Favourite Layouts of 2011

I have been inspired by others to go through my scrapbooking pages today and choose my favourite ones for the year. Here they are, in no particular order.

I am loving this new style I have going, stamping the background. It gives me quite a bit more freedom of expression and it's really fun to do. 

 Not to forget painting and stencilling the background. Love the dark grey with the acid green, but it all looked a bit dull until that little pop of pink, which seemed to make the rest just look good. 

This is what started me out on the whole getting messy business. Love this layout, which was a challenge on Home and Scrapped by Angela Budden, combined with a tutorial on how to do it. This is one of the rarer pages in my collection, in that there is no journaling. But then, the title says it all. 

Love the clean blue and white, the silver lettering and the mixed flowers. I don't use embossing much, but sometimes it's just exactly what you need. 

I love my pot of roses and the beaded circle in this one. Also the little bird watching my Aunty working :-) 

 I should use negative space more often, I like it.

 Twinchies, hand lettered title, using fairly simple lines to make it look complex. 

Love this idea of having a group portrait and then using random photos with a bit of info about each person. 

 Loving that orange! So fresh and pretty without being boring old pink. 

The patchwork I love, but the hearts really make this page, I think. Love scrapping the older photos. 

 Just like this one, love the softness and the pale colours, and that I didn't cut or make anything for it, it was all just stuff I already had made or scraps to hand. Also love that I captured my daughter just checking - she does that a lot, LOL.

Thanks 2011, you helped me tell our story a little bit more. Not all of it was good, and I'm kind of glad it's over. There are bits of 2011 that will stick in my memory forever but oh well, it's all part of life, learning, loving and living. I'd rather have been here than not, lol. We have ended up whole and happy and still standing, and that, my friends, counts for a lot. 

love, Heather "It's about love. You don't have to scrapbook to love but you have to love in order to scrapbook." June