Template Mashup: Scrapping Our Travels

Are you ready for a September Template Mashup? Do you have some photos taken while traveling that need scrapping? Both of the templates I’ve chosen have a travel theme so please look through the photos you took while on a day trip or a long trip and experience the pleasure of creating a whole new design using parts of both templates.

This is Merr (digigrandma) inviting you to join in this challenge. Here are the templates for this Mashup:

Wherever Travel Scrapbook Album Layered Template 02

My Travel Journal Layered Template 06

When creating your Mashup you  can keep your page simple with only a few carefully chosen elements from each of the templates or go wild and choose to use all or almost all of the elements available in the two templates. It is also permissible for this challenge to add papers or additional elements from your design stash to complete your page. If you post your layout in our Template Mashup Challenge Gallery and in the September Participation Thread in the Forum, it will count towards our Rewards Program for completing challenges. (The details of the Rewards Program are explained in the Participation Thread for September so check it to learn how you can earn a discount code to use in the store just for completing monthly challenges. (Only pages with 100% of the designs from Katie Pertiet Designs can count towards a reward.)

Two members of the Creative Team, Valerie and Stacia, are always ready to mash and provide me examples to show you. My thanks to them for sharing these examples!

Valerie ’s (nana_vg) page explains the significance of Fort Monroe in her life. Back before it was designated as a national monument, she and her husband lived in nearby Hampton, VA when he was headquartered at Fort Monroe as an aviation officer back in 1978. Valerie kept her page clean and simple to allow ample space for the story of their recent visit back to Fort Monroe. I love the addition of the vintage suitcase and the binoculars.

A lovely paper from Canvas Color Mix Paper Pack 18 was used for Valerie’s background paper. Oh, that is a pretty set of papers!

Stacia visited Murano, Italy while touring Europe last Spring. Her photos are so charming that it certainly makes me wish I could visit Murano, too! Mixing the photo frames from the two templates adds variety and gives her page an original look. I love that little hexagon tag for adding a few notes.

The very popular Arctic Whites Paper Pack 04 was added for the background to Stacia’s page giving a crisp clean look under the wonderful photos.

For my own page, I could not resist making a notebook style page for the photos from a trip out west our son and his family took back in 2020. My background was achieved by blending a paper from Duncan Solids with a paper from Cloudscapes Paper Pack 02.

Now, it is your turn! Please try out these templates!

The good news is the two templates are included in the Thrifty Thursday Sale this week making this the best time to add them to your design stash. I’m sure you’ve already discovered how handy it is to use templates just as they are and then also return to them again and again to borrow some of the design elements. (I do this often!)

Have fun mashing!

Merr