The Story Right Now

More inspiration from Camp Scrap over at Big Picture Scrapbooking. For a journaling prompt, May challenged campers to tell a story about something going on right now in our lives, some little slice of current life.

Since Joey's been singing "God Bless America" almost constantly lately, I picked that as my story. Given the July 4th holiday, it was an especially timely story to tell -- and a chance to use patriotic papers -- too. To make this layout even easier, the Ella blog had a great sketch posted by Donna Januzzi and using that made this digital page come together in no time. I was proud of myself for figuring out how to make a clipping mask for the word "sing" to be able to use the striped paper for the letters, and using a shape tool to be able to make a digital scalloped border.

Thank you to May and Donna for being my inspiration and for helping me get this sweet story captured. I love when I can finish a layout every few days, even in the face of work.