In late 2005, The Brainy One and I left London for a 6-weeks-long round-the world delayed honeymoon. It was on this trip that I was introduced to scrapbooking (by K in Australia) and our subsequent scrapbook was my very first attempt at pairing photos with paper and journaling. Thank you, Creative Memories.
Looking back sixteen years later and I felt compelled to re-do the whole album in a Project Life style, with added 12×12 pages here and there. I started with photos from Singapore that I felt deserved more than a divided page protector and then moved onto Australia. (More on those Project Life pages coming soon.)
Our first destination in Australia was the city of Melbourne in the state of Victoria. It has a reputation of being the most European-city-like of all Australia’s cities, with its colonial history sitting cheek by jowl with its modernity.
I chose two photos to showcase that – a city skyline and Captain Cook’s house (which had been shipped over from England in 1937).
After a few days in Melbourne, we headed out along the Great Ocean Road to spend Christmas with friends who live in Warrnambool, Victoria – an eight-hour drive to the Western end of the GOR.
One of the most famous scenic spots along the road are the Twelve Apostles near Port Campbell. Stopping there is a must for any traveller but in late December, we found the place swarming in flies, which rather dimmed our enjoyment of the view!
The final Australian one for now is when I finally met K in person. (The post about our families’ history can be found here.)
I usually avoid cut files like the plague, because let’s be honest, who has time or even enjoys all the back-filling required … but when I saw the envelope in the box of stash from Crop in the Country, I knew I had to use it (and I also knew I had the perfect patterned paper tucked away in my stash). I put the journaling on two cards and popped them behind the photos and in front of the flower montage.
This West London Life 
How clever you’ve been with the ‘envelope’! And the soft colours in your top one are lovely … You have some very appropriate little ‘bits and pieces’ to decorate the pages with.
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Most of the stash on these pages has come from my Crop in the Box supplies 🙂 , although I’ve had that round chipboard ice cream embellie for years.
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This is going to be an amazing album! I’m sure that working on the photos is bringing back all those wonderful memories.
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I’m probably about almost half way through and I absolutely love how it is turning out!
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This is fast becoming a favourite project & I am sure bringing on lots of memories & the feels. And I hear you about cut files!
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Lots of lovely memories to revisit (I seem to have misplaced my notebook from that trip … 😦 )
Haha, cut files …!
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Always impressed with your clever scrapbooking. Love the envelope in the last layout. Pinned that page so I can try to copy it!!
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I have to say that these pages came about through page kits. 🙂 I don’t have a Silhouette cutting machine, so I only use die-cuts in a class or when they’re part of a kit. 🙂
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thanks for doing a scrapbooking page featuring my hometown of Melbourne. So glad you enjoyed your time here in Victoria.
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Haha, you’re very welcome and I hope to be back in the not too distant future. 🙂
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