All Aboard!

All Aboard

 There is a reason this blog is titled "Talking Papers".  Just when I think the page is complete and I have it posted and the layout is settled in on the display shelf it starts to speak if it has something to say.  All Aboard just wasn't ready to sit quietly on the shelf and look pretty. 

 The pocket watch asked for some glitter and a band on which to sit.  The sign is made of wood which fits the Scrap for help challenge this month.

 The train wanted some authenticity.  I took some cheese clothe and gave it a paint job to make a field of coal dust for the train tracks.  A few old time cards where place here and there.  A little doodling was drawn up the sides.

I add a stick pin to the homemade flower. And behind the burlap frame I added another frame and punched it out and added some doodling to it.  I believe the page can now sit with pride on the shelf.  Whewwwww.


I have been busy this month with a house guest.  An old friend of mine was asking around for possible housing for her neighbors daughter who would be interning this summer in our area.  We offered up our house and hoped for the best.  It is interesting to have a young person in the house again.

So, I finally got around to finishing a page for Scrapping Everyday Miracles their June sketch challenge with a twist.  The twist is to make your own flower.  I have several flowers on this layout but one of them is homemade.

I had quite the fun with this layout.  On the burlap frame I use some sprays to enhance the colors.  I made my own tag and even did some fussy cutting on the pocket watch.

I turned the sketch on its side.

All Aboard

Lasting Memories challenge this week is something with wings.  I have a dragonfly just above the flowers.

 We took a vacation to the Grand Canyon and rode an old steam train with the full old west feel and robbers!! They rode up to the moving train on horseback.  Boarded the train and pretended to rob us.  It was awesome.

 This is a close up of the burlap flower I made with a clock center.  I felt it suited the layout theme.

Thank you for stopping by to see what the papers are saying today.  Can't wait to see you again.  

Supplies:

     Papers;   7 Dots: Love is in the Air collection; Thunder of the Sea
                     Graphic 45: A Proper Gentleman collection; A proper gentleman, Timely Point of
                                                                                             View, Haberdasher     
                                          Bird Song collection;  Longevity

     Flowers by Prima Marketing
     Bling by Zva
     Burlap
     Cheese clothe
     Paint:      Tattered Angel; Precious Stone Kit