Finished Layout: Father's Day Hike

For the first time in 7 years, I actually got to spend Father's Day with my dad! I wanted to do something fun and unique, so I took my parents and The Husband to my favorite running spot, Nisene Marks State Park in Aptos, CA.

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Scott and I took the "good" camera (our Canon Rebel) and took some fabulous pictures. When I got them developed, I realized that they were almost all green and brown, and I would need to get creative with the layout colors so it wouldn't be one big green washout.


Enter my favorite Power Palette, Jewel. I've used this Power Palette for many, many layouts because the jewel tones seem to complement any photo. The purples and blues on these particular background pages were surprisingly perfect for the greens and browns in the photos (Jewel isn't all purples and blues... it refers to the jewel tones that it incorporates, including green, yellow, orange, and red).




The decorative ABC stickers that come with the Jewel Power Palette are great, too. I'm not typically a fan of multi-colored ABC stickers, but I think this worked well.


The title stickers are one of my favorite aspects of the Power Palette. I chose "good times" and "a day to remember" for this layout, and finished it off with the Jewel Decorative Paper Ribbon (shown here). I absolutely love how this layout turned out.

*** The Jewel Power Palette is expected to be discontinued in September (*sob*). If you haven't ordered it yet, you'll want to do it now, before the final supply runs out! ***