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Friday, May 7, 2021

A Challenged Scrapbook Page

I'm afraid this one is a bit hard to see - because of glare in the photo - sorry about that.  Hopefully you can see enough to get the idea.  I'm working on a "Faithbook" - a scrapbook about the way God has led in my life.  This page is the companion page to "A Bolt Out of the Blue" - about how God led in our move to Idaho.  It fulfilled several challenges on a message board I frequent - hence the title.

Title Block: Words were die cut from patterned paper & then backed with deep turquoise rectangles (no-name dies).  Numbers were die cut from the same deep turquoise (more no-name dies).  Both were glued to a strip of white and then attached to the top of the page.  Border stickers finish the block off top and bottom.

Fence Block: Each fence piece lists milestones along the way.  Most also have dates, showing how quickly things happened.  These "fence" pieces were die cut using a Momento tag die before I wrote on them.  Behind them, top and bottom, are two narrow strips of white to help it look more like a fence.

Focal Block: The focal is matted on yellow, then white, then on a patterned piece.  What you don't see is that there is actually hidden journaling behind the picture (there's an additional strip of white on the left edge forming a "hinge" - and a magnetic closure to keep it from hanging open & getting bent or something.  The photo is of our house, but I fussy cut a picture from the internet to add the "sold" sign.  

Embellishing: There's a tag on the upper left corner - made with the dark turquoise, white card stock, and a sticker - finished with gold ribbon. The tag shape came from Design Tool Kit #1 (HOTP). When I looked at the gold border on the title block, and the gold on the tag, I decided I needed a bit of gold closer to the bottom right to move the eye around the page a bit.  I found a gold sticker in my stash that said "You Did It!"  That summed up the way I feel about the way my Heavenly Father led us in this move, so I spelled out the word "Father" in gold letters on a white background & added it just above the sticker.

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