Following the sketch

Okey, two blogs in one day? Wow. Anyways, I found this awesome blog, Creative Scrappers, and they have cool sketches to follow! I really like this one and since I have tons of pictures from our recent LA trip that I would like to scrapbook before we move there, I went for it!
So this is the original sketch



and this is what I did with it! To be honest, I was really satisfied with it until I looked at their designers reveal on the sketch... but whatever. My style is usually clean and simple and although I sometimes wish I could make pages with lots of piled accents and embellishments, I know that is not me. Me is plain brown cardstock, patterned paper, punches, white pen and more paper :)

Land of the free

I am so not in a winter mood lately... So I decided to remember the awesome summer we had and do a little celebration layout. I had this circle idea in mind, with the perfect shades of blue and red to look a little like the American flag. As I was about to glue it all together, I realize I have the colors, but not the structure. So I cut six 1 inch stripes and adhered it to the cardstock to mimic the stripes of the flag. And I totally love it!

Some things just need time

... as this layout. The right page was sitting on my desk forever. I cut the pictures into 4x4 squares, adhered them, did the cute embellishments - and couldn't move to the left page. So I just let it be, wait for it's time.
Finally yesterday I had an awesome idea. I used the green patterned paper as the base, with the other green paper matching the right side. Plus I had awesome wedding kit letter, that were just perfect for this page. And to write something in the journaling place was so easy!
I am really glad I waited for couple of months before finishing this. It probably wouldn't be half as good as it is now.



I used Martha Stewart Paper Pad (grey leaves), Basic Grey Origins (mineral soak), ChatterBox (light green pattern), random buttons and flowers.

Brothers

Welcome to the new year!
Beginnings are always exciting, because they bring a clean slate into everyday life. I love new days, new weeks, new months. And to have a new year - that certainly deserves a celebration.
Not that I celebrated the traditional way. No, I was asleep way before midnight. But my heart was pumping fast from all the possibilities... Wow. I love this year.
I was actually thinking about doing the Project Life, but not this year. I don't feel committed enough to take a picture every day. My December Daily album is enough proof on that matter.
This year I started my scrapbooking in a family way - "Brothers" layout. I had these not-so-good-light pictures from Christmas, but funny enough, it will match the green and blue paper perfectly. I used some DCVW birdie paper, leftover striped paper and that was it!
Way to go...

Red Alert

I had this perfect idea of using stamps as a background that will perfectly match some pictures of Jr. and a firetruck. The first layout, however, did not look as I thought it will. So I re-scrapbooked it. Does the word re-scrapbook even exist?
I used a nautical stamp to create my background. I had this really cool fireman paper and of course, the adorable pictures of Jr. being all stunned by a real red truck. And this layout looks soooo much better than the old one. Well, there is never enough trying to achieve perfection :)