50-States Album part 22: Rhode Island

Rhode Island was part of our 2018 National Park Travelers Club convention. While the host park was in Massachusetts, the distance to the other New England states is small enough that we had a bus trip that included several Rhode Island sites and was still back to New Bedford by dinnertime. We saw not only the Roger Williams NM but the state capitol and Tuoro Synagogue--one of the oldest temples in the US.

This layout is based on a blog post from Creative Memories. While the original post was clearly the Golden Gate Bridge, the paper can be used for any suspension bridge. I turned the laser-cut die-cut bridge over so the red wasn't the prominent feature. It helped that we went to Newport as the bridge is a feature of that city. Otherwise, I would have struggled with a theme for the page.
On the upper left is an image of the state I cut on the Cricut. It was a nice change having a striped state and the state flower included. The state name was sort of an accident. The font I chose to cut (also on the Cricut) was very narrow and tore into shreds when I tried to remove it. But looking at the "negative" space I realized with little effort, I could turn THAT into the title!