Celebrate life.

This little girl is one of the things I celebrate in my life EVERY DAY.  My life changed in a million different ways the day she was born, and ALL of them for the better.  This is the project we did in class last weekend at Creek Bank Creations.  Mine is different than what Marcie was teaching in class because I don’t do 12×12 pages; I do 8.5×11 pages so it meant I had to just “wing it” and cut things differently than the measurements she was giving.  Kept me on my toes. 

I also like to put my own spin on things, so I did some stuff that she didn’t instruct us to do…. like putting an “S” inside that chipboard frame (it was bugging me being empty! haha) …… and adding Stickles and jewels to my little butterfly, which just might be my favorite part of the whole page,

and adding Stickles to my little chipboard scroll-y thingies. 

I love my Stickles~   I also added these lovely pink and green glittery brads from Creative Imaginations.  They are officially my new favorite thing! 

It’s kind of funny, because seriously green and brown are colors that I hate.  I NEVER use them in my layouts.  EVER.  But I took Marcie’s class to see what I could learn, and I actually ended up learning that sometimes it’s good to use colors you don’t ever use.  I did this layout and wasn’t loving it and brought it home and wasn’t loving it and then I added the S inside the box and I added the sparkly brads and I added the date (because I can’t do a page without putting the date on it…physically impossible!) and I still wasn’t loving it……and then you know what I added?  That put me into LOVE IT mode?  The PHOTO.  Wow!  What a concept, right?  I’m a scrapbooker, so let’s put a PHOTO on the page!  haha  and when I saw this photo as I was flipping through I knew it was perfect and then I glued it down and I instantly loved this page.  So, moral of the story….. try new things people!  You just never know….maybe you will like it!  haha