Scrapping Brayden's Adoption Announcement

I had so much fun scrapping Brayden's adoption announcement. I'm so excited that he's officially a deRosier now. This page was inspired by the National Scrapbook Day Shape Layout Challenge. 

Brayden's Adoption (affiliate link)

For this challenge, we had to pick a number (1, 2, or 3) and a letter (A, B, or C). After making a choice (mine was 2C), we found out what those meant. Anyone who picked the number one would be making a layout with hexagons. Number 2 was hearts and number 3 was triangles. I thought that was that, but no! The letter determined which of three layouts for each shape you needed to scraplift. That's different! I scrolled down and discovered that my inspiration needed to come from this gorgeous page (unfortunately, I don't know who made it): 

My page is quite a bit different than this one, but I'm hoping you can see the inspiration. I have a single photo on a large heart. The heart is cut apart (mine is cut in half instead of in strips) and sprinkled with hearts (instead of flowers and butterflies). I took inspiration from the scallop-edge trim to the right of the photo and moved it to the left on my page. That layout has a 'love' script die-cut in grey; mine has a  'family' script die-cut in grey. I used vellum for all the hearts and put vellum flowers on the ends of the script; this was inspired by the overall vibe of the layout.

This was such a fun challenge to do. It really made me think. I'm pleased with how I adapted a romantic, pastel wedding layout to an orange rabbit adoption layout. (Orange layout, not orange rabbit. Should I hyphenate rabbit-adoption to make it more clear? English is weird.)

Welcome to the family, Brayden! We love you and are so glad to be your forever family. 

XOXO: NSD Scraplift Challenge

Happy anniversary to Steve, Husband Extraordinaire! And to me, of course, because he wouldn't be having an anniversary without me. Today marks 14 years since we got married. And a wonderful 14 years it's been!

There are a lot of reasons to love Steve, but one of the sillier reasons I love him is because he tolerates my love of taking bad selfies of us together. I don't use the screen like normal people do to make sure they're actually in the frame. Which leads to some funny photos where we're not in the frame. I laugh every time I see this photo of his mouth and my right eye. I didn't realize the camera was zoomed in; I'd been hoping to capture the beautiful forest and falling snow in the background. You can see some snow in my hair, but that's it.

XOXO (affiliate link)

There were two National Scrapbook Day challenges that inspired me to make this layout. The first was a scraplift challenge. This page by Melinda Spinks was my jumping-off point.

Source

The second source of inspiration was an embellishment challenge. I don't use a lot of embellishments in my scrapbooking and almost never use anything dimensional, so this really was a challenge for me. And it was so much FUN! I love how the page turned out and am so happy to have it in the album.