Scrapbook Saturday - Ren Faire

I had a collection of photos from various Renaissance Faires we've been to over the years, and I've been meaning to put this page together for a while.  I finally got around to it a few weekends ago when I was scrapping with my friend Lisa.

I was sifting through a few scrapbook magazines to try and find a layout I liked.  I took an idea from one and created this.  I took one color background paper, and then liked up the photos to cut them down to 4x4 (except the 2 pictures on the bottom) and then placed them on the background to give it a border effect.

Then I tried to find a renaissance kind of style paper, and cut it down to fit the open space - which I intentionally left for such a purpose.  This was the part of the magazine layout I saw and "borrowed".  Unfortunately I cut the paper a bit too short, and my "border" effect no longer fit.

So I took a scrap from the same "renaissance faire" themed paper and cut out a little piece, and tacked it on to the left edge.  So you may have thought it was intentional had I not spilled the beans on my dirty little secret.

Finally I just stamped on the word Ren Faire.

However I felt like it was missing something, and Lisa mentioned I needed something journaled on there.  So I tried to find a piece of paper, and then got a stamp that looked like a Ren Faire era tag, and Journaled my notes.

Not bad.  It was the one page of the day that took the longest to make, despite it looking so simple.