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Good morning everyone! I wanted to share more layouts that I did using the Apron Strings April Smaller than a Breadbox kit. It is full of We R Memory Keeper’s “Peep”, My Little Shoebox’s “Home Tweet Home” and My Mind’s Eye’s “Stella & Rose”. I want to show you what I did with the My Little Shoebox’s “Home Tweet Home” today.

It was kismet that the girls and I visited our Nature Center over Spring Break and attended a class about nests and eggs. This line was perfect to scrap all those photos!

The first layout is pictures of the girls coming face to face with a real nest (Amory said "Mom it is a real live nest" - I didn't explain that a live thing is living - way too complicated!). Amory was ready to jump in, Priscilla was kind of umm yeah don't really want to touch that! Gotta love preteens!

Home Tweet Home

I am entering this in the following challenges:

Candy Shoppe Designs  - to be inspired by this collage and I was inspired by the colors. I saw alot of blues, greens and pinks in the collage which inspired the colors for my layout!

Sketchabilities - use this sketch!

The next layout is of the girls creating their own nests. They gathered bits and pieces of twigs, leaves, grass, and paper just like a bird using chopsticks to mimic a bird beak. Then they glued in onto a rolled down paper bag. The girls had a really good time creating their nests - glueing almost too much on for the paper bag nest to handle!

We Make the Best Nests 

I am entering this in the following challenge also:

Candy Shoppe Designs - to be inspired by this collage and I was inspired by the colors. I saw alot of blues, greens and pinks in the collage which inspired the colors for my layout!
With the scraps I created a thank you card for the one of Amory's teachers. I used leftover stickers to create my own flashcards. The other teacher will get a card made with the scraps from the next layout I do!

Thank You Card

 

Thank you for stopping by and have a blessed day!

Kristin

Nice to see you again ...

So it has been a looong time since I blogged. I was overwhelmed with everything that was going on but I am on the downward slide of way too much going on and fixing to get on the ladder to relax and enjoy this time!

I have been scrapping - two card orders for customers and layouts using the April kit from Apron Strings. I swear Lori is a mind reader! Every time I get a peek at what she has in store for the newest kit I think she read my mind!

In the April Smaller than a Bread Box Kit I got to play with We R Memory Keeper’s “Peep” and My Little Shoebox’s “Home Tweet Home” and finally My Mind’s Eye’s “Stella & Rose”. And I want to start with the layouts I did using My Mind's Eye.

The first layout is of my two girls - I took some pictures of them at the park one afternoon during Spring Break. I titled it "You Two" simply because I often say those two words with a small sigh when these two get together and make me crazy! I am entering this in a challenge at Crop Suey as well to make your embellishments from scraps. I made my own large paper corner as well as flowers fussy cut from the pattern in the paper.

You Two

The next layout I did with the Mind's Eye papers was just of Amory. I used the challenge from the Mind's Eye blog to use their sketch and the theme April Showers.

Here is their sketch created by Anam Stubbington. I turned it on its side to accommodate my pictures.

For the theme of April Showers I used a poem called "You Are My Rainbow". Rainbows always come after showers, right? The poem is one that is close to my heart and says alot in a just a few short lines. I dedicate this poem to Amory because she is my rainbow. She came in after a stormy dark time of depression that followed the birth of her older sister that lasted for years. She is fun colorful little person that has chased those clouds away and given me back the sun. Thank you Amory!

I also used challenges at Paper Variety to use flowers and Scrapfit to use homemade flowers. I made one ribbon rose and fussy cut a few more flowers from pattern paper to satisfy those challenges!

You Are My Rainbow

Thank you for stopping by and have a blessed day,