When Jill
asked me to do a DT guest spot at the retreat and told me I could choose my own kit, I headed straight for the Simple Stories papers
– no great surprise there! Since I was about to go to FYR Macedonia for a week,
I chose papers from the new Travel Notes collection.
Scrapping
holiday photos can be quite time-consuming, so I challenged myself to scrap
multiple photos on each page. I also decided to scrap without using plain
cardstock. I did slightly come to regret that choice; it turned out to be quite
hard to make six layouts in a row without plain cardstock.
Notebook-style
paper worked well for a background, and I was thrilled when I noticed how well
the blue geometric paper matched the exterior of the National Library of
Kosovo.
Simple
Stories seem to have stopped including alphabets on their sticker sheets, which
is a shame, so I had to look to my stash for titles. October Afternoon Daily
Flash letter stickers came in colours that co-ordinated with the Travel Notes
papers, so I used quite a few of those.
The Travel Notes collection
did include some words and phrases that I cut out for titles to add variety.
When I saw
these defaced sculpture panels, I knew I would want to spatter paint on the
background. The colourful revolution theme gave me the idea of colouring some Jenni
Bowlin alphabet stickers. I think most of us have a few sheets of these hanging
around! The font is a great shape and I like the effect of giving them colour.
