics
Paper - K&Company Hannah, Simple Stories Awesome, Bo Bunny, My Mind's Eye, 
Letters - Hobbycraft, Doodlebug
Enamel Stars - Freckled Fawn
Pearls - Scrapberry's
Ink - Ranger

Tools
Big Shot
Dovecraft Label Die
Little B Arrow Die
Woodware Postage Stamp Punch
Woodware Scalloped Circle Punch

Island Hopping

The penultimate port of our 2013 cruise to Norway was Kristiansund, a town spread across several islands linked by a harbour ferry (as well as by road these days). I downloaded a walking trail through the area which we followed round; the best parts were the old watch tower and the views from one of the smaller islands. These are the two larger photos on my page, with smaller ones of the ferry we used and out children in one of the parks.

I used the same papers and techniques on this page as I have on the last few. These pages are all going in my main 2013 album so I want it to be clear that they belong together and form a distinct subsection.

Supplies

Cardstock - Papermania

Paper - K&Co Hannah, Simple Stories Awesome, My Mind's Eye Wild Asparagus, Pebbles Warm & Cozy

Letters - Fancy Pants, Jillibean Soup, KaiserCraft

Wood Veneer - Studio Calico

Pearls - Scrapberry's

Ink - Ranger

Tools

Big Shot

Little B Arrows Dies

Spellbinders Circle Die

Woodware Postage Stamp Punch

Woodware Scalloped Circle Punch

American Crafts/Amy Tangerine Date Stamp

A Day of Two Halves

We're in Longyearbyen today, the largest settlement on the island of Spitzbergen, one where the danger from polar bears is real so we could only tour the island on an organised excursion with armed guards!

It was a day of two halves as we split up for our excursions. In the morning my son and husband went for a hike on the Longyear glacier and in the afternoon my daughter and I visited the Advent Valley. Both pairs also toured the town in the other half of their day. 

I used Shimelle Laine's 'Kicked Up Quadrants' sketch from her Start with a Sketch class for my page with photos from the town, glacier and valley in three quadrants plus title and journalling in the fourth.

Supplies
Cardstock - Papermania Basics
Paper - K&Company Hannah, Simple Stories Awesome, My Mind's Eye
Stickers - Simple Stories Take a Hike
Letters - American Crafts, KaiserCraft
Enamel Stars - Freckled Fawn
Washi Tape - Unknown
Gems - Simply Creative
Ink - Ranger

Tools
Big Shot
Dovecraft Label Die
Dovecraft Star Die
Spellbinders Circle Die
Woodware Postage Stamp Punch
Woodware Scalloped Circle Punch
Hobbycraft Star Punch
Woodware Small Star Punch
American Crafts/Shimelle Stamps

The Great Escape

I'm up on the blog at The Mad Scrapper today with my first DT project. I chose to work with papers from the Legendary collection by Cocoa Vanilla Studio and combined them with camping photos from Dartmoor. 

You can read all about it over at The Mad Scrapper.

Supplies
Cardstock - Papermania
Paper - Cocoa Vanilla Studio Legendary*
Letters - American Crafts/Shimelle*
Label - Pretty Little Studio
Enamel Dots - Echo Park*
Ink - Ranger
Mist - Mister Huey's

Tools
Silhouette Portrait
Big Shot
Dovecraft Star Die
Little B Arrow Die

*Disclosure - I received the papers, enamel dots and letter stickers free of charge from The Mad Scrapper as part of my Design Team role. 

Modern Architecture

I'm continuing with an octet of pages from our 2013 cruise to Norway today, composed of one for an introduction/overview and one for each of our seven ports of call. I'd previously made a page for our first stop which was Ålesund, so I'm going on to the next one, Tromsø. We visited two major attractions there, both of which are housed in striking modern buildings which feature on my page.

The top photo is Polaria, a museum of the arctic, which is supposed to look like ice floes being pressed up against the land; the bottom photo is Tromsdalen Church (aka the Arctic Cathedral) which is reminiscent of icebergs.

These pages will go in my main 2013 album, so I'm making them all from a limited selection of supplies; my intention is that they will clearly belong together in the album and create a distinctive subsection.

Supplies
Cardstock - American Crafts, Bazzill
Paper - K&Company Hannah, Simple Stories Awesome, Bo Buuny Camp-a-Lot
Letters - Jilliben Soup, October Afternoon, Fancy Pants
Washi Tape - Unknown
Pearls - Scrapberry's
Ink - Ranger


Tools
Sewing Machine
Big Shot & Little B Arrows Die
Woodware Postage Stamp Punch
Woodware Scalloped Circle Punch
American Crafts/Amy Tangerine Date Stamp