The picture on this page shows me sitting on the train back from work, reading The Girl on the Train. I've included it in my Hello December 2016 album, but here, I added it to a page talking about coming full circle. My dad worked for CNR (Canadian National Railway) all of his life, and one of his work perks was that the whole family had train passes, so we've travelled by train a lot over the years. Now that my dad is retired, I don't have a train pass anymore, but it turns out that I bought a condo that is five minutes away from a train station and I've been traveling to work via train for the last three years. The journaling explains how it feels like coming full circle, traveling by train again.
This page came together incredibly fast. I knew I wanted to use the Detour collection from Bo Bunny, which has been sitting in my stash untouched for years, and I pulled out a very old set called All Aboard from Stampin' Up!, which I used at the bottom (the train silhouette) of my patterned paper, and to create a stamped element in the oval. This set was actually part of my very first Stampin' Up! order over 12 years ago. It shouldn't be surprising that I had gravitated towards the train stamp set!! The journaling was typed using my typewriter, and the layout was inspired by a January 2017 sketch from Page Maps, which I transferred from 8½" x 11" to 12" x 12".
Supplies
Stamps: All Aboard (Stampin' Up!)
Cardstock: Very Vanilla, Bazzzill
Patterned Papers: Detour (Bo Bunny)
Ink: Night of Navy, Marina Mis
Accessories: Wonky Stitched Ovals Die-namics (My Favorite Things, Stampin' Dimensionals,
Heidi Alphabet Rub-Ons (Making Memories), Typewriter (We R Memory Keepers),
Detour Trinkets (Bo Bunny
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