Themed Layout: The Long Day

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Themed Layout: The Long Day

This is another example of a layout that embodies why I scrapbook. This is a moment that I've been meaning to journal about ever since it happened. :) Sitting in that hospital room with Will (who wasn't even named Will yet), all by ourselves, listening to Nora Jones and feeling the total glow of contentment (and relief) is something I won't soon forget. But just in case I do, I'll have this to jog my memory.The journaling reads: Meeting your baby is magic. Pure magic. Standing outside in the cold at night, looking at the snow fall while the sky glows, no one else in the world but you magic. This person has been living inside of you for nice months—kicking you, having his own daily routines and rhythms, being with you everywhere you go. And you don’t even know them. You wonder what they’re like, what they look like, and then you finally find out. Totally magical. When the hustle and bustle of the morning was done, when I’d finally been stitched up, showered, and moved into a new room, when Will had been poked and prodded, weighed and bathed, Nic went home to pick up things we’d forgotten. I was left alone with my baby at last. I had Nora Jones playing quietly in the background, and the song that goes “the long day is over” came on. I cried tears of happiness. The long day was over–the long nine months of pregnancy, the long eight hours of natural childbirth, the long twenty-two years of waiting to be a mommy were all finally over. It felt so good. Nora Jones will always have a special place in my memories of Will’s early days. I played her cd every day on my way to work while I was pregnant. It was playing the first time he kicked, it was playing after his birth, and it had a magical effect on him whenever he cried as a newborn–you could turn on Nora and he would instantly calm.Supplies: Anne's North Pole kit, Rhonna's Joy to the World kit, Rhonna's Roughed Up kit, all from 2peas.Instructions: 1) Create the background by using overlays from Rhonna's Roughed Up kit on a plain blue fill layer. 2) To create the journaling/photo section, I drug/dropped the photo onto Anne's snowflake patterned paper. I added a few of the Roughed Up border overlays on top, then added the snowflake overlay. I erased parts of those layers until I was happy with the look. 3) The title and journaling were added on top, then I created the white and dark blue borders by increasing the canvas size. I flatted that document and drug it onto the blue background.