Practical Scrappers Blog Hop: Two + one = a family

Thanks for joining us for the Practical Scrappers Blog Hop. You should have started the hop here at Practical Scrappers. And you should have reached me from Caz's blog. We're sharing projects that relate to the number TWO for the crop since it's our SECOND anniversary at Practical Scrappers! This was quite a challenge for me, we've missed all of our niece's and nephew's 2ND birthdays (well except the 10 month old), we forgot our 2NDanniversary (my Gran sends us cards every year now, so we remember), so I had to think (((outside))) the box. My layout is about our "family" increasing in size. It's been just the TWO of us for 13 years, but come Christmas time, there should be three of us!!! And suddenly it all feels so real!

I've also got a prize to give to TWO of you who visit and are a follower of my blog and Practical Scrappers blog. All you have to do is leave a comment letting me know you were here. I'll be giving away some goodies from my friend DeeDee's Etsy store. TWO of you will get this assortment of purple, red and blue handmade clouds. I have used them on many layouts myself and have ((loved)) them!And here's my layout. This is from my 20 week scan last week. Baby Homer is a little girl.......You should be able to see from this mosaic how I created this layout. I basically took LOTS of chipboard 2's and adhered them to a sheet of cardstock. This wasn't too much of a stretch for me - I have quite the extensive alpha collection - mostly Thickers ;-) I then painted over the numbers with black acrylic paint, waited for that to dry and then applied a purple wash to the page. I love the effect. This is not the first time I have done a layout like this, check out a couple of my others here and here.
Next up on the blog hop is the amazing Carolina. We have an extremely talented group of designers, I know you'll enjoy checking out their blogs, here is the full list again in case you need it! There are lots of amazing layouts featuring the TWO theme and lots of prizes too!

Christine

Kerri

Erin

Jessica

Pia

Corinna

Brenda B

Audrey

Jayma

Claude

Andrea

Fern

Jodi

Caz

Kylie

Carolina

Sandi

Aymee

Teresa

Don't forget to leave me some love and become a follower here and at Practical Scrappers to go in the draw for my prize!!! Kylie xxx