Quiet Book - Page 7: Zipper Camping

It's no secret that my husband and I love to go camping.  So much so that camping seems to be a running theme in most of our vacations over the past (almost) 5 years since we have been married.  And we are so crazy about camping that we have managed to talk some of our non-camping friends and family members to join in on the fun.  It just so happens that the mothers of the two littles that these quiet books are for are not the biggest camping enthusiasts we know, but we have had some amusing camping adventures with them in the past.  It seemed fitting to include a camping page into the quiet books especially after seeing several camping theme zipper pages that I loved on Pinterest.  Combing some of the best features from the pages I used as inspiration plus adding some personal touches, I came up with this page:

My favorite part of this page is the bear hiding inside of the tent!  Hopefully he is a night time lovey and not a rough camp scavenger.  ;) 

While looking at beads for a different project, I found these lovely fat star beads.  They add such a nice 3-D element to this page and I love that they almost shine and twinkle in the light like real stars do.

A few additional details on this page include the little pine trees in the background and the merrily crackling fire in the foreground.  It's lovely how all of the details of this page come together so beautifully and remind me of a warm summer evening spent next to a dancing campfire under the open skies.