Bonus Post--Broccoli For Breakfast

 Hi all! I am playing along with Lasting Memories today. To fulfill the challenge, I created this page that is part of my July 2021 beach trip with my sister. (You just saw the first post Friday night.) It wasn't a stop at a national park, but a breakfast that I had with one of my NPTC friends, Deb. I was staying close to her house, which she noticed when I posted my location on Facebook. The next morning, we met at the Cracker Barrel located next to my hotel. She surprised me most by ordering a side of broccoli for breakfast! I had to take a photo of it, and of course scrapbook it! 

Lasting Memories is having a series of sketch challenges this month (MY FAVORITE!) I realized this combination of photos would work well with challenge #747. I had purchased the Cracker Barrel paper from a vendor at the Lancaster Scrapbook Convention. I originally planned to use it for a Thanksgiving dinner with Jim's family, but somehow that never materialized. But it became an excellent base for this layout. I used scraps from my stash for the yellow and brown rectangles. I did trim some green paper for the photo mat. I wanted a touch of green to highlight the broccoli. Some of the stickers came from that same pack, but the brunch stickers came from a sheet I got for Christmas. The little broccoli stickers on the plate at the bottom left were from a VERY old CM family reunion sticker pack. To complete the layout, I punched out a few trees from a scrap of paper with leaves on it. It gave me a two-toned effect, resulting in what looks like broccoli spears. I tucked them at the top of the layout to keep the green moving around the layout.