That Clock!

I didn't have any plans to go back and scrap these pics of me in that labor room... but then I took on a challenge issued by Stacy Julian for the Art + Science of Scrapbooking class I'm taking at BigPictureClasses.com, which was to go through my papers until I found one that reminded me of a place or space and scrapbook that. This was going to be extremely difficult for me as I never scrap a place or space and I certainly don't start with a random piece of paper! I opened a random drawer to start and found the Cuppa kit from Studio Calico, with only that clock paper left from it. I thought, does that paper remind me of anything...that's when I thought, hospital... then I thought... THAT CLOCK!! Ahhhh!!

Sure enough I found these pics I made my husband take (haha a true scrapbooker right?) and the funny thing is, he says he doesn't even remember that clock, when that clock is just about all I remember! After 4 hours and 15 minutes of heavy pushing, I guess that clock sort of torments you haha. I started pushing around 1pm and I remember thinking at 5pm that I really hoped my baby would appear before 7pm! It was 31 hours of labor and I was TIRED!

I added my journaling around the border and kept the accents minimal. Oh I finished this layout just now in 20 minutes (after I printed the photos the other day)! Now if only today were Labor Day instead of Memorial Day, it'd really come full circle :)

P.S. Thank you to all who have served and are serving our country!! I am blessed to enjoy so many freedoms in this life!!

Pick One

The title of my page is sort of like telling myself to choose a design concept... I kinda got everything going on in this page ha!

This was the last of the pics from the public market and also the last page I planned to make with the Cuppa kit from Studio Calico, so I definitely wanted to use those colored transparency squares! I started playing around with the layout and cut a few more squares from patterned paper then embellished here and there to finish it up.

It is another grid layout for the books! Oh well, I'm happy I am caught up with pictures and layouts and here it is, December 1st, just in time for December Daily! Yay!!

Locavores

Here are more pics I quickly took at the public market a couple weekends ago! I love that I don't do scrapbooking as my job, or I would feel guilty for repeating this cut out windows technique for these pieces of paper!

I had some random pics of the items at the market and just decided they'd be perfect for this type of layout. I used the Cuppa kit along with some Heidi Swapp letter stickers.

Chris gave me my title for the page, Locavores - people who eat local food! I punched some stars from a strip of paper leftover from a card, added some journaling and voila!

Yum!

A public market staple is having breakfast at Juan & Maria's Empanada Stop! I always get the veggie breakfast empanada. We keep saying we wish they'd sell their Spanish ketchup though, it is sooo good! Maybe Natalie will like an empanada someday with her parents!

I scraplifted this layout by Geralyn Sy from this week's Sunday Sketch at Studio Calico:

I used the Cuppa kit and for the squares at the bottom, I just used a piece of the 6x6 paper pad that had those squares already on it.

OK, gotta run, baby's calling!! :)

Public Market

The weekend before last weekend, we took Natalie to the public market for the first time! Well, we didn't go for her, we went because she had had enough awake time and was ready to nap (so we knew she'd just sleep in her car seat carrier) and it was still early before it got to crowded, and it was probably the last weekend we could take her and go as a family before it gets too frigid out! So I put on her little green knit hat that was made by my cousin, and we flew out the door before 8am! Um, I never fly out the door before 8am... or at least I didn't before I had a kid!

Anyway, I knew when I printed that picture of the painted murals on the wall outside the market that I wanted to use that background paper from the Cuppa kit by Studio Calico. It went perfectly! I just had to figure out what else to do with it, so I opened my Silhouette software and do what I often do when I'm lacking on ideas and embellishments (I didn't buy any scrapbook add-on kits this month since I knew I'd be going back to work and probably not scrapping as much). Anyway, I landed on those sketchy circles that I purchased back in February from Studio Calico and cut out 5 of them from that clay-colored paper that came in the card add-on kit.

Beyond that, it was really pretty simple! Gotta love how easy the Silhouette makes life (if you're a scrapper haha)! I love the software, and before cutting them out, I placed them in the software sort of where I'd want them on my page to get an idea of the size and how many to cut. Now hopefully I'll get the rest of my public market pics scrapped over the long Thanksgiving weekend so I can concentrate solely on December Daily for the rest of the year!!

I Love This

Here are the rest of the pics from Natalie's baby dedication day (dedicated to our Lord Jesus Christ)! It was such a proud moment for us, especially when she didn't fuss, fart, or spit up on Pastor Dave haha!

This month's Cuppa kit from Studio Calico came with a free pdf by Gillian Nelson showing how she put together this layout! I scrap-lifted it, except made it 12x12 instead of 8.5x11 and love how it turned out!

It was so quick and easy once I decided that's what I wanted to do. After I added black mist splotches, I wanted a few more, so used the black stars that came in the card add-on kit. I embossed the title stamp in black to give it a subtle texture. Hoping I can get a couple more layouts from this month's kit before December, December Daily and the December kit all arrive!!

Dedication To Our Lord

Natalie had her baby dedication a couple weeks ago at church! Her face in this picture is priceless! She was not a happy camper right before we went up there, but luckily she didn't cry at all during it.

I used this month's Cuppa kit from Studio calico and got some inspiration from these two layouts by Amy Tan and Sasha Farina, specifically I liked how Amy divided her page to make it look like a mega phone and I liked how Sasha added in the white paper (except I just added white strips instead of cutting the paper and mounting on white). Unfortunately, with my black letter stickers, I was out of L's and S's and only had 2 H's so I was very limited what I could write (I thought about Jehovah Jireh but that requires 3 H's) so I picked some additional white letters from Heidi Swapp. I stamped underneath and above with my giant roller alpha stamp to spell out Natalie's name.

For the bottom portion, I just used a bunch of the printables for this month's kit from In a Creative Bubble as well as some cardstock stickers from Hello Forever, which made it come together really easily!

Stupid Face

I am definitely now a weekend scrapper, but now that I've gotten faster since Natalie was born, I think I'll be much better at taking advantage of it! I made 2 and a half layouts this weekend (plus 2 cards) so let's say I can get 3 layouts done a weekend, I should still be able to do 12 layouts a month... should hehe :)

I used the Printshop line by Studio Calico again for this layout of Chris and Natalie at Green Acres at the end of September! Um, what's wrong with me, I have like 30 layouts for the first 1.5 months of Natalie's life... at that rate I would have 240 pages or so by her first birthday!

Anyway, I used some pieces from the Process class kit by Studio Calico that I'm taking over at Big Picture Classes with Catherine Davis - namely the "I love your stupid face" card and the wood veneer ampersand! I was nice though and wrote some things I love about my husband on a piece of paper I cut out from the same collection. I used some letter stickers from this month's Cuppa kit. Thanks for stopping by!