Summer Photography Scavenger Hunt

This year's Summer Photography Scavenger Hunt starts tomorrow and runs until 30th September. It's organised by Mary-Lou at Patio Postcards and she published the list a few days ago. She calls it 'the virus edition' and has designed the list so that it can be tackled in lockdown if necessary.

1. A favourite piece of jewellery
2. Something with or in a knot
3. Something with the colours of your country’s flag
4. A toy you play with
5. Something you have more than one of
6. Something in the shape of a triangle
7. Something that displays a rule(s)
8. A leaf longer than your hand
9. Something that starts with the initial of your name (first or last)
10. Something smaller than a paper clip
11. Something you need to throw away
12. Something that holds your favourite beverage
13. A rubber band/elastic in use
14. Something with wheels
15. Something inherited
16. Something with rough texture
17. Something naturally round
18. Something that can go in the water
19. A stone/rock/pebble with some colour in it
20. Something with the number 7 in it

Alt A. An animal statue
Alt B. Something heavier than your shoe
Alt C. Something with four sides

If you'd like to take part, then please hop over to Mary-Lou's blog and declare your intent. She'll connect us all up via a post at the end of June.

Braving Breydon Water

I'm sticking with our Norfolk Broads holiday for now, and we're actually on the water for this page. Breydon Water links the north and south parts of the Broads and can be tricky to navigate. We went through at low tide, keeping to the marked channel and it wasn't as bad as we'd feared.

My three-photo page uses a tried and trusted formula with the pictures in a column alongside a mosaic of punched squares for the 'Punch It' NSD challenge from For the Love of Pretty Paper. I also punched the scalloped border strip and the column of tags by the journalling card.

My page fits the criteria for three of the Hey Little Magpie challenges and I decided to enter it for their Tic Tac Toe, using the top row of gold, stitching and enamel dots.





Supplies
Cardstock - Stampin' Up!
Paper - Make & Create Moments, American Crafts/Dear Lizzy, Pink Paislee/Paige Evans Turn the Page, Simple Stories Posh
Letters - October Afternoon
Journalling Card - Project Life?
Puffy Camera - Freckled Fawn
Washi Tape - Hobbycraft, Pretty My Page
Enamel Dots - Doodelbug, My Mind's Eye, Marianne Designs, Echo Park
Ink - Hobbycraft
Mist - Docrafts

Tools
Silhouette Portrait
Sewing Machine
Woodware 1" Square Punch
Woodware Tag Punch
American Crafts Scalloped Border Punch

Follow the Tracks

I have another page from our Norfolk Broads holiday to share today. I am blogging them in the order they will come in the album rather than the order that I made them and this page comes from our second day. We moored our boat in Coltishall and took a trip from there to Wroxham on the Bure Valley Railway. 

I used a sketch from Shimelle's recent class Start with a Sketch for my page as its scattering of embellishments matched up with an NSD challenge from For the Love of Pretty Paper to do just that. I tried to combine it with a recipe challenge from Hey Little Magpie but couldn't manage to incorporate all the elements. However I did redirect it to their stitching challenge with a line of machine-stitching along the scalloped border strip.

Supplies
Cardstock - Bazzill, Papermania
Paper - Make & Create Moments, American Crafts/Dear Lizzy
Letters - Studio Calico
Journalling Card - Studio Calico
Washi Tape - Unknown
Dew Drops - Papermania
Gems - Love to Craft
Enamel Sots - Stampin' Up!
Ink - Hobbycraft
Mist - Docrafts

Tools
American Crafts Scalloped Border Punch
Woodware Scalloped Circle Punch
X-Cut Small Circle Punch
Craft Creatives Flower Punch

Life on Mars

The majority of the photos in my 'to scrap' pile for 2005 come from a boating holiday we took on the Norfolk Broads. I was planning to make the pages via as many NSD challenges as possible while using the same paper pad throughout, and hoping that they would be compatible.

I got off to a good start with the 'Griddled' challenge from For the Love of Pretty Paper, which was just to create a page based on a grid. I had an assortment of photos from settling into our temporary home (the Broadland Mars) which I felt would work well with a quadrants design.

I was playing with a few ideas for titles until I hit on this one, and it was perfect for a challenge from Hey Little Magpie to use a quote, since they included song lyrics as one of their suggestions for possible quotes to be used.

Supplies
Cardstock - Craft UK, Papermania
Paper - Make & Create Moments, American Crafts/Dear Lizzy
Journalling Card - Studio Calico
Letters - October Afternoon
Word Stickers - My Mind's Eye
Die Cut - Jillibean Soup
Flair - Unknown
Washi Tape - Pink Paislee, Hobbycraft
Enamel Dots - Doodlebug, My Mind's Eye, Eyelet Outlet, Stampin' Up!
Puffy Sticker - Fancy Pants
Ink - Hobbycraft
Mist - Docrafts

Tools
Big Shot
Provocraft Alphabet Dies
Dovecraft Label Die
X-Cut Anchor Die
Scrapberry's Compass Stamp

Spin Me Right Round

I'm really pleased to have used another of the page kits that I prepared for National Scrapbooking Day; sometimes what I get ready just doesn't fit to any of the challenges that come up. 

I'm staying in 2005 for a trio of photos of my daughter in the park. I even stuck with the title and page design that I planned in advance. That page design comes from a very old class, & Now For Something Completely Different, which ran throughout 2012 at UK Scrappers, and it's at least the fourth time that I have used the May prompts. 

My page is a feast of My Mind's Eye, with pieces from at least five of their lines, and it suits three more National Scrapbooking Day challenges. Hey Little Magpie asked us to use a quote or song lyric, and For the Love of Pretty Paper gave us a pink moodboard. I don't often use pink on my pages, so I took this opportunity to use up all my pink puffy stars in one go for a challenge from Lottie Loves Paper to feature either stars or hexagons.

Supplies
Paper - My Mind's Eye Collectable, My Mind's Eye Lime Twist
Letters - American Crafts, American Crafts/Shimelle
Doily - Dovecraft
Phrase Stickers - My Mind's Eye The Sweetest Thing
Puffy Stars - Pinkfresh Studio
Brads - My Mind's Eye Now and Then, My Mind's Eye Necessities
Gems, Twine & Glitter Tape - Advent Calendar Swap
Ink - Hobbycraft
Mist - Mister Huey's

Tools
Silhouette Portrait
American Crafts Scallop Border Punch

Junk Models

Having finally finished my Far East album, I've picked random old year to finish off next, and that year is 2005. I sorted through my photos before National Scrapbooking Day and assembled a few supplies, and this is the first one that I tackled. Lottie Loves Paper gave us a step-by-step set of instructions for a page, which was a different sort of challenge from the norm and one that I happily took on.

The mixed media and the circles on this page came directly from the instructions but we could embellish in any way we chose and I went with a scattering of stars, both stamped stars and puffy stickers. This was originally on an all-white background, but after a week or so I trimmed the page down and matted it on bright pink.

There are so many challenges around National Scrapbook Day that pages have to do double, triple or even quadruple duty. This one also matched up with a challenge from Hey Little Magpie to leave some white space on the page, one from For the Love of Pretty Paper to use circles AND a challenge from Shimelle to repeat a stamp (and it makes me happy that two of the three stamps that I used were designed by Shimelle herself).

Supplies
Cardstock - Craft UK, Craft Sensations
Paper - The Paper Loft, Reminisce
Letters - American Crafts
Stars - Bella Boulevard
Ink - Ranger, Hobbycraft
Mist - Mister Huey's

Tools
Fiskars Shape Cutter & Circles Template
Shimelle Circle Stamp
Banana Frog/Shimelle Star Stamp
Studio Calico Stars Stamp

Art Fair

I had called my 2019 album "done for now" back in February, but I knew then that there were a few possible pages that I could add. Having made one for my daughter's university accommodation, I needed to even up the pages again which I did by making one for an art fair that we attended back in November. My husband was an exhibitor and he sold a couple of paintings that weekend.

It was National Scrapbooking Day at the beginning of the month with the plethora of challenges that that involves. One that caught my eye early on was a sketch challenge from Lottie Loves Paper. I printed a photo of my husband in his stand at 6x4 rather than 6x3 as in the sketch and printed 2" circles of parts of his paintings to run in a line below it, each one matted on a pinked circle to match the sketch.

I used scraps for everything but the background on the page, starting from the stripey paper and picking co-ordinating pieces in blue, green and grey.

Supplies
Paper - Fancy Pants Country Boutique, The Robin's Nest Boys Stripe, Pebbles/Jen Hadfield Everyday
Vellum - My Mind's Eye Necessities
Letters - American Crafts
Labels - 7Gypsies
Puffy Stickers - MAMBI
Enamel Dots - Echo Park
Mist - Mister Huey's

Tools
Big Shot & Studio Calico Pinked Circle Die
Fiskars Shape Cutter & Circles Template