Boo!

This layout is for the October 1 sketch challenge over at stuckonusketches.blogspot.com

I have sort of been in a Halloween mood so decided to go with that theme. My camera doesn't photograph glittery stuff very well.

This is a picture of my youngest daughter back in 1997. My sister made the rainbow brite costume and my brother-in-law and husband made all the yard decorations.

Cricut cart: storybook for the scroll work at the top and the purple scallop medallion at the bottom.

Martha Stewart drippy goo border punch on the top left corner piece

fussy cut the pumpkin and the bat from left over paper.

candy corn brad on the purple medallion and ghost brad on black scroll work from stash

black and orange stickles

patterned paper is K&Co

the "B" in boo is a sizzix alpha die and used google eyes for the "o's"

close-up of the scroll work and ghost brad
close-up of medallion. I cut this five times-once in chipboard, four times in the purple paper and then for the top three purple layers I cut off the outer ring(s) so I could ink the edges of each layer. I popped the finished piece with foam dots to give in more dimension on the page.

First Birthday, opening page, closing page and diaper cakes

Here are the final layouts for the first year albums. I finished them last Saturday and had to make a card and a diaper cake so I am just now getting to post them. The boy album and diaper cake were given to my niece this weekend and the girl one I will give this weekend.

So this layout is the First Birthday.
Paperdoll dressup for clown and bows in corners

celebrations for balloons and presents

scal for banner and "It's fun 2B1"

sizzix embossing folder on red balloon

alpha beads on banner

blue glimmer mist on clown outfit

swiss dots embossing folder on clown outfit

google eyes
the journaling tag
This is the first page when album is opened.

accent essentials for green scallop mat

scal for font

tons of flat back pearls

image is from picasaweb.google.com/achaverri15 and then cut out an oval

This is the last page in the album. I faded the image and typed over it with the Baby song poem found at dennydavis.net then mounted it on the green scallop from accent essentials.
This is the girl version and the image is from the same location as above. The closing page has this same image and the baby poem from above.

The boy diaper cake. I made a stork bundle of diapers also but forgot to take a picture.
This is the girl one. I couldn't find pink baby booties so I added more ribbon at the top and pink pom poms along the tray.

Pat's (where it's @)

This layout is for the 9/17 sketch challenge over at stuckonusketches.blogspot.com

My husband and sister-in-law went camping at a jazz festival and started their festivities at a popular hot spot.

All the paper with the exception of the solid black was from the blog candy I won over at sous a few weeks ago.

I used black glitter on "@" and the "8" ball

Tim Holtz vintage photo distress ink on all edges

Martha Stewart cornice border edge punch on small strips behind photo mats

These are 6x6 pages as I will be making my husband and sister-in-law each mini photo books of their weekend.

June thru October-First Year Albums

Decided to post June through October layouts in one post for the first year albums.

JUNE:

sketch used for this layout is by Liz Qualman; a child's year for dad and son on bottom left, plantin schoolbook for award ribbon on bottom right; title is alphabet squares from a paper punch out sheet and flat back pearls

for the girl book
the journaling tags

JULY:

For the boy page I tore two of the paper layers then inked them; a childs year for the boy in fire truck then glimmer misted; martha stewart doily lace border punch on photo corners; the journaling tag for July is the middle flag image that flips up . the image is from magic moonlight free images
the girl page-acy for children on the bottom; the blue paper was torn then glimmer misted and punched with ms doily lace border punch.

AUGUST:

boy page-a childs year for beach umbrella, and toddler; doodlecharms for photo mats; accent essentials for sun; ribbon from stash
journaling tag from a childs year
the girl page

SEPTEMBER:

For the girl page I used a doily behind photo mats that I trimmed so the flowers would be the border; a childs year for photo mats; cut two more butterflies from left over paper; flat back pearls and ribbon
journaling tag
boy page-stickled yellow dragonfly and layered on a blue one with pop dots; cut the frog next to the middle mat from left over paper
journaling tag

OCTOBER:

This is the girl page, the boy page is exactly the same minus the bow on the ghost. paper doll dress up for the ghost trick or treater, the pumpkin and the "trick or treat" bag which lifts off the page and serves as the journaling tag for this layout. I cut the fence from pddu in white paper then hit cut again but replaced blade with marker and then glimmer misted. The fence looks so cool in person! The little owl in the bottom right is from an embossed sticker sheet.
-Well off to do the double page First Birthday layouts! Thanks for looking and have a wonderful day!

OMG! OMG!-The beautiful paper arrived!

The absolutely gorgeous paper I won over at Stuckonusketches has arrived and it is truly yummy!!!! Thank you so much Sandi, Nanne and Leah for this Glitz paper-can't wait to scrap some pages with it!

May-First Year Albums

This is the May layout for the baby albums. I used the 9/3 sketch over at stuckonusketches. I made mine a double page layout because it represents Mothers Day for the albums I am making and three of the months in the albums will have double page layouts (Mothers Day, Fathers Day and First Birthday). I really struggled with the flowers on this layout and just when I had EVERYTHING glued down and pictures taken to upload I felt as though the original flowers got lost in the page so I yanked them all off (yikes, I know) and made these. Don't know if I am completely happy but gotta keep truckin along as I still have six more months to do and only two weeks left. The beautiful leafy vine is from what-a-beautiful-mess.blogspot.com cut out, hand doodled the veins in the leaves and then glimmer misted.

just some close-ups of the flowers. Some of them have six layers.
The journaling card which is also a "Happy Mothers Day" card. I cut out the flower on the front from some of the left over paper and put stickles on the dark lines throughout.

April-First Year Albums

Here are my April (Easter) layouts for the baby albums. I used another Liz Qualman sketch.

Cricut carts:

pooh for sign post cut

Easter 2010 for the chic

Doodlecharms for eggs

Martha Stewart:

doily lace border punch

butterfly punch

Cuttlebug:

textile embossing folder

tiny mosaic embossing folder

The girl bunny is from www.picasaweb.google.com/achaverri15 printed and then cut out

clouds are from a feature in scal program

The boy bunny is from the same location as the girl bunny above;

cuttlebug:

d'vine swirls

tiny mosaic

Martha Stewart:

cornice border punch

This is the journaling tag for each layout
Thanks for looking and have a great weekend!