Project | Travel Album: Wander Heidelberg
It's hard to believe, but I'm back with another page for my 2014 Creativeworld album. By the time I am done, I think this album covering two travel days, three Creativeworld trade show days and one touring day in Heidelberg is going to be almost full!
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Heidelberg Project Life travel scrapbook layout
Supplies Used:
Project Life "Wander by Christina Herrin" Core Kit (Amazon, SB.com)
Heidi Swapp stickers
Tim Holtz idea-ology "Small Talk - Occasions" stickers
Kelly Purkey Shop "Ready Jet Set by Christina Herrin" kit (stamp set)
Project Life date stamp
Faber-Castell Pitt Artist Pen (Superfine) – Black (Amazon, SB.com)
For my first layout of Heidelberg, I chose to use the "Wander" Project Life core kit designed by Christina Herrin. (I previously used this core kit on the closing page of this album - click here to check it out.) It might seem kind of a bright selection for a historic shopping district, but these photos had a lot of yellow tones to them and somehow it works.
This layout is super simple. There simply wasn't a lot of room for embellishment because I have so many photos! This page is actually part one of at least two pages, because I have so many photos from my walk down Hauptstrasse.
Heidelberg Project Life
For my title card, I dug out a stamp set from another kit designed by Christina Herrin. This one was designed for the Kelly Purkey shop. The great thing about using elements from the same designer is that the "handwriting" style elements all match, since they are both Christina's handwriting.
To finish the title, I paired the stamp with some glitter alphabet stickers. Since that turquoise color has been so trendy, it was easy to find some that matched the Wander kit cards.
I added the date with the original Project Life date stamp that I've had forever. Even when I'm doing a series of pages that obviously belong together, I like to put the date on each page.
Project Life Heidelberg layout
I like to take simple cards out of the Project Life kits and use embellishments to customize and theme them. On this card, I combined a stamp by Christina Herrin, a Heidi Swapppuffy sticker, and a Tim Holtz small talk sticker. Three totally different designers but the bits and pieces - chosen carefully - work together. I tend to create cards like this by just digging through boxes and experimenting until I find a combination that I like.
Project Life Heidelberg close-up
I had to be careful when creating these pages to make sure that I balanced the colors across the two pages. Using strong colors like this, it would really look wrong if I didn't pay attention to color balance. So on the right side, I had to make sure to include the nice bright "today is awesome" card. It balances out the two really bright cards on the other page.
Project Life Heidelberg layout
Our travel doesn't always go as we plan. My last day in Germany on this trip, I got sick. Miserably sick with the flu, fever and chills and the whole works. But I pushed on with my touring and still had a good time. You can't tell from my pictures that I was sick, but it's an important part of the story to tell. We shouldn't tell just the good parts! So I used a journaling card to tell that part of my story on this layout.
Project Life Heidelberg journaling
Have you used the Wander core kit from Project Life? What did you scrapbook with it?
