A Great Adventure

After weathering Hurricane Sandy and going a week without power, shivering in my freezing apartment without heat or hot food, I really just wanted to think of something warm and fun. So I found a photo from a trip to Great Adventure I went on with my cousin, sister, and friends a few years ago that captured just what I was looking for.

I created the roller coaster just by drawing it with a ruler and cutting it out with a razor. Then I drew in the tracks with a red sharpie to match the colors in the rest of the layout. I made the cart with black card stock and a yellow striped tag that I had and drew in the people with a fine point black pen, which I also used to make the lines denoting movement. I had what I thought was a brilliant idea to use alphabet stamps to put in the "scream" but when I pressed them on I must have done it with a bit too much pressure because the corners of it got on the page and it looks much less pleasing than I was going for.

I hand drew the letters for "A Great Adventure" title using sharpie markers which I then used a razor to cut out. I tried three different types of drawn lettering before I finally decided to go with this. I made sure to stick with the red, yellow, and blue to keep a primary color color scheme in the layout. I didn't originally set out to do that but as the page progressed it had gone that way organically and at half way done I made the conscious decision to keep it going, something that I think paid off because even though the page has a lot going on it still feels cohesive to me.

I bought these animal stickers quite a while ago that I can't really seem to use ever. I put them here on this page to imitate the safari that I didn't get to go on, but even though they have a reason for being there I'm still not sure they really fit. Alas, they don't really seem to fit on any page I try to do with them but I suppose they could have looked worse because in fact they did. LOL Originally the larger animal stickers were all squared off so it looked really goofy, to mitigate this I cut them closely to the animal so that they would fit in a bit more.