August Layout Challenge

This month--- redo a layout from the past. I actually redid my son's first five years of albums since I went all crazy Edward Scissorhands with all of the original pictures. Hearts, stars, teddy-bears? You name the shape and I've probably cut my photos that way. I have come to embrace my layouts as they are. Even whey they aren't so great. Then I remembered what was sitting in my embellishment drawer.
There was a child in my class at one time that ahem...shall I say...didn't always know how to make nice with others. I clearly remember my own kindergarten bully. I knew that I had to find a way to reach her. I praised her whenever she was kind and gave her tough love when she wasn't. She did improve quite a bit. Towards the end of the year she came in and handed me two plastic snowflakes. "These are for your scrapbook," she said. I was touched by her gesture and so I decided to redo my latest winter layout. Thanks for looking!

Before:

After:  Look! I took my first photo of a layout! It's a little busy but I had fun with this one! I used one of the gifted plastic snowflakes and added a Jolee snowflake over it. (The penguins are Jolee's too.) The chipboard is American Crafts.