Marieke's August Results

Yay! I'm finally caught up.

I had so much fun with this kit, Rach. Thank you!

When I saw the little "Baby" ticket, I knew this kit would be perfect for doing a layout on Hanna since Spencer and I call her, "Hanna Baby." She's not much of a baby anymore, though. :-( But she's turning into a great little kid, so all's well.

I have been wanting to try doing some flags for forever and they were super easy to make. I cut a strip of paper about an inch wide from the yellow striped patterned paper. Then I marked off inches on both sides. However, I offset the second side by half an inch so that each mark fell in between the first set of marks I had made. Then all I had to do was line up the marks on my paper trimmer and they came out just as I'd hoped. I used the brads to divide them on the layout.

I had initially used the whole card with the baby buggy on it as a journaling card but had to improvise when Spencer pointed out that I had spelled "were" with an "h" in it, "where". So I ended up just cutting out the baby buggy like it was a stamp and typing up my my journaling. I did cheat a little by using pink paper to print it out on, but let's just pretend I actually have a color printer and printed it out like that.

I printed the "HANNA" title on white paper (using the outline font feature) and colored it in pink, then cut it out. (Very time consuming.) I used the wrapper from the parchment paper envelopes as additional paper and colored the flowers pink. I made little flower accents to add more pink in, but if I had to do it over again, I would have used the little flowers that came with the kit. It's just that I was planning on using them as a border along the bottom, but then decided against it at the last minute.

I made the pocket to hold Christmas cards, photo collages, and handmade cards.

The journaling reads:

It has been such a joy watching you grow. When Spencer and I first met you, you were still crawling. Now you are talking a mile a minute and running all over the place. You are such a sweetie and we feel so lucky to be a part of your life. We're looking forward to the coming years as we watch you grow even bigger. But no matter how big you get, you will always be our Hanna Baby.

(Sorry about the photos - it's evening here and the light made the colors turn out a little wonky.)