The lovely young friend of ours who was in the pregnant layouts that I did last week is in the hospital having the baby as I type this. We are all so excited to meet little Ryan. I gave his mother Robin an 8x8 album from Memory Makers as a gift and a coupon for photos each month for the first year. She was so thrilled. I had no idea that she wanted to learn to scrap. Now I have a new scrappin' buddy.

These photos are from the little album I made of pictures from her baby shower. I used the tutifrutti quick page album from We are Story Tellers by Paislee Press. It was such fun as I had purchased one of those little $1 albums at Michael's and it came together in no time at all. The paper I used for the cover is from Basic Grey. I added a few button brads and summer brads (unknown)... .. . ..

    I was just reading Cindy's blog and she mentioned scrapping this weekend. I really miss getting together with a group of other scrappers and playing with our photos and paper. I do meet with other paper artists each week, but it isn't scrap time. I have a huge and lovely cabana room available to me here at our condos and would love to scrap with others there. But how do I find scrappers in Bellevue, Washington? Does anyone have any ideas to share with me?

Just completed another layout from a challenge in Cynthia's book. This book really has my creative juices running again. I felt like I was in a never ending slump and that is definetly over. Yeah!!! Anyway here is the latest from the same challenge as yesterdays layout only this is one of my favorite things.This is my list of materials. I used PSE 6 . The paper is Aqinnah, from Designer Digitals Esthers papers, the heart and bow areby Michelle Coleman from the Memory Makers Bohemian kit and the font is Chaucer.

This is going to be interesting. The first challenge from the new book and I am already changing it. The challenge reads,"Scrap a page about a favorite object of yours." I scrapped a page about a favorite object of Jon's. I will do one of mine tomorrow. This was our latest purchase and a very special one as the journaling points out. It is a hybrid layout with the journaling in a pocket on the back and a few of the words ( the & best) cut out and applied with glue dots. Everything else was completed on PSE 6 using a ScrapArtist kit by Lile Khadfield called "Circle of Friends." This was such a relaxing and enjoyable experience. Once again nothing like my usual style. Perhaps when I finish enough of the challenges I will have to redefine my style.

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Yesterday, I received an email from my friend Cynthia who is traveling in Spain during the months of June and July. I asked her to please take some photos of the wonderful doors and windows while there. She sent two in her email. One of a door and the other of herslef on the way to a museum. I had great fun today putting together this layout for her to check on my blog. Hope others will enjoy it also. The background paper I used was from the Songbird Leap of Faith Kit by Vicki Stegall and the fonts were CKFrankfurt and CBX Donna Loo.