Inkspiration for Stamping and Scrapbooking: So Much

My friend Christa and I put it on the calendar and made time to scrapbook this past weekend. I got two layouts of the travel album done - I am so happy! Now there's just one page left, I think...

Here are the layouts I completed on the weekend:

Wow - sorry about the glare on some of those photos... I'll try again on a sunnier day when I don't need the lights on - good luck to me on that, this is November in Ontario ba ha ha ha!

Anyway, I chose Real Red to draw the red out of the uniforms of the Horse Guards and the Beefeater.

The Cerise designer paper looks fab with it, and I tied in some Basic Black and Brushed Gold cardstock to enhance the regal setting of the photos.

The title: The "B" is a chipboard silhouette from the On Board Letters. I dragged it through the Real Red Craft ink and once it dried, stamped it with the Baroque Motifs medallion stamp in black. I adhered a small scrap of Cerise under the silhouette, and tied some black grosgrain and gold cord on one side. The "P" is black cardstock onto which I traced a chipboard p from the same packet of On Board Letters. There are 3 different fonts of chipboard letters in that package, offering tons of options. The rest of the lettering I did by hand. I stamped the Baroque Motifs filigree in gold ink.

Here's the second layout:

These photos feature our visit to the London Eye, so I really wanted to play on the circle shape. I used the Uptown designer paper and that dictated the colours I used. The layout starts with So Saffron paper and the Uptown paper. The other colours are Almost Amethyst, Wild Wasabi and Basic Gray. The circles are cut out using the coluzzle. The hollow circles are stamped with the doodled circle stamp in the So Much set. For the title, I traced the letters from the chipboard set onto designer paper and cut them out.