More of Holland

Today I have eight more pages from our visit to Holland.  All pictures, titles, and journaling on the following pages were printed from my computer.  This dual page layout is from our trip to visit the Royal Delft Pottery works - pages 1 & 2 of this post.  Next up is a closer look.

Page #1:

As I looked for papers to use with these pages, I remembered the blue and white Adoreable Scoreable sheets (Hunkydory's printed card stock) I had in my stash.  I thought this pattern reflected the Royal Delft designs well.

Page #2:

Pages #3 & 4:

The background papers used for this layout came from some Dollar Store pages purchased many years ago.  It always feels good to use up some of these older papers.  I decided the papers were a bit too busy, so added a yellow strip of card stock in the center to tone it down a bit.

Page #3:

Page #4:

Page #5:

This page has an old HOTP paper as the background.  I've added vellum pockets behind the page to hold a couple of brochures - with small half-circles for thumb holes to pull them out.

Page #6:

This background page is from my stash.  The blue is glimmer paper from an old Sara's Papers booklet from HOTP.

Page #7:

Here I simply have two colors of card stock from my stash - a turquoise background and a yellow strip.

Page #8:

I had a multi-colored Lego paper in my stash from which I cut strips to decorate the page.  A piece of a yellow Lego paper forms a mat for the journaling.

First Day in Holland - Part 2

In addition to all the windmills, Zaanse Schans had several museums.  These pages cover the rest of our time in the Zaanse Schans region.  

Page #1 (above): The background paper seemed quite appropriate as it was an old HOTP sheet with clock faces all over it.  I also added some transparency clock faces with brads & "hands" from my stash.

Page #2: 

Next up is the Weaver's House - showing what living and weaving was like in the 17th century.  The background is a dual-sided piece of card stock that I sliced in half and flipped so each half showed one side of the card stock.  As you can see, I created a punched white lacy border to run along where they joined.  The blue has information about living conditions, while the black relates to the weaving process.

Pull-Tab Pocket:

This page has a pocket behind it where you can pull out a sheet with more information about life & work in the weaver's house.

Page 3:

Here, in addition to adding the wood-like paper as a mat for the pictures, I used a picture of a sign for the title/journaling, and some misc mini metal tools from my stash for embellishments.

Page 4:

This is another gate fold page. I simply sliced the background paper in half to make the two pieces.  I also added some Scrapbooking Dazzles (from HOTP) that seemed appropriate embellishments for the bakery museum.

Pages 5 & 6 (inside the gate fold):

Close-up of center:

All work for this page was done on the computer - printing pictures as the grids of pictures you see here - and printing the title & journaling pieces.  Gluing all to a plain black background worked well.

Outside Panels:

The left-hand page was created using half a sheet of patterned paper from my stash.  As you can see, I matted the photos on a glossy brown paper (Shine Design paper from HOTP).  The right-hand page used half a small plaid background paper in colors that coordinated.  Embellishments are from my stash.

Pages 7 & 8:

Close up of Page 7:

You may notice that this page uses the remaining half sheet from the previous page.  In this case, I used a paper trimmer to cut a fancy edge - putting the narrow cut off piece along the right side.  The title is an enlargement of the signage on the picture of the museum itself.

Close up of Page 8:

As on page 2, I cut this page on the diagonal and added a white punched lace strip.  This time, the diagonal was not corner to corner, and the two pieces are NOT from the same paper. 

HD Spinner Concept Cards

Today I have two Hunkydory concept cards from an old Window to the Heart kit (there were 4 - my Mom made 2 and I made 2).  These are pretty, but I had a lot of cleanup to do since I always manage to get glue where I don't want it with projects like this!  Everything except the thread to hang the spinner came in the kit - including envelopes to fit.  

Back of Card #1:

It's pretty challenging to get pics showing the spinner well enough - since it likes to keep spinning!

Card #2:

Back of Card #2:

Thanksgiving 2022

Each year since we moved here, we've hosted Thanksgiving.  And each year I've made a single scrapbook page to add to our Thanksgiving album.  With Thanksgiving 2023 coming up, I realized that I hadn't yet gotten last year's page made - so now I have! 😁

For Christmas last year my daughter had given me some pretty papers - one of which was M&M's - perfect since we used them for our Thanksgiving game last year!  It was a bit much to have the whole background as M&M's, so I fussy cut borders top & bottom.  Then simply added my pictures, a game board from the game, and a small journaling block.  Not particularly exciting, but it got the job done.