Luxembourg City

 

Here I have several pages about Luxembourg City.  

Pages 1 & 2: Above is the dual page layout for the first two pages.  Below is a closer look at each page.

Page 1:

This page is very simple - a white background paper serves as mat for the black.  The title was created and printed (along with the photos) using Microsoft Word.

Page #2:

This page was created in a similar fashion - this time with a journaling block instead of title.

Page #3:

Title, journaling, and pictures were printed the same way as for the previous pages.  The background was a plain light green piece of card stock from my stash.  I took a damp sea sponge and Stampin' Up ink called Gray Granite.

Pages 4A & 4B:

These pages were designed to fit into a gate fold page protector.  Since each page was 6" wide, I decided to take advantage of the narrow width to run each through a paper crimper.  The pictures, titles & journaling were created the same way as all the rest.  To help fill in the left hand page, I zoomed in on the first picture to create the fussy cut pieces I added of the statues by the door.

Pages 4 C, D, E (inside of the gate fold):

Above you can see what it looks like when the gate fold flaps are opened.  Below you can see a closer look at each:

Page 4C:

This page (and it's companion 4E) started with a beige printed background.  The green was inked with the sea sponge - same as page #3 above.  I cut strips of brown to add borders on each side of the green.  I also used some of the sponged green to ink the mat for the center photo.  I don't know why I didn't double mat it with the brown as well, but it's too late now.  The title and photos were printed as I did the rest.

Page  4D:

As you can see, I used the same beige print for the background with a larger piece of green (sponged as before) forming a strip across the center - bordered with the same brown strips as on 4C & 4E.  Before I glued that down, I cut out a piece of the background to use to mat the center photos and journaling.

Page 4E:

This page was made basically the same way that page 4C was.

 Page 5 & 6A & 6B: 

Once again I'm using a gate-fold sheet protector for the right hand page - so the above picture actually shows one 12 x 12 and two 6 x 12 pages.  Below you'll see a closer look at these.

Page 5:

The center of this page has a horizontal strip of "handmade" paper that I bought years ago at Costco.  It forms the backdrop for the printed title (color of letters comes from one of the pictures on the next page!).  The focal photo has a gold frame with a mat of white around it.  All the other pictures were cut with narrow white border.  The journaling block was also printed.  The stained glass embellishments were cut from a blow up of the large stained glass window shown on the next page.

Page 6A & 6B:

These are the two narrow sheets that go in the gate fold sheet protector.  You can see more of that "hand-made" paper on the right panel.  For the left panel, I used paper ribbon from my stash.  Again, the stained glass embellishments are from a blow up of the large stained glass picture.

Page 6C, 6D, 6E:

This is what you see when you open the gate fold that I called Page 6A & 6B.  

Page 6D:

These pictures seem to have too much light on them so we can't see all the features as well as I wish we could. The paper is a lovely card stock with almost a plastic finish - marbled look with copper streaks - very pretty in real life.  As you can see, most photos and the journaling block were all printed with borders so I didn't feel the need to mat them. The focal photo, however, has a frame that was die cut from a metallic copper paper using a Spellbinder's die from the set called Renaissance Jeweled Frame.  The title block - like the ones on the pages on each side - was computer printed and then the edges were inked with a copper colored Sharpie.

Pages 6C & 6E:

In this picture, I've brought the two outside 6" wide pages together so you see them here side by side - which is NOT what you would see in the book itself - they would be separated by the page I called 6D!  Both of these were pretty much made the same way as 6D.