Thursday, June 22, 2006

New Layout - Pretty in Paisley

Hello everyone. I hope this post finds you all well.

Finally, I've started scrapping something other than soccer pages. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy doing the soccer layouts for Markell and Jayla. But I'm getting a little bored with the color scheme. As long as the kids play soccer with this particular league, they'll ALWAYS wear some combination of red, black & white. Funny thing is, I LOVE this color combination. But with 2 kids playing for the same league and 7 seasons (= 3 years), the pictures eventually start to look the same. Ya feel me??? But as I'm sure you all are aware, even though I'm doing a little "complaining" about it, I'm going to continue doing those soccer layouts as long as the kids play...I am a soccer mom, after all :-).

Now having said all that, I still get a little bored with soccer layouts. Which brings me to the reason for this post tonight.

A few months ago, I posted a layout of my oldest daughter, entitled "That was then..this is NOW". Little did I know that that ONE layout would lead to my wanting to do an entire album of her modeling shoots. And not only am I doing an album for myself, I'm going to make a copy of it for her...sort of like a portfolio.

ANYway...enough chatting. Here's a layout I did last night of my daughter and I must say...I LOVE it!!! Once I finished it, I noticed that the layout reminded me of my (current) favorite scrapbooking personality...Heidi Swapp. I think what I love about this LO is that it's classy, simple, elegant and sophisticated all at the same time. I hope you agree. Thanks for looking.

Supplies used: Black cardstock, ribbed/sheer ribbon from Michaels, Patterned paper by BoBunny Press (Midnight Paisley), brad & Heidi Swapp flowers.

7 comments:

Tamika said...

I defintely agree that it is simple and elegant. Your daughter's picture is very pretty, so too much would distract from the picture as the focal point. Great job!

Muriel said...

this is very classy. I like it alot.

We need to think of a challenge for each other....

Anonymous said...

I love it mommy.... Thanks :)

Diane said...

Beautiful layout and beautiful girl. :)

By the way... You haven't done a whole lot of blogging since I've been gone. :-\

Veroncia Butler said...

OMG, your daughter is goregous!

What a beautiful page.

Gina said...

Wow that is a beautiful LO!
I can't seem to do anything like that! I'm still working with corners, LOL!

ScrappinMyRoots said...

I agree Dawn. This is a very classy, yet simple, elegant and sophisticated layout.