Give a Cheer
Challenges: July Hoarders (feathers, patterned papers, adhesive gem flowers) and July 2017 Cricut (Star, title and feathers)
I’m back in a color palette where I feel a little more comfortable! My preference is the green-blue range, but I’m comfortable in blue/purple/salmon pink. Lately, I’ve been working in the red/orange/yellow range.
The layout process:
I chose the background cardstock for two reasons: 1) even though I’m not hoarding it, it’s been in my stash for too long and I want to use up my solid color cardstock stash; 2) it matches the sky. The other papers were chosen because they match the page that will be facing this one. It’s not a 2-page spread, per se, but they’re from the same weekend and they look good together.
The purple strips are from the other page’s background paper, stamped with the telegraph-themed stamp from Tim Holtz’s Purveyor set (the, “rubber stamp,” stamp was used similarly on the facing page, on the leftover strips from this page’s background). The ink color is Dusty Concord. After each inking, I stamped twice before re-inking.
I had to set my Cricut up again – my computer died a horrible death at the hands of a thunder storm a few months ago. Instead of buying a new one, I decided I could share with my husband, which meant moving the Cricut Explore Air into his office. It took a while to figure out a layout that would allow all of our peripherals to be connected.
Most of the rest of the embellishments have been sitting in my stash for nearly a year, and came from a wide variety of places, including Dollar Tree (the gems and sequins for certain). After I glued everything down, I realized that even with the black star in the upper right corner, the whole layout was too bottom-heavy. So, I added some fake black stitching to the top, and faked some zig-zag stitching in the upper right corner, and doodled more stars.
The story:
We spent the July 4 weekend camped at Huntsville State Park in Texas. We’ve been to the park many times, and the park is only about 2 miles from this gigantic statue of Sam Houston (very important guy in Texas history – the General that secured independence from Mexico, President of Texas twice, Governor of Texas, US Senator, etc). Kinda a big deal. And the statue is this behemoth that faces Interstate 45, out in the middle of nowhere.
So, we’ve driven past it a lot, but never stopped to see what was there. There’s actually not much at the statue itself, but checking that box off the, “be a tourist in your own backyard,” list was better than sitting in the air-conditioned camper all afternoon. Good gosh was it hot that weekend (and it’s only July! I’m kinda dreading August).
Thanks for spreading positivity!
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