Small Beginnings Layout

This photo was taken when Mackenzie met her cousin, Thatcher, for the first time. He spent several weeks in the hospital after he was born so she was not able to visit him there. She was very excited to meet her new little cousin.

For the layout, I used 2 sheets of the double-sided Country Library by October Afternoon. I love double-sided coordinating papers! The photo was matted in cream cardstock and inked around the edges with Brillance Graphite Black ink. The green scalloped cardstock was a scrap that I inked and used the February journal stamp to allow for the quote and date. I used the Sakura stardust pen around the heart, on the journal lines and around the chipboard letters. The Prima flowers have a BasicGrey glazed brad in the center and are accented with the cool new suede leaf ribbon.

Paper(s): October Afternoon Country Library, Cream cardstock, scalloped green cardstock

Ink(s): Brillance Graphite Black

Other: 2 Red Bananas February Journal Spot stamp, Prima flowers, May Art Ribbon, American Crafts chipboard letters

Final Sneak Peek featuring February Journaling Spots

WOW! What a busy and fun week. Today is the final sneak peek day of featuring the new 2 Red Bananas stamp sets. Tomorrow all new exclusive sets will all be available to purchase here. I hope you've made your list! Be sure to check out the papers, inks, bling and more on the site as well.

OK for our last Sneak Peek, we are featuring the February Journaling Spot set. This set includes a heart journaling block and the word February. For my birthday card, I heat embossed the heart in white. The stamp has journal lines inside the stamp but I carefully inked the heart only with VersaMagic so that I could emboss it. Then I stamped the word February included in the February Journaling Spot set in Tsukineko Pearlescent Sky Blue. I used a variety of other stamps for all the other pieces to make "Happy 1st" and used the same ink. The cool, mesh ribbon is from May Arts. The flowers are from Prima and the jewels are from Me & My Big Ideas.

Paper(s): White cardstock base, black cardstock, doodlebug (I think) patterned paper

Ink(s): VersaMagic and embossing powder, Tsukineko Pearlescent Sky Blue

Other: May Art ribbon, Prima flowers, Me & My Big Ideas jewels

If you are participating in the Blog Hop, you will need to visit each DT member site, leave a comment and hop to the 2 Red Bananas blog and answer an easy question. We hope you have enjoyed all the new stamp sets featured this week. We will have more to come soon... Until then, I will be posting other projects. Thanks for stopping by!