Birthday Party Planning

My daughter Norah's 2nd birthday is quickly approaching, so I have begun to work on the party planning.  I fell in love with Doodlebug's "Under The Sea" collection and knew right away that I would use this collection for her birthday party.  So far, I have only finished the invitation.  Drumroll please.....here it is!

Because I am a supply hoarder, I couldn't bring myself to make multiple copies of this invitation because I didn't want to "waste" my supply.  Problem solved....I decided to make just 1 copy and have copies made at a print store.  I was afraid the quality would be lost in a copy, but I was wrong!  They turned out beautiful!

Stay tuned for the decorations for her birthday party!!

Day At The Zoo

Going to the zoo is one of our favorite activities.  But because we go so often, it's sometimes hard to find creative ways to scrap our zoo trips without being repetitive.  For this layout, I used Doodlebug's Zoofari collection.  I absolutely love this collection from Doodlebug, so I have been hoarding it away for quite some time.

I used a good portion of the stickers from the Jungle and Safari icon sticker sheets to make a collage for the "zoo" part of my title.  Here is a close-up for you to see the details.

I have to admit....it was hard for me to cut the stickers to fit in my letters.  It felt wasteful, but I was happy with how it turned out!

Look Whooo's 1

Since we are quickly approaching Norah's 2nd birthday, I figured it was about time to scrap her 1st birthday.  The great thing about this scrapbook page is that I was able to "recycle" a lot of the elements from the decorations I had already made for her birthday party.  I also wanted to incorporate the party invitation onto the page, so I included it in the upper right corner.

All of the owls and branches were reused from the party decorations. The owls were made from the Create a Critter Cricut cartridge but I modified them slightly to better match her invitation.

I made smaller versions of the scallops to mimic the scallops on her birthday banner.

My mom made Norah's shirt to match the decorations too!  So cute!

Below are the decorations that I made for her birthday party.  I was really happy with how everything turned out.  It seemed like such a waste to throw the party decorations away, so I was really glad to be able to reuse them on a scrapbook page.

 

Birthday Banner

"Watch Me Grow" Photos

Door Hanger

Highchair sign

Our First Home

We purchased our first home in 2012, but I am just now getting around to scrapping the photos we took when we first viewed the house.  Doodlebug's "Welcome Home" collection was perfect for this layout.

The white spot next to the large photo on the left is the address to our house.  I covered it with a piece of paper for privacy.

I knew I wanted to use the house stickers from the icon sticker sheet and the smaller house stickers from the fancy frills sticker sheet.  I was happy when I figured out how to add both sizes of stickers while still fitting in all the necessary pictures.

Splash

 My daughter Norah had a blast playing with her water table the first time we set it up for her last summer.  She was wearing an adorable outfit with the cutest little crab on it.  I decided to showcase the crab in this layout.  Just look at the pure delight on her face!

I created the crabs using the "Create a Critter" Cricut cartridge.  I hand cut the goggles and snorkels because I couldn't find one that looked close enough to the crab on Norah's outfit.  I added vellum behind the goggles to make it look more realistic.  The anchors were cut from the "Life's a Beach" cartridge.

 I added some "bubbles" using a white gel pen to connect my circle around the photos. 

Halloween

This layout features Halloween 2015.  We spent Halloween with my sister and her triplets.  Norah was a little timid with her first time Trick-or-Treating, but we had a great time!  For this layout, I used Doodlebug's Ghouls and Goodies Collection.  I wanted to make sure to use all the cute Halloween figures from the cardstock sticker sheet, so I decided to create multiple scenes to match my background paper.

Here are a few close-ups of the different scenes I created.

I was afraid that when I looked back in my scrapbook 20 years from now that I wouldn't remember who the kids were dressed up as.  To fix that problem, I decided to make banners to list who they each dressed up as.  Isn't she the cutest Tinkerbell you have ever seen??

I Melt Daddy's Heart

My daughter, Norah, had a really cute shirt with a snowman on it that stated "I Melt Daddy's Heart."  I knew as soon as I saw the shirt that I would have to do a scrapbook layout with her and Daddy.  Of course Doodlebug had the perfect paper collection to match her shirt.  I used Frosty Friends paper collection for this page.

I decided that I wanted to do multiple scenes with the snowmen, so I opted for this collage template with my photo in the middle.  I used an assortment of the stickers from the cardstock sticker sheet, as well as some snowflake Doodlepops.  I used a variety of the Teensy Type letters for my title and to document my date. I then wanted to add a little dimension to my page so I used some pop dots to layer my snow in the 2 larger scenes. 

Overall I think it turned out pretty cute!