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.
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