Dressed to the Nines

Here's yet another layout I have gotten done. Does anyone else really struggle with masculine layouts? I can totally pull off a girly layout, but anything masculine and it's like I've turned into a fish out of water!



My youngest son is all about dressing up on Sundays, despite the fact we're part of a very casual church (the pastor wears jeans). I enjoy the fact that he wants to look his best. I'm pretty sure it won't last that long as his older brother went through the same thing. So I'm enjoying it while it lasts. :)

The title and frames were all cut with my cricut and mtc software.

Love Fights

I guess the approach of Valentine's Day is getting to me because it is a truly rare thing that I work with so much red!



This is a totally different style than my norm, but I think it turned out great. It's highlighting the little "fights" my daughter and I have over who loves who more.

Time Flies

This layout was done for a monochromatic challenge. This layout kicked my behind, but I'm so glad I stuck with it and finished it.



I adore the picture of my mother when I was a baby. I wish I could remember those days. Anyhow, my cricut came to the rescue once again, cutting the frames, the swirls and the title. I gave the layout a bit of sparkle by adding glitter to the swirls and using gems to dot the "i"s. A few carefully placed blooms help anchor the pictures.

Thanks for looking!

How Beautiful

These last two days I participated in an online crop. It was just the thing I needed to get my juices flowing. I got three layouts done, which is a lot for me! This was the first one I got done featuring my two beautiful daughters.



The original colors in the pictures clashed something awful, so I turned them into black and whites. The papers are from an SEI collection I've had sitting around for sometime. I cut three extra large flowers with my Cricut to layer on the right hand side and inked their edges. I matted the pictures on pink patterned paper to make them pop a bit. Add my embellishments and viola!

I'll be sharing my other layouts in the next few days.

2 Page Michael

I'm back with another shot of baby boy!



Here's the next spread in my son's baby book. (Title page is a couple posts back) I wanted to carry over the same color and theme as the title page, so it doesn't look all that different. All though, I have a heck of a difficult time getting a decent picture. It sure would be helpful if we had some sunshine around here!

Anyhow, I started off with an old Nuts About Sketches sketch. Since this page is all about pregnancy and the excitement of his birth there is a LOT of journaling. My goal for these books is that when I'm not around my children and their children can look through them and find out everything I would be able to tell them. So there's a lot of journaling.

The stars and his name were all cut with MTC and my cricut. I inked the edges of the white pages with blue ink and did the same with the stars, though it's hard to see in this picture. Thanks for looking!