Centennial Part 17--the Centennial arrives!

Thursday was a very exciting day for our club. We had raised funds to purchase and donate a Mather Plaque to Independence National Historical Park. They arranged for the media to cover the grand unveiling. It was a fabulous moment for our club.

This layout is one that I made at a class at Enchanted Memories in Hershey. Both pages were supposed to have the banners arranged vertically, but I had trouble moving the photo mats without ripping the paper so I ended up just turning the page on its side. I cut the letters for "Founders Day" on the cricut using some silver paper. I shadowed the left page letters in black so that they stood out on the patterned paper.

After the unveiling we took a LOT of photos. The park arranged for some historical reenactors to walk around and talk about the period when the NPS was founded.

The borders for these pages were made with an older cartridge for the CM Border Maker system. I punched 3 rows of each color and wove them together. The dots were from a regular hole punch like you would use for school (which turns out to be very tedious to use frequently). The left page has a die cut created by another club member. We made sets of borders and die cuts for the picnic, but there were few people actually interested. The other die cut is  from a Creative Memories patriotic tablet from a few years ago. The remaining stars were punched from an older CM punch as well as from the the border maker system (they might be the reverse side of the borders I made for the Franklin Museum visit).