Guest Star Nicole Harper!

I have been a fan of paper and stickers since the 80s...(only now I fill my stash with old paper things found at antique shows instead of the school supply aisle, lol). I've decided that for me, scrapbooking is about my family's story. Our lives are CRAZY these days, so I do my best to jot down what I can...but am also a huge fan of retelling stories from my past as I remember them using old photos found in my Mom's attic. My daughter Allie and my husband Mike humor me in my quest to get it all down on paper...and I get a kick out of catching either of them smiling while sneaking a peek at a layout I've made about them. (You can read more about our crazy stories at my blog, www.seriouslybrains.blogspot.com).

I collect stuff. old stuff. after coming home from a recent junking trip, i was trying to figure out where to put my latest 'N'...when Allie suggested I should have a pic of myself with one of them. So she told me to choose one while she got my camera out, and this photo was the result, lol. I am in love with the journaling cards for Play Date, so i cut the inside of one of them out to kind of make a frame...and used it to house my title. (I'm a big fan of making 'frames' and filling them with goodies) i have ten thousand sheets of old ledger paper (I can't resist them...I see them, I buy them. End of story. Haha!), so I used one as a base for this page. I LOVE the rub-on butterflies...LOVE. (keep those coming in every color imaginable please, Ms. Jenni!)

Some photos just 'catch you'...this is one of those for me. A subtle reminder of how amazing my daughter is, in every aspect of the word. I used my Slice machine to cut the 'smile' for the title and then stitched inside of it to help it stand out a bit. Mixed a few older JBS products in here, as they seemed to fit perfectly!

You can see more of Nicole's lovely work in her gallery. Thanks for the inspiration Nicole!