Why are there so many layouts of Brooke?

I think I have more layouts of Brooke than anyone else. I think the reason is because 1) she's photogenic, 2)she's cute, and 3) her birthday happens to be in January, and usually after the Christmas holidays, I get re-motivated to start scrapbooking again, and I usually start with the month of January.

I didn't think I'd like this LO as I was making it. I'm not a big pastel person, but it's grown on me. I wish I could remember where I got the embellishments and paper. The pictures' resolution may not look that great, and that is because these are still shots I made when I was editing the video of the carnival. As far as I know, there weren't very many pictures taken with a regular camera of this memorable event, and I wanted my kids to remember this experience, so I made still shots when I was editing the video.

Brooke in Pink Vest 02/2005

This LO was taken from Becky Higgins' "Sketches" book. I love it's overall simplicity. The longer I scrapbook, the less "frilly" my pages seem to get. I just made this one in January '08. I used mostly brushes to add texture to the paper. I love brushes.

Bundle of Joy 2/2005

I don't know what it is about this page that makes me really like it. I loved using several fun brushes that I bought from somewhere, I don't remember. I have a hard time choosing the best pictures, so often I add most of them in a set. That's the beauty of digital scrapbooking--you can add as many pictures as you want on a page and adjust the size and shape of them.

Collage 2005

Do you ever wonder what to do with all those craft projects your kids make? Well, I didn't want to "save" them because some had beans and other objects that were falling off. So I make collages of some of the art work done by my kids. I also included tickets and other memorabilia to remember. I just scanned in the papers and then resized them to fit on the page. The background of this one was painted by Brooke.

Nana's Dress 01/2005