India Scrapbook pages 20 & 21

I spent all day working on this layout.  It was really challenging because I had so many pictures I wanted to use and had to pare down - then had to figure out how to fit everything that made the final cut.  Here's a quick look at each individual page:

Page 20:

I have title and journaling blocks on both pages that were created in the same way.  The title blocks were die cut from a scrap of old scrapbook papers that had a light cream colored pattern to it - die was from Spellbinders' Romantic Rectangles Two.  The large letters were die cut from a red metallic card stock using my large Momenta Thin Alphabet dies.  I then drew around the outside of the dies on the back of some gold metallic and fussy cut it to form a mat for the red.  I cut the remaining letters from gold using Sans Serif dies.  I really liked the look of that patterned paper, so cut it out of the center of another sheet of that paper (it's actually a border paper) and cut it to 8 1/2" wide.  It was only 8 1/4" long, but I was able to create my journaling blocks on a standard letter sized layout and print it.  Then I used a Martha Stewart border punch to punch around the edges of these journaling blocks.  Finally, I matted the focal print on a gold piece that was die cut with a die from Spellbinders Resplendent Rectangles.

Page 21:

This page is similar to the previous one with one additional feature - a pocket for an envelope that holds several purchased postcards of Mysore Palace.  I made both pocket and envelope from iridescent gold vellum.