Scrapbooking Pages...or...The Thing that is Currently Keeping Me From Painting

I've been working on catching up with my scrapbooking this year. It's a great way to start a new year, as I've mentioned before, and I'm on the home stretch. I've finished my 2006 album, most of my son's first year album, and have started on 2007. I'm kind of a "less-is-more" scrapbooker - I don't spend a ton on materials and I don't like an excessively cluttered page. My favorite pages are the simple ones, as you can see. The two pages I'm posting are from Wesley's 1 year album. It's got 6" pages so I usually am lucky to get 3 pictures on a page - and with these two, a single picture says it all.
I love Close to My Heart's whitecore cardstock and on the Opa page I used my Chizzel-It tool to sand the edges, and distress the photo edges as well. It was my first time distressing a photo - fun! I thought this page looked complete without any accent accessories.

On Sunday I attended a card-making workshop at my neighbour's. In addition to making two fun Valentine cards, I was introduced to Cricut. While it's completely outside my budget (I've already spent far too much on scrapbooking this year), I love the idea of being able to cut out lettering for my pages, rather than continually buying stickers and then running out of the letters that I need. So...my birthday is coming up...if you are reading this and feel that you owe me a gift to the tune of $200 or so...well, I won't outright ask but I think my ellipses are pretty explanatory.