Scrapbook Workshop - Return to the Collection - Part 4

Hello Everyone,

Hope this finds you well. I'd like to warmly welcome my two newest followers, Lesley and Karen ... I appreciate you joining me here and hope you will find good reason to keep coming back :)

This is the last of the series of posts showing layouts completed with the help of Shimelle's Return to the Collection workshop. It's the second of two double-page layouts created with materials from the kit. If you are a regular reader you will recall that it's the double-page layouts I've been having trouble photographing - here's the proof!

As you can see, I was running out of 12x12 sheets so couldn't use two of the same for the background. Instead, I cut some of the leftover patterned papers, using two Kiwi Lane templates to create the wavy effect, to decorate the turquoise and pink dotty background sheets in an attempt to pull the two together.

I was scraping the bottom of the barrel by the time I got to this layout so I  made most of the embellishments using punches and dies, circles, butterflies and hearts, from some of the leftover snippets of paper. The photos were taken on a visit to Sorrento in June 1998. The first photo shows me looking over a very hazy (caused by the amazing heat) Gulf of Naples from the Park of Villa Communale. The second is of a wonderful statue of St Francis of Assisi. 

The third photo was taken in the cloisters of the Church of St Francis. I've journalled about how the cloisters are renowned for the acoustics which make it perfect for the outdoor concerts held throughout the summer. Our tour guide, Maria, was so keen for us to appreciate the sound quality for ourselves that she gave, there and then, an unaccompanied rendition of Ave Maria in the most beautiful soprano! Being treated to that completely unexpected performance will be one of my most enduring memories of Italy. 

The pink silk flowers were added because they reminded me a little of the bougainvillea that can be seen growing in the cloisters. 

I think I may have made a mistake adding the last photo ... I thought it was taken in one of the streets of Sorrento but now I'm not so sure - it could be Amalfi, where we were based ... 1998 was a long time ago! 

So that's it ... the kit is all but finished, just a few bits and bobs left over. Most of the cardstock and paper will either be put in the snippet drawer or consigned to the bin and leftover embellishments returned to their respective drawers/boxes to be used on another layout, another day.

I've started to make up another kit from my stash - got to use it up! I have a ton of photos to scrap and so conscious of the fact that I'll have live another 30 years or so if I'm going to ever catch up :) Not entirely an onerous task to contemplate though, those photos bring back some very happy memories ... and that, I think, is why I keep scrapping!

Hope you have all had a wonderful weekend.

Happy Scrapping,

Time Will Tell - A Scrap Page Layout

Good Morning Everyone

I hope you are all well and enjoying the start of the weekend. Here in Ayr it's damp from a fall of rain in the night but the sun is struggling to shine through - it may even succeed :) 

When I was considering what photograph(s) to scrap for my DT layout for the Scrap Our Stash August Challenge, Time Will Tell, I kept coming back to this delightful photo taken of my granddaughter, Shari-Ann, sitting on her granddad's knee, listening intently as he was telling her a story - when she was small she absolutely loved story time with granddad and particularly adored hearing his rather tall tales :) 

I chose a Daisy Bucket Designs background paper, Under the Boardwalk, because it is fairly neutral, and the other elements feature colours taken from the bird border - from Cosmo Cricket's Nutmeg Elements. 

Most of the papers used are from the snippet pile and unfortunately I no longer remember all the makers or even the what the sheets were called. However, I do know that the borders, along with the bird border, the Simple Pleasures sentiment and the Remember When journalling spot are from Cosmo Cricket's Nutmeg Elements. I cut the clocks from the fabulous World Map sheet (the clocks are on reverse) from Kaisercraft Timeless Collection. The large clock is only a partial image so I've disguised this by tucking it under the photograph.

I've used Kiwi Lane Designs templates a lot on this layout - the curvy borders are from the Abbie Road set, the bracket shape on the left of the photo is Bracket 1 and the arrow head is from the Tiny Nature set. 

The dotty photo matting was trimmed with a pair of scalloped edge scissors - these are the ones that came free with a craft magazine, the same ones I put them away thinking I'd never use them, and might even pass them on to Shari-Ann for her to play with, but here they are getting another outing! Definitely more useful than I thought :)

The embellishments - the die-cut butterflies, also in the RAK package from my friend, Chris Lee, Tim Holtz Adage Tickets, and adhesive-backed gems were all from my hoard of stash. 

I have still to add the journalling, will do that later when I've thought out what to write.

I'm sure you all have your own plans for how to spend your day, for some it will be shopping, catching up with housework, stoking the washing-machine, doing the ironing ... or any other task from the million and one things you have on your to-do list ... but I'm planning a day of craft related delights. I've been suffering from withdrawal symptoms and nothing else will do! 

To start with I'll be watching Barbara Gray's workshop on C&C TV, then I plan to make a start on Tim Holtz's August tag ... this could take some time as there's a requirement for the handmade roses he made in an earlier post and as this will be my first attempt to make a TH tag, I need to make the roses first! It will be interesting to see how far I get with that today :)

So, whatever you are going to be doing have a happy day and happy crafting,