A Productive Crop

On Saturday Emily and I went to all all evening open crop at Archivers in the University Mall. It was so much fun and so nice to just have 6 hours to sit and scrapbook and get things done without being interrupted by an adorable little girl who wants to play with mommy's pretty papers. I think Em and I are going to try to go again another month. Here's what I got done at the crop.

Happy Easter... I made this layout in April and finally had some photos to put on it. I still need to print a 5x7, but almost done! This page uses the Sweet Pea paper pack. I think I might change the title...

This is Allison's 6 month page. I still need to add the "6 months" to it, but I might wait until I get the Small Chocolate Alphabet stamp set so it matches the title. Love this picture, love how the page turned out. Should I have cut the centers out of the letters?

Archivers had the perfect thin organza ribbon to finish off this layout... I love it!

Our Hospital Stay. These are photos of the 4 days Allison and I stayed in the hospital when she was born. I'm glad to have them on the layout. I forgot to mud the edges of my paper tough... that bugs me a little. Journaling with go in the blank purple box on the left page and I might make some changes to the colonial white boxes above the 4x6 photos on the edges of both pages.

Sleepy Girl Layout

Another layout done! Maybe I should spend more of my evenings like this... I might actually run out of printed photos to scrap and be able to move beyond the first 3 months of my daughter's life! =)

The layouts are from the Reflections layout book. I used Sidebar - Original for the left page and Half & Half - Split Focus for the right. Both used photo variations and I made some changes to the right page (like I said last time, I can't follow directions). Colors are Blush, Colonial White and Chocolate. Patterned paper isn't CTMH, but stamps, cardstock, ink and paper flowers are. What do you think?

I'm proud of this layout...

Supplies Used:

Colorbok Patterned Paper
Pebbles Inc. Cardstock stickers
Big Pinks and Sumer Posies Just Blooms
• Large Friendship Alphabet Stamp Set
• Small Friendship Alphabet Stamp Set
• Playful Flourishes Stamp Set
• Baby Steps Stamp Set
• Colonial White Cardstock
• Chocolate Cardstock
• Chocolate Ink
• Blush Ink

Rubber Ducky

I am so behind in my scrapbooking. I'm hoping to spend a lot of good hours scrapping over Christmas break this year. Maybe I can finish Allison first year before baby #2 makes its appearance... that would be a goal.



Anyway, I got my inspiration for this page Sunday night, but I had to wait until I had my how-to books back and I had time. I finally got time today during naptime (my favorite time of day).



This isn't CTMH paper, but I did use CTMH stamps and inks. I had to make my own patterned papers to go with the cute pink circle background paper. I pulled my other colors from that paper and used the Spot On Backgrounds stamp set to make the polka-dot strings patterned paper and I inked white cardstock in Key Lime ink to make the green textured-looking one. What do you think? I'm quite pleased.




Obviously this still needs journaling. Thats going to go on left page with the polka-dot string box acting as its mat.

I used Cherish layout "Dramatic Fashion" pattern for this... the right page is rotated and the left page is changed quite a bit... I switched the orientation of the focus photo and triple-matted it so that it really stood out and was substantial enough to be the only photo on the page (instead of having 2 or 3 on it). I guess that means that I, apparently, can't follow directions! Oh well!

Supplies Used:

• Pebbles Inc. and DCWV paper & cardstock
• Pebbles Inc Duck Sticker
• Square metal-rimmed tags
• Baby Steps Stamp Set
• Rustic Alphabet Stamp Set
• Spot On Backgrounds Stamp Set
• Small Friendship Alphabet Stamp Set
• Blush Ink
• Key Lime Ink
• Black Ink
• Sunflower Ink