baby boy

We found out that we're expecting a baby boy at the beginning of April. It is very exciting. :) 

I was saving these tags from clothes for awhile and I thought some of the colors went well with the monster paper I wanted to use.

breathe

I picked out my picture, paper, ink, stamps, tape, and ribbon ( I've been wanting to use this forever) before I got started. I wasn't too sure about which letter stickers I would want to use yet.  

 First I cut the ribbon to the size I wanted, then the paper. I glued those on along with the picture. Put the tape in place.
When I started this page I picked out white ink. I thought it would show better than it did (which was barely), so I picked out the pink ink instead.

 You can tell these pictures were taken during different parts of the day, since the lighting is do different. haha
Anyway, added more ribbon, tape, and stamps. :)

After that I wrote down the poem I wanted to use, added the title, her name, and I drew a border. (shown in bottom picture).

Its a really simple layout that I love. By the way, the last photo is the best photo for the colors.

breathe her in

let her tiny fingers curl around yours

watch the rise and fall of her deep sweet slumber

dream her dreams

give her hope

remember her toes,

her eyelashes,

her baby noises.

linger,

in these moments,

linger,

in her light.

She has already changed yours. 

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3 months

I haven't had time to scrapbook lately, so when I saw this starting point it inspired me to finally scrapbook again. I used a very old patterned paper from crate paper for the background. A older making memories patterned paper for the biggest block of paper. The other papers are scraps from different pages I've done in the past. I love the colors, so I'll probably be using the rest of the paper up soon.

grateful

Thanksgiving is right around the corner, so I thought I would make a layout about being grateful for my two daughters. I love the way this one turned out. I cut out patterned paper for the leaves and used a white gel pen to make the leaf veins.