A Nap for Two

New layout! I started playing with this last Sunday and had to let it sit and stew most of the week... its been a busy week. I used to complain that it took me 2 or 3 hours to do one layout... I kind of yearn for those days now. Anyway, here's what I finally landed on...



I had some trouble embellishing it at first, but I got some great feedback from some fellow CTMH consultants on our consultants artwork board. They encouraged me to add some pink into the layout since there is so much pink the the picture. Never would have thought of that on my own! I love how it turned out.

Supplies Used:

*all CTMH unless otherwise noted*

• Fairy Tale Paper Pack (retired)
• Simple Alphabet Dimensional Elements (retired)
• Garden Green Ink
• Spot on Backgrounds
• Fresh Shapes Dimensional Elements
• Just Blooms Big Pinks
• Just Blooms White Daisy
• Blush Polka Dot Ribbon (retired)
• Alphabet Beads (Westrim Crafts)
• Buttons (Archivers)
• Safety Pins (JoAnn Fabrics)

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