Centennial part 22--Christ Church

The ranger walk ended at the historic Christ Church. I chose to go inside and listened to one of the tour guides for a bit but mostly looked around on my own.

This layout is scraplifted from this layout. It's an older Noreen Smith layout using the CM Reminisce papers. I turned it into a 2-page layout by stretching out the corner components. The left sheet of paper has the oval decoration pre-printed at the top. I added a "blessings" sticker (since it's a church) and created a 4-point oval. I ended up finding a similar item in my Cricut files and was able to turn it into a journal box. The remaining photos were matted with paper from the kit to give a little contrast around the page.

Centennial part 21--the Ranger Walk

Finally it was time for the Ranger Walk. I met the ranger and a few other people in the Signer's Garden but we quickly moved down to Carpenter's Hall. We didn't go inside (most likely because it isn't part of the NPS), just sat and listened to the ranger a bit. It wasn't a formally planned walk and since the people with me hadn't seen much of Franklin's Court, we walked over there.

This layout is from Paper Loft and is one I made at a scrapbook convention in Lancaster. The paper is called Happenstance (I think). It had just enough of a vintage feel to work with these historic places. Since the class included placing the photo mats, I just used them as part of the background putting a sticker or larger photo over several mats to make the layout work.

We toured a house that Franklin owned but sublet, his book binding office and of course the print shop. Though I'd seen much of this before, it was still a nice visit.

For the left page I used a wallpaper that is all old postcards. I thought that with the book and post office images it was a good fit. The right side page is a fast to fabulous from the Adventure pack by CM. I had been SAVING this for these photos specifically as it is all about set type. The letter embellishments are from Club Scrap and there really isn't any reason that the letters are spaced around like that other than I needed some page fillers. :) Those embellishments have been "chalked" around the edges. This means I dragged an ink pad lightly over the cut edges. This is a good thing to do when your embellishment and the paper it rests on are of similar or matching tones. You get a touch of definition but nothing too overt. I have some old CM chalk (of course) but there are many companies that sell something similar.

Centennial part 20--Military Hall

My next stop was just down the street from the portrait gallery. This small museum highlights the history of the US military, though more specifically the navy and marines.

I bought this kit, though  I cannot remember the name of the company that produced it. I liked that there were some nautical themes so that it worked for the navy/marines component of this museum. The anchor and the ship's wheel/rocket mats use the "polaroid" style mats that came with the kit. Another is used for a photo on the top of the right page. Several other photos got a white mat to help them pop from the background though a few didn't need the help. Because it was a pre-designed kit it went together fairly quickly but I was still able to modify it to work with my photos and needs.

Centennial Part 19--The Portrait Gallery

After lunch I started to wander around the Independence sites. I wanted to take a ranger tour in the afternoon and then return to the visitor center for a picnic. Until the ranger talk started I walked over to the Second National Bank which is now a portrait gallery. There is an entire gallery of Peale portraits, but so much more!

This layout was scraplifted from this layout. I spent quite a bit of time putting small strips of scraps together to underlie the right central box, and then ended up covering up almost all of it with the journal box at the top. Well, I did get rid of some scraps this way!