I’ve been really getting a crack on with the Baltic album and have several more layouts completed. The next three are from our adventure on the St. Petersburg metro. It was a brilliant experience and fun to scrap.
I have quite a lot of travel-themed scrapbooking collections and a couple of them had metro embellishments, which I’ve been carefully hoarding ready for these layouts. I love it when a plan comes together 🙂
First then is the metro station we started at. 
Next is the platform and the long, long escalator, and journalling about the experience in general. 
Last is the station we ended up at. 
From the Metro, we made our way to The Hermitage State Museum. I had hundreds of photos from here and it was so hard to narrow it down. In the end, I did three fairly general layouts and used divided page protectors for more photos and journalling.
I started with a layout describing our journey to and into The Hermitage and first sight of the entrance hall. 
Next I journalled about some of the paintings that we saw, with photos of my favourites. 
Shame I had to take an angled photo of the Da Vinci, but it was behind glass so I was trying to avoid reflections.
Next are the divided page protectors. 
And finally, one talking about the other artwork we saw there, especially the sculptures, and how awestruck I was by how close I was standing to the Michelangelo. 
I’m still trying to keep these layouts fairly plain and as flat as possible so that they will all fit into their albums. If I start layering up too much, or using chipboard stickers on too many of them, I’ll end up having to get another album. Once I’ve finished, I might do a few ‘highlights’ layouts for my 2018 album, where I can play with them a bit more.
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A slight obsession with books 
September 29, 2019 at 1:32 PM
These are great! The Hermitage looks so magnificent. I forget, was it the tsar’s palace?
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September 29, 2019 at 6:41 PM
It was incredible. Just the buildings themselves, even before you looked at the artwork, were spectacular. It was a brilliant experience, even for someone like me who knows very little about art. The Hermitage is spread over six buildings altogether but we went into four of them. The most famous, and most impressive from the outside, is the Winter Palace, so yes, it was one of the royal palaces.
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