India Scrapbook Pages 12 & 13

Today I have a couple more India scrapbook pages. One of the big challenges of these pages was that the background paper was so busy.  I did a couple of things to decrease that feeling.  First, I added strips of an rust colored patterned paper.  This felt better, but still busy.  I added plain rust colored paper blocks at the bottom of the pages - this helped quite a bit.  Then I added narrow strips of that plain paper top and bottom of the patterned paper strips - which helped even more.  Here's a closer look at each page:

Trying to figure out how to fit all the journaling and photos on these pages was another challenge.  As you can see, with some of the pictures, I zoomed in on the important parts of the pictures & printed them up as small embellishments, while printing other pictures medium-small or more normal size.  I found it worked best to use Distress Ink & a round foam applicator to color the journaling background a bit bluish - they didn't blend into the page as well as I wanted when they were stark white.

The last challenge was how to include the airplane tickets without them overpowering the page.  Here I created a vellum envelope in which the sit - with a journaling over the top of it.  This keeps them easy to look at when desired, and yet not really competing for space.