Summer Photography Scavenger Hunt - London Finds

We've reached the end of the second month of the Summer Photography Scavenger Hunt organised by Mary-Lou at Patio Postcards, so it's time to check up on everyone's progress so far.

I stayed local in June, and racked up ten finds on walks from home. With lockdown restrictions being lifted here now, I had to go up to London for a meeting on Friday last week; while I was happy to use off-peak trains I'm not ready to go on the Underground yet so I walked from Fenchurch Street to Smithfield which gave me the opportunity to do some scavenger hunting on the way. 

I also decided to book a visit to the Barbican Conservatory as it lay on my route, I had time for that before my meeting and it wouldn't be worth a specific separate trip.

All of these photos come from my London trip:

6. Something in the Shape of a Triangle
One I knew I'd find - the glass at 30 St Mary Axe:

And a surprise find close by - metalwork on The Leadenhall Building.

7. Something that Displays a Rule
In a seating area at the Conservatory:

8. A Leaf Longer than Your Hand
This one was huge, spanning the width of the walkway in the Conservatory:

14. Something with Wheels
I was going for either a black cab or a London bus; the taxi came past first:

20. Something with the number 7 in it
The facade of Princes Court, at 7 Princes Road:

Alt A. An Animal Statue
Two options for this one: a horse by the Bank of England

or a pair of dolphins at the Barbican Centre:

Alt C. Something with Four Sides
The Cornhill Fountain, erected in 1911 to replace one from 1859:

Most of these finds are repeats of items I ticked off in June, but I'm happier with the quality and variety of the photos this time. For example, my four-sided fountain is much more likely to make it to my final selection than the litter bin from last month. Only a couple are genuine new finds so I'm ending the month on 10/20 with 2/3 for the alternatives. Not too bad since we're half-way through, but it's only going to get harder from now on.

Comfy?

This page is another with an old photo, made for a scraplift collaboration between the Scrap Squad and Scrap Academy groups on Facebook.

The original page that we were asked to lift was made by Suse Fish for Citrus Twist Kits back in 2016. I chose a single photo for my page, and flipped the design to suit the direction that my brother was looking in the photo.

I find that the colours of older photos don't work well with modern white backgrounds so I chose a distressed paper with a diagonal ombre print for mine and then went through my scraps box for coordinating pieces to make up the vertical strips and the layers behind the photo.

Supplies
Paper - Authentique, Crate Paper The Pier, Jillbean Soup, American Traditional Designs 
Letters - SEI
Tags - Kaisercraft
Enamel Dots - My Mind's Eye, Pretty My Page, Marianne Design
Mist - Docrafts

Tools
Big Shot
Dovecraft Tag and Label Dies

Anyone for Cricket?

I'm continuing with the second sketch from the Lottie Loves Paper Summer Sketch Challenge today, and I'm scrapping old photos again, back to 1983 this time for a picture of my brother in the park.

The photo's quite plain but it was taken in August so I looked for summer-themed papers, and turned up the remnants of an old collection from Simple Stories. I only had one 12x12 sheet left so that became my background and I used a 6" wide white woodgrain scrap over it to tone down the pattern and provide a place for all the paper layers to sit. That part is pretty true to the sketch with two tags and some other papers behind the photo, cut from scraps and cut-apart sheets. I've killed off the collection now with a few tiny pieces going in the recycling.

Supplies

Paper - Simple Stories I {Heart} Summer

Letters - Studio Calico, Heidi Swapp

Enamel Dots - Echo Park, Simple Stories

Ink - Ranger

Mist - Mister Huey's, Docrafts

Tools

Hobbycraft Heart Punch

X-Cut Circle Punch

Old Timers

I don't necessarily blog my pages in the order I made them, preferring to group projects or albums together. Now that I've shared all my 2005 pages, I have a few oddments coming up.

Lottie Loves Paper are running a Summer Sketch Challenge until the end of next month, and this page came from the first one posted. 

I couldn't match the two portrait photos here, so went for landscape instead, with old photos from the National Tramway Museum in Crich. I considered rotating the whole sketch but the L shape of papers looked best left as it is. Those papers are old too, a collection called Vintage Charm which matched the tones in the photos perfectly.

I've stopped buying Thickers as the price keeps creeping up and I don't get very many titles per pack before I run out of critical letters. This means I am cutting more and more titles on my Silhouette - all the letters I need, in any colour and font I like. This time I layered patterned paper with an offset cut from kraft cardstock.

Supplies
Cardstock - American Crafts, Bazzill
Paper - My Mind's Eye Vintage Charm
Pearls - Scrapberry's
Ink - Ranger

Tools
Silhouette Portrait
Big Shot & Dovecraft Star Die
Hobbycraft Star Punch

Christmas Play

This is the last page for my 2005 album, and comes from my daughter's school play in December that year. I based my page on the 'Round and Round' sketch from Shimelle Laine's class Start with a Sketch and used a Christmas wreath cut-file from Paige Evans.

I didn't leave myself with enough space for journalling, so it's on a separate card which I've clipped to the top of the page. 

So, 2005 is done now and I'll be moving on to concentrate on a new year. I kept on top of 2019 as we went along, and I've managed to do the same for 2020 so far. Before those, my last completed annual albums are from 2015, so I've decided to look at finishing off 2016 next. 

Supplies
Paper - American Crafts/Shimelle Go Now Go
Die-Cuts - Advent Calendar Swap
Sticker - Teresa Collins
Washi Tape - from Stash
Enamel Dots - My Mind's Eye, Simple Stories
Pearls - Doodlebug
Gems - Love to Craft
Mist - Mister Huey's, Docrafts

Tools
Silhouette Portrait
Paige Evans Christmas Wreath Cutfile

Preparation

Back in 2005, my husband and some of his colleagues took on the Three Peaks Challenge (climbing the highest peaks in Scotland, England and Wales in less than 24 hours). He did his training on the North Downs in Kent, hence the title for this page with poppy photos from the fields near Luddesdown.

I used 6x6 papers from a couple of pads layered up and running diagonally across the page. The green pieces are from the branding strip of the background paper.

Supplies
Paper - OneCanoeTwo Creekside, Pinkfresh Studio Escape the Ordinary
Letters - We R Memory Keepers
Die-Cut - Pinkfresh Studio Escape the Ordinary
Phrase Stickers - Tim Holtz Idea-Ology
Enamel Dots - Simple Stories, Carta Bella
Ink - Memento
Mist - Docrafts

Five Go Adventuring Again

Back in May I started working through my 2005 photos with the aid of various National Scrapbooking Day challenges, and then I wandered off through the archives to complete some more. Now it's time to return to that album with a double page from a trip to Adventure Island (a local theme park) for my son's birthday.

I'd planned this page out before NSD, using an old sketch from Sketch Support which I tweaked to suit my photos. 

With wider photos on the right hand side of the page I knew that my journalling would have to move, and earmarked a space below the title. It took a while to come up with that title though - we visited this theme park a lot when my children were small and I've used up all the obvious titles (and repeated some of them). I eventually locked on to the fact that there were five children this time and pinched the title of a Famous Five story which plays on the word Adventure. 

Supplies
Cardstock - Papermania, DCWV, Bazzill
Paper - Studio Calico Snippets, Studio Calico Heyday
Letters - American Crafts, October Afternoon
Chipboard Number - Unknown
Puffy Stars - Pinkfresh Studio, MRI
Ink - Memento
Mist - Docrafts

Tools
Big Shot & Dovecraft Star Die