Home Sweet Home

My friend and her son came over for a quick visit on New Years Eve! She had moved away last year, and is back home visiting for a couple weeks, so it was nice to see them amidst all the plans I'm sure they had! I did a little subtle something to the photo - I stamped the Merry Bright title on the mirror, mostly to cover up my husband Chris, waving his hands in the air to try to get the kids' attention haha!

I kept this layout very simple, since I loved that wood background paper! I loved how the chevron paper was used on this layout by blbooth at Studio Calico!

I used some VERY old letter thickers for the "Sweet" part of the title - we're talking from the Lawn Party kit by Studio Calico for May 2011! That was the first kit I ever bought and sadly, still haven't used much of it because I just loved it so much I couldn't bring myself to cut into the papers and supplies. I may need to remedy that soon!

More Please

I never thought I'd be so excited to give my baby solid food! She loved her sweet potatoes and she knew right away to swallow them and stretch out her neck for more haha! Hungry girl :)

I kept this one pretty simple and used the Blue Note kit from Studio Calico. I printed out my pictures in a square and then cut the die cut from my Silhouette - that die cut came in the Life Scripted class with Kal Barteski, that starts in February.

I decided to use my journaling as a border around the square and then added a tiny bit of stitching at the top, but I guess I wish I had used a different color to show up a little better, oh well!

Be You

Here's another hybrid layout of Natalie playing in her jumparoo! I just LOVE these pics I had gotten for December Daily with our DSLR camera. The quality is so good and Chris bought me a new printer and paper that prints AMAZINGLY!! It is an Epson XP-810 and here he got me some "soft gloss" paper, which prints more like the matte prints that you order from online, so it is perfect!

I got the idea for the digital portion of this layout from this layout by Tina Azmus at Studio Calico! I love how she used some printables for the background of her layout!

I used the Blue Note kit from Studio Calico to complete the rest of the layout - just that purple paper and those precut diamonds that I backed with some woodgrain-like paper. Thanks for stopping by!

Scraplift Challenge!

I participated in a Scrap Lift challenge, where we just scraplift the person who commented on a thread before us over at Studio Calico! Here is the layout I scraplifted by Melissah3 :)

I used both her layout arrangement and color scheme to make this layout that my husband REQUESTED I make! He had taken this photo from work and I had him write the journaling himself :)

I used the Blue Note kit from Studio Calico and cut the snowflakes with my Silhouette! This was fun, hope to do another one sometime!

December Daily Day 17

Just more pics of Natalie haha, same old same old, but never gets old to me!! Yesterday I took her to the Doctor for her 4 month checkup and wow, she is up to 17lbs 2oz and 25.75 inches long!! That's huge for a 4 month old, she is in the 91st and 96th percentiles for height and weight respectively - weight I figured because she is really getting heavy to always be carrying around!

For the left side I knew I wanted to have white against the woodgrain background paper in some way. So I stamped with an Ali Edwards stamp from last year's Studio Calico December Daily kit, but the white was a bit faded so I went over it with my Uniball Signo Gel pen then drew a little border around the picture! I added some bits to the left and a quick little banner up top.

On the right side I cut some gold glitter tape so it wasn't so thick and added to the top two cards. I added some little stamps to each card that came in the Blue Note Studio Calico kit this month! Those are so cute! And of course my trusty old gold clip with the number 17 to showcase that I've made it 17 days in without getting behind yet haha!

Even though I have a baby now so one would think I wouldn't have as much time to fiddle with this album, but it also means I'm not doing anything after she goes to bed. I can't ever leave the house without her since she doesn't take a bottle and still nurses every 2 hours, which is also partly why we can't get a babysitter and leave, and also she is so stranger danger crazy... so what else is there to do anyway now that Survivor on TV is over? Haha!

December Daily Day 10

OK, I just realized I forgot to include some extra comments about the pic on the left of my daughter asleep in our bed... the reason she has no shirt on (but she does have pants on)... so last night I decided to try putting her in a cloth diaper for the first time. Except I put it on backwards and it leaked at night so when I picked her up for her feeding in the middle of the night and she was all wet I realized I would have to do a quick diaper and nightgown change... and I better do it fast because when she's hungry she's HANGRY! So I got her changed and her pants on, as she was getting more and more worked up, finally screaming so badly I just decided I had to stop and feed her, and would have to dress her after she was finished. Well, when she was done she was so passed out... I just decided not to dress her haha! So when Chris brought her to me before he left for work this morning, she still had no shirt on... oops :) But hey, never wake a sleeping baby, right?

For the left side I slightly ripped up the love ornament diecut that I had already adhered to a different 3x4 card and just added that in. Oh and I got some SEI gold glittery dots in my random grab bag kit from Studio Calico that are perfect for this project!

For the right side I wanted to keep it fairly simple since the photo has a lot going on in it with all the different colors so I just made a border using that December stamp that came in the Blue Note scrapbook kit this month from Studio Calico, and I punched a bunch of stars and added some enamel dots and stickers!

I am taking this month's 25 Days class over at Studio Calico and Ginny, one of the guest designers for this class had said she was going to keep her album cohesive by adding punched snowflakes throughout it. That made me feel not guilty for using stars yet again on this spread - I just looked through and I have at least one star on every spread except for one! So I suppose stars are my go-to design this year and I'm ok with that! Thanks for looking :)