Bachelorette Party Page

I made a scrapbook for my friend's wedding process - the bridal shower, bachelorette party, rehearsal dinner, and the wedding itself!  It was a lot of work, but fun and I'm glad I was able to do it.

My favorite page out of that entire scrapbook was for the bachelorette party.  The paper was silver glitter since we all wore sequins out.  It was kind of a pain in the rear to get everything to stick to that paper, but I bought some sticky dots called Zots for Bling and those little suckers keep everything on.  wish I had discovered those sooner in my scrapbooking life.  oh well.

I used two different cricuts to get the 'South Haven' and 'bachelorette party' words, sadly I can't remember which ones.  I think bachelorette party was from Tie the Knot.

What I love most about it though is the pictures of everyone's heads (or shoulders and up) on the left hand side.  I think that turned out the best!

What's in a Name? Scrapbook Page

Our daughter is named after a couple family members and I wanted her to know who she was named after and what that person was like.  In her baby album, I created pages for each of the people she was named af

I found some photos of those people from when they were kids to adults, typed up a little bit of info such as favorite colors, favorite flowers, activities they liked, and some of my memories of them.  I think it's a nice little way to remember those people since they have passed away.  Not the most amazing layout pages, but I like the idea!

The one for my Mom, I even found a small old cross stitch that was just sitting in a box and added it to the page.

Water Baby Scrapbook Page

There's nothing too special about this specific page other than I just like the way it turned out.  I struggle with looking at other people's scrapbooks because all of the really cool, artsy ones usually have one photo.  And to quote Sweet Brown: 'Ain't nobody got time for that!'.  I mean, just one photo?  Either I'd have to start taking way better photos that encompassed everything, or my scrapbook would be way huge.

this is a page from when we did a toddler swim class with my daughter and at this same time my husband decided to sport a porn mustache.  I warn you, it's not a good look for him.  I think I used the Cricut at the beach to the make the mermaid.

I think the page turned out super cute.  I love the way the title looks and adding the orange background around the area I journaled on white paper made it pop a bit.

Tracking Baby's Travels

This is another fun page that I created to show our daughter all the places she went in her first two years.  I was originally only going to do the first year, but I thought I'd keep going. Probably will stop after two years since I'm running out of space to write things!  I got the idea when listening to a teenager tell her Mom all the places she's never been and the Mom was saying - we did that when you were younger!  You just don't remember it!

Now I have proof!  I had big plans for cutting out a super cool map of the United States, but then I found this sticker.  It was actually a bit of a pain because all the states are separate, but it was faster and easier than all the other plans I had.  I marked with a sticky jewel where she had been and then wrote where and the date.  Plus, a lot of the photos are in the scrapbook as well.

On a side note, remember those little Calico Critters?  When I was growing up and playing with them they were called Sylvanian Families.  I loved these little things so much.  I had a ton of them.  My favorites were a little mouse I named Bartholomew and a beaver who I named Misty.  Or maybe that was her given name, I can't remember.  I'm hoping they're all at my Dad's house and I can get them up here soon since we just got a doll house for our daughter.  I bring it up because Zulily has them on their site and it is taking all my self control to not buy them.  We're trying to budget right now.  :(

Hand Print Memory Page

I don't think I blogged about this one, but awhile ago, before my daughter turned one, I traced her hand on a piece of paper because she was figuring out this pen and ink thing and I thought that it would be interesting.  Well, soon it became pen and skin and clothes, oh well, she's washable right?  But it gave me another idea, what about cutting out that little hand we had traced?  Originally I had different plans, but I saw the things on pinterest with the Mom and Baby hands.  Rather than doing paint, I also traced my hand and my husband hand, cut them out, and added to scrapbook paper!

Goodness, look at that tiny litte hand, where does the time go?  I like the paper version better because paint is a little messy and I think you would have to use a lot to get it to be a really good print.

The darkest purple is my husband.  Which leads me to defend my hand in the middle - I have long fingers!  I don't have man hands!  At least, no one has ever told me if I do.  And I've always heard I have long fingers.  Hmm...now to stare at my hands and wonder why they are almost the same size as my husband's......

Sorry the image in this post is so bad. :( Sometimes I forget blogger doesn't let me do a bunch of cool stuff. Oh well, you get the idea. This is the post of the nine months baby was growing inside me! The photo of me pregnant at the bottom was about a month before my due date. I was HUGE! This page is really simple, as you can see. I made this in a naptime when Josephine was really young (she's 8 months now). But I really needed some time to do my thing, and it's amazing what you can come up with when you put your mind to it! I'm also back to trying to be vegan 70-80% of the time. So I made myself one serving of oatmeal. But then I added a serving of banana, sweetened shredded coconut (I didn't have unsweetened), a little peanut butter, ground flax seed, cinnamon, and almond milk. Really good. Only make a half serving next time if I plan to add all that. I had to stop half way through. Guess I'm not getting my full serving of fruit yet (aiming for five a day, it's harder than it seems! You have to do a lot of preplanning!).

Remembering loved ones

Publish PostThese are two pages I created after my Mom and my stepmom passed away from ovarian cancer (yes! Both of them three months a part!). I loved both of them so very much and was very blessed to have two mothers.

These two pages are earlier scrapbooking pages I did, so I don't think they're all that amazing, but what I do like about it, it was kind of therapy for me. Each one is about a three page layout where I have old photos of them, memories, etc. I highly recommend doing it!

Birthday Party!

I love this page because it's an overdose of pink. And all the elements just came together so well. To me, at least. :) What I don't like is the 7th sticker I used. At the time I thought it would be really cool to use up all those extra stickers I just can't get rid of. It's not. It's stupid. :) this is probably one of my trusty page layouts, background color in a small, busy print, and then a complementing, monochromatic color for the backing on all the photos. Then letters in a different color to make it pop a bit.

Michigan Seasons

For a year I was going to the same spot at a park near our house to take photos of the changing seasons. The long term plan is to frame larger prints of these for my house, but for now, I scrapbooked the photos. I wanted the page to showcase the photos in a very simple, clean way. I matted the photos on white paper, and then put that on a black sheet. The 'Michigan Seasons' text is from the cricut, the first one is Jasmine, and I think the word Seasons is doodletype. Love this page!

Below are images from my daughter's baptism scrapbook page. Sometimes I can't stand blogger for the way it loads images, so it's the second page, then the first page, then both together because I don't feel like messing around with the images. Hey! I'm a naptime scrapbooker, I only have a few minutes! :) Maybe one day my daughter will take a three hour nap, but for now, she most certainly does not.

I really wanted to make the whole layout look like the stained glass window in one of the photos, but I was having a really hard time imagining how to do that successfully without it being too busy. So what I did instead was use two blue pages, trim them down so you could see the white underneath and then add the red strip at the top and the bottom. I liked that it was color blocked, probably the closest I would get to the stained glass effect.

I also added a cross mosaic to give it a more religious feel, and because mosaic seems close to me to stained glass, that whole pieced together look. I also add some journaling on just strips of paper to add more of the color blocked look. Also, the mosaic and strips are great ways to use up the little scraps of paper that you hate to throw away! Hope you like it too!

I tried to block out her full name, you know, for internet security and all that. :)

Month 2 page

I bought these cute month stickers so that when your baby turns a different month, you put the sticker on and everyone knows if she's 1 month, 2 month, etc. Unfortunately, I didn't order them until after her 1 month birthday. So I started at two months. I want to incorporate them into every month page for her baby album, so this is two months below.

I bought the stickers on etsy from this lady: http://www.etsy.com/shop/babycakesdesignco

I don't know her, but I thought it would be nice to send some link love her way. :) They are a little thin and flimsy, so not something you would keep on all day long because they would get all yucked up, but just fine for what i'm using for.

The little squirrel (her nursery is woodland creatures themed because I have a squirrel obsession) is from the Create a Critter cricut. First time i used it even though i've had it for almost a year! I used some cute paper from Archivers, can't remember the brand, that had little animals on the background, then some greenish paper with orange on top of it. I also did type a lot of stories from when she was two months old. What she was doing developmentally, etc. Took me a few times to get it the right size for space I had.

Ignore the mess in the background of the photo. I've been too lazy to put all the stuff away. Plus, this way I can sit down and get started right away!

Growing Baby Bump Scrapbook page

I took photos almost every week while I was pregnant so I could scrapbook them. I will say that about 40 photos is way too many to put in a scrapbook without it being a 10 page layout. Below is the page I created to showcase that bump for my daughter to one day see!

I don't remember the materials I used because I made this page a few weeks ago, but it all came from Archivers store. Except the two cricuts, one is a font I can't remember the name of (sorry!) that I borrowed from a friend and the other one is a baby one from the library. I'll get better about writing that stuff down.

I have to brag and say I'm pretty happy with the way this turned out. I love the big numbers on the photos for each of the weeks and the small journaling space. If only I didn't have such bad handwriting. Oh well. I'm too lazy to type up everything

all the time. Let me know what you think!