India Scrapbook Pages 24-27

Slowly, but surely, I'm making progress on this album - after these I have 10 more pages to go.  Pages 24 & 25 are shown above, but we'll take a closer look at them below:

Page 24:

This was a challenging layout - so many pictures (some much poorer quality than I would have liked), title, journaling, and a brochure from the site that was printed on very flimsy paper.  How to fit it all in?  As you can see, I made a vellum pocket for the brochure that would hold the brochure if I folded it in half.  Since it had already been folded that way, I wasn't concerned about doing so.  The pocket was easily made. I simply folded my vellum around the brochure such that there would be a little wiggle room - then trimmed all selvage except for that on the front - which I glued to the back to create the pocket.  I also made a little thumb hole using a 3/4" circle punch.

It took awhile to figure out how to get the map (which had such tiny print it had to be printed in a large size or was worthless) and the pictures/journaling/title that I wanted on this page.  As you can see, I glued the title to the front of the brochure pocket, the journaling at the very bottom of the page, and then printed the map and photos as a group such that it would fill the remaining space. (Map by Gatis Pāvils - http://www.wondermondo.com/Countries/As/India/Maharashtra/Ellora.htm, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=9796513).  I was pretty happy with the result - except that as I was writing this up I realized I forgot to number the photos as intended to correspond with the journaling.  I'll have to go back and do that, but doubt I'll re-take the picture.

Page 25:

I decided to print all of the remaining photos in a relatively small size (2.5" x 1.8" or so) and arrange them collage style.  The hardest part of this was gluing everything in place without forgetting how I had it laid out!  I finally pulled it apart and started gluing from the center out.  That worked relatively well.

Page 26 & 27:

This layout was nearly as challenging as the last, with lots of photos and journaling.  I finally decided on a few photos to represent the journaling.  I numbered these to correspond to the journaling and printed them along with the title (which is taken from a photo of a sign that was there).  Then I realized it could work to put all of these in the center of the layout and then create a border top and bottom that could hold a bunch more photos that were printed in a standard small size.

Page 26:

Here's a close-up of the first page.  The background paper is from an old DCWV mat stack called Happy Ever After (or something like that).  I found a brick paper in my stash that I cut in 4 strips to make the borders for this page and the next (with a little left over).  I added the black wider border strip stickers from a Dazzles set. to set the borders apart from the background.  I also used a black Sharpie pen to border the title to help it stand out better.

Page 27:

As you can see, this second page is similar to the first, but has the journaling blocks instead of the title block.