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.