London Scrapbook (part 1)...

Hi everyone. Sorry again for not posting in a while. I thought I'd share with you a fun little project I'm working on. Last October I went on my very first trip to London -this might surprise you, but I am from the very North of England and it's about an 8 hour drive. Anyway, I had a fab time, did lots of touristy things, went to see a show and generally took lots of pictures.

Strangely enough, it wasn't until May that I had the idea to make a scrapbook about my London adventure. I dug out this scrapbook that I had been given as a birthday present a couple of years ago as I thought it was more than ideal.

This particular book is from Paperchase and it has gorgeous, sturdy black card pages. It couldn't be any more perfect for a London scrapbook!

In my opinion silver gel pen looks FANTASTIC on black card ,and a page of text can look really effective.

Of course I had to include a little sketch with coloured pencils, just for fun. I think it adds a bit of cuteness.

 I tried to get a mixture of photographs and tickets, receipts, maps etc. on each page to add interest and make it look arty and fun. The most important part of making a scrapbook is the way you arrange the objects...

 

My advice is to get creative with things like plane tickets and maps and arrange them so that they can fold out like a pop up book. It'll make the scrapbook so much more fun to look through. 

Also I would advise you to arrange and rearrange your items on the page first before sticking them down. That way you can shuffle things round and get a more arty, quirky look.

 It's great to get a mixture of textures too, like the shiny photograph next to the plain paper soldiers. Collageing and overlapping always looks great!

 Writing round the edges of photographs looks great too!

I felt that my Wicked ticket was too special to stick into the book with glue, so I made a nifty little pocket by folding a page over and gluing the edges down. 

So there you go! a quick tour of my London Scrapbook so far. I'll be putting part 2 up soon, but I hope this has encouraged you to catologue your travels and adventures this summer in an arty and interesting way. I think it looks pretty great when everything is put together on the page. And just think how much you'll love looking back on these in a few years time. In my opinion scrap-booking is so much more interesting than just putting your photos in a photo album. Thanks again everyone!!!

Until next time...

Emma x