new 52 :: week two :: stitching on a paper layout

Here we are with week two over with, and I really wasn't sure at first what would be new this week. I was trying to live in the moment see what came around. Every day passed much like the others, work, dinners, kids, photos, scrapping, dogs, breakfasts, crazy toddler antics.

I did have a goal this week, that was to create a paper layout. Something I don't do very often anymore because I love to digi scrap. Plus it's a lot more messy and with my crazy toddler, did I mention crazy toddler yet, its a mess I don't like to get into with him. Like I said he's crazy and the two don't mix well. Even if I do have the last 5 months of Studio Calico kits sitting in my drawer waiting to be loved and used.

Sometimes I just like cutting and pasting and having it all work out in the end and that's what happened this weekend. I had picked up the current issues of Scrapbooks Etc and loved the quick sketches it has in the back of the book. I love each one of them. Since I'm quite often a template girl anyhow. I rolled with it. In the example layout one of the pieces of paper is stitched. Well, I have a sewing machine now. I've always admired stitched layouts, I use stitching in my digi pages. So I busted out my Singer and went to work. I have to say I'm in love, and I think I need to do more paper layouts just to put this into action because well, it just rocks.