Celebrating one!

Celebrating one for me means my little boy's birthday! All year, I took his picture once a month in his crib. I made sure to have the same sheet on the bed, and put his little beanie baby next to him. It really helps to show how much he grew in a year! (photo above)

I also had his picture taken once a month and ordered wallets of his professional photos. (as well as the 4 months I took his monthday pictures myself) I knew I wanted to do some kind of page layout that showcased all of his months. Here is the finished product. It's amazing how much they change in one year, isn't it?! (below) I was rusty from only scrapbooking digitally, but once I did a page or two, I was back! It was fun doing these page layouts for my son's birthday photos.

It's my party and I'll cry if I want to!

This one is so fun! The photographer made him mad when she put his hand in the icing and then put it to his mouth, She was frozen when he started crying, but I yelled, "Take a picture! Take a picture!" Above was the result. I used a 8x10 paper for the mat/background and used just a few party embellishments. I really wanted the title to stand out, so I used white letters and went around each one with a pen. I cut out the paper from beind the photo, since you won't see it anyway, and punched out squares to finish off the page.

Birthday Boy

This page is very much like a page I could do online in a digital album. I love it because it's crisp and clean. All I used were letter stickers of various sizes and a paper background. I just layered the "Birthday" on top of the lighter colored "Boy" letters.

One

I love this page, too! It's so simple. A simple yellow background matched the yellow in his shirt. I used 2 sizes of circle punches to make the open circles and put letter stickers inside. There is one cupcake sticker under the O. This page changed as I designed it, as so often happens. I like the way the word "one" is here because it goes with the jersey look of the shirt he's wearing. This just shows you that you don't need a whole lot to make a page. You just want it to all go together. The less you put on a page, the more likely it is that that will happen.

Happy Birthday puzzle.

This page was born out of my desire to mat these pictures in blue. However, I don't have any more blue paper, so I used the green and kind of made a puzzle mat. That's when I realized that I had a puzzle punch that I had never used! When using a new punch, know that the first couple of punches will have oil on the edges. Do some practice punches that you can toss. Once again, all I have on this page is a small amount of paper, some letter stickers and one party diecut. I want everyone to notice the photos, another reason to keep it simple.

Just for fun: I put a number one or the word one on each page of my son's birthday pages. I started doing this for my daughter a few years ago, and she and others who look at the album, really have fun looking for the birthday numbers.

I'm currently working on my daughter's album when I can sneak away for a few minutes. I am enjoying scrapbooking and trying not to get caught up on the fact that I am so far behind. It's a hobby for crying out loud! If I was all caught up, what would I do with my time? Ha Ha! That's a joke, I always have at least one event being planned, project ideas I want to try, and a room or 2 that need cleaned. Not to mention...the laundry!



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Size Relationships

Having just had a tiny baby, I find myself very interested in the smallness that makes up his world. His tiny feet....

A body that isn't much bigger than a beanie baby....

his head in comparison to his Daddy's hand.....

or his sister's hands with his.

There is just so much to love about this tiny little person!

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Baby Shower

I have a baby shower to go to today and I'll be giving her baby scrapbook supplies from Creative Memories! I love to give album making supplies as gifts because it gives people a great start. This friend is an avid scrapbooker and when I asked her what she needed, she told me, "Give me any of the baby stuff, I need it all!" I don't know if she's having a boy or a girl, (I think she's having a boy, personally!) but that's Ok, because most of the baby stuff is neutral. I'm sure that she is going to be excited to start an album for her baby, I know I was!

Tip of the Day: The way I started my baby's album was this, I put her hospital picture on the first page along with some information about the birth and what her name means. Then I did a 2 page spread on me being pregnant, with a picture from each month. A page of the ultrasound and ultrasound photos, and us getting ready, (painting the nursery, choosing names, hanging little dresses!) and then a few pages about her shower. Then I went to the birth and so on. I want her to know how much we were anticipating her, and how she was such a big part of our lives from the moment we knew she was on her way!
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