Get Picky 1st Birthday Blog Hop!

Good afternoon!  I have just had the most lovely morning.  I've been for a walk, picked up my new/spare battery for my camera and even squeezed in some scrapbooking before having a lovely long lunch with some work mates! 

Anyhow, the other day I was chatting to a friend telling her I wanted to get back into my scrapbooking more and I want to do it just for me... so no more sketches, challenges etc.  Well that went well LOL  The page I completed this morning used the sketch for Get Picky's 1st birthday blog hop.  I've said it so many times, but pages come together SO much quicker for me with a sketch.  Absolutely LOVE this sketch... and have no doubt that I wouldn't have been happy with the result had I completed this layout with out the sketch.  It would have also taken me a few weeks to finish rather than a few hours :-)  Anyway... here is the sketch

Head over to Get Picky if you want to see the DT's work and the other entries so far... one word... aMAZing!  There are also prizes up for grabs if you participate in the blog hop!!!

OK - here is my layout:



Geez... you think I could have straightened up those little red pom poms before I took the photo hey!  Anyway, I've used photo's of my beautiful boy helping Grandma make plum puddings last year.  And yes... I still have all last years Christmas photos to scrap too :-O  Can't believe it is already coming up to that time of year again... yikes!  The paper range is S.E.I. Winter Song... probably one of my favourite paper ranges to date.  The stickers are from Jillibean Soup and the cute red and white pins are from A Li'l Something.  SO happy with the layout.  It took me ages to figure out where to put the title... I'm not sure about you, but the title is always an afterthought on my layouts.  I usually know what it will say, but never really think about how it will be done or where I will put it until I've pretty much stuck everything else down... oh well... at least there is a title.  A lot of my earlier layouts don't even have one :-/  Anyway that's about it from me.  I'm going to do a bit of cleaning before I pick my two beautiful boys up.  Thanks for stopping by and hope you're having a wonderful day xoxox