a HAPPY BIRTHDAY mini

Here's a quick little mini I made of Isabel's first birthday. It was so quick because of the pre-decorated Bo Bunny mini Surprise! album. Coordinating backgrounds are on each page of the mini (front and back) so you don't have to cover each page. Love that! Such a time saver! I also used Surprise! papers, stickers, chipboard and jewels.

 

A close up of the cover. I used chipboard and buttons to create the banner.

The holes for the binder clips are supposed to be on top so it flips, but I didn't like that so I punched holes in the side instead. That's why the little holes are in top. 

 

And the back cover....

 



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Bo Bunny Feature

Hello everyone!

 

Today I am the featured designer over on the Bo Bunny blog. I have a mini album to share that I created using Bo Bunny Camp-A-Lot.

 

Thanks for visiting! You can see more of my Bo Bunny projects over the Bo Bunny blog. Please stopy by if you get a chance!

 

Nikki Sivils and Basically Bare Blog Swap!

It's day one of the Nikki Sivils and Basically Bare Blog Swap! The Nikki Sivils DT was given lots of Basically Bare products to work with. I love this Wonky Windows album and chose to create an album of our vacation last year with the Basically Bare album and Nikki Sivils "Exit Here" papers. And it wouldn't be a blog swap without PRIZES!! Keep reading to see how you can win some Nikki Sivils and Basically Bare goodies!

I covered the album with lots of papers and embellishments.

More papers inside!

  

I painted the Basically Bare chipboard sun and added some buttons to it. The cloud is also from Basically Bare.

This is a fabric page. So fun!

That's it for my Basically Bare and Nikki Sivils project! Thanks for coming by! Please check out the Nikki Sivils blog for more projects today and tomorrow. And there are PRIZES! Leave a post on both the Nikki Sivils blog and Basically Bare blog to win. There will be a drawing today and tomorrow.  

Nikki Sivils Day!

Hi everyone! I am featured on the Nikki Sivils blog today! I have two fun projects to share that I absolutely loved making!

First up is this little mini album I made of my little girl's first b-day party using Nikki's "It's Your Day" papers and embellishments. To create the album I used the Nikki Sivils scalloped chipboard album for the pages and one page from the North Pole lights chipboard album for the cover. I painted the edges of all my pages a fun bright pink to coordinate with the papers.

I was pretty proud of this Curious George cupcakes I made, They must have looked realistic because Frances was talking to them! 

The little girlie was so tired at the end of the day she could not even keep her eyes open! 

Next up I have a layout of my sweet Frances doing something she loves to do when it rains- Hippo Hunting! Not sure where she got this from, but whenever it rains she says we need to go hippo hunting. She grabs her flashlight and I put on her rain coat and we go walking around the neighborhood looking for hippos. She even says "there's one mommy" and points them all out to me! This girl has some imagination!

On this layout I used Nikki Sivils "It's Raining, It's Pouring" paper and embellishments and my cricut Create a Critter cartridge to cut the little Hippo. I can't believe how much older my little girl looks in these pictures compared to her birthday album! They grow so, so fast!

Please stop by Nikki's blog to see the rest of the DT's work and some peeks at the new CHA lines coming out next month! And there is a contest to win some of the new releases before you buy them. Check out Nikki's blog for details! Here's a little sneak for  you:

Thanks for coming by today!



A mini album and a frame.

Hello all. Are you getting ready for the blizzard too? In Chicago it is supposed to snow 18 to 24 inches in under 24 hours. YIKES! That's a lot of snow! All the schools are closing early and will be closed tomorrow, plus lots of businesses are doing the same.

I am kind of torn about this. I am tired of shoveling and driving in snow, but it will be fun to stay home tomorrow and play in the snow. I remember making snow forts and having snowball fights when school was cancelled and it was so fun! Plus Frances keeps asking to go out in the snow to play so tomorrow may be the perfect day.

All this talk of snow has be thinking about summer again. Are all these posts starting to sound the same??? I just can't help it. I love summer and can't wait to get outside again. I created this little mini-album of all the things Frances loves to do in the summer. I used the Nikki Sivils Scrapbooker "Summer" line and a Maya Road chipboard mini-album. The pink flowers are from Maya Road too.

This was really fun to make and the "Summer" papers have so many cute little sayings and critters.

I also have one other project to share today. This altered frame I made is on the Nikki Sivils blog today. It is currently on display in her booth at CHA. The picture is of my sweet baby girl Isabel only one day old. I used the "Max and Mollie" collection to make all the flowers, punched some butterflies and then cut out the 'Heaven Sent' sentiment from the cut ups paper. She is heaven sent for sure.

The frame and easle are from IKEA. They come infinished so I just painted them with some brown acrylic paint. They are only a dollar each too!

Thanks for stopping by today. If there is snow expected by you stay safe!