Family Camp Fun

Our church has a week long summer camp for families.  Both my husband and I have very fond memories of going to Reunion as kids.  When we had our own children we revived the tradition.

My inspiration came from this cute layout I found online.  Wish I knew where.  :(  Gonna have to start being more careful about documenting my inspiration.  But here it is anyway.  :)

Here is my sketch based on this layout.  I knew I wanted a two page spread and needed more vertical photos.  By sketching it out I could determine what size photos would work best to fit 10 on the page.

I wanted to use white cardstock for the background because it lets the colors of the photos shine.  That allowed me to use a busy pattern for the title.  I loved the bright playful colors in this paper.

Because the title referred to the number 10, and there were 10 pictures I also wanted my journaling to focus on 10 things we love at Reunion.  So I wanted numbers on the photos to correspond with the numbers in the journaling.  I cut the numbers with my Cricut out of vellum.  When I layered the vellum on the photos they didn't really show up.  So I took my trusty Sharpie and edged the numbers in black.

I wanted my journaling to span both pages.  I created a text box in Word that was the width of the entire page (no margins).  I then typed in my journaling and centered it in the text box.  Then I looked at what words fell at the 8 in mark.  Then I spaced the words a bit over so that there was space for a cut down the journaling block.

I haven't used buttons on very many pages, but have started to be really drawn to them.  I thought they would make a nice accent.  And these bright colors went perfectly!  And guess how many there are in the yellow strip?  Yep...10!

For a bit of an extra touch I decided to layer a smaller button inside the lip of a larger button.  It turned out so well.

The colors and pictures on this page make me so happy.  It really exemplifies all the things we love about Reunion.  I can hardly wait to head back.  June can't come soon enough for us!