One of the buildings that the Ranger showed me was the AME church. Though built in 1885, it has undergone renovation several times, and now the park is trying to restore it to the original interior. They found a panel where people had signed the walls as they worked. They applied plexiglass over the top to preserve it so it remained visible. The other church, which I think was the Baptist church, is still in disrepair and cannot be explored.
I made this layout as part of a Saturday morning class using a 1-2-3 sketch from Noreen Smith. I cannot share the sketch with you, but it features one of my favorite tricks--fooling the eye into thinking there is more paper on the page. On the right page, you see a square of blue paper under the church photo and sunrise paper. That is a set of 1" strips carefully aligned above and below the sunrise paper! This is one way to save paper--we used just 1 sheet of double-sided paper for the layout. I used this paper from the Keeping the Faith collection. When I measured the first cut, I realized I could preserve the sunrise and cross. In the original sketch, a 4x4 photo was to be placed there. It's a great way to use the photo papers in some of our packs. My final embellishments included border stickers and stickers from the same pack.
Nicely done!
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