Newpa Layout

Today I am bringing you a layout that I did recently of my grandpa, Jay and I.  Jalyn as two grandpa's and a great grandpa still alive.  She doesn't call any of them grandpa and as her own name for them all.  Her great grandpa she calls newpa.  This came from me in a way.  She doesn't get to see her great grandpa that much so sometimes it is like meeting a whole new person over again with her.  We see him about once a year maybe twice.    In her short life she as seen him about 4 times.  When I was trying to explain to her who we were going to see she kept asking if we were going to see my dad.  I kept saying no we are going to see a new grandpa.  Then she finally started to understand and said we are going to see a newpa.  I said yes a new one.  So the name stuck.  Now she as a 'newpa'.

There is my long random story about the title of my layout.  One thing that doing project life as taught me this year is that it is ok to do things in my own handwriting and have it out there for the world to see instead of always doing hidden journaling.  While in some cases I will always love hidden journaling, I'm embracing seeing my own handwriting on my LOs.

Hope you enjoy looking!

Tinkerbell

I know it has been a long time since by last post.  I have let life, unfortunately, get in the way.  In the last few months, I have gone back to work full time, moved and found out I was pregnant with our second child and just generally enjoying our life.  After all of my scrappy stuff being in boxes for the last few months I have finally gotten everything unpacked and I am ready to return to this hobby I so love.  I hope that you will still enjoy looking at my creations as much as I love creating them.

A couple weekends ago I went to a crop in order to get back in the swing of things.  This is one of the layouts I completed.  It is about my daughter's first time dressing up for Halloween.  I was thrilled with how well she did.  I selected a couple different costumes for her to select from and she went with Tinkerbell.  She was really shy while we were trick-or-treating but afterwards she was so upset that it was time to go home.

I cut the two Tinkerbells out of a patterned paper that was full of different sizes of Tinks.  It is a simple layout but I love it the smiles on my little girl's face.

Hope you enjoy looking.

Project 12- January

I came across a blog for the magazine Scrapbook and Cards Today.  It is a magazine out of Canada, so that is probably why I have never seen it before.  It looks really great though.  I may have to subscribe just so I can see it front to cover.

Anyways, I am not ready to venture into Project Life just yet.  I know I don't have the time to devote to it right now with everything else going on in my life.  I liked Scrapbook & Cards Today idea of doing a two-page spread for each month of they year.  It seemed a lot more doable.  They call it Project 12 on their blog. They offer sketch layouts each month on their blog if you are looking for some inspiration on how to fit a lot of photos on one page.  More info here.

I know it is already April and I am behind but I finished January this week and started on February.  I have all the pictures printed that I want to use for March, so I am hoping I can catch up quick. 

For January, most of my pictures where of us outside in the snow.  A common theme around the time of January.  I selected just one day to use for the month of January, but I plan to do a little more variety in the other months.  The only thing I haven't done yet is the journaling.  I'm trying to decide if I should journal only about the day or talk about the whole month. 

Ok, enough babbling and on to the pictures.
Enjoy!

(sorry, this one is really blurry, but it is the only one that shows a close up of the month)

Smile

I did this quick LO while my baby was sleeping the other day.  I really wanted to use this Bo Bunny paper.  I wanted to use multiple papers on the same page.  It only took me about twenty minutes which is fast for me.  I tend to take a long time to do one LO. 

Enjoy!

Pure Joy and Scrap Whispers Challenge

I came across this new blog called Scrap Whisper.  The lady, Georgina Hefferman, that started this blog was recently featured on Bo Bunny's Blog, which is how I found her.  I am a faithful reader of Bo Bunny.  I spent an hour looking at and reading both of her blogs.  Her blogs provide a great amount of inspiration.  This week she has a challenge up that I decided I would participate in. 

I had so much fun creating this layout.  I created this layout for my daughter's month to month album of her first year.  When I read this challenge was to create a layout about being happy, I new I wanted to scrap this picture.  It is the first family picture that was taken in the hospital when Jay was born.  We were so tired, but so happy at the same time.

I did this layout using about 85% Close to My Heart products.  I love Close to My Heart products!  The best thing is that when I use them I don't have to think about picking papers that go together and so forth.  I can just sit down and create!  These papers are all from the Bella line at CTMH.  I am using the line for Jay's month to month album.  I think it will be cute once I'm done.  I'm sure you will see more layouts for it in the future.

It is hard to tell in the pictures, but I added liquid glass to all the flowers.  I felt like they needed a pick me up.  I like how liquid glass gives things that little bit of pizazz.

Enjoy the pics!

Puppy Love and Fussy Cutting

I tend to do a lot of LOs of my daughter.  But, who could blame me she is so adorable.  I decided to try some fussy cutting on this layout.  It was a new challenge for me.  I like how it turned out.  I will definitely be trying this on another layout. 

I am trying to decide if I should add a little journaling spot somewhere.  I just can't find the perfect spot for it. 

Pennies

This was another layout I did for a challenge on Babycenter Crop Scrapbooking Group.  The challenge was to use metal of some sort.  I had these great pictures of my little girl picking up pennies that had fallen on the floor.  I snapped a couple of pics before I took them from her.  She was trying to put them in her mouth of course.  I thought it would be fun to use actual pennies on the LO.  The problem was they were a little to new and shine.  I alcohol inked them to take some of that shine away and made them a little green to match the LO better.  I also added some tags on the left hand side that pull out from behind the pictures.  That is where all my journaling is and other general info.

I am excited to say that I won for most creative use of metal.  You can see the some of the other entries here.

Discovering Rain

I did this layout for a challenge on Babycenter's community scrapbooking boards a couple of months ago.  I just really love it so I thought I would share it today.  The challenge was to cut up a photo to use on your LO.  I was really happy with how it turned out.

Hope you enjoy! 

Thanks for reading!
Jessica

Welcome and Overjoyed

Today in honor of my first post ever and my wedding anniversary, I am posting a layout that I created with one of my favorite pictures from that day five years ago.  I have been wanting to start a blog devoted to my scrappy and crafty things for some time now.  I happen to have an amazingly supportive husband that said go for it.  After talking about it for months, I'm finally here. 

Once I finally decided on a name, I knew immediately what I wanted my first post to be about.  This is the first layout I have ever done with about my wedding.  I'm not exactly sure why.  I think I was always so worried about ruining the pictures, the layouts not turning out good or whatever.

But, even so I decided to dive right in and try a LO (layout). 

Overjoyed by Stevie Wonder was our first dance song.  My husband only wanted two things when we got married, chocolate cake and my hair worn long and down.  I said fine, you also have to pick a song for our first dance.  He came and told me what he had selected a couple days before and it couldn't have been a better choice.  It is not only a sensational song, it also inspired my blog name and layout tile.

I hope you will enjoy this blog and it will inspire you to be creative!

Thanks for reading,

Jessica