Just three pictures

I recently finished a layout about my poor Jr in hospital. When he was about seven months old, he had to stay in a hospital for couple of days. Not something, I would like to think about again and again, but hopefully one day he will appreciate my effort to create a page about it.



Cardstock - Best Occasions. Paper - Jillibean Soup (brown), ChatterBox (light blue), unknown (baby boy). Journaling - Deja Views. Flowers - Colorbok. Stickers - Sassafras. Other - white pen, 3M adhesive, unknown journaling block.

I Miss My Friends

I had several wonderful, fabulous, gorgeous and kind gilrfriens. Then I moved few months ago... and I have just memories. Skype or emails are not that great when you just want to go out with your girls, have a dinner or couple of drinks, share a laugh. I would like to honor them at least with my scrapbooking.


I had this great paper with random friendship quotes, so I paired it with basic K&Company cardstock, Jillibean Soup brown paper, Sassafras yellow paper and other K&Company cardstock. The rub-ons are from Anna Griffin (5.99 for set of hundreds at ROSS).
I really miss my friends but this optimistic and energic layout brings me smile and good memories instead of sadness they live so far...

First Lesson

When Jr. was five months old (almost two years ago!!) I took him to a swimming lesson for babies. He had fun, kicking his tiny legs in water and splashing all around. I scrapbooked this pictures way back then, but I decided to give them new makeover.



I used similar colors, yellow, green and blue and play a little with scalloping scissors. Blue paper is Martha Stewart, green and yellow are K&Company, scissors are all Fiskars and letter stickers are K&Company again. Oh my tiny little baby, now you can almost swim by yourself and don’t need any lessons.



And this is another layout from the past. So simple and clean – that’s totally my style. I had this big Jillibean Soup orange scrap of paper and in Napa’s store i bought this woodland whimsy hedgehog from TPC Studio. With a little help of Mulberry Paper Flowers and Colorbok letter stickers it made a perfect page for my perfect son (just kidding. Actually, no, he IS perfect, lol).
So far so good. I have been making lots of cards recently, I will post the pictures soon.

Playing with page protectors

I really love the idea of scrapbooking with page protectors I have from Ali Edwards. I bought some couple of months ago but never really used... until now. I found some old pics of my husband and baby and instead of traditional scrapbooking decided to “pageprotector” them.

For this one, “Blue eyes”, I used leftover Jillibean Soup blue paper, DCWV blue patterned paper and torn paper, Teresa Collins journaling block and Artsylicious felt flower.
After this page I got an idea of “Your best features” album – everything about my husband, all his best features, will be scrapbooked there in a similar way. I can imagine having a page about “White Teeth”, “Lovely Smile” and “Strong Hands”... Good idea, don’t you think so?

Oh Sunny Day

Few weeks ago I decided to try my luck with the Jillibean Soup Design Team and I ordered some stuff to create layouts to apply. The call for new designers is over, but I am seriously in love with their products. The bold colors, the pattern, the clean design... Nothing I have ever used before can compare with this company.
This is my layout I sent for the design team call:



I used Orange Sugar, Toasted Cumin and and some other papers, plus I copied some butterfly stickers, watercolor them, cut them and matted them with patterned paper for 3D look. And I am pretty satisfied with my page. Honestly, I love it. It is my best page ever so far :))

Jillibean Soup Sketch Challenge

My new favourite scrapbook paper maker Jillibean Soup posted a sketch challenge on their website and I jumped on it! I really want to make my scrapbooking a business or at least make a name in the scrapbooking world, so I feel like competing now :)) Just joking. It is nice to compare my scrapbooking with other ladies out there with the same sketch and as long I have clicked on the all submitted links, it looks pretty amazing!
I did my scrapbook yesterday, I just recieved my Jillibean Soup papers the previous week so I am fully equipped for a challenge.





Cardstock: Best Occasions
Patterned paper: Jillibean Soup
Rub-on Stitching: DCWV
The rest: I have no idea :D

Looks cool, huh? :))