By Brandon Hill on July 15, 2015 • ( Leave a comment )

2014: Marcoot Jersey Creamery

I want to start this post off by saying that I am pretty sure that this is not my best work – but as I thought about posting this page I realized that I used some techniques that are worth talking about even though it isn’t the flashiest page.

But I must start first with the story – During our Spring Break we stopped at a family run off-the-beaten-path creamery for a tour – Marcoot Jersey Creamery. While the place is small the hospitality is huge and it was a wonderful learning and fun experience for our family. For a small fee you can sample several of their cheeses and other products, and for reasonable prices you can walk out of their with a bag full of cheese, milk, cream cheese and ice cream.

Here are the techniques that I used on this page:

The background page is actually cloth from the bag that we purchased our cheese in! I cut the 12×12 boards down by a fraction on every side so that when I went to put it in the plastic page protector it would fit in. I then cut the cloth bag to be about 13×13 inches and folded it over the edges of the cardstock board, and fastened it down with regular tape.
The Marcoot Creamery picture in the top left corner was a photograph that I carefully cut to match the shape of the sign outside the farm.
The yellow flower in the middle of the right hand spread was originally white, and I used markers to color it yellow to emphasize the color of the cheese on the page.
One of the four “pictures’ in the pinwheel of pictures on the right hand page is actually an advertisement card from the Creamer. I was able to help it fit in with the photographs by corner cutting one of the corners to fit into the pinwheel/flower design.