India Scrapbook Pages 8 to 11

  

First up is a two-page spread forming pages 8 & 9 of the scrapbook.  Both pages start with orange patterned card stock.  Inside that is a layer of yellow checked paper - then a layer of black.  Here's a closer look at each page:

Page 8:

After printing and cutting out the pictures, I glued them on the black background leaving a black border around each.  I then matted a small picture on black and placed it as an embellishment - in addition to yellow flower stickers.

Page 9:

For the right sided page, I started with a piece of orange patterned paper that was cut just a bit smaller than the black - so the black forms a mat for it.  The focal photo was matted on black before adding in place on the patterned paper.  My journaling takes quite a bit of space.  As you can see, I cut it with fancy edge top and bottom, and then matted with black.  After adding a border of black along the left edge, I centered the journaling and added more embellishments - a couple more matted photos and more of the yellow flower stickers.

Page 10:

Here I printed the journaling over the top of a faded copy of a picture of the airplane's wing.  As you can see, I matted that, a printed title, and two other pictures on a dark piece of paper.  The page felt quite "precise" - which did not reflect the busyness of Kolkata.  So, I added several arrows (Brad Buddies from HOTP) to try to speak to the busy surroundings.  Most of the arrows point toward important parts of the page, while the final one points to the Jain temple on the next page.

Page 11:

To illustrate the beauty of the Jain temple, I started with a beautiful foiled background that was reminiscent of some of the decorations in and around the temple.  The photos and journaling are matted on a piece of plain silver.  The title was printed and I added a portion of a close up of one of the pillars on each side.  The whole was then matted in silver and added with foam tape.

Digi-Thanks

Today I needed another quick Thank You card, so used a sketch posted on a message board I frequent.  The background was printed from a digital sheet and was matted in dark green.  I added matted circles of old HOTP papers & a white one with dark green stamped sentiment (Personal Impressions Thank You from Inkadinkadoo).  I added a strip of green border.  Finally, I added a stamped and die cut colored paper flower (Blazing Poppy from Heartfelt Creations), two die cut and embossed leaves (Spellbinders Bitty Blossoms), and a jewel for the flower center.

Inside:

A dark green strip and narrow printed floral strip form a border on the inside of the card.  Another stamped message (Crafter's Companion Compendium Thank You) completes the inside. 

India Scrapbook pages 6-7

Today's dual page layout is based on one of the layout sketches for December 2003 at pagemaps.com. Here's a closer look at each page:

The background paper is from an old mat stack from DCWV called Taj Mahal.  I cut a border from green patterned paper that coordinated with it.  I also added a cream colored grosgrain ribbon along the bottom of the page.  Pictures and journaling were printed on my printer - and I used distress ink to color the large mat on the focal, and the background of the journaling.  The title was die cut from another paper from the mat stack. The panel the journaling & title sits on was cut top and bottom using a Spellbinders border die.

On the 2nd page, I added a partial circle cut from the same paper as the title on the previous page.  I didn't have any dies large enough to cut the circle, but found a 12 x 12 stencil that had a large circle on it that I could trace & then fussy cut.

Calendar Slimline

Today I just have one card - made after I cut up a calendar and a bunch of Birds and Blooms magazines, to use in making cards.  It's really very straight forward - a piece of calendar glued to the card front, a ribbon run across for a border of sorts, and an inked, die cut (Spellbinders Twisted Metal Tags and Accents) stamped (one of my Mom's stamps) sentiment added with foam tape.

Inside:

As you can see, I added borders top and bottom using scraps from the same calendar page - then added a small picture that shows what the whole page looked like originally.  Finally, I stamped a sentiment using a JustRite stamp from the set called Good Friends Labels Twenty-Nine.