Happy New Year! :)

I just want to start out by saying, that one of the things I am absolutely looking forward to in 2013 is keeping up with my blog friends!
When I started "blogging" several years ago, I just wanted to share my work and a little bit about my day to day life. Who knew that I would "meet" such an amazing group of women that I have enjoyed "getting to know". I wish we could all meet up in real life and have a huge scrapbook crop or girl's night out somewhere :)
Scrapbooking is such a supportive and fun community, which is something that I truly appreciate!

And now a layout to share! This one was featured on the Crafting Ireland magazine blog. You can see the post with a little tutorial Here.

The assignment was "year in review". I decided to go through my photos in 2011 since at the time I was creating the layout 2012 was not yet over. For this layout I used mostly product by October Afternoon, except for the title and some of the smaller alphabet stickers. The fabric letters are by American Crafts.
I created each month by using an October Afternoon journal card, and tiny alphabet stickers by October Afternoon and Pink Paislee. I made a file of photos that I wanted to use in Picasa and then printed them up at home on cardstock. I just may start making a page like this for all of my annual family albums as the introduction. :)

I still can't believe 2012 is over and we are already two days into the new year. The kids are back in school today, so I am looking forward to getting back into routine. Lots of plans and projects are in the works for the next few months. And hopefully plenty of scrapbooking in there, too! :)