Snips & Snails

Time for one final throwback page, the last one that I made for National Scrapbooking Day back in May; I can't remember the challenge details, but it definitely included the use of circles. 

I chose a circle cut file for the background of my page, cutting it in a paper I liked and layering it over a plainer grid paper. Too late, I realised that I had the papers the wrong way round as I had too much of the background on show and very little of the patterned paper that had I wanted to see. I rescued the page by selecting some of the circles that had been cut away and placing them inside larger circles on the page.

I wanted the cut file to almost fill the 12x12 page, but I have Silhouette Portrait which has an 8" cutting width, so I designed my page with a full length column of photos so that I could remove the central part of the design and just cut the two sides of the file on the Portrait. 

My photos are old ones of my son and nephew, I picked an appropriate Project Life card to act as a title and added three clusters of embellishments to complete the page.

Supplies
Cardstick - Bazzill
Paper - Heidi Swapp, Cloud 9/Fiskars, My Mind's Eye
Puffy Stickers - American Crafts
Enamel Dots - Studio Calico, My Mind's Eye
Chipboard Stars - Studio Calico

Tools
Silhouette Portrait

Festung Hohensalzburg

Last page from Austria last year, and it's another double. This one comes from our second day when we visited Salzburg and its fortress. I kept putting it off I had a load of photos of both the outside of the buildings and the inside of the state apartments. Once I was committed to tackling this page I made a 'shortlist' of pictures and realised that the double page I'd intended might not be enough. Shimelle to the rescue, as I used another class from her 4x6 Photo Love series; the November class was designed for eleven 4x6 photos on a double page with a 12x6 divided page protector in between, though I adapted it for eight 4x6s and four 4x3 photos.

The left page and front of the divided page protector have photos of the outside of the fortress and the first part of my journalling:

The back of the divided page protector has photos of the chapel, more journalling (with one of our tickets tucked behind) and the view from one of the windows; the right page has photos of the state rooms, also known as the Regency Rooms.

I still have quite a few papers left from the kit I'm using, but I tried to use scraps for the page rather then cutting into any new sheets.

Supplies
Cardstock - Bazzill Dotted Swiss
Paper - Pink Paislee Atlas, American Crafts Dear Lizzy
Letters - Jillibean Soup, Jenni Bowlin Studio
Washi Tape - Ebay, Little B
Enamel Dots/Shapes - Pink Paislee
Puffy Stickers - Fancy Pants
Ink - Hobbycraft

Tools
Big Shot & X-Cut Ticket Stubs Die

Mozartblick

This is the penultimate page from Austria last year. I haven't worked in chronological order, but it's actually the last but one that I will make, and will also be last but one in the album. 

We walked up to a viewpoint above the lake on our last morning, and I wanted to include both a large photo of the view and some smaller ones from the walk on my page. I took a class from Shimelle Laine called The 20 Project last year, and this double page design came from one of her prompts. She had used 10 small photos on the left and a 4x6 print on the right, but her design was very adaptable to different numbers and sizes of photos.

I've been working with Pink Paislee's Atlas collection for this section of my album, but I didn't have two papers the same left for my background. I've used dotted Swiss cardstock for some of my double page backgrounds, but I wanted a pattern here as so much of the background is on show. I thought a soft yellow would be best with this set of photos and found two pieces from Dream Street Papers (which are undated, but so old that they are single-sided).

I had planned two areas of embellishment, one on each side, but once I added my title it seemed obvious to fill the space next to it with a third, smaller cluster.

Supplies
Paper - Dream Street Papers, Pink Paislee Atlas, We R Memory Keepers, My Mind's Eye
Vellum - My Mind's Eye
Letters - Jillibean Soup
Transparency - Pink Paislee Atlas
Tag - Pink Paislee Atlas
Washi Tape - Ebay, Little B
Puffy Stickers - Fancy Pants, Jillibean Soup
Enamel Shapes - Freckled Fawn, Pink Paislee
Ink - Hobbycraft

Tools
X-Cut Corner Punch

On the Pilgrim's Way

Today I'm sharing another page from our holiday in Austria last year. We were staying on the edge of Wolfgangsee, and my husband decided to spend a day walking the 27km path around the edge of the lake. Many of his photos were similar to those we took when we visited the lakeside villages earlier in the week, so my page concentrates on a section of path known as the Pilgrim's Way. The way is marked by a series of stone crosses and passes a small church on the mountainside on the site where St Wolfgang lived in the 10th century.

My page is a scraplift of another 2016 page, which breaks my 'rule' about repeating page designs within an album, but I don't expect anyone to notice.

Supplies
Paper - My Minds Eye, Pink Paislee Atlas, Simple Stories Good Day Sunshine
Letters - Jillibean Soup
Washi Tape - Ebay
Word Stickers - Tim Holtz
Enamel Dots - Echo Park, Pink Paislee
Wood Veneer - Studio Calico
Mist - Cosmic Shimmer
Ink - Ranger

Tools
Big Shot & Little B Arrows Die
X-Cut Circle Punch

Summer Photography Scavenger Hunt - Foreign Finds

We're three-quarters of the way through this year's Summer Photography Scavenger Hunt which has been put together by Mary-Lou at Patio Postcards; there's no link-up for August, but I'm sharing my recent finds anyway.

I do like to find as many items as possible while we're on holiday each year, and we've just come back from a cruise to Iceland, Greenland and Norway. I had found seven items at the end of July, but I always wipe the list clean and start again while we are abroad.

Some of these will make the final cut come the end of the month, but there are others where I have better versions already, and some where I'm not happy with what I have taken so will carry on hunting.


My foreign finds are:

1. Something Fuzzy
Akureyri (Iceland) - This was our cruise ship, the photo taken at night, from a mile away, on maximum zoom, so I'm not surprised at the fuzziness; however I love the way it came out like an impressionist painting.

2. Bubbles
Námafjall (Iceland) - The boiling mud pots of the geothermal landscape.

5. A Seasonal Relaxing Space/Item
MS Black Watch - The pool area at the back of the ship. More relaxing in warmer climes; this photo was taken in Scotland.

6. A Pipe
Briksdalen (Norway) - No idea what this pipe is for.

7. The Inside of Something
Tasiilaq (Greenland) - The inside of a traditional turf house, dug into the hillside, the winter home of up to four families.

8. Rust or Something Derelict
Reykjavik (Iceland) - We walked past a property with a garden full of 'sculptures' made from repurposed/recycled items. 

10. Something Yellow
Ålesund (Norway) - The building of a ship's chandler.

14. Someone Fishing
Reykjavik (Iceland) - On the harbour wall as we were leaving.

15. Something Crafted from Wood
Raykjavik (Iceland) - A piece in the Sculpture Garden.

16. A Baby (Human or Animal)
Tasiilaq (Greenland) - Animal babies for me, three adorable husky puppies.

21. A Plaque
Ålesund (Norway) - A plaque on a tower above the town, which I think says the tower was a present from Vancouver on the 100th anniversary of Ålesund's founding.

22. A Dial
Akureyri (Iceland) - The clock on Akureyri's church.

23. Something Powered by Wind
Reykjavik (Iceland) - A yacht just offshore.

25. A Hat
Ålesund (Norway) - My son has an obsession with hats (but no idea that I have taken this picture).

I'd found a paltry seven items for the hunt during June and July, but I'm now on a much more respectable eighteen (as some of these are duplicates of previous finds). I do actually have two more bagged but not shared here as they were not taken on holiday, so just five left now.

Rather annoyingly, I've had the chance for the summer toy and the seasonal food or drink, but didn't think about photographing them at the time. Feet and something underground shouldn't be too hard to achieve, but the kite or balloon has proved elusive so far.

The hunt ends on 30th September this year, so just a few weeks to go now.

Keep on Going

Nancy's Page @ Hey Little Magpie

This is the last page from a day in Austria last summer when took the train to the summit of Schafberg and then walked back down to our hotel in St Gilgen. I've picked five photos from the walk itself and scraplifted a page from Nancy that I saw on the Hey Little Magpie blog. 

I really like the combination of the grid of photos together with a much looser section of embellishment on Nancy's page, and I did my best to replicate that, while also keeping back some space for journalling.

Supplies
Paper - We R Memory Keepers Quoted, Pink Paislee Atlas, My Mind's Eye Now & Then, Pink Paislee Memorandum
Letters - October Afternoon
Stickers - Anita's Glitterations, Jillibean Soup
Washi Tape - Ebay, Dovecraft
Enamel Shapes - We R Memory Keepers, Marianne Design
Ink - Hobbycraft

Tools
Big Shot & X-Cut Ticket Stubs Die

Schafberg

I'm sharing another page from our day on Schafberg in Austria last summer when we took the train to the top of the mountain and then walked back down. This photo was taken of the peak from the alm below and I decided to give it a page to itself, printed at 6x8.

I based the page design on one of the sketches from July's challenge in the For the Love of Pretty Paper Facebook group, but adjusted it for one photo, with a single large embellishment cluster to the left of it. I also moved the title (cut on my Silhouette) down to the bottom of the page.

Supplies
Cardstock - DCWV, American Crafts
Paper - Pink Paislee Atlas, American Crafts Dear Lizzy
Vellum - My Mind's Eye
Tag - Pink Paislee Atlas
Washi Tape - Ebay
Enamel Shapes - Pink Paislee
Ink - Hobbycraft
Mist - Docrafts

Tools
Silhouette Portrait
Big Shot & X-Cut Ticket Stubs Die