Mercado de Vegueta

This page follows on immediately from the last, and has photos from the food market in the old town of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. I scraplifted myself for this one, basing it on the Cape Wrath page that I made for my Scottish cruise album.

This time I used a photo frame to hold my page title (in three fonts), switched to two photos in the bottom half, and moved my journalling to a new spot.

Supplies

Cardstock - Bazzill

Paper - Heidi Swapp Carefree, Jen Hadfield Peaceful Heart

Letters - Simple Stories, Unknown
Stickers - Heidi Swapp

Ephemera - Rosie's Studio
Washi Tape - Little B, Ebay
Enamel Shapes - Freckled Fawn, 49 & Market
Ink - Ranger

Tools

Big Shot & Dovecraft Label Die

Studio Calico Alphabet Stamps

Vegueta

The last two posts were a brief diversion to catch up with unblogged pages that I made last year. In truth I am still scrapping our Canary Islands cruise and have a page today from Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Vegueta is the old town, and my page is a double with photos of three of the old buildings. 

I laid a torn paper strip on each side of the page to hold my title (cut on my Silhouette) and journalling, using the centre part for my photos. I made the right hand side first with two photos of Columbus' House which I matted together on a stack of patterned papers with the building name up the side in Spanish. I then moved across to the left side and made two separate patterned paper stacks for individual photos of the town hall and the theatre, repeating some of the papers from one stack to another.

Looking at the page on screen now, it's obvious that the flower cluster at the bottom-left needs a small piece of the same filmstrip washi tape that's in the top-right cluster so I've gone back and added it (but not taken a new photo).

Supplies

Cardstock - UK Crafts

Paper - Heidi Swapp Carefree, Jen Hadfield Peaceful Heart

Letters - KaiserCraft, Webster's Pages

Ephemera - Heidi Swapp

Label Sticker - Heidi Swapp

Chipboard Stars - Studio Calico

Puffy Hearts - Unknown

Washi Tape - Ebay, Unknown

Gems - Love to Craft

Ink - Ranger

Tools

Silhouette Portrait

Big Shot & X-Cut 'Explore' Die

X-Cut Circle Punch

 

Grand Western

This page comes from the same long weekend in Devon as the last one, so I used the same paper collection. I made the page a couple of months ago and I'm sure I used a sketch but I can't find it now; if I track it down I'll add it here later. 

On the Sunday we joined some local friends for a walk beside the Grand Western Canal (which used to run from Taunton to Tiverton and the southern end is now a country park).

Supplies

Cardstock - UK Crafts

Paper - Cocoa Vanilla Studio Storyteller

Letters - Pinkfresh Studio

Ephemera - Pinkfresh Studio

Puffy Stickers - Elle's Studio, Crate Paper

Ink - Ranger

Weekend Getaway

I've found a couple of pages that I made in November and missed blogging, so here's the first, a late share of my November DT page for Twilight Crafts, one using Storyteller papers from the shop with the Polaroids cut-file.

It's the first of four (I think) from a long weekend camping in Devon last summer. I used a main photo of our new tent with smaller prints from the campsite in the polaroid frames.

My title is a mix of puffy stickers and stamped letters. I bought a set of tile letter stamps from Elle's Studio that remind me very much of the old Mini Market stickers from October Afternoon. I bought loads of those stickers when OA went out of business, and now I can have as many as I need in any ink colour I own. I stamped my word on white cardstock and cut the letters out individually to look like stickers.

Supplies

Cardstock - UK Crafts

Paper - Cocoa Vanilla Studio Storyteller

Letters - Pinkfresh Studio

Ephemera - Pinkfresh Studio

Puffy Stickers - Rosie's Studio, Pinkfresh Studio

Stickers - Crate Paper

Dots - Nuvo Drops

Ink - Ranger

Tools

Silhouette Portrait

Studio Light Chevrons Stamp

Disclosure - I received a discount on the Storyteller papers and the cut-file free of charge from Twilight Crafts. All other supplies are my own. 

Dining @ Vasco

Woohoo! Three pages in a row for the same album. Let's see how long I can keep that up! 

This is another from our Canary Islands cruise, but it features one of the speciality restaurants onboard rather than anywhere we visited ashore. Vasco serves dishes from Goa in India, and I scrapped a couple of photos of the food with the aid of the January sketch from For the Love of Pretty Paper. I rotated the middle part to suit the orientation of my  photos and made the central panel into a pocket to hold a copy of the menu.

I've also ticked off the second birthday challenge from the same group, a Tic-Tac-Toe where I chose dots, patterned paper and 2x photos.

Supplies

Paper - Jen Hadfield Peaceful Heart, Heidi Swapp Carefree, Doodlebug 

Letters - American Crafts, Heidi Swapp

Stickers - Heidi Swapp

Gems - Love to Craft

Dots - Nuvo Drops

Ink - Ranger

Paint - Golden

Tools

Big Shot

Quickutz Tab Die

Dovecraft Label Die

Charco de San Ginés

I have another page from Lanzarote today, one featuring a lagoon in Arrecife. It's my second DT page this month for Twilight Crafts. They've recently released a range of stencils and I was given JWS18 Circles Plain and Stripey which is A5 in size. (They do some designs in A4 too.)

I repeated the whole stencil across my 12x12 white cardstock, using Distress Oxide ink in Hickory Smoke, a colour which matches the grey in the Heidi Swapp papers that I am using for this album. 

You might spot a mistake in the stencil alignment on the right hand edge, but I hid that by trimming the cardstock down and matting it on a patterned paper. It's one that I don't like much and I don't think the design matches the rest of the collection very well, but it makes a good mat for a page.

I ran a couple of strips of paper across the page to divide it into two parts and added my title across the middle. The top part has an overview photo of the lagoon with a journalling card, while the bottom part has two detail photos.

I also made this page for one of the Birthday challenges at For the Love of Pretty Paper. We had three at the end of December to celebrate the group's 8th birthday and this was a 'This or That' challenge, for which I chose circles, mixed media, white background and camera.

Supplies

Cardstock - UK Crafts

Paper - Heidi Swapp Carefree, Jen Hadfield Peaceful Heart, Amy Tangerine

Letters - KaiserCraft

Stickers - Heidi Swapp, Rosie's Studio, Maggie Holmes, MAMBI

Washi Tape - Unknown

Gems - Love to Craft

Ink - Ranger

Tools

Big Shot

Dovecraft Label Die

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

Along the Prom

It's more than a year since our cruise to the Canary Islands and I really need to finish that album. I'm returning to Arrecife in Lanzarote today for a page with the  artworks and monuments that we saw along the prom.

I had four photos, which I arranged in an offset grid, using papers from the two collections that I chose for this album - Heidi Swapp's Carefree with Jen Hadfield's Peaceful Heart. I matted the two larger photos on dark cardstock and used the off-cuts to die-cut my title letters.

Supplies

Cardstock - Bazzill

Papers - Heidi Swapp Carefree, Jen Hadfield Peaceful Heart, Paige Evans Bungalow Lane

Ephemera - 49 & Market

Stickers - Heidi Swapp, Studio Calico, Tim Holtz

Cork Geotag - Studio Calico

Washi - Little B & Unknown

Dots - Novo Drops

Ink - Ranger

Tools

Big Shot

Make & Create Alphabet Dies