25 Years

I'm interrupting my cruise scrapping to share a couple of other pages that I made last month. One of the Alpha Relay challenges from For the Love of Pretty Paper was "Y is for Younger You" and it was one that I couldn't possibly twist to this year's holiday, but I did actually have a good pair of photos just waiting to be scrapped. 

We celebrated 25 years of marriage this year and I wanted to scrap a photo of us cutting the cake at our anniversary party alongside one from our wedding day. I've been meaning to make this page ever since I picked up "A is for Anniversary" in the ABC challenges at UKScrappers but now it can satisfy both prompts.

The colour scheme for my page started from a pack of anniversary-themed flair in pink and grey. I cut the hearts in grey cardstock and backed them with a soft green and pink floral. The background paper looks plain white here, but is actually a book print. I'll journal on the pink paper below the main photo once I've made the companion page to this one and decided what I want to write on each one.

Supplies
Cardstock - Bazzill
Paper - Echo Park We Are Family, Dovecraft Eastern Promise, Pink Paislee Moonstruck
Letters - American Crafts
Doily - Advent Calendar Swap
Flair - Imagine That
Puffy Stickers - Studio Calico
Enamel Dots - Freckled Fawn
Gems - Simply Creative
Ink - Memento
Mist - Mister Huey's

Tools
Silhouette Portrait & SCT Hearts Cutfile
Hobbycraft Heart Punch
American Crafts Scallop Border Punch

Warhol-ish

I am trying to scrapbook one city at a time from our cruise, but sometimes a challenge comes along that interrupts that plan. The latest was the October sketch from For the Love of Pretty Paper, which has a very messy look. 

I thought that it would work well for a photo of the two of us from the Andy Warhol exhibition at Málaga's Picasso Museum. That photo has only four colours and I followed them for my page, but it's a very different colour scheme from the rest of my cruise album so I'm now thinking of moving this page to my annual 2018 album instead.

I started off by holding my page vertically, spraying it with mist and allowing it to run down the page. Once dry, I added my photo, some torn washi tape and the title. I wasn't sure how to embellish the page as I didn't want to distract from the paint, but I went with tone-on-tone enamel hearts and stars in the end. My last decision was to cut the page down a bit and back it with a turquoise spotty paper.

Supplies
Cardstock - Colorset
Paper - My Mind's Eye Cut & Paste, Pink Paislee Moonstruck
Letters - American Crafts
Washi Tape - Tesco
Enamel Shapes - American Crafts/Shimelle, Stampin' Up!
Ink - Memento
Mist - Maya Road, Mister Huey's, Studio Calico, Tattered Angels

Ready & Waiting

Having now finished the Casablancan section of my cruise album, I'm back with a page from the following day as we approached Cádiz. Our day there was a very special one, only the second time that all four ships of the Fred.Olsen fleet have been in the same port at the same time. The photos show Boudicca and Braemar already docked, with Black Watch manoeuvring ahead of us to moor between them.

I used a sketch from Let's Get Sketchy, which I rotated in part. My photos are 4x6 landscapes so I rotated those on the sketch, but I kept the strips behind them as vertical. With my  photo block being taller, I extended the strips to the full height of the page and rotated the ones at the top/bottom to become just one on the right which repeats the stripes in my paper layers on the left. There wasn't really room for my title at the bottom of the page, so I moved it to the right, and added a journalling card below it as there was no space indicated for journalling on the sketch.

I'm also entering my page into this month's moodboard-inspired challenge at Hey Little Magpie. I'm not normally a fan of moodboards but the colours in this one match with those of my cruise album and I also copied the arrow shape from the top of the board onto my journalling card. 

Finally, the page fits perfectly into the latest Alpha Relay challenge at For the Love of Pretty Paper, where it's 'N is for Night' this week.

Supplies
Paper - Basic Grey B Side, Simple Stories Post, One CanoeTwo Creekside
Journalling Card - Project Life
Puffy Stars - Pinkfresh Studio
Enamel Dots - Doodlebug
Washi Tape - Little B
Ink - Memento
Mist - Docrafts

Tools
Fiskars Postage Stamp Border Punch
Big Shot & Little B Arrows Dies

Inner City

This is the last of my pages from Casablanca in both senses of the word, the last one to be made and the last page in this section of the album before we moved on to Cádiz the next day. 

It's a double from the old medina, the original walled city, based on this month's double sketch from Stick It Down. I had more landscape photos than portrait so I cropped some to squares and rearranged them compared to the sketch, but my paper layers are almost the same.

The photos on the left of the page are the quiet residential streets of the medina, while those on the right show the colours and bustle of the market streets.

This was one of those pages where I tried multiple selections of papers with the photographs but nothing looked quite right. The colours in the market really didn't suit the palette that I'd chosen for the album, so eventually I pulled in a couple of ancient papers from my stash for the background, though the rest of them did come from my album kit. 

Supplies
Cardstock - Bazzill
Paper - Bo Bunny Day Dream, Bo Bunny Early Bird, Prima Zella Teal, Kaisercraft Finders Keepers, Studio Calico, 
      My Mind's Eye Just Splendid, American Crafts/Amy Tangerine Better Together
Letters - October Afternoon
Stickers - OneCanoeTwo
Washi Tape - Tesco, Pretty My Page
Gems - Simply Creative
Ink - Memento
Mist - Mister Huey's

Tools
Big Shot
Provocraft Alphabet Dies
X-Cut Hexagon Die
Spellbinders Circle Die
X-Cut Travel Dies

Local Colour

When we were exploring Casablanca, I was struck by the street art on some of the apartment buildings. These artworks were so detailed and totally unexpected. I have four photos to scrap, and printed them at 4x6 even though that meant that they would take up the majority of my page. I could have gone smaller, but these were huge paintings and I didn't want to lose the impact of their size.

I trimmed each photo slightly so that I could mat them, used a border punch on one side of that mat, and ran a washi strip down the other side. I wanted a subtle background paper that wouldn't compete with the photos and was happy to find this soft grey with spots in colours that match the washi people.

Supplies
Paper - American Crafts/Dear Lizzy Serendipity, Pink Paislee Atlas, Crate Paper Snow and Cocoa
Letters - Pebbles
Washi Strip - Crate Paper/Paige Evans Turn the Page
Die Cut - Crate Paper/Paige Evans Turn the Page
Sticker - American Crafts/Dear Lizzy Lovely Day
Enamel Dots - Freckled Fawn, Pretty My Page
Ink - Memento

Tools
Fiskars Postage Stamp Border Punch
Fiskars Shape Cutter & Circles Template

Breathtaking

This is the last of four pages from the King Hassan II Mosque in Casablanca; I think four is enough though there are still some photos that I would have liked to include. This page has three general photos of the interior of the mosque, two of the nave and one of the qibla wall (which indicates the direction of Mecca) and it'll sit opposite a divided page with close-ups of the decorative work. 

I used mostly 6x6 papers on my other mosque pages so I needed to incorporate them again here, which I did via a row of 2x2 squares which almost span the width of the page. Initially I placed that row at the foot of the page below the photos, but then I realised that the placement would push my journalling up to the empty space at the top of the page so I swapped them over. I kept a small border around the edges and rounded the corners to repeat these things from the first mosque page that I made (Be Proud).

Supplies
Cardstock - Colorset
Paper - Dovecraft Fairytale Princess 6x6, Simple Stories Sunshine & Happiness
Letters - American Crafts
Word Stickers - Tim Holtz
Washi Tape - Unknown
Enamel Dots - Stampin' Up!
Gems - Simply Creative
Ink - Memento

Tools
Big Shot & Dovecraft Label Die
Woodware Scalloped Circle Punch
Craft Creative Flower Punch
X-Cut Corner Punch

Come Inside

The last page that I shared with you was a divided one, with photos of the outside of the Hassan II Mosque in Casablanca. Turning over, I'm filling the other side with pictures from the inside of the mosque. This page focuses on the individual features (doors, ceiling etc) and the very detailed craftsmanship and it will sit opposite a 12x12 with wider views of the prayer hall.

I've repeated the same 6x6 papers in the 4x6 pockets as I used previously, and also repeated the spotty paper and silver letters in the 2x12 title section. There's only a little embellishment, but that too repeats the shapes and motifs used previously.

Supplies
Paper - Dovecraft Fairytale Princess 6x6, OneCanoeTwo Twilight, Crate Paper Snow and Cocoa
Letters - Echo Park This & That 
Stickers - Freckled Fawn
Enamel Shapes - Freckled Fawn
Star Gems - Simply Creative
Pearls - ScrapBerry's
Ink - Memento

Tools
Fiskars Postage Stamp Border Punch
X-Cut Circle Punch

Big Shot, Spellbinders Circle Die & Dovecraft Label Die