My Baby Brother

With the little one on the way, I'm really trying to get better about scrapbooking. Normally, my biggest obstacle is actually taking the pictures (and getting them printed). So now I carry my camera with me everywhere I go. I've also picked up a few scrapbooking magazines and layout books for some extra inspiration. I came across this layout in one of the magazines and I just had to try it out! My baby brother (I only have one brother and he is 27 - not quite a baby, huh?) is getting married and my mom had pulled out some of the family pics for a little slideshow at the Rehearsal Dinner. I got my hands on a couple of the pictures and had copies made so I could practice some of these super-cute layouts!

The base of this double layout is 8 1/2" x 11" Soft Sky cardstock. My "masculine" patterned paper is somewhat limited, so I pulled out my scraps from the retired Wintergreen collection from the Fall-Winter catalog. A couple of the patterns are real Christmas-y, but the others are pretty versatile. Since I used a variety of different pictures with different color schemes, I used the patterned paper for my color combo inspiration - Soft Sky, Always Artichoke, and Certainly Celery. I still struggle with journaling on my pages and I didn't want to mess up this page by flubbing up my words, so I stuck another picture in the area which was originally reserved for journaling.

All in all, I'm pretty happy with the way this turned out! Here is a close up pic of each of the pages in this double page layout: