Some Really Cute Pages :)

Here are the first pages that I did for Melodi's second year scrapbook.  These are all individual pages with other pages in between in the chronology, they're just not done yet.  I was really excited about doing these pages which is why they're the first ones done.

While we were in Seattle for Easter my in-laws had pulled out my husband's high chair, riding toy, and a bunch of other toys.  It was really exciting to get pictures of Melodi with these things, I need to see if I can get a pic of William with them for another project.

We didn't do an egg hunt in Seattle since we didn't think that Melodi would be interested, but she was so we did one with William when we got home from our trip.  Since we didn't take her Easter basket with us we also did that.  I found a paper stack a few months ago and pegged it specifically for use on this page because I thought it would make great eggs.

At the end of May when Linda and Kimberly were visiting we were playing outside and Melodi found a ladybug.  She near tortured it!  This was the first page I did any inking on and I like the effect (black ink on all the white paper edges).

I volunteered at VBS this year so Melodi spent the week playing in the nursery.  I took the idea of the "DO NOT FEED THE PANDAS" sign from the decorations around the food donation cage, and of course staged the shot of Melodi "feeding the pandas."  I found the leaf paper at Archivers, same with the stickers, and printed the title using clipart off the Group site.

Card Book

When my Grandpa died in 2003 we took all of the photos and put them into Rubbermaid tubs.  The plan was to get together and go through the photos the next summer.  Well, we finally got around to going through the photos eight years later.  Among the photos was a book filled with greeting cards, and I really liked the idea as a way to keep Melodi's cards.  After some searching I couldn't find anything pre-made so I decided to make one.  I don't know if I was packaging up a package to mail or if I was thinking about the project, but I realized that a USPS Priority Mail Flat Rate small box was the perfect size for a stack of greeting cards.

Here are some pictures.  I'll come back later and add some explanation.

Plugging Away

Getting so close to being done with Melodi's first year album.  I've finished a few pages in the last couple days.

This one is from the Cricut Community Layouts weekly LID challenge.  They are set up to be 12x12 pages, but I do 8x8 pages so I always have to do a little creative adjusting.

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New Machine, Organization and a Page

I needed more space to store stuff because even with the shelf I have my work space was always cluttered.  We had a small cabinet that my parents gave us on the other side of the room I work in.  I ended up going through the stuff in it to get it a little more organized, and decided that it would fit photo boxes rather well.  It can hold a total of 12 boxes now that we have taken the shelf out of the lower section.  I have 9 photo boxes, which hold the following:

• Cuttlebug plates and embossing folders
• Adhesive
• Scissors
• Punches
• Stamps
• Photos (2 boxes)
• Embellishments
• Mat Paper

I also have a couple old boxes that still have photos in them that need sorted through (these boxes will eventually be replaced with black photo storage boxes).  There is a drawer that only has my chalks in it, so it's pretty empty.  The top portion of it folds down to give a little more work surface and it holds pens, random stuff, note pads, staplers, hole punches, and my address books.  Sitting on top of the cabinet are my paper files.  I needed some way to organize my 12x12 paper because the folders I was using were only 9 inches high so I got some clear envelopes from Hobby Lobby and have paper (and scraps) sorted into them.  I also have a box that contains 8.5x11 cardstock packs and my 8x8 paper stacks.  It is great that I am slowly figuring out the best way to set up my workspace so that I have the room to accomplish layouts.

I also got a page done.  This is one that I had precropped from the batch of photos that we took between the beginning of January and Valentines Day.  I have my layout figured out but was waiting to get my Cuttlebug folders to us them on the color squares.  Over the course of exploring scrapbooking resources on the web I have come across a lot of "square" layouts where all the photos are squares and they have some color squares, and everything is laid out on a grid.  I haven't had a set of photos that really works for a page like that, so this is my take on that type of layout.  I used the Robotz font for the title and the Tiny Mosaic Text embossing folder.

Back After a Break

I've taken a little bit of a break from scrapbooking, but definitely not paper crafting.  My baby girl just turned one last month and while everything from January 5th through February 14th was printed before her birthday, I haven't had time to work on her book since I finished with the Christmas pages in early January.

My other paper crafting included a banner for Melodi's birthday party decorations, thank you notes, and a birthday card for my cousin Alicia.

I took all the pictures up through Valentines day, cropped them down, and did a little layout planning.  This weeks LID on the ProvoCraft message board was actually going to work for one of my layouts, although I had originally only planned on using the larger photo for this layout.