Happy Trails Part 2: the History Museum

 After landing and checking into the hotel, I met up with one of my club friends and we went to the local museum (because there was a stamp there). We wandered through the displays for a little while. It's a nice enough museum but fairly small. The photo on the bottom right was taken digitally through an interactive wall at the front. It's one of the coolest features of the museum.

For the first layout, I thought I was using a sketch from my monthly class. I sort of did, except instead of opening the June layouts I opened January and so this repeats a sketch I had done previously. Still, the beauty of sketches is that they look different from changes to paper and photos. I had used this sketch for Christmas and it looks completely different! I can't show you the sketch because of the class rules. The papers I chose were some of the last remaining bits of the Creative Memories "Brave" pack. I hope they come out with something similar soon!

The stamp at the museum is from the El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro National Historic Trail (an affiliated part of the National Park Service). This translates loosely as the Royal Road. I'll be sharing more about this trail as I collected quite a few stops along the route. The museum had just one display piece connected with the trail--the rustic cart that would have been used to move goods from town to town. That wasn't the only thing we saw though--the museum has a nice eclectic set of antiques from the area.

This layout is a 1-2-3 sketch that you can see here. The paper I chose was one-sided and her sketches are made to get the most out of double-sided prints. So I chose some additional scraps in coordinating colors and used them to fill in for the 2nd side of the print design. The brown photo mats helped fill any gaps and are a nice contrast to the brochure and photos. The border on the far left page is made with the Creative Memories Border Maker System and the gears cartridge.

After the museum, we went to dinner. Our club has a newsletter called the Stamp Pad which had recently begun reader restaurant reviews in or near National Parks. One of them was for our convention area, and so we decided to give it a try! I agree with the review--great food, authentic atmosphere, and good pricing. I'd go back here anytime.

One of my few layouts that aren't inspired by someone else's. I chose to use paper from the "Made With Love" pack from Creative Memories. The paper had both a restaurant feel with the red gingham and the southwest feel with the bandana print in red and black. Just a couple of photo mats brought everything together. I liked the silverware stickers. It gives that photo a "placemat" feel.