I think I have finally found my scrapbooking style. I lean toward the simple, maybe because I don;t really know how to use embellishments. I have now started an album for myself of my kids' growing up years and how I can be a bit cuter with that, but I have to tell you the story of the first page in that album.
The first page is my daughter's birth (she's older than my son). I bought this cute pink and white paper that said "baby" and had a theme of footprints and handprints in vellum, that had a matching regular paper in blue for a boy. The paper is DARLING but once I started putting the page together, I started to wonder. Something wasn't right here. Even as a baby, Laura, my DD, wasn't a ruffles and lace sort of girl. I always told people she was more gingham and eyelet, and that's still true. The paper, I realized was just TOO pink and white. So what did I do? I grabbed some black material with pink polka dots and black middie braid and came up with this.
My second question is, I'm hopeless with embellishments. Mine always look too busy so I wind up not using them much., Other people's look wonderful, but mine just come out silly looking. Any tips there would also be appreciated.
That's it! I'm sorry this is so long. I'll try not to be so long winded again in the near future.
Hugs, Rach