More Hip 2-b Square projects :)

This month I asked the Hip DT to make a small altered project with their June Hip Kit. Here is what I put together--a little notebook for my niece, who turns seven this month. She loves to write her own stories. Her big sister said they find post-it notes all over with Sari's stories on them. I thought it might be nice for her to have a notebook to write down her stories in.

My nephew, Hans, turns ONE on the 9th. Here is the card I made for him: (Just as a side note: remember how I was having sewing maching trouble last week? Well, the SewMini finally gave up and isn't worth fixing. Definitely got my money's worth from it. So I pulled out my regular sewing machine to work on the June Hip kit projects. With this card for Hans, though, it started having issues. The top thread keeps breaking about 4-5 stitches into the sewing. I've tried adjusted the tension. Any ideas??)

I made this next card for a friend who is having a baby next month. No, not a baby kitten--but I used the tile because they don't have a name yet. I'll put the initial there instead. (Although I do think that kitten is kind of cute).

I love this series of shots showing Merek helping me unload the dishwasher. He loves to do this!

The Sassafrass tiles, Apple Flag banners, and Jenni Bowling crepe paper may be my favorite products right now. I seem to be using them on every project in this kit. :)

I pleated the crepe paper on this page, but you can't really tell since I covered most of it up. Oh, and that blue lowercase "y" is actually a lowercase "g" with the top cut out. I wanted "Mommy's" to be all blue but there wasn't a blue lowercase "y". Resourceful, right? My two-page layout should be done in the next day or two. This kit is so awesome! There is still plenty left for me to scrap more pages or make more cards with it.

ps--Addie, I used the Sakura white jelly roll pen (medium).