Laura Vegas

This week has been pure madness around here. I have one of my previous daycare girlies here visiting this week and next, making it a lot more hectic around here. The youngest in the group just turned 1 years old last week, which means I officially have four 1 year olds in the house, in addition to the older ones. The last 2+ months of summer break is wearing on me, and I think I'm ready for a break from everyone at this point.

And my girls go back to school tomorrow, which means the last week has been a blur of activities just leading up to the first day of school. Link Crew meetings for Alyssa (leadership), freshman orientation for Sarah, Round-Up days for both the girls (where they get their schedules, turn in forms, have school pictures taken, pay for all the stuff that needs paying for, etc. And they've both had three days of band camp, along with fall soccer starting back up last week. It's a lot of running them back and forth, and I appreciate having Grammie, Papa, Aunt Kathy, and a few other mom's there to help out with that part of it.

{Photos courtesy of Krista Lund, friend and photographer}

Anyways. I thought I would take a minute while the kids are napping and share a quick layout. This is another one of my CHA layouts for Bella Blvd, using the new Daily Chevies & Everyday Bits collection. This collection has five fabulous tone-on-tone large chevron patterned papers, along with a black and white large chevron pattern as well. I got the bright idea to fussy cut a few chevron rows from each of the five tone-on-tone papers, and then piece them back together to make a colorful chevron pattern.

It did take a while to cut all of those chevron rows out. After I had quite a few cut out, I started arranging them on a sheet of white cardstock. I used some of the lighter colored rows and some of the darker colored rows, and spaced them so there was a small gap in between each row. Once I was happy with the combo, I adhered them all down, covering the entire sheet of cardstock.

I think I had a bit different idea in my head when I started this, and thought more of the sheet would show. After deciding to only use the pieced together chevron pattern on the sides of the page, I simply used my trimmer to cut off a 2" wide section off each side of the sheet. This left me with an 8×12" piece of this pieced together sheet that I can use for another project.

I wanted to add a touch of patterned paper along the sides as well, so I pulled out a pink flower paper from the Play Date collection and the aqua dotted paper from the Christmas Countdown collection. The white grid paper is from the Trick or Treat collection.

I finished it off with a chipboard border and alphas for the title, a few feathers (both are white, even though one looks a bit cream from the yellow paper behind it), a crochet heart, a few buttons and some stickers.