Antietam part 1--the beginning and the end

Another part of my spring break trip was to visit Antietam. I have still not been able to get into the Pry Field house as the visiting window is just May to October, so I'm sure I'll have to go back. This week we look at the beginning and end of my auto tour. Next week we'll look at some of the monuments I saw.

This layout is scraplifted from Pinterest. I turned this into a 2-page layout by doubling the stars and the blue banner across the middle. The base pages are from Graphic 45 (see, they do make pages without too much embellishment!) On the flip side is one of the months from Places in Time. I bought a bunch of them to use this reverse side with just some corner flourishes. The large corner stars were cut on the Cricut from basic shapes while the smaller ones were scraps from various sticker and die-cut packs.

Part of the tour included a stop near this LONG fence and I took a LOT of photos though only 2 made it into the scrapbook. I also climbed a viewing tower for a nice overlook of the battlefield.

The left page is a paper I had printed. I downloaded the design with some Gettysburg Civil War pages from someone on Etsy but this one will work for a variety of pages. The right is some civil war canon paper I picked up at one of the scrapbook conventions I visited. The bottom right of the red star page and the journal box are all decorated with stickers from the EN scrapbook kit. Notice that I spaced them so the canon stickers are on the opposite page and the sticker of Burnsides Bridge is on the top of the page while the photo is on the bottom. That helps with the movement of the reader's eyes across the layout.

Locked up

My trek through the Maryland, West Virginia and Virginia area took me to one of the C&O canal locations. Visiting in March, several locations were closed, but Williamsport was open. The visitor center had a movie that was taken in the early 1900s showing traffic along the canal. It was a cold day but I took a walk up to Lock 44 and the keeper's house there. The house wasn't open for tours so I just looked around before heading back to my car.

This layout is scraplifted from this layout that I found on Pinterest. All of the small bits around the top and sides of the pages are scraps (yay for using up scraps!) I debated including the scavenger hunt booklet as the color is so much brighter than the photos, but wanted to fill up the page so I left it in. The sticker below the brochure is from the EN scrapbook kit.

A Short Walk on a Long Trail

While at Harpers Ferry I decided to visit the Appalachian Trail office. It was a bit longer than I anticipated walking from the lower town. AT Hikers stop here for a photo before heading north again and I was able to find a photo of a friend who stopped by in the early 90s.

I scraplifted this layout from the paper manufacturer's post on Scrapbook.com. I've found that when you have a lot of printed paper, using small amounts and layering keeps the page from being too busy.

RAID!

In March 2014 I spent my spring break vacation on a stamp trip. My first stop was Harpers Ferry NHP. While the most famous happening here was John Brown's raid, I wouldn't say it was the predominant story told. Yes there are plaques about it and some parts of the museum discuss his actions but there is much more to see.

The layout above is one that I purchased from Scrapbook Concierge. It came with the pieces in a bag and I had to layer them together. That was a little challenging actually, but I do like the layout. My contribution was the journal box which came from an older CM Croptoberfest kit.

Harpers Ferry has an upper and a lower town. The lower town is mostly just historic buildings, but it still surprised me that it had a western feel. The city is near where West Virginia, Virginia and Maryland connect and that doesn't remind me of western life.

I started this layout on the right as I wanted to mimic that western feel. I found the paper with the wagon wheels and layered the photos on. A couple of the photo mats actually came from the layout I purchased above (saved because of putting the  journal mat in place of a photo). The left paper was out of my stash of heritage sheets but the brown and gold seemed a good fit for the subjects.

The photo of the inside of the General Store proved too long for the page, so I placed the third photo in a peekaboo pocket so that it could be folded out to make one long panoramic photo.