This post is going out on New Year's Eve. I hope you all have had a wonderful holiday season and will be ready for more of my National Park Adventures in 2025!
Our club made the difficult decision to cancel the in-person convention for 2020. There were too many concerns about Covid and large groups (and I'm not entirely sure we'd be able to get into our hotel rooms). The first thing the club did was to encourage our members to take photos of themselves in prior convention shirts. A photo at a park was ideal, but if not possible, just a picture in the shirt would suffice. I wore the New Bedford Whaling shirt and posed in front of the house during the week.
This layout is based on this sketch.
I'm playing along with
Lasting Memories, and their challenge for this week is to base a layout on a sketch. That sketch is from 2021, so I've been holding on to it for a while! I didn't use the "polaroid-style" mat for the photos as I turned one of them into a journal box, which would have looked a bit odd. This paper is from "You Got This," which has a great set of tie-dyed papers. The tones connected with that orange-ish shirt, and the embellishments included more modern teen vibes, like the cell phone. But I like the way they all connected perfectly!.
On the Friday before the convention, I chose the Flagstaff shirt from the year prior (it's what I would have worn at the convention, of course!) I wanted to do more than photograph myself in my yard, so I walked a block over to the Grey Stone monument. We live near where William Penn signed the treaty with the Native Americans for what is now Pennsylvania! The closest I got to a National Park was the Trenton Barracks--part of the Crossroads of the American Revolution trail. The gates were closed, so I could just peek above the fence and see the tops of the barracks. That's why I got my photo with the sign. Although I was outdoors, other people were around, so I had my mask on in that photo.
For this layout, I followed a sketch I had used once before (not shown in the blog; I used it for one of my Lighthouse Challenge pages). For December 2024, I've enrolled in Tammy McEwen's end-of-the-year challenge. She brings back sketches from the CM blog throughout the year so that we finish pages matching the year (this year, we will finish 24 pages if we do them all!) (Inspired by a Creative Memories sketch and #TammyMcEwen #Tammys2024Challenge) The paper pack is Happy Camper. It didn't include journal cards, so I used a couple from a pack I won at a non-CM crop many years ago. I think they were from Close to My Heart, but I can't be sure. I chose a border punch rather than punching individual circles for the border. If I wanted more pop (though this particular page is fine), I could have also added more circles under the decorative arcs. Because the background paper is so busy, I chose to mount my photos on white mats, making them easier to see.