Under The Sea - 2nd birthday

Today is my daughter Norah's 2nd birthday.  We celebrated yesterday with an "Under The Sea" birthday party.  I spent a lot of time creating the decorations for the party.

 Here is a picture of the birthday girl.  My mom made this adorable mermaid shirt to match the party décor.  I absolutely love how it turned out!

 Here is the birthday banner that I created.  I used my Silhouette to cut the banner pieces.  I used the "Under The Sea" collection from Doodlebug.  It took quite a few icon sticker sheets to create the decorations.  I instantly fell in love with the colorful bubble paper so I used it for the background of the banner pieces.

Here are a few close-ups.

I also made the thank you cards that we will be sending to all our party guests.

I also made a welcome wreath to hang on the door to welcome our guests. 

I used tulle to create the wreath and then added the banner pieces using a piece of rope.

I am really happy with how everything turned out.  I had also made a sign for the gift table but forgot to take a picture with the craziness of the day.  I hate when that happens!

Birthday Cupcakes

I took the cutest pictures of my nieces and nephews enjoying their birthday cupcakes at my daughter's 1st birthday party.  I knew I had to do a cute layout to showcase their cuteness.   I, of course, had to add a picture of the aftermath of Norah with her smash cake.  For this layout, I used a combination of several Doodlebug collections.  The background paper is from the Sugar & Spice collection and the other papers are from the Sugar Shoppe collection.

 I did some hand stitching across the banner to tie it all together.  Here is a close-up.

This layout was inspired from a sketch that I found on Pinterest.  I stuck pretty closely to the original design but made a few small modifications.  Here is the original sketch.

Other Favorite Layouts

Here are a few more of my favorite layouts from years past.

Favorite Wedding Layouts

I decided to do a post on some of my favorite layouts that I have completed in our wedding album.  I still have a LONG way to go before this album is complete (despite the fact that we have been married almost 7 years!).

This layout features our 1st dance.  The song lyrics are in the middle with the song title in the larger letters.

This is one of my favorite layouts of all time.  I was looking for a way to feature all the ceremony pictures without taking up too many pages in the album.  I love the stitched area around the heart patchwork.

Boy did this page take FOREVER with all the hand stitching but I was really happy with how it turned out!  It was a true labor of love!!

4th of July

I am finally getting around to scrapping July 4th, 2015!  Nothing like being on top of things!!
For this page, I used several of the 4th of July collections from Doodlebug, as well as some random embellishments I had in my stash.  This page was inspired from a layout I pinned on Pinterest, but I had to modify the page to fit my number of photos.

Here are several close-ups of the page.

Doggy Love

This layout features my daughter's comfort item, whom she affectionately refers to as "Doggy" (creative, right?).  She always asks for Doggy when she's upset and he goes with us everywhere!  When I saw Doodlebug's "Puppy Love" collection, I knew it would be perfect to showcase Norah's Doggy.  Because she refers to him as Doggy, I switched the title from Puppy Love to Doggy Love.

 Here are some close ups of the layout.

 I also love how the colors in Norah's jacket coordinate with this collection almost perfectly.

Now I need to take a picture of what Doggy looks like after a year of love!  He's definitely not so sparkly white anymore!