Felix

Time for the last sketch from Lottie Loves Paper's Five Sketches in Five Days. It was actually Sketch 1, but I left it initially because I couldn't fit it to the photos from our cruise. 

Eventually I chose to scrap some baby photos instead; these were shared by my husband's cousin when Felix was born in August. I wanted to use blues, and soft patterns for this page, but I sorely underestimated the amount of blue patterned paper in my stash. The background is a baby boy paper, with a whale print that's hard to see in this photo. I also picked a darker blue which I cut into various width strips, tore the ends and machine-stitched to the page.

Supplies
Paper - Pebbles New Addition, Heidi Swapp No limits
Letters - American Crafts
Brads - Pebbles New Addition
Enamel Dots & Gems - Docrafts
Heart Stickers - Heidi Swapp
Mist - Mister Huey's


Tools
Sewing Machine

Harpa

Another Icelandic page, and another from a sketch shared by Lottie Loves Paper on Facebook as part of  Five Sketches in Five Days earlier this month.

My photos are of Harpa, a newish concert hall on the waterfront in Reykjavik. Its architecture is intended to reflect the basalt landscape of Iceland, and I wanted to include some close-ups of the glass panels on my page. However, having all three photos in a tight block didn't work for me so I spread them out a little and filled in the gap with an arrow die-cut.

I moved the title on my page compared to the sketch (using some ancient chipboard letters that fitted the space perfectly), and concentrated the circles of embellishment more closely together.

Supplies
Cardstock - Craft Sensations
Paper - Echo Park We Are Family, Echo Park Winter Park, Photo Play Boarding Pass
Letters - Basic Grey
Mistable Stars - Studio Calico
Enamel Dots - Simple Storis
Ink - Ranger
Mist - Docrafts

Tools
Fiskars Shape Cutter & Circles Template
Woodware Scalloped Circle Punch
X-Cut Circle Punches
Big Shot, Spellbinders Circle Dies & Little B Arrow Die

Hungry?

I've gone back to the second of 'Five Sketches in Five Days' posted by Lottie Loves Paper on Facebook for this page. It's a great sketch for using up paper scraps, but I don't have too many of those this early in making my holiday album. 

The photo is of the 'Puffin and Whale' menu of one of the restaurants in Reykjavik. We didn't actually eat there, but the menu was interesting enough for me to want to photograph it and then scrapbook it - smoked puffin with raspberry vinegar, followed by whale peppersteak with fried vegetables.

Supplies
Cardstock - Craft Sensations, Bazzill
Paper - Photo Play Boarding Pass, My Mind's Eye Hello World, Crate Paper, Echo Park
Letters - American Crafts
Enamel Dots - Studio Calico
Ink - Ranger
Mist - Docrafts

Tools
Fiskars Postage Stamp Border Punch
Woodware Scalloped Circle Punch
X-Cut Small Circle Punch

Hallgrímskirkja

From Reykjavik Cathedral on the last page, I've crossed town to the much larger and newer Hallgrímskirkja for this page. It's a double, and another based on one of Shimelle's pages in her A Most Magical Scrapbook class. 

Shimelle used a long row of six 4x6 portrait photos spanning the width of her double page, but I decided on a more varied selection of sizes and orientations for my photos, and this opened up a gap for my title below the pictures on the right hand side of the page. I cut that title on the Silhouette as I have a scarcity of navy letter stickers.

The photo placement also created two open spaces for embellishment clusters in opposite corners; these are just a mix of paper pieces and die-cut shapes topped with wood veneer geo-tags.

Supplies
Cardstock - Craft Sensations, Bazzill
Paper - Photo Play Boarding Pass, Echo Park Spots & Stripes, We R Memory Keepers
Wood Veneer - Studio Calico
Puffy Stickers - Fancy Pants
Enamel Dots - Simple Stories
Ink - Ranger
Mist - Docrafts

Tools
Fiskars Shape Cutter & Circles Template
Fiskars Postage Stamp Border Punch
Big Shot, X-Cut Ticket Stubs Die & Little B Arrows Die
Silhouette Portrait

Reykjavik Cathedral

I'm staying with Reykjavik today for this page featuring the Cathedral. The page design comes from the recent A Most Magical Scrapbook class run by Shimelle Laine. She was making a Disney album, but the prompts and page designs are pretty versatile rather than being specifically Disney-esque.

I had three photos of the cathedral, and considered stacking them in a column, but with one picture of the outside and two of the inside, I felt they would be better separated, and this design with three 4x6 photos and an extra 4x6 block worked better than the column.

Shimelle used her extra block for lots of embellishment, but it seemed like an obvious place for my title and journalling with just a little embellishment that I repeated diagonally opposite in a smaller size. 

Supplies
Cardstock - Craft Sensations, Bazzill
Paper - Photo Play Boarding Pass, Echo Park Winter Park, My Mind's Eye Hello World, Basic Grey
Letters - Echo Park Note to Self
Washi Tape - Little B, Tesco
Enamel Dots - American Crafts/Shimelle, Simple Stories
Ink - Ranger
Mist - Docrafts

Tools
Big Shot
X-Cut Ticket Stubs Die
Little B Arrows Dies
Dovecraft Nesting Stars Die

Sólfar

I'm sticking with our cruise for now, and sharing a page from Iceland. Sólfar, the Sun Voyager, is a sculpture on the waterfront in Reykjavik, commissioned to commemorate the bicentenary of the city. 

The page is based on the fourth of the Five Sketches in Five Days posted by Lottie Loves Paper on Facebook at the start of the month, though I've played with the paper layers and moved the line of embellishments down below my photos.

The arrow card behind my title is an old tag from Amy Tangerine which I trimmed down a little, and then tucked the tag end into the opposite corner so that lighter kraft colour appears in two places. The map print stars are old too, and have appeared in two previous cruise albums, so I'm keen to get them used up.

Supplies
Cardstock - Craft Sensations
Paper - Photo Play Boarding Pass, October Afternoon, Basic Grey, Pink Paislee
Letters - Basic Grey
Tag - American Crafts/Amy Tangerine
Stickers - October Afternoon, Studio Calico
Gems - Papermania
Ink - Ranger
Mist - Docrafts

Tools
Big Shot, Little B Arrows Dies & X-Cut Travel Dies
Fiskars Postage Stamp Border Punch
American Crafts/Shimelle Starshine Stamp Set
X-Cut Circle Punch

Hidden Talent

At the beginning of the month, Lottie Loves Paper posted Five Sketches in Five Days over on Facebook. I started in the middle, with Sketch 3 which was originally published by Page Maps back in 2012.

I picked a couple of photos of my son learning ballroom dancing on our cruise, and flipped the sketch horizontally to suit the direction of travel in the photos. I'm doing the whole album on kraft cardstock so put the spotty paper behind the other page elements to break up the expanse of kraft.

My page morphed away from the sketch as I worked, as I moved things around the page, but hopefully you can still see where it started from.

Supplies
Cardstock - Craft Sensations
Paper - Photo Play Boarding Pass, We R Memory Keepers
Letters - Fancy Pants
Die Cuts & Sticker - Photo Play Boarding Pass
Cork Stickers - Freckled Fawn
Enamel Dots - Marianne Designs
Ink - Ranger
Mist - Docrafts

Tools
X-Cut Circle Punch
X-Cut Corner Punch