Pack Your Bags by Carta Bella

Hi Magpies, well the weather as really turned and the nights are drawing in, as I type this its wet, cold and windy outside, so what better way to ignore the miserable weather, then by revisiting my New York holiday photographs, and putting together a few pages using this fab travel collection – Carta Bella – Pack Your Bags.
This collection was lovely to work with, the pattern papers are all textured and slightly thicker than normal patterned papers, and also a I love the colours of this collection and even though some patterns are the same as ‘normal’ travel papers they offer a fresh tone to my travel pages.
My first layout ‘Every Journey ….’
 

I started the layout using a 7 inches piece from the b-side of the Carta Bella – Pack You Bags – Open Road Paper, and add 5 inches piece of the b-side of Carta Bella – Pack You Bags – Head in the Clouds paper, I overlapped the join of these two papers with a 1.5 inch piece of Carta Bella – Pack Your Bags – Away We Go paper which I border punched down one side and machined stitched it into place.
To matt the photographs I used Carta Bella – Pack Your Bags – Journalling Card  and used Carta Bella – Pack Your Bags – 3×4 journalling cards – as my title for the page.   I added two Hey Little Magpie – flair badges  which are perfect for this layout.

I added embellishments from Carta Bella – Pack Your Bags – Sticker sheet, and some Carta Bella – Pack Your Bags – Stamps details to be bottom of the layout.

Wanderlust
 

My 2nd layout, I used a cut file, and backed each letter with different patterned papers, before added the cut file my cardstock I added some ink using the packaging technique and using Tim Holtz – Cracked Pistachio Oxide Ink, I added 3D foam to the back of the cut file, and added it over the top of the inked background. 
I used two passport size photographs of James and finished the layout with stickers from this collection and a few enamel dots from my stash.
 


My final layout with this collection is ‘This is New York …”

I wanted to add a few photographs of the streets of New York, I printed them at 3×2.  Using strips of Carta Bella – Pack Your Bags – Open Road paper, Carta Bella – Pack Your Bags – Head in the Clouds paper, and Carta Bella – Pack Your Bags – Travel Buddy paper cutting them all at different angles and border punching the red paper and added them to the top and bottom of my white cardstock.
I added the 5 photographs to the bottom of the cardstock, adding 3d foam to two of them to give them some dimension.  

 
Using the Postcard from Carta Bella – Pack Your Bags – Journalling Card to add my title and the names of the places on the photographs. The ‘This is’ stamp is from Elle’s Studio –  Title Builder No. 2 Stamp Set.

 
I finished the pages with stickers from this collection, and some wood veneer from my stash.
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Till next time, happy scrapping …