OK, first of all, I've decided that un-du is also an allowable purchase on my challenge. (Been having a really hard time with a layout the last few days. )

Also, just wanted to note that most of my layouts are based on sketches or otherwise scraplifted. I just don't have the ability to visualize how things are going to turn out unless I have an example in front of me. Right now I've been making heavy use of the BHG Scrapbooks Etc. Page Planner and Page|Maps by Becky Fleck, as well as other sketches, ideas from magazines, and so on. If I out-and-out scraplift someone else's layout (as in copying the elements and layout more or less exactly) I'll credit the source; however, I rarely do this, only when I'm really really stuck. Otherwise, I combine and re-combine and rework so many elements from so many different sources that there's really no point in trying to list all the sources. It's like when you post a recipe you made up, trying to list everything you've ever eaten that contributed to coming up with the new idea. And sketches, by definition, are intended to be copied in layouts, so I don't really feel obligated to credit them when I use them.

So, with business taken care of, here's layout #2.

More pictures from when Aaron was born. Two of them I hadn't scrapped before, and the third appeared in a much smaller version. I wanted to focus on the "little brother" aspect of my older son meeting his little brother for the first time. Serendipitously, the text-patterned paper I wanted to use had the words "little brother" printed right in the area that would fall in the title placement area of the sketch, so this page came together really easily. I love it when that happens.

Patterned paper and die cuts: KI Memories; chipboard brackets: Colorbok?; journaling stamp: Autumn Leaves.