Project | Travel Album: An American in Frankfurt
While I've been busy sharing holiday content the last few months, I also managed to sneak in some work on some layouts for my Frankfurt travel album that I've been slowly working on for quite awhile from my trip to Creativeworld in 2014. Several new layouts from it will be coming to Scrapbook Update in the next week or so as a result! This first layout was my first try working with the new Project Life Modern Core Kit that I had just bought.
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An American in Frankfurt by Nancy Nally - travel Project Life layout from Creativeworld 2014
Supplies:
Project Life "Modern" Core Kit: Scrapbook.com & Amazon.com
Dymo Organizer Express Labelmaker: Amazon.com
Tim Holtz for Stamper's Anonymous "Life Quotes" stamps: Scrapbook.com & Amazon.com
Tim Holtz for Stamper's Anonymous clear word stamp (Inspire)
Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink - Tattered Rose: Scrapbook.com & Amazon.com
Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink - Picked Raspberry: Scrapbook.com & Amazon.com
Tim Holtz idea-ology "Small Talk" stickers: Scrapbook.com & Amazon.com
Simple Stories "Sunshine & Happiness" Bits & Pieces: Scrapbook.com & Amazon.com
Simple Stories "Sunshine & Happiness" Stickers: Scrapbook.com & Amazon.com
self-adhesive pearl
black pen
This layout was a compilation of photos of a lot of my American friends that I saw at the show - plus Dyan, so I guess I made her an honorary American for this layout. I hope she doesn't mind!
Because this layout was of mostly product and people in the booths, the colors were less subdued than some of the more architectural photos than I took earlier in the album. So this bright Project Life Modern Core Kit seemed a good match for the layout - especially since several of the photos had a lot of pink in them.
An American in Frankfurt by Nancy Nally - Project Life travel layout of the Creativeworld 2014 show.
Did you ever notice that those small Simple Stories alphabet stickers from the collection sticker packs fit perfectly in the journaling space on the title cards in Project Life core kits? They do! I used some pink ones here from the Sunshine & Happiness collection to highlight "Frankfurt" and then used my Dymo labeler and a pen for the rest of the title.
Project Life title card - An American in Frankfurt layout
One of the great things about industry color trends is that products from different companies will work together. These flower die cuts are from the Simple Stories "Sunshine & Happiness" die cut pack, but they look perfect matched with this Project Life core kit to create a custom 3x4 card!
For the same reason, I was also able to use my Picked Raspberry Distress Ink pad to create a special 3x4 card with a stamp from Tim Holtz. The pink ink matches the Modern core kit and the die cuts beautifully!
Project Life journal cards
On the right hand page of this layout, I did something that I don't do very often: split an image between pockets. I had more 4x6 landscape photos than I had pockets for on the two pages, and extra 3x4 pockets. The art journal photo seemed like the logical choice to split between the 3x4 pockets, turning it into more of a decorative element than just a documenting image.
An American in Frankfurt by Nancy Nally - Project Life travel layout featuring the Creativeworld 2014 show.
It's often unavoidable when photographing demos or booths at shows that people will get into the front of photographs and block part of the shot. In this particular case, I framed the shot this way on purpose to show how Tim Holtz was attracting a crowd at his demo. But the people in front made it hard to tell what was the focal point of the photo - Tim.
Putting the phrase stickers on top of the "black space" created by the ladies' coats helped to block them out and point the eye toward Tim in the middle of the image. Plus I used some Tim Holtz stickers to do it with!
Word stickers on photos for a Project Life album
There's one more of my album pages for the actual show itself to share, and then it's on to the pictures from the Heidelberg day trip that I took!
Check out the rest of the album so far:
