Scrapbook Layouts

Well, for those of you that asked, here are a few of my scrapbook layouts. Please no making fun (especially you, Mandie!). I'm slowly getting better, but my biggest obstacle is not having the really nice, fun embellishments. As you can see, I've been trying to be creative and make my own. ha. Scrapbooking is outrageously expensive! I can't wait until my layouts get even better...I'm hoping the Studio Calico kits can work miracles! I'm so looking forward to getting my first one, and trying to limit myself on buying all the fun supplies that I'd like. I'm going to try to buy it all a little at a time, but until I have more, that's what I'll blame my lame layouts on.

ok, here are the layouts (Mandie, how in the world do you take such good pictures of these? I've already figured out that natural lighting is best, but I guess I just need to get the photo more squared to the edges of the layout so I can crop it better...oh well...)I guess leave me a comment and let me know which is your favorite (I could use a little encouragement!). I don't dare post any of the first pages I made! They're terrible. The wedding scrapbook will look a little odd with some really nice pages, and some horrible, terrible ones. Hopefully I'll be good before I get to making pages for Aubrey :) 'Cause that's what's really important, right?!