2021 Road Trip - Great Sand Dunes

Here's another layout using a gate fold spread.  This time it's about Great Sand Dunes National Park.  As you can see on this first page, I created an envelope from vellum to hold a brochure for the park.  The picture below it that says Great Sand Dunes is a sticker.  I took a portion of the map and blew it up larger so that the places we went could more easily be seen - then drew a box around the blown up portion & added an arrow.  The background is patterned paper that I got in a National Park scrapbook set.  I thought the wavy sand worked perfectly for the theme.  I added a sliver of the dark green paper from the next page to try to tie them together just a bit.

Page 2 is the front of the gate fold:

The flowers are plants that we actually saw but they weren't all in bloom - and we didn't get good pictures of those that were.  So, I used these stickers to finish out recording our hike.  The "On the Trail" are gold stickers from my stash.

Opened up, the gate-fold spread looks like this:

As you can see, the backgrounds for these pages start with a piece of turquoise card stock.  I found a patterned paper that was a similar color to the sand in the pictures and added it for interest.

And here are closeups of each page:

I wanted to include the text of the sign in the picture, but it took a LOT of space.  There wasn't room for more pictures, but it needed something.  So, I found a picture of a sand sled on-line & fussy cut it to use as an embellishment.

I liked the idea of incorporating my journaling onto the expanse of sand in the larger picture.  However, I realized I needed something to serve as a Title.  I created this one in Microsoft Word. 

On this last page, I once again fussy cut an image from the web for an embellishment.  This time it was the image of a sandboard.