At the Top

This is a companion page for Climbing Snowdon which I blogged a few weeks ago, but I couldn't share it then. And the reason that I couldn't share it was that it was made as part of the team scraplifting game at Scrap Whispers. Three teams all start from the same scrapbook page and each team member scraplifts the layout of the person before them. The three end layouts can look very alike, or very different, depending how each team member interprets the page they are given.

This time I was scraplifting Sherri and I used her page as inspiration rather than copying every element. I liked the bracket-shaped square behind her photo and I made this a bigger feature on my page. I also swapped her large journalling block for a second photo. I'm not sure whether her background paper is one piece or whether she layered up strips on the right, but I added paper strips to my plainer background. Sherri has some metal embellishments on her photo, which I mimicked using a tag sticker with a brad and I used another brad as an echo of her flower.

All three chains of pages have been revealed on the Scrap Whispers blog this week - Georgina's Team on Monday, Nilsa's Team on Tuesday and Rosey's Team on Wednesday.

Supplies

Cardstock - Bazzill Dotted Swiss

Paper - Basic Grey, Cloud 9 Designs, Glitz Design

Letters - Making Memories, Jenni Bowlin Studio

Stickers - Simple Stories

Brads - Dear Lizzy, Papermania

Ink - Ink It Up!

Tools

Fiskars Postage Stamp Border Punch

Bracket Shaped Square Template

World in Miniature

Whenever I flip through my photo albums, there are certain groups of photos that I know how I want to scrap, but I just don't get round to doing them. They are mostly groups with lots of 4x6 photos, and I am generally planning to use a chapter from Shimelle Laine's 4x6 Photo Love class which ran at Two Peas in a Bucket in 2011.

I've decided to tackle one of these sets of photos today - a set of 12 from World in Miniature, an attraction in Cornwall which had models of famous landmarks. (My photos are from 2004; World in Miniature closed in 2008.) I'm using the November class which was intended for 11 photos, but it was easy to include one more.

The basic premise of Shimelle's 11 (or 12) photo page is a double page with seven photos, plus a 6x12 insert with 4 (or 5) more. This is the left page and the front of the insert:

and the back of the insert with the right page:

I know that I could have re-printed all of the photos smaller and fitted them on a 'standard' double page, but it seemed to be a terrible waste of photos to do that, and then what would I have done with the originals? I'm trying to convert all my old photo albums to scrapbooks and I don't want albums full of originals plus scrapbooks full of copies.

Supplies
Cardstock - DCWV Linen Closet Stack
Paper - Crate Paper The Pier, Papermania Portobello Road
Letters - American Crafts Thickers, Bo Bunny Mama-Razzi
Stickers - October Afternoon, Bo Bunny Mama-Razzi
Washi Tape - The Range
Flowers - from Stash
Gems - Papermania Dew Drops
Ink - docrafts

Tools
Fiskars Postage Stamp Border Punch
Woodware Scalloped Circle Punch

Sleepyhead

The mid-month sketch from Sketch-n-Scrap had a spooky feel, but scrapping hallowe'en was not a requirement. I decided to adapt the sketch for a single landscape photo of my son as a baby, asleep in his pram.

I chose the photo mat first and then wanted a subtle patterned background for my page; I chose this watercolour print from Crate Paper and decided to stay with the same collection for the rest of my page. 

Supplies
Paper - Crate Paper DIY Shop, DCWV Garden Party Matstack
Letters - October Afternoon
Washi Strip - Crate Paper DIY Shop
Buttons - from Stash

Tools
Sewing Machine

Wildlife

When I buy a paper collection, I tend to keep all the pieces together until I'm near the end and then I either add them to my scraps box or pile the remaining pieces onto one final layout. For some reason I've kept the scraps from s.e.i.'s Dill Blossom collection in their own bag for nearly two years without doing either. 

It's time to rectify that by using the remaining pieces on this page (including that circle which I cut previously and obviously didn't use). I spritzed the background paper with mist and laid out the papers before I chose my photos. They were taken in a local nature park when my then 7 year-old son's science homework was to look at the local wildlife. I wish his science homework was so easy now that he's 16!

Supplies
Cardstock - Chartwell Studio
Paper - s.e.i. Dill Blossom
Letters - American Crafts Thickers, Bo Bunny Mama-Razzi
Butterflies - Prima
Gems - Making Memories
Mist - Cosmic Shimmer Mist
Ink - docrafts

Tools
Fiskars Shape Cutter & Circle Templates
Woodware Scalloped Circle Punch

Ribbit

This week's Team Challenge at UKScrappers had plenty of options, but I still found it a bit tricky. Dawn asked us to use either a specific colour combination OR a starting point from Shimelle, circles, and buttons OR ribbon. Although I think the colour palette is really pretty, it didn't inspire me in terms of scrapbooking, and the starting point is one that I had passed over previously as not being my sort of page. Nevertheless I chose the starting point this time. I have circles on my background paper and in the embellishment clusters and a couple of buttons in the embellishments too.

The photo is one from a theme park trip, the only photo that I have from the day. The wording on the journalling card didn't suit me, so I turned the card upside down and covered the wording (now at the bottom) with a few punched shapes and stickers.

Supplies

Cardstock - Papermania

Paper - Kaisercraft Tiny Woods, Crate Paper Random, Crate Paper DIY Shop, K&Company

Letters - American Crafts

Journalling Card - Elle's Studio

Border Stickers - Making Memories, Bo Bunny Mama-Razzi

Stickers- Bo Bunny Mama-Razzi, Pebbles Fresh Goods

Buttons - Meiflower

Gems - atd

Ink - docrafts

Tools

Woodware Postage Stamp Punch

Woodware Scalloped Circle Punch

American Crafts Notebook Border Punch

On Yer Bike

We're approaching the end of the month so I have a few challenge pages to finish and link up. This one is for Sketch with Stash Challenge #8 at Scrap Our Stash. The stash item this month is mist, paint, watercolours or gelatos. For me this is reduced to mist or paint as I don't have the others.

I picked my photos (my son and nephew as toddlers) and paper before deciding that I would use brown paint splattered on my cream background. It's been a bit gloopy recently so I thinned it with a little water and I got a much better splatter.

Supplies
Paper - Fancy Pants Little Sport
Letters - Fancy Pants Wavesearcher
Tag - Elle's Studio
Paint - Folk Art
Ink - docrafts

Wood Veneer Stars - Studio Calico

Tools

Hobbycraft Star Punch

Kreaxions Circle Cutter

Back to School

Today I'm sharing a page made with the October 15th Sketch from Stuck?! Sketches. My photos are old ones from the first day of the new school year back in 2004.

I almost always make school pages on alphabet or number paper so I chose this gorgeous Calligraphy print from Cosmo Cricket as the basis for my page, and worked from the oranges and greens in the paper.

I have a few more layers on my page than in the sketch, and I dropped both the circle and the banners, but I think the likeness is clear.

Supplies
Paper - Cosmo Cricket Evangeline, Basic Grey Dasher, Basic Grey Archaic, 
     Crate Paper Little Sprout, Sandylion Heritage, HOTP In the Kitchen
Letters - October Afternoon
Border Sticker - Crate Paper Farmhouse
Gems - Making Memories
Ink - docrafts

Tools
American Crafts Notebook Border Punch