Tray & Baby Mini Book

Hello Blogger Friends!  I'm back from my trip, Super Bowl has just ended, and I wanted to get back to posting!  So today, I'm sharing some of the projects I made as Christmas presents.  The first project is a tray I made for my sister.  She has a new house in the Keys and I wanted to bring in that color scheme.  It has a bit of glare, but that is because it has the acrylic liner on top.

For one of my best friends, I made a baby brag book for her with pictures of her beautiful baby girl.  Here it is...

Hope you liked today's post.

Wait, almost forgot to share some fun news, my entry for the DCWV January Sketch Challenge made the Top 10!  Woohoo!  

I'll be back tomorrow with more to share.  

Hope you have a great start to your week!

Disney Layouts - Part 5 - Girly, Minnie & Princesses

I spent a wonderful day scrapbooking today at the "Crop Out Cancer" event held by Paula from More than Favors and Momo from Made by Momo as they raised money for Breast Cancer Awareness.  It was great to be around my friends and so many wonderful ladies, doing what we love and helping out such a worthy cause!  I completed a whole bunch of Halloween Layouts that I will share next week!

For today, I continue with my Disney Layouts (only 2 more posts to go to finish showing you all the layouts in the album!).  Today I focused on more girly layouts from the album.  The first I absolutely love because its of my little Minnie!  I used Jubilee and Mickey-n-Friends for the font and Minnie.

With these two layouts, I had one sheet of a really cute patterned paper, but I wanted to create a two page layout, so I cut a part of the paper and used one part not the left side and the other on the right with coordinating card stock on both to bring them together.  It worked great, check them out below...

After waiting 45 minutes in line to meet the Princesses, Sofi wanted nothing to do with them.  She was fine with all of the other characters, but with the Princesses, she started crying - go figure!  That's the reason for the title in the layout above (which is from Alphalicious).  The layout below features one of my favorite Martha Stewart punches as the top border and the corner punch for each of the photo mats.   The title is from Happily Ever After. 

Sofi wore this little crown pin on her head and she looked so cute.  I created a matching paper doll using Once Upon a Princess (I even replicated the design on her shirt on the paper doll!).      

Crafty Chics is having a Disney Link Up Party that I have been posting to all week.  For more inspiration for those Disney Layouts, be sure to check that out HERE.  I plan to link up again with the minnie layout.

I have two more days of Disney Layouts, I hope you are enjoying all I've shared so far.   Thanks for stopping by!  Be sure to let me know you've stopped by with a comment below!  

Drama Queen Layout

Hello everyone!  As promised, I have another layout to share with some more funny photos.  First I have to tell you the back story.   Since my daughter was a baby, I knew that she was going to be a drama queen.  I've never seen tears come out so quickly on anyone!  Now, the funny part is, she would really only cry when she heard the word "No!".  She would fall and be ok, but hearing the word "No!" would have her in tears in an instant.  On one of those occasions, I had my camera handy and I captured the whole sequence (which all happened in about 10 seconds) of her playing, hearing the word "no" and the resulting tears and drama because I knew I had to scrapbook it!  So here is this layout titled "The Makings of a Drama Queen" with the whole sequence...Enjoy!

I used a lot of different fonts to create the title:

Opposites Attract, Alphalicious, Don Juan and Gypsy Wanderings

The photo mat was created using a Martha Steward all around the page punch.  I added a bling crown to her head and more "drama"...

Here's the 2 page layout together...

I hope you like the layout!  Thanks for stopping by!

The Toddler Princess Layout

Hello everyone!  A quick post today...As I'm finishing my daughter's first year, volume 2, album I decided to take this layout that I had started a while back and use it in her next scrapbook as the opening page.  However, it needed more so I found another picture of her at 2 and then decided to create a title for the page, which is from Alphalicious.  You might not be able to tell from the photo, but I handwrote "the" in cursive in black above "Toddler Years" which is shadowed and welded.  I love that her next album has a title page and how cute this turned out!

Thanks for stopping by!  More to come tomorrow so be sure to come back!

Bling - Sofi's Baptism Layout

Today I wanted to share a layout I made for my sweet Sofi's Baptism.  I used one of the decorations that I had created for her baptism reception as the title for the page.  On the bottom of the right page is my copy of a word book I created for each guest filled with pictures of my daughter.  The best part is that on the back of the little book I made for each guest, I added a picture of each guest carrying my daughter just minutes before during the baptism (I LOVE my HP portable printer!!) and handed it to them at the reception.  

For this layout, I wanted soft colors for the page and I stuck with pink and white.  You can't really tell in the photo, but the background paper is pink with white polka dots.  There is lots of bling throughout this layout, you will see in the closeups.  I'm entering this layout in two challenges this week, the "bling" challenge at My Sheri Crafts and the 3 flower challenge at Cooking with Cricut.  

I also wanted to share that I made Top 3 at Frosted Designs for last week's challenge and I now have a new blinkie!  Woohoo!

Thanks for stopping by!

Hope you come back soon!

Memo Holders

For Christmas, I wanted to make the girls in the office a personalized memo holder for each of their desks as well as one for a friend of mine and one for my principal who loves Mickey Mouse.  I had previously made these for teachers, but this time I decided to change it up and make them suitable for each person's individual likes and tastes.  I love the way these came out!  Check them out below...

This is the view from the other side...

And here are each individually...

There's a little embossing, doodling, stickling and popping (of course, lol) and my cricut always seems to be used.  I just love how different they can all look.  I hope you like them, too!

Thanks for stopping by!

Sleeping Beauty - Flourishes & Chirp!

I am so honored! I was again highlighted in the Chirp! for my Thanksgiving Turkey layout.  If you haven't seen my Thanksgiving layout with the adorable turkey, you can click HERE to see the original post on my blog.  On to the rest of my post...

Bitten by the Bug 2 is having a challenge using a flourish on the Cindy Loo cartridge.  Now, I don't own that cartridge (as hard as that is to believe, lol!) but I do love the flourishes on the Home Decor cartridge and I use them often.  This layout I'm sharing tonight is showcasing those flourishes from that cartridge.  The title is from Alphalicious and the background frame is from Storybook.

This picture doesn't do the layout justice, the colors didn't come out right, but it's the only one I have, so bear with me. The title matches the page perfectly - she's sleeping, she's definitely a beauty and this took place after a jam-packed day of activity at Disney, home of Sleeping Beauty.  I love when something comes together so well!

  Originally this layout was going to go in my Disney album since it was taken at Disney, but I love it so much that it will be placed on the wall of my scrapbooking room, instead.  There will be more flourishes in an upcoming post, so stay tuned!  And Monday will be the debut of my first Fantabulous Cricut DT project - be sure to come see it and join in on their challenges.  You still have time for this week's challenge which is "bird bonanza" to use a bird and at least one cut from your cricut.  

As always, thanks for stopping by!!

Flowers & Butterfiles - Sofi's 1st Birthday

Today is my little Sofi's 2nd Birthday!

Tomorrow is her party and after I will share everything I made for that.

But today continuing on my trip down memory lane, I'm going to share a couple details from last year's 1st birthday party.  The theme was flowers and butterflies.  I like to be different, so I decided that her invitation was going to be a flower pot.  I love the way it turned out.  Here it is...

The flowers pull out to reveal the invitation...

I had bought her a "happy birthday" banner for the wall, but I wanted to personalize it, so I created something to go along with it...

The beauty is that later, I used both these items to create this scrapbook page...

I love dual purposing things!

For the birthday party, I also created two flower pots to use as centerpieces to match the invitation.  I kept one and gave the other to a great friend of mine who loved it.  Take a look...

I had to get my daughter the perfect outfit to match her party and I found it at Children's Place (love that place!).  But the mommy and the tia's had to match, too!  We found these amazingly perfect accessories to match the theme and Sofi's dress and I just have to share these pics...

Just look at her dress and our necklaces!

Here is a better pic of us (with my mom) looking at the camera...

Off to finish everything up for tomorrow's big day.  Thanks for stopping by and be sure to let me know you were here (meaning, leave a comment!). 

Have a happy day!