Sweet Shoppe Designs

November Portfolio challenge #15 - A layout within a layout - scrap a page devoted to one or two or three or twenty of your favorite previously scrapped layouts.

I forget sometimes that half of the pages I create will be given away. I need to remember to keep a sample of my favourite ones to look back on like I have here. For the last few years I have been scrapping my nieces and nephews as well as my own family. It’s been my gift to my brothers and sisters to capture their baby’s first year through scrapbooking. I know what it’s like to want to remember that first year. You think you’ll never forget the little things they did, or the way they looked at a certain age. But you do. And you wish you had written things down, noted why you took that photo, or how you felt at that moment. Wherever possible I get the parents to provide the journalling. Those declarations of love will be cherished treasures should the unimaginable happen and a parent dies before the child is grown. I know, it’s a morbid thought, but it’s what motivated me to scrap in the first place. I want my children to know from ME how much I love them. I want to leave messages throughout their lives that leave them in no doubt of their value and importance to me as their mum. And I want that for my nephews and nieces too. I spend hundreds of hours on the albums - each taking a full year to complete. I can’t scrap everyone, or everything but I do what I can with the time I have, putting all my love into each layout. These pages are from Hannah’s album. Through scrapping her, I have been honoured to witness Andre and Shannon’s deep love and devotion to their firstborn. What a blessing it is to have this opportunity to serve my family, to share my love and create a lasting record of the things that matter most. My next task is to teach the parents how to scrap so they can do the remaining years!

Baby Girl by Kristin Cronin-Barrow
Brown paper from I Love Cocoa by Kristin Cronin-Barrow
DJB I Love Me Some Laura font by Darcy Baldwin
You Are Loved font