28 Jul 2012

Budapest tram meets Cosmo Cricket...

A few weeks back in my blog browsing this sketch over at Sarah's Crafts caught my eye. I had a big pizza box full of goodies from them only recently and so with stash to burn and holiday snaps of Budapest to scrap I got to work.
What I liked about this sketch was that it would work with my current preferred scrapping size of A4 and that I could include lots of layers whilst keeping the picture as the main focus.


I used Cosmo Crickets tea for two 6 by 6 pad and i just love the page that already looks like layers of paper strips or washi tape - it takes the guess work out of it completely. I also included a red Martha Stewart border to bring out the colour of the tram. The red spots were a happy accident as the cardstock that I punched the border out of was circular and these spots were the leftovers from this page that I was about to bin.
I jazzed some of them up with a green punched heart and then included two journalling spots - one for the handwritten journalling and the other for the ittle which I used my trusty dymo label maker to create. I love, love, love my packaging tape washi tape as it fits so well with all my travel layouts and with the colour scheme.


 Click on the picture for a better view as my editing software is on the other laptop and it's not working so well at the moment.
Do you love to use 6 by 6 pads on your layouts too?

Linking up with Sarah's Cards

P.S Don't forget to leave a comment on my giveaway by Sunday

P.P.S I have just been guest featured on Sarah's (a different Sarah - not from Sarah's crafts!) lovely blog - check it out!! My first ever guest feature.

13 comments:

  1. awesome scrapbooking lovely,
    and thanks for the link up :) xx

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  2. Actually, I am quite a fan of 6x6 papers as I don't use much in the way of pattern and the 12x12 often seem too big. These work beautifully here, and I love your design too.

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  3. Mel a gorgeous layout....I love how you've layered it up. Congrats on your guest post too x

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  4. gorgeous! love all those pops of red!

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  5. I love the polka dots and that Martha border! very cool.

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  6. Lovely bright, fresh page! Love the use of the border punch!

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  7. I adore this layout, such bright happy colours. Budapest is one city I still hope to visit one day so looking forward to seeing your layouts.

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  8. I'll let you into a secret - I designed the sketch so it would work for A4 easily as I only ever scrap in that size: good to see someone else having a go at doing it that size. Lovely colours! Thanks for playing along with our challenge :)

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  9. Great take on the sketch, the colours you've used work so well with the photo.
    T x

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  10. Great take on the sketch! The colours you've used work so well with your photo.
    Good luck.
    T x

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  11. Great page, love the vibrancy of the red. I thought the dots looked great so was even more impressed when I read that you created them by using the waste from your border punch - I love it when things like that happen on my pages :) Thanks for joining in with our challenge :) xxx

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  12. Love this. I only scrap in A4 too! Thanks for taking part in the challenge :)

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  13. gorgeous, love the way it converted to an A4 page!

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