Here is a layout I did of Anya.  This was one of the first really big smiles we got from her. I love the little sailor dress and I wish she would still let me dress her up.  The white and blue fabric rose panels are from Mon Ami Gabby. I had just discovered them at Scrapbook Expo and I love love love their stuff now. The paper flower is very dimensional and each layer is separated by a dob (that's a technical term, LOL) of Helmar's Liquid Scrap Dots. Which is a product I can't seem to get enough of.  

Happy Saturday! Oh wait it's actually Sunday!  I wanted to show you all what to do when you can't find paper that works with your photo the way you want it too. I wanted my background paper to mimic the circles on Siena's pink dress and couldn't find any paper that worked with it. So what I did was, I matched embroidery floss with the colors on her dress (dark pink and lime green) and stitched in my own circles on white card stock. To make sure that the circles were in fact round, I used my paper piercer and a plastic canvas circle. Yes, a one of these!

And it worked perfectly!  I got round circles that were pre-pierced and easy to sew. I back stitched the circles onto the white card stock, stamped my girls names on, added a paper ruffle border, a crochet flower and a polka dot button and it was done!  I love the contrast between the pink and lime green cards stock. I have a lot of portrait type pictures of the girls and I don't feel the need to journal on each scrapbook page I made from them.  However, I do always try to keep the photo as the main focus of the layout.