Monday is the day to share some Memory Keeping with you. Today I have two 12″x 12″ layouts that I made to start journalling our recent trip to Tasmania.
After we arrived in Hobart, we collected our rental car and drove to our first destination. We booked a cabin at a little place called Bronte Park. It was established in 1963 and was once a thriving community for people working on the Tasmanian Hydro Electric Commision’s Tungatinah Scheme and Nive River Scheme. The area is popular for trout fishing. For us, the attraction was its close proximity to the southern edge of the Cradle Mountain – Lake St Clair National Park.
On our first full day we drove the Lake St Clair National Park and spent the morning walking along the western track alongside the lake. We then took a different track back to the National Park Visitor Centre. As we arrived back it started to rain heavily. It was a perfect time to enjoy a coffee and treat in the restaurant of the Lake St Clair Lodge.
The first time I visited Tasmania was in 1982 as part of a school bus trip for my senior class. I remember it being much colder then.
For the first page, I used a 12″x 12″ sheet of Pacific Point cardstock and two pieces of Friendly Hello Designer Series Paper. I chose the Pacific Point because the colour matches the photos.
I secured Adhesive Sheet to a piece of Basic White cardstock and die cut the letters and numbers for the page title.
Before I adhered the photos into place, I stamped the cascading leaves using one of the stamps from the Friendly Hello Stamp Set. I used Pacific Point ink and then I coloured the leaves using the white Watercolour Pencil from Assortment 1.
Walking alongside the lake and then through the ancient rainforests was a great way to put my new knees to the test – and, they held up pretty well. The variety of trees, ferns and flowers was simply stunning.
The following day we drove to Derwent Bridge to visit ‘The Wall’. The Wall is the work of sculptor Greg Duncan. He started working on the wall in 2005. It is 3 metres high, over 100 metres in length and sculpted from Huon Pine.
After The Wall we drove out to Franklin River Nature Trail and enjoyed walking along this important Tasmanian river.
We spent our last day in Bronte Park visiting Lake King William. We also went back to Lake St Clair to explore the eastern side of the lake.
For this page I cut 1″ strips of the Freindly Hello DSP and used the Banners Pick a Punch to cut the banner ends in each piece.
I repeated the stamped and coloured leaves from the first page on the second, all using Pacific Point ink. The clusters of blue leaves, on Basic White background, were coloured with the Pacific Point Watercolour Pencil from Assortment 1.
After we left Bronte Park, we headed to Strahan via Queenstown.
Queenstown was founded as the result of the discovery of alluvial gold and later copper in the second half of the 1800s. The stark environment is the result of 40 years of tree removal for use in the smelters and the smelter fumes. The heavy annual rainfall alos contributed to the erosion that can be seen.
As I mentioned last week, it has been a long, long time since I have done any scrapbooking. I am really enjoying making it a weekly feature of my routine. Who knows, I might even catch up on all the photos that haven’t been scrapped yet.
Tomorrow is Technique Tuesday. Until then, happy stamping.
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