Overlooking Seattle; Kerry Park

Day three in Seattle we made a visit to Kerry Park.  This was mainly a place for apartment dwellers to walk their dogs.  However, Kerry Park offers the AH-MAY-ZING veiw of Seattle downtown.  It was simply beautiful.  It was raining but we spent quite a while staring off at the view and being quite silly in the sculpture.  Did I mention that it was beautiful?!

To make this page I used round frames.  I love the way a round frame gives me a large enough picture to enjoy but also enough empty space on the page to fill with "stuff" that I can have fun with trinkets and journaling strips; as I did here with the strip "held in place" with the flower stamp and a button in the center.  To get the pictures in the round frame I select the layer that is the picture.  With the frame in place and on top, I erase that layer around the frame.  Using layering, I can erase and not worry about erasing the frame at all.  I need to find more frames that are circles so I can do this more often.

The second page I made for Kerry Park uses another erasing technique that I have been wanting to find the right pictures and layout to use.  For this page, I actually put the background ON TOP of the photos.  I used the eraser to erase only the background layer so that my photos would show through the space that I erased.  I have tried this a few times before but I never saved those pages because I was never happy with the effect.  This time, I like how it came out.  I used a word stamp at the bottom left to fill empty space and dedicate my affection for my husband.  (gosh that is mushy...shake it off, shake it off).  A journaling tag in the top right hand corner completes the page.

I hope you are enjoying seeing bits of our honeymoon in Seattle as much as I am enjoying sharing these scrapbook pages.  If anyone is reading that is.  haha