A Non-visit Visit

In September 2011, Jim and I joined our family in Las Vegas to share in my brother's wedding festivities. As a group (bride's and groom's families) we took a bus trip to the Grand Canyon. While that  will be the focus of next week's blog, I wanted to share the first layout of the trip which is actually Lake Mead NRA. I don't count it as a visit because although I saw it, the bus just drove through on the way to Grand Canyon. Which I will point out is a 5 HOUR drive from Vegas. It was not our brightest move!

This layout uses a Fast-to-Fabulous page on the right. I accented both pages with a set of borders I made using Creative Memories travel paper and cardstock. The borders are 2 layers of their Border Maker System. Although both cartridges have been retired, there are ways to layer the cartridges which make for additional interest. It's a great way to perk up a page. After adding those, a couple of accent pieces and mats were all that was needed to finish the page. The yellow mat I picked because I really wanted to use the "Are we there yet?" tag (see 5 HOUR comment above). That helped tie the tag to the page.