Project | More of Heidelberg Travel Album
The Heidelberg Project Life album is back! On today’s quickie layout that I added to it, I used several easy techniques to customize my cards for location.
[Disclosure: This Project Life core kit and Dymo Organizer Xpress were provided to me by their manufacturers. Creativeworld is a sponsor of this website. This site is a participant in that Amazon.com affiliate program. Some links to Amazon.com and other retailers in this article are affiliate links.]
I’ve been working on this 2014 Germany trip album on and off in between other projects for several years. It’s a nice quick “palette cleanser” in between other, bigger projects.
Supplies Used:
Project Life “Wander” Core Kit (Amazon)
Project Life Design A Page Protector (Amazon, Scrapbook.com,
Project Life Design G Page Protector (Amazon, Scrapbook.com,
Memento Luxe Ink - Gray Flannel
Colorbox Teal Cat’s Eye Ink Pad
Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink in Fired Brick (Scrapbook.com, Amazon)
Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink in Tea Dye (Scrapbook.com, Amazon)
Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Embossing Ink (Scrapbook.com, Amazon)
Ranger Embossing Powder - White (Scrapbook.com, Amazon)
Dymo Organizer Xpress Label Maker (Amazon)
Tim Holtz idea-ology Muse Tokens (A Cherry On Top, Amazon)
Tim Holtz idea-ology Design Tape - Journey (Scrapbook.com, Amazon)
Tim Holtz idea-ology Ephemera - Expedition (Scrapbook.com, Amazon)
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Stampendous stamp - Better Travel (Amazon)
Tim Holtz for Stamper’s Anonymous stamps - Mini Classics (Amazon)
Tim Holtz for Stamper’s Anonymous stamps - Field Notes (Scrapbook.com, Amazon)
Scrapbook.com Alphabet stamps - Bold Caps Outline (Scrapbook.com)
Tombow Mono Drawing Pen - 05 (A Cherry On Top, Amazon)
Tombow Mono Drawing Pen - 01 (A Cherry On Top, Amazon)
This Project Life “Wander” core kit is a bit hard to find now, but I have used it several times in the album, and the techniques I used can be duplicated with other materials.
I started my layout by selecting cards and choosing their locations in the layout. (Note the pointing hand on the journaling card was an embellishment I later chose not to use.) The core kit contains a pretty vibrant color palette, so I made sure to include the polka dot card with the entire palette on it to tie all of it together. Placed near the center, it literally pulls all the other colors in visually.
I gave myself plenty of space for journaling because I had a story to tell. I created balance when selecting those cards by selecting ones with orange and teal elements on each layout page.
I’ve tried to create a mini-theme in this album that each layout has some sort of map element in it somewhere. The title card takes care of that on this layout, having a design that is a graphic representation of a street map.
The layout had a bold raspberry card on the right side but no weighty raspberry element on the left side. I used the title card to fix this! Creating the word “Castle” on a raspberry background balanced the colors and highlighted the word that is the theme of the layout.
To stamp the word “castle”, I used a new set of Scrapbook.com exclusive Bold Caps Outline alphabet stamps that I recently bought. This was the first time I had used the set, and I was really impressed with the quality of it. These alphabet stamps are a great size for pocket cards, cardmaking, and scrapbook pages. I’m looking forward to getting a lot of use out of them!
The stamping was done in clear embossing ink, and then the word was heat embossed with white embossing powder.
The “Castle” banner covers the blank spot on the title card’s design. Then I added the rest of the title using my Dymo Organizer Xpress label maker, which it seems I use on everything. It’s such an easy way to add some retro text! Then I just added the Muse token as a fun piece of ephemera to fill the gap.
I can’t resist embellishing even cards that already have designs on them. This journaling card had a banner that said “today” but I wanted to give it a nice retro look to go with the quote stamp from Stampendous. A couple of strips of washi tape were the first step. Then I stamped an antique stamp design in teal that coordinated with the kit, and cut it out. I stuck it to the journaling card, and then stamped the faux postage cancellation on top of it.
In addition to embellishing this card, I also trimmed down a globe ephemera by Tim Holtz from the Expedition set, and adhered it on top of the golden crosshatched card. I fit another map on the layout!
The final step was to write all of my journaling! I always use a piece of scratch paper to pre-write my journaling to make sure what I want to say will fit on the number and length of lines that I have to work with. Yes, it’s a little obsessive, but it drives me crazy to run out of room or have to squeeze things in and then it looks messy!
Here’s a closer look at the two halves of the layout when they were finished:
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