Keep Your Head Up High

I created this layout for Scrapping the Music 131 Just Fine and Pencil Lines 184.





My niece was born with epilepsy. Each time she has a growth spurt her medications fail and she begins having siezures. Many of them occur while she sleeps and this has started affecting her education and ability to store what she's learned. As she becomes more aware that she is different she loses confidence in herself. So, to her I say Keep Your Head Up High.

A Scrapping First for Me!

I have been playing along with the Scrapping the Music challenge blog lately and won this week's challenge with my "Will You Hear Me" layout. The song was Just Fine by 40 Dogs. I am really inspired by the lyrics each week and sometimes even the music inspires the look of my layout... sets the mood, if you will. I highly recommend you come join the fun and play along :o)

Will You Hear Me?

For Scrapping the Music #130, 40 Dogs, and Pencil Lines 183



Picture it flipped and with less paper, more ink :o)



As Zach works through the teen years, at times we struggle with our relationship. More then ever I feel the need to remind him that he's a great kid and I will always love him.

Some Challenge Layouts

It's been a busy couple of weeks around here. I started to move my scrap space and then we had family visiting for just over a week. Finally got around to scrapping the following layout for Pencil Lines 181 and this weeks Scrapping the Music 129.



We were in Boston with our visitors and while at the hotel I asked Gwen what she could do in a hotel that she couldn't do at home. Crazy bed-jumping was the result. I immediately knew I wanted to cut her out of the gaudy hotel background :o)

I also whipped this one out. This is the fastest layout I've done in a long time. I was finding bits that I forgot I had while setting up the new space and was just inspired to use them :o) The cardboard was already painted, torn and punched and I couldn't wait to use it. The bg was a scrap I had used to protect my table while inking something awhile ago. I found a misplaced bottle of lemon yellow paint and a few other scraps that I threw on. The whole thing is scraps, really. I guess that's why I was finding these things not where they belonged!



Thanks for stopping by :o)

A Baby Album

I've been stalking Christine Clouse's blog for quite some time and am always blown away by her mini-albums. I took a stab at one and while it's not terribly detailed, I'm pretty happy with the outcome. Here are a few of the pages:



I started the album at a crop and figured out the layout of each page. I wanted to stitch the pages together because I wasn't likely how flimsy the pages were feeling. So, when I got home, I started to stitch the cover together. Any my sewing machine broke. I'm not sure what is wrong with it but it just did not want to feed the thread at an acceptable rate! I ended up hand stitching the pages together with a quick whip-stitch.



At the time,my friend didn't know if she was having a boy or girl so I tried to keep the album relatively neutral with the colors.



She decorated the nursery with a nature theme so I tried to add elements that fit.

All-in-all I'm happy I gave it a go. A few weeks later I saw a tutorial on Julie Fei-Fan Balzer's blog on how to make another type of album. Since I was satisfied with this one, I gave that one a go, too! But that's for another post :o)