Joy of Love - Day 2 Photos

It's Day 2 of Photogaphy Class!  Here's a couple of pics of H. in a very true tired state.  She refused to take a nap today, so we had mandatory quiet time.  She looks pretty tired to me.  Poor girl.

 There's still time to join in the photography fun - sign up at: Willette Designs.

Family Keepsakes Layouts

Had a great time at Scrapdoodles yesterday - (BIG sale!) - as I picked out some papers to play with for my Design Team post. I ended up focusing on several papers from We R Memory Keepers and their "Family Keepsakes" line. I love picking out a few sheets of coordinating paper and at least one pack of embellishments. This makes it super easy to design a layout quickly. Here are my two layouts with these papers and embellishments. I ended cutting out some of the paisley and flower designs from one sheet to embellish both layouts. On the first layout I added a paper measuring tape piece from Cosmo Cricket's "Material Girl" line. The colors are very similar and really go well together in theme.

One of my favorite things on this second layout is the title. I like to play around with mixing fonts - I think it adds interest. For this title I also cut out one of the flowers from a sheet of coordinating paper and used it as an "o" and then again a smaller flower as the dot in my "i".

Willette Photography Class

I am participating in a photography class this month sponsored by Willette Photography. Our first assignment was a photo of "doing" indoors using natural light. I'm sure most of my photos will be of my precious H. Here's today's pics.

What she's doing: being silly, laughing, playing, exploring, creating, inspiring, learning, infecting us with her laugh and spirit.

A Few New Layouts

I've been slacking in the posting department. December and January are busy! But we had so much fun celebrating Christmas and then Hannah's Birthday. We're getting back into the "normal" groove of things and I wanted to post some recent layouts I've completed. I am pleased to report that I am pretty much caught up scrapping Hannah through August.

December Daily

Cover and pages for December 1 through 9. Yippee!

A Little Glitz and Hoopla

I just finished this layout for Scrapdoodles. I LOVE it! Even though it's turned cold here in VA, these fresh colors make me feel warm and happy. I used 3 different papers (all double sided) from Glitz Designs (called "Hoopla") and 3 of the coordinating transparencies. I also added a ton of yellow rub-ons I had in my stash forever (from Basic Grey).

Just for the record - I did correct the spelling error :).

Paper Reverie

I found this beautiful paper at Scrapdoodles! It's from Making Memories and is their line called "Paper Reverie." I love how the brown and subtle shimmer complements this photo of our Hannah. The doilie and "Blessing" cuts are done with my Cricut and I made the accordion medallion with more of the Paper Reverie. The lace border strip is from Little Yellow Bicycle.

I also picked up some of the greys/blacks line from Paper Reverie. There was a huge stack of black shimmery sebra stripe - not normally my choice, but I could see cutting the strips and using them seperately - and I love how they turned out in this layout. I think the scheme looks great with these wintery photos.

Not wanting any of the paper to go to waste, and needing to decorate some (super inexpensive clearance find!) candles, I used more of the line to embellish these candles.

Moral of the story? Every once in a while, choose some papers that you normally wouldn't - you'll be challenged in your creativity and by keeping products in the same line or family, you'll more than likely be amazed at your results!

Happy Scrappin'!