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nothing witty nothing witty this blog is to highlight the scrapbook pages i make featuring my trips to national park units across the country connie corrigan is a creative memories advisor google saturday april 25 2026 bonus post this is a star layout lm 795 popping in on a rainy saturday to post this layout on weapons of the world wars you ll see more of the springfield armory national historic site in a few weeks the armory has been in place since just after the revolutionary war and was one of the largest suppliers of arms to the military between then and the late 1950s i based this layout on a pin i had saved while the original pin had a more definitive stars and stripes approach my layout picks up on the colors and the diagonal paper cuts i made those by folding a piece of 12 paper diagonally then aligning the long fold against the top of my trimmer with the point on the cutting line it creates a perfect 1 2 page triangle though you will see the fold on the page the latest lasting memories challenge was to use this stars or that hearts on a layout with a military theme is there any doubt i was going to this that s 3 of this in a row i wonder if i will pick that next week the thin 1 2 strips of stars also helped me hide the seam of the 2 triangles meeting a few other star stickers from some old cm military sheets finished off the layout posted by connie at 3 24 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels springfield armory national historic site friday april 24 2026 no pictures no comment welcome back to the hudson river valley tour from december 2021 our next stop is called locust grove i was unfamiliar with this house before visiting but i found out that it was owned by samuel morse yep the man who invented morse code this was an extensive tour that included the staff areas in the basement there is a museum next to the visitor center that is included in your admission as well which goes into some detail on the creation of morse code this house does not allow photography during your tour so i was limited to just a couple of postcards from the gift shop and the one photo of the christmas decor that i found when we bought tickets online i made this layout for cm s march virtual crop scroll to layout 4 i flipped the sketch horizontally because i wanted the block of photos to be the beginning of the story including the brochure and postcards i used gold paper as the background i gutted it to preserve the paper and trimmed the green for the middle instead of a third layer of paper i used thin red washi tape between the 2 see if you leave something out it is more likely to get used i used mostly the seasonal sightings paper for this i chose more of the tonal elements so it doesn t scream christmas but it still has a holiday feel i was playing with items still on my floating table that s where i store items while i work on a page or album when i saw the lacy corner it is black on one side but white on the other and i thought it added a nice touch to the layout the ribbon element on the right has a large portion of the white poinsettia border i used the trimmings to create the corner element on the left page the lacy stickers along the bottom mimicked the lacy triangle and that was about all that i needed posted by connie at 8 00 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels affiliated national park unit hudson river valley national heritage area tuesday april 21 2026 2 cute 4 words hello and welcome back to my hudson river valley trip of december 2021 on sunday morning my friend melania and i met at the fdr presidential library for a visit it s on the same grounds as the fdr home historic site i ve discussed before but it isn t part of the nps so i ll skip the photos though it is a nice tour if you get to the area after finishing the library we returned to the visitor center and completed the junior ranger books for the home that we saw on saturday the rangers were kind enough to take our picture with our new badges after swearing us in usually when i have only 1 photo of a subject i print it as either 5x7 or 8x10 this takes up a bit more real estate on the page but i don t want to overwhelm a photo with embellishments taking up the rest of the page when i printed the photos for this trip i didn t realize this would be the only one on a page instead of reprinting it though i added a 6x4 journal box treated it as a second photo and then looked for a sketch that would highlight the 2 components the sketch is from the cm 110 sketches book not the one i usually use the original book they created the sketch based on this blog post i looked through my nps stash and found this paper with the rubber stamps on it while it s likely meant for crafting it also fits my nptc life nicely where we collect stamps from our visits from that paper i pulled the green and blue tones looking through my remainder scraps from the green folder i found 2 that would give me the triangle in the corner and a rectangular mat for under the photo i still had that paper washi tape on my desk so i pulled the green star roll to create a border along the right edge posted by connie at 8 00 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels home of franklin d roosevelt hudson river valley national heritage area friday april 17 2026 think pink welcome back to staatsburg mansion on my hudson river valley adventure today s layout is of ruth mills bedroom the matriarch of the family ruth apparently likes the color pink and it s a hot pink everything in this room is pink the photo of her is actually from downstairs but i thought she would enjoy being paired with scenes of her bedroom this room includes her working desk for letters as well as a relaxing place to lie down and read this layout is based on noreen smith s new 1 2 3 layout from january 2026 the plus is that in addition to one piece of double sided patterned paper you use another piece to create some added elements for this month it is a couple of borders and photo mats i headed to my pink stash and found a paper that was hot pink on one side and white with a light pink pattern on the other i know you can t see the pattern in this photo but it s a small polka dot i pulled this paper from the pink tonal pack cm released a couple of years ago mounting the pink on black cardstock helps make the layout pop since i had my pink folder out i saw that i still had pink shortcuts from old cm i had a matching set in the pattern shown above so i used that instead of punching my own that left plenty of pink cardstock to create mats for everything the tonal pack had some matching stickers that i used but i raided my stash to find the makeup poodle and small tower of gifts in black posted by connie at 8 00 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels affiliated national park unit hudson river valley national heritage area tuesday april 14 2026 feast your eyes on this welcome back to the tour of staatsburg from december 2021 our next stop in the house is the formal dining room just before entering the dining room there is a small room for a glass of punch before being escorted into one of the most lavish rooms i ve ever seen the table was only set for about 10 people but it could be extended to accommodate up to 50 the floor and walls are all marble not painted to look like marble but real marble the photos on the right are of the butler s pantry where staging happened before serving i loved all the mock ups of the food that would be served this page was created based on a pair of pins i saved left and right and a youtube video that covered various ways to use washi tape i had quite a lot of washi tape on my desk and decided to try to use it up the bottom row with mushrooms the middle row of black and white diamonds and the red and white stripes are paper strips from my stash the top is a border punched from gold lava paper a free pack from cm last year the rest was truly washi tape the black stripe at the top is actually 4 strips of washi tape placed closely together to give a bit of depth it s sort of like busy patterned paper once you add the photos you only see the busy patterns in small spots so it isn t too overwhelming what do you think about the matches i made on these strips posted by connie at 8 00 pm 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels affiliated national park unit hudson river valley national heritage area sunday april 12 2026 bonus post this title page time for a bonus post as i play along with the lasting memories challenges this week s challenge has a choice of how to make a title and i chose this letter stickers this is the title page for an album you ll be seeing in a few weeks for a trip to the springfield armory because i was making the journey there by rail i chose to recreate this pin i had saved to make my title page i had purchased the graphic 45 tablet called come away with me many years ago and i was happy to use up some of that material the bottom of the page is a graphic 45 calendar page which i purchased separately i bought a dozen of them intending to make a calendar and they ve been sitting in my stash i liked the idea of just using the edge as shown in the pin instead of photos i used one of the cut apart sheets and found the 4 boxes that make up the title image it references not only the train i took but the industrial age of the armory i was about to visit there is a matching sticker sheet with the letters so i could spell out my title and two chipboard embellishments to round out the page posted by connie at 8 09 pm 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels springfield armory national historic site friday april 10 2026 tree mendous welcome back to the december 2021 tour of staatsburg mansion as we moved through the house we came to the front door yes we had to enter from the rear so we didn t get the full effect that someone visiting the family would have seen but this would have been quite impressive this area includes the large staircase to the second floor and the christmas tree extends up into that space i don t know where they found such a large tree but it was beautifully decorated the rest of the room is also set up for receiving guests including the decanter on the sideboard the titanic headline in the newspaper is a little out of place though that happened in april when planning this page i knew i wanted to make a tree as a large element i turned to this layout that i saved from creative life scrapbooking and then purchased the instructions through their website i think the directions could have been clearer but essentially you take the cm candy cane border maker cartridge and make strips that become the tree s branches the directions called for 4 strips but clearly you need at least 7 or 8 to make the tree the tree is punched from sequoia colored cardstock and is backed with a lighter green scraps so i don t know which color i mounted this on 2 squares of decorative paper from the recollections paper pack i pulled a long photo mat in gold i used the center and an oval custom cutting system shape to create the tree skirt then used the small ornaments from that card as decorations on the right hand page i completed the pages with ornament and gift stickers from my stash the merry christmas title square is also from the recollections tablet posted by connie at 8 00 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels affiliated national park unit hudson river valley national heritage area newer posts older posts home subscribe to comments atom subscribe to nothing witty posts atom posts all comments atom all comments followers check out these pages my creative memories store national park travelers club lasting memories 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