Over the past year, I have printed so many pho­tographs to scrap­book, that it now fills an entire box. Last nite, I dug deep into that box and found these pre­cious pho­tographs of our baby, on the day she was born. So I cre­ated this lay­out,  for the sketch at Lets cap­ture these sketches…

She was so tiny and frag­ile when she was born. Awwwww.….. I kind of for­get that when she is hurl­ing peas at me now

The chal­lenge for this week was to use three B’s in your lay­out. I used Baby, But­ter­fly, Brackets.

The col­ors here are per­fect for the spring color chal­lenge at the Play date Cafe! Baby pink, blue with a hint of red…

For this lay­out, I used card­stock from Bazz­ill Basics. The Pat­terned papers are from My Minds eye. The pink scal­loped rib­bon and the pearls are from Scra­pa­bil­i­ties. The stick­ers and teddy bear are from Cre­at­ing Keepsakes.

The title ‘Baby’ and the but­ter­flies were die cuts that I bought at a garage sale this sum­mer. I used my sewing machine to stitch along the let­ters, which turned out to be a lit­tle more com­plex than I thought it would be. Well not com­plex, it just needed extra patience and love

I also used paper edgers from Color bok and Provo Craft to trim my papers. I cut my blue paper ( another B!) and then misted it with home­made red color mist. I then crum­pled and rolled the wet paper. After a while I smoothed it out and let it dry to give it a fab­ric kind of look. I learnt this tech­nique at CK Club. They teach you to just spritz the paper with water, but I used a red mist instead. This brought an uneven pink tone to my blue pat­terned paper which suits the mood of the layout.

I then stitched the faux paper bor­der together. My sewing machine must be laugh­ing at the irony– sewing faux fab­ric

The but­ter­flies, have to be my favorite ele­ment here. I lay­ered two dif­fer­ent col­ored die cut but­ter­flies, and then added the pink scal­loped rib­bon and finally the pearls on top.

Adhered a cou­ple of stick­ers, the mat­ted pho­tographs and the brack­ets. All done!

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