Welcome Natasha

Back in I think December I finished Natasha's first year scrapbook album. The only issue really was that I hated her hospital page. The colour combinations, the patterned paper, the layout and even the photos! Shortly after she was born (around 1 month) my laptop HD crashed and I lost the first 3 months of photos except for about 10 that I had stored else where online. So I had very limited photos from the hospital or even from the first few weeks. The lucky part is that my mom when she came to visit last November had a ton still on her camera that she never took off the memory card so I was able to copy them over to my computer.

Anyway, over the last few days I decided it was time to re-do the page to something I liked. The main picture on the left hand page is my favourite photo of her. She was only a mere few minutes old and I can still remember so vividly how warm she was and just all the emotions I felt those first few minutes of her life! I love that photo and luckily it was one that was stored on an online site so I was able to recover it.


Recipe: Stamps: Nursery Necessities (I think!) Paper: Pretty in Pink, Lovely Lilac, Tempting Tourquoise, Certainly Celery, Flowers for you DSP. Ink: Regal Rose, Certainly Celery, Lovely Lilac, Tempting Tourquoise. Tools/Accessories: Flower Punch, Opposites Attract Cricut Cartridge, Mat Pack, Slit Punch, 3/4" Circle Punch, Dots/Checks/Dashes Ribbon, SAB Rub-on.

Time Journey

Time Journey
Originally uploaded by carleycat11

The first year of Natasha's life, at the end of each month was marked with a picture of her with a white bear my mother gave her when she was born. It was suppose to be a 'fun' thing to do, but as she got older and more of a personality, I started to obsess about the photo each month and try and get the 'best' smile/pose/laugh etc. I know, silly to think about now, but at the time they seemed super important.

Anywho, this page is the reason why I've not posted any scrapbook pages lately. I've been stumped on design, paper and layout for these photos since early December, and for some reason, instead of moving on and scrapn' different photos, I just stalled on these photos instead. My problem being, that all the layouts I could find for 12+ photos were not very 'pretty'. They were always lining them up or they were so small you could not really see the pictures.

Finally earlier in the week I found a layout I liked (Becky Higgins - Best of Sketches book), bought some paper and finished it last night. I have to say it's a huge relief to finish it. I'm only about 3ish dbl page layouts away from finishing her first year album, so it's pretty exciting!

Recipe: (word stolen from Heather)
Paper: Brazill Basics - Red, Patterned Paper: S.E.I - Kitty's Place, Catnip (Butterflies), S.E.I - Kitty's Place, Cat walk (checkered)
Ribbon: S.E.I - Kitty's Place
Inks: Versamagic Chalk Ink - Red Brick (lettering)
Font: Cricut Cartridge - Printing Press