You're Our Little Star

Happy Memorial Day! It's been raining here for the past two days. We wanted to head out to the park or the zoo, but it's been easier to just stay inside with a movie. I finished this layout last night of Maddie at two months in her little star outfit, at least that's what we called it at the time. She was so little and cute all bundled up in it.

I used a sketch from Pamela's World of Scrap and her sketch challenge #235. I love her sketches because they are so clean, simple, she has two page options, and uses lots of photos! Definitely fits my style. Here is the sketch:

I'm created this layout for the Scrapping Everyday Miracles May Main challenge.  This month's challenge was to share a project that represents something new in your life. My little girl definitely fits that requirement! She was the start of a whole new phase in my life, the Mommy phase.  God gave me this little blessing when I needed it most. She is teaching me all sorts of things about life that I either didn't know, or have conveniently forgotten. Love, patience, laughter are three of the biggies that jump into my mind.   

The scrap twist was to use something on your project that is more than a year old - the older the better, "and" something new to you in 2013. The paper I used is at least 10 years old.  I have had it forever and have never found the right layout to use it on.  The stamps I used for the banner are new to me as are the thickers I used for the title. I used twine on the banner with jump rings to the top banner.

I also played along with Scrap Your Story challenge #13 - Mixed Alphas.  I used two different fonts from two different lines on my layout.

Here are a couple of close up photos:

Materials Used:  paper - crate paper and Making Memories Animal Crackers; stamps - CTMH; ink - CTMH; twing - MME; thicers - American Crafts; letter stickers - Basic Grey; star stickers - Marta Stewart Crafts; jump rings - unknown.

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