justem: little bits of this and that

she and him.

Is it really Friday already? This has been the fastest week ever! Anyway, I wanted to share my final layout with the Midnight Rooster May kit. I made four this time, and I honestly could have probably made four more. I truly enjoyed creating with this kit! But, I have the June kit sitting on my scrap desk, and it's equally good as May, so I better get started on that one! 

For those of you who are not familiar with them, no I don't just have really bad grammar, I stole the title from this musical group. I hope this doesn't sound arrogant, but I have really loved the layouts I made with this kit. I seem to go in streaks where I either love my layouts or hate my layouts. I'm luckily in a "love" stage right now.  I hope it keeps up... ;)

Henry's first layout!

Today I have a layout to share. Henry's first layout! :) This was made using the Midnight Rooster May kit.  I have had the "idea" in my head for about a week, but I was just waiting on the photos I had printed to arrive. This is one of my favorite photos of Henry's birth, and I knew it would go perfectly with a line from the song, "The Luckiest" by Ben Folds.  It's not the first time I've used the song lyrics on a layout!!  See here... ;)  I paired this layout up with a journaling challenge over at the MR blog.  Check it out. :)

**Published: Create: All About Babies Idea Book, May 2012**

fun news!

I have some fun news to share today! I received an email from Kaitlin at Ormolu asking me to join her creative team. I'm SO excited. She makes fantastic products in a GREEN way! Take a look...

I also will have a chance to work alongside some truly talented scrapbookers. I'm a bit humbled after seeing the list of amazing women on the team...so many big names.  See the full announcement here.  A big thanks to Kaitlin! :) 

She scraps!

I finally have two layouts to share with you today!  They were both made with the Midnight Rooster May kit, Fairy Cottage.  I really love this kit. It's filled with all kinds of pretty, fresh new product!  Because of all the new product we got our kits a little later than usual, and I've been slowly finishing up my layouts. I'll have more to share soon! 

The first layout I made is actually doing double duty for me this week!  This is both a MR layout AND a layout for Scrap That Baby, where the May 15th prompt is "Baby's Day Out."  Look for the rest of the layouts to be posted tomorrow!

I LOVE the new Studio Calico wood butterflies! I added some little pearls from my stash to finish them off.

My second layout uses like my most favoritest (yes I know that's not a word, but it conveys my feelings quite well!) paper ever!  I love the woodgrain paper/doily from Crate Paper.  It was hard to cut it up...but I managed! ;)

**PUBLISHED - Scrapbook Trends**

The little pink fabric flower is one of the many MR exclusives this month...

I used the word strip from the October Afternoon Miscellany pack on top of the ribbon...I like how it turned out! :)

And that's all for now! I was worried that it might be hard to get back into the scrapping since I hadn't really made anything from start to finish in about seven weeks!  Maybe having a great kit to work with was the key...I whipped both of these up in record time, which is great since I'm usually a pretty slow scrapper!  I hope you are all enjoying your weekend! :)