Life~March Jump Start

I have been working on getting older photos scrapped over the last few weeks and this layout is no different.  Sometimes you have to stop scrapping the present and suck it up and get the past done lol.  Pretty soon I won't remember what we did in any of the pics.

I used the March jump start sketch from The Scraproom and turned it into a two page layout. I seldom scrap one page by itself so I just mirrored it. I also used their March TSR Color Challenge

My son was so excited to have a day at the zoo all about Autism Awareness. He thought it was cool to have a day all about him.  He couldn't wait to see the new Dino exhibit and get to play around "digging" up bones.

Since I have so many photos from this day I didn't want to stick myself in a box by using only zoo or animal related products.  I will most likely use some (as I plan on making this it's own album) but I didn't want each page to have it. I cut the dinosaurs on my cricut as a free cut file. 

Autism Awareness Zoo trip

We love the zoo.  We go many times a year if possible and for any reason.  When we found out that The Brookfield Zoo was doing an Autism Awareness Day we couldn't wait to go.  We have two children that have be diagnosed with it so we support it fully.

I took so many photos this day that I still have a full container! I may add more layouts to this later but for now I'm done.  This first layout gave me a lot of trouble.  No matter what I did with it, it just didn't look right.  I finally just put everything down and glued.  I wasn't sure about it but now that its done, its a keeper.

I decided that this layout would only feature the pictures with my son in them.  I wanted to showcase how proud he was to be participating in the Awareness day and how happy he was to be there.  I think this will always be a place we can take him that will instantly calm him down and make him happy.

 

For both layouts I used Kiwi Lane Designs templates.  I have fallen in love with the look these create and how they help you use up patterned paper that you never thought you'd use.