Visiting Japan

I have waited 20 years to scrap these photos from my visit to Japan. Truthfully, it's not exactly what I had in mind when I decided to put these in a scrapbook. I was going to do the traditional route, including bits and pieces picked up during my travel. I can still do that - once I find where I stashed all the mementos I collected! (I've moved a few times in 20 years...)

In the meantime, the photos were available because I had scanned them quite a few years ago. But they sat on my hard drive, just waiting for me to DO something with them. And now, here they are.

A two-page digital layout highlighting my trip to Japan. It seems so, so...small. But, at least I can get the guilt of not doing anything with them off my shoulders.

One thing I ran into while I was trying to scrapbook this was the lack of Japanese embellishments available. I ended up having to find stuff on the Internet, but even then, it was hard to find anything that was scrap-ready. 

CREDITS

Papers: Kokeshi (Samantha Walker)

Embellishments: Anemone flowers and gingko leaves (downloaded from Internet); Taste of Asia  - Japanese maple leaf and flag (Britt-ish Designs and Sahlin Studio); Nostalgia – ticket (Yoshiko Utsunomiya); This & Thats – blue tickets (The Tattered Pear)

Stitching: In Stitches – Red & Cream (Robyn Meierotto)

Mask: Scalloped Strip (Katie Pertiet)

Template: Press Plate No. 27 (Paislee Press)

Fonts: Karate (title); Century Gothic (date); KG Seven Sixteen (journaling)

I also scrapped one of the photos from Japan with a quick page that I found on Two Peas in a Bucket. There really wasn't any room for this photo on the two-page layout, so I figured taking a shortcut for this one wasn't too bad.

CREDITS:

Template/Quick Page: World Traveler (Sande Krieger)

Font: Baby Boston

Maybe these two layouts aren't exactly what I had in mind, but at least I know that I've captured the moment!