This photo on this page is from nearly two years ago but I just scrapped it recently. It was taken at a family party but I used it to record my feelings about being a mom and the first six months of my daughter's life. The journaling is short but captures what I think when I see this photo: "Still pretty new to the job and winging it most days, but the first six months of being Dalia's mom were some of the best of my life!"
I tried, with this layout, to break out of my usual line-it-up-perfectly mentality and create something a little grungier and more casual. I used a piece of DCVW cardstock (the name of the stack is now escaping me) and cut around the flocked design so I could tuck the photo behind parts of the flower image. The patterned papers at the right were from my border scrap box, which mostly contains 12 by 1 inch pieces made from trimming down 12 by 12 papers to 11 inches for my 8.5 by 11 inch pages. I know the aqua and red flowered one is Basic Grey but I'm unsure about the others.
The title block was leftover from covering a chipboard frame with cardstock. I wanted to bring in a bit of pink to make it a little more feminine and coordinate with my daughter's dress so I used a pink "6" sticker that I outlined with a black pigment pen and then doodle around it. The "mom" sticker came from an old DCWV stack. The round letter stickers at one point were clear epoxy-type domes but yellowed while sitting in my sticker stash (that's how old they are!) so I never used them before, but the yellow tint seemed to work on this page.
The date in the upper left corner is one of my favorite details of this layout. I combined a piece of a label and part of a border sticker with a flower sticker and a gem. I now see that I neglected to erase my pencil lines -- oops! That's what happens when you're trying to finish up before nap time is over.
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