The Paper Girls Challenge #16: Baby

The Challenge this time at the Paper Girls Challenge blog is make a page or project about someone/ something you consider to be your baby. Well here is another picture of Elliott when he was just two months old. Since I found this file of pictures I just had to use another one for this challenge. I remember taking this picture specifically with his little elephant toy that he loved so I could look at it and remember how happy he got when he played with it.

I used papers from a Studio Calico monthly kit from last October. I thought it would be appropriate to use up some of the stuff that I've been hoarding for over a year! I love the soft colors - even though I don't usually use them often. I did have to throw in some bright accents here and there. I thought it would be fun to use a Sassafras Lass journal card that just happened to have a 2 on it and an elephant to show his age at the time. One more thing to note is that my alpha didn't show up very well so I used a metallic gel pen and traced around the letters to bring them out more.

Make sure to head on over to the Paper Girls blog to see the other projects and to link up your own creation!

Scrapbook for my new nephew

This weekend I was working on a baby album for my sister Alyssa. She's so pregnant she's going to go any time. It's just fun to work on something during the week of anticipation. I will probably get it done before she has him so I think I will add the stats at the beginning. Basically she will just have to add pictures. I was thinking of sending her the right kind of glue because she just doesn't like to think about things like that. I've tried to get her into the scrapbooking thing but she views it as a chore more than something fun. I told her it might be better to go to one of those book publishing sites that you upload your pictures and text and they charge you by how many pages it is. She should really do something! Her strong point is writing and I think she could really do something entertaining. So here's a few of the pages. I don't think I can post them all. Believe it or not this is only half of the book.

I got the album at the Target $1 section and the paper and stickers too. I basically got the idea standing in the isle at Target and thought "This is what I'm going to do!" Anyway I took the book apart and adding some colored cardstock (SU!) pages in and am happy with how it's turning out!

Details: Scrapbook printed paper and stickers Target $1, Cardstock certainly celery, bashful blue, tempting turquoise, so saffron (the white was in there.) Cuttlebug swiss dots folder, Fiskars clouds scissors, Michaels ribbon, and SU white grosgrain, K&Co baby boy tags.