First Scrapbook Pages with the Cricut

I had a basic layout set up for Melodi's scrapbook page of our Christmas photos that we had taken at JCPenney.  All it needed was a little embellishing with a title and some design elements.  I started off with a thick, textured red cardstock for the title, border, and smaller circle.  After a number of different settings on the Cricut and making a mess of my cutting mat I gave up and used a standard paperstack paper.

As I was writing this typing "embellishing" made me think to add some sparkle to the page using some gems that I put on the ornaments I made for Melodi's grandparents and great-grandparents with a couple of these pictures.

I was in a little bit of a rut and have a bunch of pages to catch up on right now in Melodi's book, but none of them were really speaking to me.  In the end I ended settling on Melodi's first big girl bath by herself in the bathtub.  I used the Brittany bathtub cut (Playtime) and its layer then cut off the top portion of the backing piece, and a variety of sizes of the circle and its shadow (Classic Font) to make bubbles.  Since I had a couple circles left I ended up using them on the journaling box.  Haven't pasted anything down or done the title or journaling yet, but that will come.