Crop update from Saturday – five pages made!

On Saturday I was at the crop that is local to me run by Sarah at Hey Little Magpie. I was so pleased to feel well enough to go and spend the day being creative and chatting with crafty friends. I also managed five scrapbook pages in total and as I have quite a few Scrapping Saturday posts already ready for the next few weeks I thought instead I would share them with you all in one go! For all of them the starting point was using page kits from Hey Little Magpie – although as per usual I did vary them a little and also two of the pages were scraps from the kits with just an additional coloured cardstock base from my stash – and embellishments from my box (or from the pop up shop I might have bought some stuff from whilst I was there! 🤣)

I started with this page and although I didn’t exactly follow the instructions – it is similar to how the page was designed. I did have to change up the title and a couple of embellishments to make it work with the photo – but it was very close to the original – to the point where friends were wondering what was wrong with me as I’d not gone off piste! 🤣

I loved the faux stitching and the bright colours of the papers – so lovely to use to scrap the photo of us at Chester Zoo on the boat ride in the South East Asia Islands section.

Straight after this page I took the scraps leftover and made this second page – choosing a card pink base.

When I tore the papers the white edge created a nice contrast for the darker background.

This page is unusual for me with all those photos – but having had the smaller photos printed as a collage – I managed to fit 6 photos on the page – along with the all important Take That logo ❤️

It was fun to add in the additional elements like the little flowers and hearts which I bought from the shop plus that Life puffy sticker was perfect for the This Life title – as that was the name of the tour!

Next I moved onto a different page kit and this one I added in stencilling and moved the main page element to the right rather than in the centre.

This meant I had to move some other elements around – but I think the original is still fairly recognisable. I love the textural elements to the page with the seam binding and the ruffled trim (although I had to borrow someone’s tiny attacher as I couldn’t stick the trim down without it – which has made me NEED a tiny attacher!)

I really love the stencilling I added – I thought the mowed lawn distress oxide worked well with the colour in the photo. And I love that cut file title (also makes me want a scan and cut – but that’s definitely not in the budget anytime soon!)

I then moved onto another kit as I didn’t think I had enough scrap from the one above alone to make a page.

This one was very different and I decided to change it up quite a bit. Firstly I made the panels of the paper smaller to give a frame to the page and also more of a gap between them. I also rotated the page.

I loved the bright panels against the black with the distressing and decided the colours worked well with my collage picture of the aurora borealis I took back in October 2024 in my back garden.

The rest of the kit had lots of cut aparts so I took ones that made sense with the picture and created my cluster around the picture and then went to town with embellishments and stickers around the outside. I kept the tag elements similar to the original – but mainly just had fun adding the bits and pieces I had with me. I think this page still needs a proper title but didn’t have anything with me at the time so will have to die cut the letters Northern Lights for my title instead when I get a moment before I put the pages into protectors and an album.

And finally I put scraps from all of the pages to use on this page, choosing the pale pink card as the base.

Again I added stencilling and this time some splatter too – I used both the pink ink for splatter as well as some shimmer spritz in magnolia which I had taken to the crop with me.

There were a lot of cut apart bits although I wasn’t sure I would use many of them so instead the reverse was that lovely blue pattern so I chose to use that as the main backing paper instead.

I know this is a mish mash of different products and designs but I think it still works well and given the photo was of us in a very eclectic designed pizza parlour in Oxford it sort of works with the colours in the photo too.

So a very productive Saturday and I was left from the three page kits with very little in the way of scraps …

… I have kept them though as Rachel challenged me to use them – so I will see what I can come up with for using these bits and bobs and let you see what happens!

And after that mammoth blog post … happy crafting!

Catherine