Little Pictures

My next trip was in October 2019. I flew to Albuquerque, NM for a Health Professions Network conference. The timing was perfect as the Saturday after the conference was the annual Balloon Fiesta, so I stayed to see that. I had a ticket for just the morning so planned to head to Petroglyph National Monument later that afternoon. I parked the car at the visitor center and found a couple of interesting items on my walk to the doors.

This page is one of the Club Scrap National Park kit pages that I made. Scroll to layout 11. I only needed this side of the layout as I was starting on the right side of a 2-page spread. You can see the extra photo and journaling box below with the Peekaboo Pocket lifted. I chose this page not only because the photos fit so perfectly, but because of that little set of squares on the horizontal border. I know they are icons representing amenities at parks, but they sort of reminded me of the petroglyphs!

This is an unusual size for a peekaboo pocket. One of the CM secret boxes included an 8x8 paper album and 4x8 pockets to use on those pages. I kept them for my regular scrapbook pages instead.

You've seen the rest of this visit in early October when I served as Guest Designer for Lasting Memories. Just so you can see how it all flows together in the album, I've included the other 2 double-page layouts below. You can see the original post for the Scenic Route layout here.

And here's the link for the post about the actual petroglyphs.

Lasting Memories Post 2--Historic Pictures

Hello all! I'm serving as a Guest Designer for Lasting Memories all through October! I'll be posting an extra layout each Sunday at noon for the next 3 weeks. Each is following 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.

Continuing from last Sunday, this is from Petroglyph National Monument. It seems like you have to walk quite a way along the trail before getting to the petroglyphs, but then they are EVERYWHERE! Some of these are clearly newer than the others (and I do hope that face is historic and not some joker's idea of graffiti). These photos show you just a taste of what you can see in the park. Some resembled the items clearly (like the crosses and maybe that animal). Some were so abstract that I wonder if it was animal, vegetable, or mineral! 

This week we follow LM #723 - Falling Leaves - say out with the old by using an item you've had in your stash for at least two years. I used "Botanical Bliss" from Creative Memories and the date on the package is 2019 so--almost 5 years! (Ironically the same year I took these photos though!) I followed Sketch #2 from the September Worldwide Virtual Crop. There are a few non-CM items here--the title is from the Eastern National scrapbook kit and a couple of the stickers are from the Junior Ranger sticker book.

Lasting Memories Post 1--Wild Life

Hello all! I'm serving as a Guest Designer for Lasting Memories all through October! I'll be posting an extra layout each Sunday at noon for the next 4 weeks. Each is following 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.

This post is part of my Albuquerque trip in October 2019. I chose one of the less popular trails at Petroglyph National Monument as I wanted some solitude as I explored. There were few others on the trail but I did come across some interesting wildlife, including the coyote featured in the camera below. 

For Sunday, October 6th, the challenge is LM #722 - Pumpkins - use at least 50% orange and include something round. This layout is based on a 1-2-3 sketch from Noreen Smith. You can watch the video of her layout here. It's a pretty straightforward cut, but I did make some adjustments. Knowing that one of the paper blocks would be 4x6, I substituted the one from the printed paper with a mat I had from the matching collection. The page that I cut is the one on the far left--it's a page from the Mellow Meadows pack and is a photographic paper. I thought the thin stalks (wheat?) would match the scant vegetation of the trail I walked. I also used a laser cut title over the base cardstock where another mat was to go (Upper Right). I had thought about stretching it across the photos and the decorative mat in the middle but I decided I wanted it to be all one color. I added a coordinating journal box to keep the orange "count" up on the page. Do you think I made it to 50%?