Holy Land Exhibit Layout

Here's a really quick layout made about our visit to the HolyLand Experience.  This time I'm not using a scrapbooking workshop kit.  I’m starting with a sketch from one of the Creative Design Team Sketchbooks that I’ve purchased - along with paper and cardstock that I've pulled.  

Here is a video showing how I made this - along with a die cutting trick. 

Even though I'm not using a kit, because Stampin' Up!s products are based around standard colors it's pretty easy to pull papers and cardstock that will work together.  What a difference from the days before I started using Stampin' Up!  I decided to highlight the greens in the map - so went looking for papers that were Old Olive or Mossy Meadow in color.  It was SO EASY!  For the sketch, I needed 3 patterns - though you barely see one of them in the end!  Anyway, I picked one paper from the newer set called Nature Walk, and a couple of papers from the discontinued set called Serene Love.  I probably could have gotten all I needed from Nature Walk, but I want to use up the discontinued papers that I have.

These pages started with the background layout from the sketch - the darker piece in the middle, and the triangular pieces top and bottom.  It made for a really nice background. 

Here's more about each page:

Left Page:

Here you see the left page of the layout.  Each 4 x 6 is a Flip Flap with other photos behind them - and you can see that I printed some journaling directly on some of the photos.  I cut the title in half so I could center it across both pages.  After adding all my pictures, I felt these pages were complete without additional embellishments - there's so much to see already on these two pages!  And the green mats, and the arrangement of green in the background create a couple of visual triangles to move the eye around.

Here's what this page looks like with both flaps open.  Hidden by the 2nd flap is a plain picture of the "temple". 

Right Page: 

The right page is basically the mirror image of the left.  One thing I haven't mentioned yet is how I made the mats for the map legends and title.  I used the same die from Textured Notes for each - even though the mats for the legends are 3/4" wider than for the title!  Check out the video to see how I made the mats longer using the same die!

Here you see the top flip flap open with the journaling exposed.

And here you see both flaps open - hiding the journaling and showing additional pictures.

So there is the finished spread.  I suspect I may have over reacted to the busyness of the previous Memories in Bloom layout by going a bit sparse on this one, but since the two spreads are next to each other in the scrapbook, I'm certainly not going to worry about it! 

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