Rain . . . Finally!

We've had a long dry spell here in Texas, so the rainfall this month was much-needed and quite refreshing. Fortunately here in our area we did not experience the flooding that has occurred in several areas throughout the state.

Unfortunately, I've also had a little dry spell in my scrapbooking lately. The last time I created a layout was in mid-September! I've been busy preparing and teaching Bible Journaling Workshops, and I have a major project going on here at home - moving several rooms, including my craft room! (More on that in a future post.)

However, today I finally just had to have some rain scrapbooking time, so I printed three FUN photos from last weekend and found INSPIRATION from a sketch in the Stretch Your Sketches eBook. I used mostly older stash for this layout; a piece of orange mulberry paper and a die-cut piece of cardstock (that I created with a Lucky 8 punch three years ago) for my background.

I wanted to include a little more orange in the background before adding my photo, so I adhered these two die cut balloon shapes that I've had for so long that I don't remember when or where I acquired them.

I lined my photos up across the page, then added border strips, a title, and embellishments.

I included my one-sentence journaling along the bottom edge of the die-cut background piece.

Journaling reads: I was thrilled that we were getting some much-needed rain . . . but honestly I was more excited about finally getting to wear my new yellow rain boots!

It feels so good to have the drought ended around here! Have you experienced drought conditions lately?