Hello,
Claire here today creating with the Bon Voyage collection from Mintay Papers.
I love scrapping my travels and this collection is just perfect for adventures great and small. When I saw it, I immediately fell in love with the map papers, and there are several to choose from in this collection. They show different parts of the world so you can completely tailor them to wherever your photos are based - home or away!
To start, I grabbed a piece of Kraft Cardstock and tore Paper 3 across the middle, adhering flat to my cardstock.
Next, I backed my photos using the neutral card from the Matchmaker Pack, positioning these in the centre of my layout, slightly offsetting one against the other and raising on foam to give separation from the background paper.
Now, you may know I love a striped paper and find them hard to resist, so when you see Paper 2, it'll come as no surprise that I just had to use it!! I cut a strip a few inches tall, cut it in half and cut fishtails into each end. I outlined the edges with black fineliner pen and slid these under each side of my photos, allowing those gorgeous stripes to provide an extra pop of colour and pattern.
Then came the embellishing! There are some fabulous travel icons in this range, so I used a mixture of florals paired with globes, cars, suitcases, planes, cameras and signs from the Paper Die Cuts to create fun clusters around my photos.
To soften the harsher lines created by the paper layers, I used a spare circle of cardstock as a guide to draw a circle with a light pencil line around the centre of my design, adding a dotted line in White Nuvo Drops to draw you eye into the middle of the layout. Love how this turned out. That extra pop of white adds a lovely bit of detail.
I used small foam alphas from my stash to add my title directly to my photos, before returning to the map paper to create extra tears and rips to mimic a used map. Once ethe edges were rolled back, I added Finnabair Art Stones and Mini Art Stones to add a desert effect to echo the photos (It was a hot one!)
I hope you've enjoyed this blog post, and you have fun documenting your own summer adventures!
Until next time, Happy Scrapping!!
Claire xx
@scrappysoulmate
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