Top ten - December

My last and final post of my favorites from the year 2009. I chose this layout I did with an older picture of Jim's Dad, Julius. He passed away only a few months after this picture was taken, so it's a real treasure to our family. I loved using this Pink Paislee line and the Prima Cherry Blossom was the perfect fit.

Top ten - November

I did this Thanksgiving layout to include a family recipe that I received from Jim's mother and have made it for every holiday since we've been married. I love the way I clustered the flowers, chipboard and bling.

Top ten - October

This was a tough month to decide a favorite. I did this layout with my SAS DT kit. This is a picture of our youngest DD and me at Epcot with the holiday decorations. I love the rich colors in this kit and the beautiful varnished and textured papers. This is one of those layouts that I started with a sketch, but by the time I was done, there wasn't much similarity. I added some Shimmerz to the green ring which gave it an almost frosty look.

Top ten - September

Another layout using the Scrap Attack Design Team kit - Lauri sends some of the best products to work with and every month I'm thrilled with my layouts. I chose this layout because it is a good memory of our (Jim and my) trip to Disneyland. I love the Basic Grey die-cut paper and the beautiful crystal flourish - made a fun page for our picture with Minnie.

Top ten - August

I had to choose this layout for 2 reasons - this was the 1st of my Scrap Attack Scrapbooking Design Kits and I love, love, love working with Basic Grey. The best part was I didn't have to fussy cut the flower around the title, it's Die-cut paper Basic Grey puts out that matches their Lemonade line.

Top ten - July

I used the same {SAS} kit as the June layout; this time using some of the velvet paper that I fussy cut. love the bright colors on this one.

Top ten - June

I got some tulle in a {SAS} kit and first time I used it on a layout.

Top ten - May

I scrapped pictures from my 1st birthday in May. I love the vintage feel this Basic Grey line gives to the layout. I did a lot of fussy cutting and used pop dots for the dimension. This was one of the first times I'd used Shimmerz - I painted it on the plastic letters "wish" and the butterfly.

Top ten - April

I played around with photo editing after learning a little more during the SSU class on Scrap Attack Scrapbooking.

Top ten - March

I've started using bling more on my layouts and circles are starting to show up more and more.