Bunker Hill Guest Design Team Sept 2020 Bunker Hill September 2020

Humble thanks for inviting me to be a #StickItDown Guest Design Team member this month.

Chipping slowly away at my New England vacation album from last summer, I decided to document a fun unplanned detour we made on our longest travel day of our trip. Instead of remembering a boring day with hours of monotonous miles, we will remember our last minute decision to stop in Boston for a second time on our trip to visit Bunker Hill Monument. Marking the official end of the red bricked Boston Freedom Trail that bends around seemingly every corner of the city, Bunker Hill was a great way to stretch our legs and get some much needed exercise climbing to the top of the monument after a long day in the car. We’ve been to Boston a handful of times over the years but never experienced this historic site. It was fun and refreshing, located in a beautiful neighborhood in the city. I pride myself to be a National Park nerd, and hopefully someday my boys will look back at all the stamps in their national park passport books and laugh and reminisce fondly at all the parks mom dragged them to.

I decided to rotate the original #StickitDown sketch I based the page on:

Inspiration: I wanted to feature a vertical photo of the Bunker Hill Monument, so I turned the sketch to accommodate. When i did that, it reminded me of last months single page sketch, with flags flying to the right of the page instead of hanging down. I thought this would be appropriate for a patriotic themed page, documenting a historic National Park we happened to visit days before the 4th of July holiday last summer.

I really wanted to try my new Ranger texture paste from My Little Scrapbook Store. I’ve had this sparkly red fluff in my stash forever and struggled for years to find a successful way to adhere to layouts in more creative ways than just along a line of glue or ATG tape. This fluffy stuff is messy fun! The stately masonry elevations in the Charlestown section of Boston was all I needed to remember to inspire me to grab my new brick stencil and CTMH masonry paper background that I’ve been hoarding for something special. I like how the brick pattern reminds me of flags flying to the right of the layout, and all the tags in the decade-old Adornit patriotic paper collection supported that flag flying image I had in my mind.

I love that I was able to incorporate such old stash items in my collection with some new items. 

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Collection: Adornit - Carolee’s Creations. All American Collection 

Background Paper and Branding Strip: CTMH. Documented

Cardstock: CTMH Sapphire. Saffron.

Rep: Kristine Teanse Easton PA

 

Quick Quotes Powder Puffs Chalking Ink Coconut

Rubber Stampede Royal Blue Dye Based Ink Pad

Artists Loft 0.3 Illustration Pen. Michaels

Washi Tape, Grommets, Translucent Fiber infused Paper, Staples, ATG tape: Unknown

National Park Stickers Scrapbook Customs Acadia National Park 

Sparkly Fluff: Our Craft Lounge. Very Cherry Red

Stencil: Clear Scraps. Brick Wall.

Date Stamp: Staples

Ribbon: Stampin’ Up!

Baker’s Twine: Stampin’ Up! Wisteria Wonder

Holographic Stickers: Nicole Quality Value

Buttons: Boxer Scrapbook Productions

Ranger Texture Paste Opaque Matte

Alphas: thickers Happy Life

Tonic Double Sided Glue Pen and Palette Knife

Supplier: My Little Scrapbook Store.

Although I designed this a a stand along page, I did plan on it complimenting it’s neighboring page in my album, which documents our walk enjoying the Charlestown Details and well deserved dinner we enjoyed after we climbed the monument.