March-First Year Albums

This is the March layout for the First Year Albums I am making for my nieces. One is having a boy the other a girl.

For this layout I used the August 20th sketch over at stuckonusketches.blogspot.com

Cricut: A child's year for the clover; plantin for the circles

Vintage graphics from magicmoonlightfreeimages.blogspot.com

clover paper printed from scrapbookscrapbook.com/themes.html

I put double sided tape in a strip and then put my ribbon on in a zig zag method. Love all the variations of this method I have seen around blog land!

I ruffed up the edges a bit and inked

Here is the boy page, the girl page is the same except the graphic circle and the journaling card.

the girl graphic
the journaling tags (these were also from magicmoonlight's website.

February-First Year Albums

I "Love" this page! lol Here is my February layout for the baby albums. I used a sketch by Liz Qualman.

There's no cricut carts on this one, it's all scal files I created.

I printed the word "sweetheart" directly onto the background paper and the words on the sweethearts candy using the cricut and markers. (I couldn't resist making one of them say "text me")

chalked the candy hearts

cuttlebug swiss dots folder on the red strip of paper

This is the boy page and now I wish I had done both in these colors because the teal blue is so cute and could be for boy or girl--oh well next time!

the girl page

and here is the super cute journaling tag. I found this image online last year and remembered it when I was doing these pages. I originally had printed something else but tried this and knew it was perfect for these layouts! Hope you enjoy these layouts as much I do!
Have a great rest of the day!

January-First Year Albums

Boy, would I welcome some of these snowflakes today in this 100 degree weather! These are the January pages for the little albums I am making. The snowflakes are so super gorgeous irl. I cut them from jots, applied crystal stickles and then dipped them in diamond dust and then pop dotted them. (I can't stop using that diamond dust!) The "BRRRR" was cut from punches and the same treatment to them. The snow family is from winter woodland and I put 3d glaze on the hearts and buttons. The white piece of paper behind the photo mat was punched with Martha Stewart embossed snowflake border punch. Flat back pearls on the momma snowman and the girl baby snowman.

The girl book layout (it is a beautiful rich fuschia colored paper)
These mitten journaling tags are from joys of the season and the top layers embossed with snowflakes folder.

December-First Year Albums

December layout for first year albums. This is for the boy album and the girl page is the same except the rocking horse saddle and bear accents are pink. Cricut christmas for all cuts excepts photo mat is a child's year. I can not seem to get a good shot of this because of all the diamond dust on the tree and star. After I took this picture I ended up moving the bear over and added a present under the tree. Cuttlebug d'vine swirls on the moon.

the journaling tag is from joys of the season.

November-First Year Albums

This is the next layout for the first year baby albums for my nieces. They are both due around the first week in November. I had seen a pre-made page at michaels similar to this one and that is where the design came from. I found the cute "A Child's Grace" poem online at dennydavis.net and computer generated it onto scrapbook paper.

Cricut cart animal kingdom for the turkey;

Tim Holtz tea dye ink;

buttons from stash;

ribbon from Michaels;

printed paper from Debbie Mumm Harvest and Holiday pack from last year;

turkey's google eyes are from the dollar tree;

embroidery thread on buttons;

doodling/faux stitching;

Cricut cart doodlecharms for the turkey journaling tag.

Welcome-First Year Albums

These are the next pages in my first year albums for my nieces. Again, I used a pagemaps sketch and for these layouts the sketch called for the journaling tag right on the front of the layout. I computer generated the title; martha stewart punches for the photo mat corners and green trim; swiss dot embossing folder on the photo mats; textile embossing folder on girl shirt, tiny mosaic on boy shirt; fuzzy feet from a pack I bought at the dollar store and the button paper clip is from recollections and the babies are an svg file. Lots of inking.

Baby Shower-First Year Albums

Two of my nieces are having babies one week apart. One is having a girl and the other a boy. I have decided instead of making first year paper bag albums, I would make them each an 8x8 first year album. The photo's below are the first of twenty pages which will include little journaling tags related to the theme of that month. For these layouts I used a pagemaps feb. 2008 sketch. The middle photo mat is pop dotted so the photo's for the left and right mats will be able to slip right under.

new arrival for wording, jasmine photo corners, yellow stickles, safety pins from a pack I bought at the dollar tree, ribbon from m's and lots of inking and doodling.

ditto for the girl layout but used icicle stickles and new arrival for the safety pins and put cotton candy stickles on them
these are the cute little journaling tags for each one. new arrival cart for the mommy and made long hair for them. Shirts are embossed with textile embossing folder.
now off to go start page two of the albums! Thanks for looking and have a great day!