Welcome to May!

Good morning everyone and welcome to May!  It is a fabulous day here in Georgia.  I have finished my Mother's present and have moved onto other things.  Yahoo!  This morning I finished a new scrapbook page that I will put in my own book.  This is pretty significant for me as I haven't scrapbooked for myself since my youngest was born.  The three books I have made in the last year have all been gifts for my mother.  I find that I rarely keep the things I make, the joy for me is in the creating.  But - - as I spent the morning going through old photographs I felt like it might be time to start creating these wonderful pages for our family to keep and treasure.  I can only imagine what I am going to feel when I look back at this page in three four years from now.  So without further adieu, here is my first page.

I must give credit where it is due.  This design is completely scrap lifted from one of the pages I saw in my Sketch 2 Scrap IPhone app.  I loved it so much the only thing I changed was the paper.  The creator of the design is Janine Kocwara and she is an Aussie. You can find her site with the most incredible work here - A Creative Life.


A few notes about the page - I used Make the Cut to create the scalloped square and to cut out the title.  The flowers are from my stash, and some are layered from pieces I cut from the Mothers' Day Bouquet cartridge.  The tag is of course a Spellbinders tag, and the edges were punched used Martha Stewart and EK Success punches.  I really adore this page and am proud to have it be the first in what I hope is a long and beautiful line of preserved memories of my boys.


As always, thanks for stopping by!