NOTES: This was a sad layout, and an extremely difficult layout for me to do (my sister requested it). It had to be about this trip she took with her baby, Alece, but they went to Poland to see friends and also visited Auschwitz while they were there. It was hard to make a pretty layout, but also incorporate a horrible subject matter somewhere on the pages.

Paper:
Patterned Paper - Making Memories “Passport” papers, Basic Grey “Boxer” papers
Cardstock – DCWV, Bazzill
Specialty – Burlap, canvas

Ribbons/Fibers:
Ribbon – Cosmo Cricket (pink cord), The Leather Factory (velvet jewelry lace), misc ribbon by the yard

Embellishments:
The Paper Studio – Paper Clip
Heidi Grace – Rub Ons – “Words and Borders”
Inspirables – Canvas Sticker - “Feminine”
Scrapworks – Rub On Alphabet (grey)
Deja Views – Rub Ons – “Family Ties Art”
Making Memories – Canvas Brads – “Passport”
Cosmo Cricket - Chipboard
Yvonne Albritton Designs –Clock Button

Fonts/Templates:
PC – Verdana, Scriptina, Trajan Pro, Brush Script, Amienne (journaling), Arial, Ariston

Stamps:
Impression Obsession – CL61
Stampendous – Typewriter Alphabet
Inque Boutique – French Quarter
Maya Road – Motifs (Taxi)

Inks/Pens/Paint:
Zig Millenium Pen – Pure Blue
Ranger Inkpad – Eggplant
Dew Drop Ink Pad – Platinum
Archival Inks Ink Pad – Sepia
Delta Ceramcoat – Acrylic Paint (Antique white)
Le Plume II markers – primary colors

Adhesives:
Kyoku adhesive runner
Zots
JoAnn 3-D Sticky tabs

Punches, Scissors, Tools:
Fiskars Scissors
Tonic Studios guillotine trimmer
Epson R1800 printer
Klick n Kut – Die Cutter
Heidi Swapp – Edge Distresser
EK Success Corner Rounder
Cutterpede Trimmer

Journaling:
This is our exciting, but cold, trip to Poland with Laura in November 2005.

Laura took care of all the travel details, and the friendly owner of our youth hostel ended up also being our chauffeur and sight-seeing guide. The snow and dreariness of the weather made Auschwitz that much more sobering to see.

Funny memory... as we were trying to catch a Taxi from the train station to the airport, I had to pull an “amazing race” moment and began to bargain (quite loudly) with the Taxi drivers who weren’t willing to take us 5 km for anything less than 30 Euros. We honestly did not have more than 10 Euros in our pocket and finally found a reluctant driver to agree. And all this without speaking the same language! ~


Hidden Journaling: – Under “Aushwitz” Tag
(1) “Work Frees” (the gate at Auschwitz concentration camp)
(2) Auschwitz
(3) Actual train car that carried people to the camp
(4) The furnaces that now stand as memorials to the horrific past.
(5) The eerie tracks where the trains unloaded...men to the right, women to the left.