I really had fun creating this double page spread. I used to make double page layouts all the time, but not so often anymore. It was for Christy's Beautiful Life's 30 Days of Sketches. I used watercolor papers for the background, painting the sky-blue background. I did make a stencil from the die I used to make the trees and distress ink in peeled paint for all the background trees. I did not want all of the trees the same color, so I used a few different colors of cardstock. The photos were taken at Elephant Rocks State Park in Missouri, and the rocks are HUGE there! Lots of fun climbing and exploring - and my grandsons were great at stopping to get their photos taken, they knew I would really enjoy scrapping them. For the rocks I used Craft Consortium's Metal Textures paper pad, and the sheet I used seemed like it was made for these photos. The rocks in the park are Precambrian granite, which was mined for many years in the early 20th century: thank goodness a geologist saved this area here and donated it to the state for a park. I cannot close without mentioning that my sign was created with an Elizabeth Crafts die, and I used some Basic Gray stickers for the words - which all of arrow signs say the same thing, "Rocks", pointing in all directions, so many huge rocks, and a fun and interesting place to visit. Ancient History, right there, for anyone to go visit and explore, and think - about how long those rocks have been there, and that there was at one time a volcano that had erupted, and magma created the granite rocks that we see today. If you would like to see the process video on YouTube it is at: (415) 30 Days of Sketches/Scrapbook Process/Remember - These are the Days - YouTube