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This was one of the June layouts I did. It is for the Creative Imaginations sketch challenge for June. I turned the sketch sideways and used paper instead of extra photos. Since Jake and I have almost been together 16 years, I thought it was a great topic to celebrate the man who makes me happy every single moment of every single day. Welcome to the Blog Hop! The hop starts today, Friday July 2nd through Sunday July 4th. Each blog will be showcasing a different project inspired by summer and all of its glory! Hop through each blog to check out the instructions for creating each project, then choose a project to recreate. Post your project in the AMM gallery and in this thread. You will have until Friday July 9th at midnight to post your project to be eligible to win an Echo Park Collection pack! More than one project created earns you another chance in the random drawing. Please be sure that projects are created especially for this contest. Good luck! Since David is starting Kindergarten in the fall, I decided we would spend this summer at home together. I didn’t sign him up for summer school or for any specific activities. To make sure we wouldn’t get bored, I made a layout with a list of activities we can do. I used photos of each of the activities and also listed them. This way, if we want spontaneous ideas, we can close our eyes and point at one and do that one.
Here are a few details:
I wanted to show you how I did the photos for this layout so I took a little movie in Photoshop. I am pretty sure you can do the same thing in Photoshop Elements. And, finally, here are some of the items I used on my layout: Make sure to go check out Kat Glossop‘s site for more inspiration! Something a bit unusual this week. I did this yesterday. I sort of like it. But it’s too empty I guess. I just wanted to make a layout to commemorate that I savor all my moments with Nathaniel.
simple but meaningful to me.
A simple one for me. The journaling is about how Nathaniel always likes to reach for the toys out of his reach and how when we saw how he fell in, we laughed and took a photo before we saved him and how life is sometimes about being happy with what you have and sometimes about reaching for something out of sight. I know I said I was taking a scrappy break but yesterday I was on My Mind’s Eye’s blog and I saw this sketch and I never work from sketches but this one spoke to me and I had an idea immediately. So much so that even though I’d planend to do it this morning, I sat down and did most of it last night. Since my photo was landscape, I rotated the sketch clockwise by 90 degrees.
I made this layout to remember that David helps out a lot around here. With the food, diapers, cleaning, playing and anything else I might need. He’s a truly amazing little boy and I don’t thank him nearly often enough. So that in my weaker moments when he’s driving me insane, I can remember how amazing he is. And so he remembers that I do appreciate him. so very much. All products except for the letters are My Mind’s Eye. I put my border punch collection to good use. details:
This is with the February kit from A MIllion Memories.
Once the knows he’s got your attention,
This is layout number 4 with the June AMM Kit.
Journaling Reads: Details:
Yes, I know long long long title. But the title is also the journaling…isn’t it? A Million Memories June kit layout #3.
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This is done with the beautiful A Million Memories June Kit.
I had this photo of Nathaniel looking up to David while he hugged him and I wanted to scrap about how being a big brother means having the little one look up to you forever. details:
As per schedule, I dug right into my A Million Memories June Kit and created this layout today.
When I saw this picture of Nathaniel trying to sneak a peek at what the older boy was doing, it reminded me of my days as a little sister, looking up to my sister. So I wrote about how I know how it feels to look up to your older sibling and to want to be like him. And I said how soon enough he’ll be able to do those things, too and how lucky he is cause his brother loves him so much. Details:
After several wrong starts, fixing a broken sewing machine, and much tiredness, here we are. and now it’s done! 31 layouts in a row! Phew.
I’ve been wanting to do a kraft-based layout all month and here we finally are. I’d also pulled out these little hearts at the beginning of the month so I am glad to have gotten to use them. The journaling is all about Nathaniel now. How he loves music and he laughs so much and how much we love him. Which is so so so much. Details:
Thank you so much for all your amazing and kind comments all month long. I never actually thought I’d do this but here we are. A long, thoughtful post on LOAD coming on Saturday. Yes, I know, long title.
I felt like I hadn’t scrapped just David in a while and I wanted to let him know that even though I am spending more time with Nathaniel now cause he needs it I still love him so much and I am so thankful for him. The bloomers, basics, envelopes, and the tape were all items I had put aside to use this month so I figured before the month is over, I’d better get to work! Details:
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