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.