New York Travel | The Digital Press

As a member of The Digital Press creative team, I am lucky enough to work with loads of different digital products in all sorts of styles. One of my favourites come from Rachel Hodge. She is so talented!

On our travels to Chelsea Market, NYC, we encountered so many photo opportunities. There was great street art in all sorts of places - even a huge garage.

I've gone all mixed media for a change - something I don't do all that often!

I created a very textured background on watercolour paper, adding stencils, texture paste, inks and stamps. I might have gone a bit over the top for me.

I also layered washi tapes here and there - I love the translucent feel of washi tape.

Then it was time for the awesome die-cut shapes from Rachel. The New York scene is one of my favourites - it's appeared on many a layout and cards! The great thing with die-cutting on white is the way you can completely change the look of them.

You can see more shapes from the New York bundle; the globe is from the Travel Set. They're great value for money because they are jam-packed with gorgeous goodies - just sayin'.

So if you need your own bundle or any of the other amazing bundles - hop over to The Digital Press. I have my eye on some new Amsterdam and Family goodies.

New York Bundle

Travel Set

Thanks for popping in.

Morag x

Don't Feint! I scrapped!

LOL. I don't know if anyone still pops in to see if I have posted but if anyone does, FYI, I am still alive :)

With a full time job, family & house renovations, I have had little time to scrap and less time to share. I don't know if you have been there, but frankly, I was spending a lot of time on my computer and pushing papers around without achieving anything.

I did manage to scrap a few layouts since my last post, which appears to be almost a year ago! Where did that time go?

Anyway, I'm sure you would rather look a some piccies than waffle, so I thought I would share a couple of my latest layouts.

I had a new haircut recently and was really thrilled as to how it turned out. I still hate having my photo taken but thought it was worth cringing to document my new hair do.

I had been experimenting with inks in various ways to create backgrounds. It was a great excuse to dig out old inks that hadn't seen the light of day for a while too. I love the feathers (cut on a silhouette and inked).

Scraps of paper are still so precious and using them as small flags means that my favourite go a very long way!

I have recently returned from a trip to the Big Apple to celebrate the 50th birthdays of 2 good friends; Jackie & Julie (find these talented ladies at Hey Little Magpie). What a blast, obviously. So James (Jackie's son), asks, what are you most looking forward to doing/seeing when we go to New York? Everything would be the easy answer, but we had to narrow it down to something shorter.

My answer came in the form of a layout featuring Manhattan Island. I created this cut out on my Silhouette - firstly tracing around a map of Manhattan and painstakingly creating the shapes to form the different districts inside).

I thankfully got to do everything on my list and much more.It all exceeded my expectations and I can't wait to go back!

FYI, I think my favourite things are;

#1 Evening Cruise to see the Manhattan skyline (it was magical)

#2 Helicopter tour - incredible sights and exhilarating!

#3 Empire State Building

#4 High Line/Chelsea Market

#5 Brooklyn Bridge

Think I need another layout!

Well thanks for popping in and if you landed here by mistake, I hope it was a happy one.
I have another 900+ photos of New York so I am going to need a big scrapbook album! I