My Great-Nephew, Rory

Rory, when you came into the world in August, 2011, you were so little!  You needed oxygen at first as well as your "glow worm" blanket, but quickly you got better and came home from the hospital.  With those hands, soon you'll be palming a basketball like your mommy.  It's been fun to watch you grow from a tiny precious newborn to a one-year-old little boy!

All materials by Jen Reed:  Stories 365: Jumpstart v02 Template; Essentials 365: Baby's 1st Year Alpha Pack; Essentials 365: Babys 1st Year Wordart Mega; Essentials 365: In Review Wordart Mega; Reflections of the Heart

Jen Reed designs gorgeous digital scrapbooking materials, and I am grateful to be on her creative team.  She just stocked her store with twelve new products and this layout showcases four of them.  For a short while these products will be marked down 20%, so check them out soon!  She has a coupon in her newsletter for extra discounts, too. Sign up for the newsletter on her store website on the left-hand side.

Here is the fun baby alpha set.  It's so cute!  It contains three different alphas, each in six different colors.  There are more new alpha sets, templates and word art sets at 20% off for just a few days waiting in Jen's store, so hurry over!

I'll be sharing more layouts using Jen's designs in the days to come.  See you then!

Sue

Two Tempting

At two years old, it was hard to be given a basket of candy and told not to eat any. Right after this picture was taken, I started to eat my huge chocolate egg.

Paula Wright: Bunny Baskets Collection Biggie; Angie Briggs: Being With You Collection Biggie; Brandy Murry: Vintage Easter Collection, Shabby Chic Collection Biggie, and Action Pack: Mega Lift PSE; Click here to read a tutorial on how to tweak colors of elements as I did with the Easter basket on this page.

This is a re-do of an earlier page you can see here.

Sue

I Love to Read

I love to read! My day doesn't seem complete unless I've read something. Reading is a brief vacation in the middle of my day. A book reaches out to you and draws you into the middle of itself to inspire you, teach you, tug at your heart or bring you a smile.

You can read a brief description here on how I adjusted a word art especially for this page.

Elisha Barnett: Value Pack: Bookshelf

Syndee Nuckles: Scrap Pack: Learning Curve

Font: Veteran Typewriter

Smile today!  Read a book!

Sue

Newlywed Bliss

I love the happiness that shines from John and Kristine's faces in this photo.

Brandy Murray: Action Pack: Mega Lift PSE and ScrapSimple Paper Templates: Lighting Effects; Amanda Fraijo-Tobin: Soft Celebration Collection Super Mini and White Linen Collection Mini; Paula Wright: The Life Of My Dreams; Andrea Trump: Super 7 Spread by Andrea Trump; Photos by Brittany Laeger of The Beautiful Era Photography and Design

Sue

Sisters: 1, 2, 3!

My sisters and I are very close, both in friendship and in age.  This layout shows how close we were in age.  Working with these photos, especially the last two, brought back memories of holidays spent at Grandma and Grandpa's house.

My Fair Lady by Jen Reed

Sue

Great Grandma and Grandpa

In 1897 at the age of 22, Amelia Hohenstein married Henry Rosin, a 40-year-old widower with two children. Amelia bore Henry four more children, one of which became my grandma, Alma Link. Great Grandpa died at 68, but Great Grandma living to be 95, leaving a legacy of 90 descendants.

   

The mat for the title was originally blue-green, but I recolored it using a technique you can read about here. Just scroll down until you see the layout above, and the article will be above the image.

Materials:
Brandy Murray: Grandparents Collection Biggie and ScrapSimple Paper Templates: Background Blenders; Keri Schueller: Flower Market Collection Mini; Kerry Veale: Intaglio Collection Biggie and Intaglio Brocaded Paper Mini; Paula Wright: Ancestry Collection; Amanda Fraijo-Tobin: ScrapSimple Paper Templates: Absolutely Blended; Lettering Delights Carefree Black; Font: Gabriola

Sue

The Happy Couple, Quickly!

This lovely quickly page matched the colors of John and Kristine's wedding and fit this photo beautifully, so even though I prefer to make my own layouts from scratch, I used it anyway. I think it made a gorgeous page.

"Freshness" Freebie Quick Page by Le Petit Scrap; Font: Tangerine

This quick page by Le Petit Scrap is available free here for a just a few days, so if you like it, grab it quickly!  (Pun intended - haha)

Sue