Smokey today w/ Scrap our stash

Back when it felt like the entire west coast was on fire I took pictures of what it was like on the worst of the days.

 On September 12th much of the Springfield community to the south of me was on level two evacuation notice. Blue River was mostly consumed by the Holiday farm fire.  To the North and East of us, the two major complexes joined to become the Santiam Canyon fire.  With numerous fires throughout the state, our AQI (air quality index) was in the hazardous range.  At the time of the screenshot on the layout, it was 460.  By bedtime the level was so high it wasn't recordable.  Visibility was down to less than 850 yds and everything had an orange eerie glow.

To capture the feel of the climate at the time I decided to use Pink paisley "Indigo and Ivy" papers.  The patterns to me look smokey.  I pulled out my black polka dot washi as it looks kind of like ash and the challenge at Scrap our stash requires washi tape along with the sketch below. also threw in some rhinestone swirls for that whispy smoke feel and to take the place of the journal tag in the sketch.  Swapped out a photo square with a journal card since I have a photo in the center instead of an embellishment.

 

  

and here's my take

Hoping that this summer will be better.