#Love This

We visited both cathedrals when in Liverpool, and this layout is about the Anglican church.

What surprised me was the fact that this church was far more ornate that the modern catholic cathedral...more catholic looking in fact!

In the crypt there was even a chapel dedicated to Mary!

Papers again were Shimelle's Go Now Go, and I added a speech bubble and star from Paige Evan's Turn the Page collection. A few added stickers from the One Canoe Two collection for the title finished the page.

Tate Liverpool

I enjoyed our visit to the Tate up in Liverpool last year - although Kevin was not too impressed.

The papers are by Dovecrafts (a lovely travel range) and I tried to finish off a set of Basic Gray stickers to embellish the page.

The cases are cut from the papers and layered with 3D foam, I added a title using Shimelle's Go Now Go letter tiles.

The speech bubble is by Paige Evans (Turn the Page) and I finished the page with some star washi tape, dots, and American Craft stickers.

Trust in the Journey

Both myself and my husband come from Irish ancestors, in fact, they moved to England during the famine and stayed here, my family in the North East, my husband's in Yorkshire.

As we wandered about Liverpool we came across this art installation to commemorate all those who left these islands from the port of Liverpool to emigrate to America. 

The papers again are by Shimelle, and the stickers are One Canoe Two. 

I also added puffy stickers by Paige Evans and the title is from the Go Now Go range. 
The cases on the street really made us think, it could have been our families heading over the Atlantic over 100 years ago.

Stylish Costa

There are lots of amazing buildings in Liverpool, even down to this lowly coffee shop!

We didn't go in, but I loved the style of the exterior, so took a few photos. 

My favourite thing about the page is that it helped me to use up some of the coffee cups from both Paige Evans and Shimelle's  ranges of papers and stickers!

The title uses stickers and chipboard tiles by Shimelle and a few dimensional dots to complete the page.

Back to Liverpool

I was unwell last year with anxiety and as scrapbooking is about the good and not so good times in life I used this photo taken of Liverpool docks to record this time.

I liked the picture so much that I printed it at 7x5", meaning I didn't need to add much more to the page.

The papers are Shimelle Go Now Go both 8x8 and 12x12".  The clip is by Docrafts and the stickers are also Shimelle.

The enamel dots are from a bargain set I picked up from Create and Craft ages ago, and I cut the journalling block from the 6x6 paper pad.

Title is made from chipboard Thickers with a little added wet glue to make sure they don't fall off in time.

Book a Ticket

On the docks in Liverpool is this wonderful vintage bus.

It is no longer used to transport people, but now serves ice-cream to tourists.

I made the page from my second #clearthescrapdesk kit, the background houndstooth card is an ancient K and Company sheet (worth keeping I think!).

The title uses Shimelle's Go Now Go papers, with added stickers from this range. The class has been fantastic for using up old stash, I would highly recommend it.

Take it In

Another layout about our trip to Liverpool. 

The cardstock is a kraft background by Tim Holtz, the spotty paper is from a really old set by K and Company. 

Most of the embellishments are Shimelle's Go Now Go, I altered the date on the journalling block with a punched label, stamped with an Altenew month. 

The stickers this time are by One Canoe Two, more dots to finish, this time in green.

Albert Dock

Just over a year ago, Kev and I took a half term trip to Liverpool, and on our first day we headed for Albert Dock.

I took lots of photos, but really liked this one in black and white.  The cardstock is a scientific styled set by Tim Holtz, I also added a very old piece of Cosmo Cricket (the spotty); that's a brand I used to love.

The stripe is by MME (Jubilee), lots of the other embellishments (the camera and 'Good Times') are cut from papers ad PL cards.

I thought the chalkboard style matched the background equations nicely.

The title is silver chipboard hexagons and vellum stickers.  I have a good few Liverpool pages still to make, so I'll be using #clearthescrapdesk to get them finished.

Titanic City

When we were in Liverpool, we visited the Titanic exhibition within the Maritime Museum.

I took lots of photos, so made a double layout using a set of papers by Anna Griffin, along with the embellishments from the kit.  I also used woodgrain papers by Papermania to make for a more plain background so the patterned papers stand out more.

The title is cut from gold mirri card using an XCut deco style die.

We found a trunk of dressing up clothes in the museum, it reminded us of when the children were small, they would have loved to rummage through them for a photo-opportunity.  Kev had to take their place instead in a very ill-fitting life jacket!

Part of the exhibition included lists of all the passengers and crew of those on the ship, organised by class.  All those who survived were recorded in one colour, those lost in blue.  We found a family of three Caldwells on the ship in second class, all three survived.

The tragic thing was the amount of blue (lost) in the lists of the third class and the crew.  I knew about these deaths prior to visiting the museum, but seeing all those names, ages, all in blue was heart breaking.

Elegant Liverpool

This is the first layout in my scrapbook for the trip we took to Liverpool back in February.  I used my photos of the Three Graces; the most iconic view of the city to open my album.

I used Paige Evans 'Oh My Heart' range as the backing paper (the mustard coloured ledger paper).  Most of the rest of the layout is made using an older Trimcraft range called Manmade,

The title letters are from Shimelle's Go now go along with the sticker embellishments.

 I even got out one of my old Martha Stewart border punches out to make the scalloped border.

Go Somewhere New

This layout is about Lime Street Station in Liverpool, I loved the building and was surprised on arrival to hear the seagulls inside the station of a large city; coming from far inland it seemed odd to be close to the sea in a big city.

I used Shimelle's GoNowGo papers, they seemed ideal for a travel layout.

The title is cut out from one of the paper, The arrow background is a MME Jubilee paper, but went really well with the rest of the stash I used.

Almost everything else on the page is from Shimelle's range, except six flocked brads...I found them lurking in my stash and love them!

Cathedral Page 2

Here is the second of the double layout about the catholic cathedral in Liverpool.

I loved the view of the church as we walked up the road towards it. The journalling on the page is about the unusual design of the church, with the altar in the centre of the congregation.

I used the same papers as for the first page of the layout, just a pity we didn't have time to attend Mass there.

Liverpool Cathedral Page 1

Kevin took me away at half term to help me on the road to recovery from an illness, it was nice to get away for a couple of nights as I had not visited Liverpool before.

On the second day, we visited both cathedrals, finishing with the modern catholic building.  The organist was practising as we went in, but as the weather was poor there were few people who had bothered to go out, so it was quiet inside.

I loved the modern style of the church, the altar in the centre must make it a wonderful place to attend Mass.  The windows were geometric in style, a little like those in my own church.  After being unwell, I hadn't scrapbooked for a while so a sketch from Michelle really kick-started me into getting the layout done.

Do visit Michelle's blog, she regularly posts sketches most weeks.I used a really old set of stash with geometric patterns on it from MME Jubilee.

I made a double layout from the photos taken on my visit; using the patterned papers on both papers so the pages would co-ordinate. This is the first of those pages.   I also used the same set of chipboard 'Thickers'... I picked these up at B&M Homes for £1.49 a pack.  They had letters in 3 different styles from about 3 years ago. Needless to say, I picked up a good few packs!