Lace Museum & More Bruges

Today I've got a couple of more pages from Bruges.  

Page #1 (above):  This first one is pretty straight forward.  I took my cues from the bright yellow walls in the focal photo.  I used yellow patterned paper background (old HOTP), and printed pictures, journaling & title (using Microsoft Word).  The unique thing on this page is the small lace motif on the blue background.  I didn't want to put glue on the lace, figuring that over time it would discolor the lace.  SO, I took a piece of blue card stock, matted on white to look like the others.  I set the lace piece on that and slid the whole into a small ziplock plastic bag.  Then I folded the top of the bag to the back and glued the bag in place.  Now, if I want to get to the lace, I might destroy the bag, but the lace should be safe (hopefully the bag is acid free!)

Page #2:

For this page, I had a few miscellaneous pictures that I wanted to include in my album, but didn't want to devote an entire page to each - I'll already have 88 pages when I'm done - that's PLENTY!  So, I started looking at the photos and realized they fell into 4 different themes.  That inspired me to divide the page into 4 sections - one for each.  I used red ribbon to divide the page - and made a circular title piece that sits on top of where they cross.  I printed the pictures & journaling, but all the little titles were die cut with some of my alphabet dies.  What a chore!  Anyway, I like the way the page turned out.  Since the page sits beside the first one in this post, I decided to start with a similar background paper - in blue this time.