Scrap Africa #61

October is flying by and before I know it there is another wonderful mood board to work with over at SCRAP AFRICA.  I'm sure you'll love this bright and pretty Board.

Here is my Design Team Inspiration: "Cambridge"

I really loved working with these colours. I've used the Botanical Tea papers from Graphic 45 and a bit of chippy in a brick design as well as a brick stencil and texture paste.

I fussy cut a rose from one of the G45 sheets, cut some leaves with a die and used 3D foam to mount them. I really hope you get a chance to play along with this beautiful challenge.

While I'm here, I'd also like to share with you another page from my London Pocket Page Album. I had a night shot of Tower Bridge/HMS Belfast enlarged and then I sliced it up to fit the pockets. I was really happy with the way it turned out. Especially the quality of the enlargement, because I took the original photo on my trusty little point-and-shoot camera with no tripod!

The very top of the enlargement was a bit too short to fully fit the top pockets, and it was only black sky anyway, so I cut it off and inserted two 6x4 photos that were taken on the same night. This is one of my favourite ways of displaying my favourite photos as enlargements in my travel albums :)

Thanks for dropping by. I'd love to hear from you, so feel free to leave some love :) xx

Travel Pocket Page update...

Hello fellow Project Lifers & Travel Buffs! I was able to do a few more pages for my travel album while I was at Camp Mojo recently and wanted to share them with you here if you haven't already seen them on FB.

I have an obsession for the latest craze of using Gold in my projects, which turned out to be perfect for these pics.

It has only taken me almost 2 years to get around to creating this album. I'm actually surprised at how fresh some of the memories still are :)  Thanks for looking. Until next time...

Colour Run Fun...

I'm back today to share with you some PL/pocket pages that I did over the weekend. I used the fantastic Flutterby Designs Everyday Etc "Happy" photo cards, tabs and Flair for these pages. They matched perfectly with all their bright colours.

There is still a couple of pages to do on this. The overlays are from Teresa Collins' "quoted" collection and there are a few other bits and bobs from different companies, but on the whole the Flutterby Designs products were more than enough for this project.

Thanks for looking! :)

PL Travel update...

Just a quick post today before heading off to work. I used this great Becky Higgins Panoramic pocket page to add to our London album.

 I love that I can fit so much more into this page:

For these pages I'm using some Kaisercraft Captured Moments "Snap Shot" collection as well as some leftovers from their "Take Off" collection.

I love this little wood veneer camera from Studio Fourteen40. I've coloured the heart with a GellyRoll pen which gives it a little bit of glimmer.

I'll probably go back & do a bit more fiddling with this layout (maybe with some stitching). I can't go onto the next page until I get an order from Papertrenz who are holding up my progress unfortunately - they tend to have products in their online shop that aren't actually in stock & failed to tell me about it until after my order was processed & paid for - frustrating!  

I saved this lovely embossed ribbon from our travels. It looks better IRL. I'm looking forward to moving onto the next page as I get to play with a bit of Gold - when my order eventually turns up :(
In the mean time happy creating & enjoy the remainder of your week xx

The London odyssey...

I have now finally commenced our PL album of our trip to London in 2013 - yes I'm a tad behind, but since I have now finished recording our daughter's overseas journey and caught up on my design team commitments, I can concentrate on our own travel photos. So this is the first of the posts that I plan to share with you about this particular journey.

Don't worry I won't bore you with all the pages as I do them, but just bits and pieces. I love these American Crafts "Map" thickers that I bought on special ages ago and I've just been waiting to start this album to use them. I then decided to cut up the map that we used almost every day while we were there and label it with some of the places that we visited. I love the Kaisercraft Geo Tags die that I recently purchased. It's perfect for PL as it also has a miniature aeroplane and camera die included.

I've kept all these embellies that I bought in London in my stash all this time hoping that I'd be able to incorporate them into my album. Seeing as travelling the Underground Tube is a requirement while in London, I wanted have a page dedicated to just that with some of the photos that we took. I love this "Mind the Gap" embroidered embellishment.

And this is how the page turned out:

The Tube Map is a bit wonky in this photo, but IRL it does line up properly. The Oyster cards are the actual cards that we used on a daily basis.  Wanstead was where the kids lived for the first 12 months before moving to Putney. Queensway was the station closest to where our apartment was in Kensington Square Gardens. And the "London Bridge Station" photo was a "just because" shot :)
It is a bit of fun re-living our travels again but I can see by the amount of photos that I took, this will be an ongoing project for quite a while.

Thanks for looking and I'll be back again in the coming weeks with more of this journey.

Project Life or Pocket Page Scrapbooking

I'm back again to share my other scrapbooking style that I haven't shared on my blog before. A few years ago I realised I had more travel photos than I knew what to do with so I alternated traditional scrapbook pages with pocket pages. I found that this was the easiest way to showcase my many, many photos. However at that stage (before this style became popular) there were very few companies supplying pocket pages. I found We Are Memory Keepers were producing these pages so I purchase a variety pack & ended up with two albums that covered our European trip. But having my traditional pages included made the albums quite bulky, so it was a learning curve. There were no actual kits at that stage specifically for pocket page scrapbooking so I had to make my own 3x4 & 4x6 insert cards. Then came along Becky Higgins' Project Life Kits! Yay!

I won't scrap my travel photos any other way now that PL kits have arrived. Kaisercraft also have some lovely inserts out which I also use as well as other companies. So when my DD decided to move overseas I knew straight away that I wanted to make an album of all her adventures for when she returned. And I know she will never get around to doing an album of their travel pics. About 12 months ago (almost 6 months into their travels) I asked her to send me the photos that she would love to see in an album & I would leave the journalling spots for her to fill out upon her return. I purchased some lovely PL albums & plastic pages & also collected the insert cards etc. It took quite a while for me to catch up because they were travelling so much in the beginning. Now I'm at the point where I can do each country as they go & therefore I'll have the albums finished for them as a gift when they arrive home.

When I'm working on their travel pics, I feel like I'm there with her & seeing all the sites. I'm so very much enjoying this little journey of creativity & adding my own little embellies & my own touch. I hope they like their albums & treasure them for years to come. She has been keeping a journal as well so I've sourced some lovely plastic insert pages (12x6) to add to the albums, so that she can print out some of the pages from her journal & include them in the albums where she wants. So here is a sneak peak - can't show in full as I don't want DD to see too much of them before I'm finished - that's if she even reads my blog? If so, close your eyes now my sweet :)

 DD's partner has been taking some amazing photos on his whiz-bang camera & some of them are just crying out to be enlarged, so I've included a few enlargements within the album & this one is the first time I've actually cut one up to make them fit inside the individual pockets. I really love the effect.

Here are a few I did back at the beginning of the albums.

Thanks for calling in & checking out my "other style". Please feel free to leave a comment or, if you are interested in Pocket Page scrapbooking & would like to ask a question you can message me on FB (Jo Tritton). Have a great weekend & a HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY to all you wonderful Mums xx