Stampin' Up! 12x12 Travel Scrapbook Layout using World of Good Product Suite

Hello there.

Something completely different for you today, a scrapbook page! I am beginning to scrapbook my trip my few days in Rome before the Stampin' Up! Incentive Trip last year and wanted a 12x12 cover page. I'll probably do most of the pages with pocket scrapbooking and the World of Good Memories and More card pack, but I like to do some 12x12 pages in there too, as a cover and some special photos.

As I wanted to print certain parts of the photo and get the full height if the beautiful Trevi fountain in, I cropped my photo in Photoshop, and then printed at home. I have a Canon Pixma A4 printer (mine is a TS8160) and I use genuine Canon Photo Paper (I love the Canon Photo Paper Plus Semi  Gloss) and genuine Canon inks, and I am really happy with the printing results I get. Very handy too as Melbourne (Australia) where I live just went into another 6 week lockdown to get the second wave of this horrible Covid-19 Virus under control.

The World of Good product suite is PERFECT for travel scrapbooking, and especially ancient Rome as it has all the beautiful rich earthy colours of ancient ruins and old buildings.

With our new adhesive foam sheets, and Playful Alphabet dies (links at end of post), it's easy to make colour coordinated dimensional letters for your scrapbook titles. The letters are about 3/4" high, which is a great size. You just peel the backing paper off one side of the adhesive foam, attach a strip of whatever colour you are using (I used the Brass foil sheets) and cut the alphabet like normal in your die cutting machine. They cut like butter. Just peel the backing sheet off the other side and adhere to your page. Easy! The word 'adventure' is from the Sweet Silhouettes dies.

I've added some tone on tone stamping to the base Crumb Cake 12x12 cardstock (from the neutrals 12x12 pack) using one of my very favourite vintage sets, Very Versailles. I have also popped on some of the Artistry Blooms sequins, which include a variety of colours. I found the Calypso Coral a great match for this product suite.

To balance the page I included a quote (die cut with the layering circle dies) from the World of Good Memories and More cards. I added in some more sequins, a cardstock sticker from the same card pack and a strip of coordinating DSP. As this was a cover page, it didnt need much journalling. I just added the dates and a note that it was before the 2019 Stampin' Up! Incentive Trip.

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Thanks for stopping by today. Have a great weekend and I will be back again soon with more inspiration. 

Claire

 

 

Product List

World Of Good Suite Collection (English)

[154140]

World Of Good Memories & More Card Pack

[153600]

World Of Good Specialty Designer Series Paper

[152491]

Neutrals 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Cardstock

[147003]

Very Versailles Cling Stamp Set

[149275]

Crumb Cake Classic Stampin' Pad

[147116]

Brass Foil Sheets

[153057]

Foam Adhesive Sheets

[152815]

Playful Alphabet Dies

[152706]

Sweet Silhouettes Dies

[149541]

Artistry Blooms Sequins

[152477]

Make a 6x8" Cruise / Travel Scrapbook Album: My Greek Isles Trip Album

Memory Keeping is my first love, and I really enjoy making scrapbook pages or albums about places I have visited. In July this year, I was lucky enough to go on a 7 day cruise around the Greek Islands from Rome. Here's how I scrapbooked my trip in a 6x8" pocket album. I started with these Stampin' Up! memory keeping products:

Basic Black 6" X 8" Album

[144203]

$17.50

Variety Pack 6" X 8" Photo Pocket Pages

[144205]

$10.50

Journaling Pens

[145480]

$10.50

Come Sail Away Memories & More Card Pack

[149552]

$19.25

Sail Away Trinkets

[149482]

$14.00

Night Of Navy/Sahara Sand Baker's Twine

[149483]

$7.00

I used  a combination of 6"x 8", 6"x 4" and 3" x 4" photos. I printed all my photos at the Officeworks self serve kiosk (for my 3x4" photos I had already cropped them to size and saved them side by side on a 6x4" background using Photoshop). Other options would include just trimming 6x4" photos to size, printing yourself at home or persnickityprints.com also offer this smaller print size (based in US though).

When putting my album together I always start with the photos. I leave room for a cover page, and then I sort and place my photos in the album. For this album I divided it into:

• pre trip & embarking
• sea days, events days and Stampin' Up! people
• each stop on the cruise (I started each section with a 6x8" photo and used Handwritten Prose Dies for a diecut letter title as shown in the photo below)
• our last night at sea / disembarking / reflections

The next step was to include ephemera (scrapbookers terms for all the bits and pieces you collect), For this trip I had things like:

• My Stampin' Up! name tag
• Boarding passes
• Tickets for day trips
• Business cards from places we ate or shopped
• Tags that were included on room gifts
• Stampin' Up! trip guide
• Tourist brochures (one of the ship layout, one of a tourist train)
• A printout of my ship account

Next up I went through and added journaling and filler cards to fill the gaps. These were from the Come Sail Away Memories and More card pack (and a couple of scraps of the coordinating Come Sail Away Designer Series Paper. These were perfect for a cruise themed album.  On this photo below, you can see another thing I like to do on cruises for my scrapbooking albums. This is a photo of the cabin TV screen when it was on the navigational channel showing where the ship was positioned. Other things I photographed and included in the album were:

• Departure gate to Rome from Dubai airport
• Travel documents and passport
• Cabin door and welcome signage
• Lots of food and plant photos (my two loves)

On the journaling and filler cards, I either adhered typed journaling boxes made on my computer, punched out typed travel quotes or embellishments. I measured the journaling boxes to fit the shape of the space of each of the journaling boxes I had used. I don't always type my journaling, but chose to for this project and I do like how neat and tidy it looks (it's super important to also include your own handwriting in memory keeping projects though, which is why I often do that).

In some instances I have also typed strip journaling or small text boxes for photos. I have also used the cardstock stickers (included in the Memories and More pack) and metal trinkets for embellishing photos and journaling / filler cards.

For my album title page I have used a 6x8 photo, and some text which I cut from the Stampin' Up! travel guide for the trip. This is one of my favourite photos of the trip, looking down on the ship and tender boat from the island of Santorini.

I also decorated the outside of the album using the Night of Navy and Sahara Sand Bakers Twine, a metal trinket and some burlap trim. 

Overall I have included 157 photos in my 6x8 album and they fit fine in the album as you can see here. The individual breakdown of photo size is:

• 13 6x8" photos
• 59 6x4" photos
• 85 3x4" photos

Overall there are 39 6x8" pocket page protectors of various configurations. This also includes the cover page and a clear envelope at the end of the album where I have added a couple of brochures, the rest of the travel guide and the printout of the ship bill.

I had lots of enjoyment putting together these memories of this fabulous trip. A 6x8 album is a great size for a one week cruise. If you would like to put together your own album and have questions, contact me and I would be happy to answer your questions.

Later in the week I will post a video which flips through this album page by page, for a final look at this project.

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Thanks for stopping by today. See you tomorrow with the video of this album,

Claire

(Disclaimer: less than 1% of Stampin' Up! Demonstrators make the Incentive Trip each year)

Heart of Christmas Week 5 - Spreading the joy of being creative for a handmade Christmas.

Time to spread some more Christmas creating joy around the internet! Welcome to week 5 of the Heart of Christmas blog hops, bought to you by my fabulous Art with Heart team.

This week I have been playing with the Night Before Christmas Memories and More card pack, and the coordinating cards and envelopes. These two products together make for some very quick and easy cards, and the card pack is also great for pocket scrapbooking.

Here's a closer look at the products I am playing with this week. Here is the card pack.

The coordinating cards and envelope pack is perfectly sized to fit the cards, and is patterned  if you want to use a smaller card.

I made three quick Christmas cards, and dressed them up a little with a few extra embellishments.

For this first card I added a copper star element, some red rhinestones on the tree and a stamped greeting from Itty Bitty Christmas.

For my second card I added some of the coordinating Night Before Christmas DSP, a Toile Tiding glitter enamel dot, and some red rhinestones. The Old Olice piece at the top and bottom of the 3x4 card, is from a piece of cardstock punched with the Everyday Label Punch.

For the final card, I have trimmed down one of the bigger Memories and More cards so I could add some red glimmer paper behind it for a bit more sparkle. I also added some of the Holiday Rhinestones to the stars on the card.

Finally I used some of the cards in a double-sided 6x8 pocket scrapbooking page.

A tip for keeping photos in place in the top loading pocket pages. I cut a strip from one of the coordinating cards and made banner ends in it. I then folded this over the top of the top pocket and adhered it each side. I decorated it with an embellishment sticker from the kit and a couple of rhinestones. This keeps the top photos from falling out of the pockets.

Here's a closer look.

Now it's time to check in and see what else the clever Art with Heart team girls have come up with for Heart of Christmas this week.

Kate Morgan

Tina Gillespie

Judy May

Rachel Woollard

Christina Barnes

Caroline Manwaring

Vicki Boucher

Michelle Taylor

Catherine Proctor

Sharon Davern

Thanks for stopping by and checking out our creations this week.

Claire

 

Product List

Project Life Baby Boy & Girl Memory Keeping / Scrapbooking Giveaway

Hello lovely ones. This weekend I am giving you a chance to win a Hello Baby Boy or Hello Baby Girl Project Life by Stampin' Up! Card Collection. I have 3 sets to give away (2 girl and 1 boy set) nd they are valued at $28.00 each plus free postage.  

Entries close 11,59pm AEDT Sunday 4th December 2016. The competition is open to Australian residents (with the exception of current demonstrators) who are on (or who join at time of entering) my blog newsletter list. No purchases required. Just click HERE or the graphic below to enter. More pictures of the kits below. As the competition is open to my blog newsletter subscribers, if you are not already on my list, by entering you will automatically be added (I use a very secure reputable email service provider and your details are always safe with me). Winners will be announced here on my blog and on my Facebook Business Page on Monday 5th December

Here's a closer look at the kits which are up for grabs. Each kit has 100 cards in a mix of 6x4" and 3x4" sizes. They are designed to be used in our pocket page protectors (these are not included in the prize but available in my online store). Lots of people also use these for cardmaking and in traditional scrapbooking. Each kit comes in a cute storage box to sit on your shelf when not in use. 

Here's a look at the Hello Baby Girl kit. The coordinating colours here are Mint Macaron. Blushing Bride, Whisper White, So Saffron, Basic Grey and Basic Black.

 

 

Here's a look at the Hello Baby Boy kit. The coordinating colours here are Mint Macaron. Lost Lagoon, Whisper White, So Saffron, Basic Grey and Basic Black.

 

 
Good luck if you are entering the competition! Remember it closes at 11.59pm AEDT Sunday Night (Dec 4th 2016).

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Claire

 

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Giveaway of Hello December Project Life card kit and accessory pack over on my Facebook Page

Hey there lovely friends.

I've put together  a video showing all those different ways I used the Stampin' Up! 2016 Hello December Project Life gift cards and accessory pack.

 

There's also a giveaway of the Card and Accessory pack over on my business Facebook page. I will draw just after 8pm Melbourne (AEDT) time December 1st. Head over to my Facebook Page  to get all the details.

It's Occasions and Saleabration catalogue pre-order time tomorrow! Yeah! This means if you join up from tomorrow you can also choose these items in your starter kit. Here's all the details about joining with me.

I'll be sending out the catalogues to all my regular customers around the 9th December.

 

Enjoy!

Claire