I've been a little lazy this week as far as scrapbooking goes, but today I got back to work and finished up another Tower of London layout, this time encompassing our tour of the former National Mint in Mint Street. The circles across the top of the sketch I used were perfect for cropped photos of some of the coins we saw. I ran out of journaling space to list all the coins, but they range from an Edward I groat (1279) to some Elizabethan coins (late 1500s), to Charles II guineas from the 1670s. The final one on the top was a countermarked Spanish real, a repurposed Spanish coin used during a currency shortage in England. A tiny portrait of the English monarch was stamped onto an existing foreign coin in order to make it legal English currency!
Recipe:
Lucky & Silhouette papers
Almond & Dutch Blue cardstock
Almond & Dutch Blue ink
Black marker
Wooden hearts
Wooden arrow (Crafter's Square)
Black craft buttons
Gold ribbon
Cricut Design Space: window, title (using Artbooking cartridge)
Cricut Medieval Silhouettes cartridge: castle
Pattern: EMS Sketch Challenge #78
Challenges: Double Trouble #171 What's Your Drive-Through Window? (it was super fun to create a window scene based on the view out the window at the Mint); Color My Heart Color Dare #609 Black + Beige + one color (I chose blue + my free metallic is gold).
Love that circle border made from coin images - great layout. Thanks for sharing with us at Colour Dare :)
ReplyDeleteWhat a great layout! I love how you displayed the coins at the top! Thank you for joining us at Color Dare!
ReplyDeleteCheryl, This is such a great way to commemorate these historic coins along with your trip to the UK. Great use of the scrapbooking sketch as well as our challenge colors. Thank you for sharing at Color Dare.
ReplyDeleteWhat a cool memory page and love how you were able to bring in the color challenge in the photos page embellishments. Thanks for sharing with us at Color Dare.
ReplyDeleteCheryl, what a clever way to feature the coins you saw at the Mint! Your page incorporates the theme through the coins, and the personal side showing you and your husband. Thank you for sharing your trip to the Mint and your page with us at Double Trouble for our "window" challenge!!! -Donna
ReplyDeleteWhat a great layout this is and love all the old coins. I love old things like that; they really make you think about what was going on soooo many years ago. Thank you for sharing at Color Dare.
ReplyDeleteJust saw that you combined this challenge with the Color Challenge and love how you brought in the window die cut as an embellishment on your page... very clever. Thanks for sharing with us at Double Trouble.
ReplyDeleteThis is a wonderful page! So many details. Thanks for joining in at Double Trouble 171 - Crazy Cousin Suzanne
ReplyDeleteAnd thank you for also submitting your page of memories to Double Trouble #171.
ReplyDeleteI have always loved this sketch and I really love your coins across the tops! What a cool thing to learn too! TFS!
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