For this layout, I was inspired by Paige Evans' layout "Love & Hugs".  Now, since Atty is wearing one of her Christmas/Winter sleepers, I really didn't want to have been bold colors.  I decided to stick with a fairly neutral color scheme with the pinks thrown in (because I seem to always use pink on her layouts!).  The photo is of Atty eating breakfast one morning and I loved the photo, but it didn't have a lot of story to go with it.  I have already documented this specific moment (her first time eating toast) through my Project Life spreads, so I asked Jamie if he had any stories about her that he thought should be told.  And so Big Squishies was born!  The journaling reads, "Atty has been giving what we have named - "Big Squishies" lately.  They are part bear hug, part cuddle, part 'I am never letting go of my blank (insert momma or daddy).'  It is super adorable and sweet to come home to a Big Squishie!  Definitely makes you feel loved!  She is also giving big open mouth kisses!"

Hearts are from the following papers

• Fancy Pants - Spring Fever (script)
• Paper Studio - Baby Script (pink)
• Dear Lizzy - Perfect Picture
• Studio Calico - Woot (black and white vertical chevron)
• Recollections - Pink Tiles

This layout uses all three sizes (1.5, 2, and 3 inches) of the heart shapes.  Then, I used the Echo Park, Beautiful Life Collection, paper "Banners" as a background to arrange my hearts.  The 3x4 journaling cards are from the Becky Higgins Midnight Project Life Core Kit.  I also used a pink alpha from Nikki Sivils (Pink Alpha Sticker Sheet) for "Squishies" and Basic Grey Paper Cottage for "Big".  Then I just added some Studio G pink gems to create a few small clusters to draw your eye around the page.

For this layout, I was inspired by Paige Evans' layout "Me & Amy".  This layout is all about my daughter's obsession with Kung-Fu Panda.  As soon as she hears the theme introduction music, she comes crawling as lightning speed so that she can watch the show and dance to the tunes.  These photos are from two separate Po watching occasions throughout the month of April, 2014.

Finally, for this layout I was inspired by Paige Evans' layout "Day Trip to Bamberg".  And in case you didn't pick up on it, I did not want to cut out more hearts!  So I decided not to cut the hearts in half and stitch them the way she did.  Since I cut out my hearts by hand, one at a time, they also did not match up to make mixing and matching easy at all.  So I just ignored that part and went about my business.  I loved her messy zizag stitching that she had on the hearts, so I added that detail using my sew-easy, which wasn't so easy and doesn't look near as good as her does.  But I do love the added detail to the finished layout.  These photos are from one afternoon in April that Atty spent with Jamie.  She also loves watching Bubble Guppies and it is one of our before bedtime shows that I let her watch.  It seems to calm her down, instead of getting her into play play play mode.  She even climbed up and watched it on Daddy's lap this time!  He sent me these photos while I was at work, and I loved her different facial expressions.  The #24 is actually the date of these photos, but I thought it also played into the fact that she would watch it 24/7 if she could (and if we could stand it)!

So, I have a decent amount of scraps left from the papers that I cut hearts out of. However, I used up 4 whole sheets of paper for these three layouts. Which brings me up to 7 whole sheets of paper used for the month!  I'd love to have you join up with me this month, and please leave a comment if you have some creative ways to use up paper!  Check back next week, when I will be using Isbaha's new challenge site, Scrap Your Scraps to inspire my next batch of paper stashbusting layouts.