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Time Flies...an easy layout to recreate.  My son is now 24, when I started his album he was around 18 or so!  Waiting that long to start a child's album is hard because you have to remember so many different things! 

This layout was very easy to recreate, even the sewing around the edges!  As I looked at what to do in this layout, I wanted to showcase how time flies when your kids are growing up.  One day they are babies, learning to go up and down stairs, and the next they are learning how to drive and getting their own lives going! 

The supplies you need to recreate this layout is:
Cardstock
Saying stickers
Buttons
Floss for around the edges
Black journaling pen
Tags
Sewing maching for sewing around the edges
Needle for the floss

Step one:  Find the photos you want to scrapbook.
Step two:  I chose the saying stamps first, so I could decide on the colors of cardstock to use. 
Step three:  On the base cardstock piece, using your sewing machine (without the thread) sew around the edges of the cardstock. 
Step four:  Using floss and a needle, take the floss and sew around the edges of the cardstock in a coordinating color.  I chose green to match the stickers. 
Step five:  For the tags, add a button, and a bit of journaling on them to finish them up.  Add to the layout.
Step six:  Using the cardstock scraps, layer the saying sticker.  Add a button with floss through to finish up the look. 
Step seven:  Using another saying, add to cardstock next to one of the photos.  Again, layer this on carstock as well, to match step six. 
Step eight:  Take a larger piece of cardstock scrap, and handwrite your journaling for the bottom of the layout. 
Step nine:  Put it all together using the above layout as your guide, or do your own take on it! 

As with any type of layout, change it up, do a different theme, or showcase a beautiful set of pictures of this type of layout.  It wasn't the "pictures" I wanted to showcase as much as the written words!  The feeling I had seeing the pictures, and knowing how fast time really flies!  Enjoy your kids, and learn to scrap those day to day events that are truly priceless! 

Lynda, Owner and Designer
Memories in Tyme