We have come to a cross roads

We arrived in Mississippi and joined a club tour of Brices Cross Roads. This is a very tiny site of federal land but we toured the state and local sites as well.

This may be one of my least inspired layouts ever because it is just brown wallpaper. I only had a few photos of the grounds so I chose to open the unigrid so that the full picture shows. To balance that I chose some die cuts of a canon and swabber for the right. Since the photos had a lot of green and blue I didn't mat them on the page.

At one of the tour sites was a cemetery with graves of the civil war soldiers. Very little of the remaining battle sites are "photographic" but there is a recreated bridge that I captured.

For this layout I chose to play along with a Scrapbook.com sketch challenge. There are discussion boards where crafters challenge each other and the monthly 2-page sketch featured hexagons. I chose gray and black and then looked at the yellow lettering on the graves sign to choose the yellow as the 3rd design element. (There's 2 shades of gray so really there are 4 design colors). I punched my little hexagons with the CM punch from several years ago and it was a little hard on my hand to get them all. I just punched a bunch of each color and then started making the design in the upper left corner. By ensuring that colors alternated throughout I painted a path to the lower right corner and repeated the process on the right page. The tombstones on the left page are cut on the Cricut from a halloween file. But since we're talking historic graves, they fit in well. A few other stickers from my Civil War stockpile completed the pages.