Love the jute border. Those little finishing touches really add polish and finesse to your work. I also love the idea of an intorductory page with some general history. great job -
I love this LO! I've been trying to figure out in my head how I'm going to do the introductory page to the heritage album I'm working on, and this page has really inspired me!! Really love how you did the journalling in the two circles...you may see something similar show up in my gallery soon!!! - Vicki
In the 12 years we lived in Seattle, my parents only made one trip to visit. We took them on a trip to Beautiful Victoria BC and Butchart Gardens. This first page has a short history about the garden - sorry it's in brown ink so you might not can read it - and a photo of Mom, Dad & Me on the Dahlia Walk. Photos do not do justice to these gardens!
Journaling: Butchart Garden's History
In 1888, near his birthplace, Owen Sound, Ontario, the former dry goods merchant, Robert Butchart, began manufacturing Portland cement. By the turn of the century he had become a highly successful pioneer in this burgeoning North American industry. Attracted to the West Coast of Canada by rich limestone deposits vital for cement production, he built a factory at Tod Inlet, on Vancouver Island near Victoria, British Columbia. There, in 1904, he and his family established their home.
Environmental Pioneers As Mr. Butchart exhausted the limestone in the quarry near their house, his enterprising wife, Jennie, conceived an unprecedented green plan for refurbishing the bleak pit. From farmland nearby she requisitioned tons of top soil, had it brought to Tod Inlet by horse and cart, and used it to line the floor of the abandoned quarry. Little by little, under Jennie Butchart's supervision, the abandoned quarry blossomed into the spectacular Sunken Garden.
I glued a piece of Jute around the photo to frame it and hid the cut edge with one of the chipboard flowers.
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