Lasting Memories Post 4--Falling For You

Hello all! I'm serving as a Guest Designer for Lasting Memories all through October! I've been posting an extra layout each Sunday at noon for the past 4 weeks. Each follows the weekly challenge posted at Lasting Memories and I hope you join the challenge! Post your version through the link at the bottom of their post.

For the final installment, we hop into 2020 and my first visit to New River Gorge (which was a National River when we visited but is now a National Park!) Covid was still sweeping the nation but I badly needed a getaway from work. However, where do you go where you can stay away from people? How about a cabin in the middle of West Virginia? So, Jim, I, and his sister Kristen journeyed down for a few days of relaxation and "leaf peeping". On our first morning there we headed to the visitor center. Since no one could go inside, the ranger was under the porch area. We got a few ideas for hikes and then went to the overlook behind the center to see the famous bridge spanning the river.

This week's Challenge is LM #725 - Costumes - dress up your layout by adding something sparkly! I chose Sketch #4 from Creative Memories' Virtual Crop this month. The paper is from a 2019 pack called Harvest Delight. It was not the pack I thought I would use. With the challenge of using something sparkly (admittedly NOT something I use a lot), I thought about Hello Autumn from 2020. However, when I pulled that pack I realized I had already used the foiled elements! So I dug through the box of Fall items and found this one. The sketch calls for a 10" piece of paper in the center but I only had 1 full sheet left. I decided that I would use the 4-squares technique in a smaller way. I cut 10" white cardstock (actually the title pages for some other packs I had used) and layered the 5" squares to ensure there were no gaps. Then I used the foiled leaves wherever you see hexagons on the sketch. I was able to trim one photo to a 4x4" square and then trim a journal box to the same size. That fills in for the horizontal 6x4 photo on the right page. All that is left from the pack now is one long strip of white designer paper, stickers, and a few mat cards. I kept those together for now but may decide to donate them the next time I empty my "purge" box.