Adventure With Me

Nature Inspired With Organic Embellishments

Hi everyone! I hope you’re all having an amazing day! This week I bring yo a photo my husband took of me last year at June Lake, California near Mammoth. The autumn colors were at their peak and I had packed a dress that ended up matching the leaves perfectly. We ended up crossing a shallow river (that was very cold!) to get to a secluded spot with some particularly vibrant trees. It was here my husband took some really gorgeous shots.

I used a piece of birch tree print paper from Paper Studio that I had purchased individually. I don’t buy too many individual papers anymore. Even though I try to store them carefully the edges usually get bent up so I find i easier to buy a paper stack where the edges are protected. In this case, I knew I wanted to use this paper because it matched the trees in my photos so well. Since there were a few spots where the edges were crinkled, I cut the paper down slightly to remove them and used some yellow cardstock from The Paper Studio’s Affinity cardstock stack to mount it. No more crunched edges!

The leaves I used on this page are real! While at June Lake, I gathered some of the prettiest leaves from the ground and took them home where I pressed them in a paper towel between multiple paper stacks. I left the leaves there under pressure for several months and when I removed them, they were perfectly flat and dry. They are the perfect compliment to the page since they not only match in color, but were literally taken from the place featured in the photo. I don’t know how resilient the leaves will be over the years, but I plan to store it in an album where it won’t get handled much.

This page was created for the Sketches In Thyme March challenge. Since my tree background was already so busy and textured, I didn’t add any paint splatter to my background. I added some paper doilies instead of gears and added some offset mats behind my photo since I liked the look in the sketch.

That’s all for now. Keep adventuring and keep scrappin and I’ll see you soon!