Scrapbooking | Toddler Girl's 2nd Birthday Party Scrapbook Layout

Back in May 2011 we celebrated our little grand daughter's 2nd Birthday with a big party outdoors at our local park and playground. The party was done in 3 different shades of pink and white and in a Dora the Explorer theme. Over the next 2 weeks I will share some little girls Birthday Party layouts here on my blog for my blog readers. The layout above was done in the 12" by 12" format.

My background is a light pink piece of scrapbooking paper with a tiny pink polka dot print. I had a piece of scrapbooking paper that has birthday phrases all over it so I trimmed that paper down into a 1 1/2" by 11 1/2" strip and matted that onto dark pink cardstock. I then glued that at the bottom of my layout to serve as a bottom border.

The title of my page is "Birthday Girl" which I used a 3-dimensional chipboard piece that is done in pinks and white and has cupcakes all over it in the top left corner. It's a big piece that measures about 4" wide by 3 1/2" high and is adorable in person as it has glitter on it too. I used 3 photos in this layout which I cropped down, rounded their corners and matted them onto dark pink scrapbooking paper leaving a 1/4" border. See photo for placement.

I printed out the words Happy Birthday onto white paper in dark pink ink (it measures just shy of 3/4" by 3 1/4" in size) and matted that onto dark pink paper leaving an 1/8" border. I attached that under the top right photo. I then had 2 mini chipboard cupcake embellishments that I mounted on each side of that Happy Birthday name tag.

Overall I think this layout came out pretty good and I absolutely LOVE that chipboard Birthday Girl title piece! Happy 2nd Birthday to our little wee one!

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Scrapbooking | Toddler Girl "Messy Eaters" Scrapbooking Layout Idea

A few weeks ago I made this scrapbook layout in the 12x12 format and it features my little grand daughter along with her messy chocolate face from eating a chocolate donut that her pappy bought for her. She looked so adorable with her messy chocolate face that I just had to snap a photo and scrapbook it.

My background is a solid piece of purple scrapbooking paper. I took a coordinating sheet of scrapbook paper with light lavendar polka dots and tore a piece off it that measures approximately 4" by 12" in length. I then inked the torn edge with dark purple ink and left it dry. I then attached it down the right side of my paper to serve as a border.

I decided to frame out 3 words using white plastic slide mounts so I cut 3 squares from light lavendar scrapbooking paper each measuring 2 1/2" square and placed one word sticker onto each one. I then placed each one into the plastic slide mount. I took some self-adhesive braided lavendar fibers that I had and ran those around the edge of each slide mount. I then used glue dots and placed the slide mounts onto the page (running down the left-hand side of the page).

I used a 4X6" photo of the wee one & her chocolate face as my focal point and framed in in a purple frame and then matted that onto white scrapbooking paper and trimmed it down so that only an 1/8" edge remained. I glued the framed photo onto the upper section of my layout. I then made my own journaling box out of light purple, medium purple and dark purple scrapbook papers and layered all 3 together using white eyelets in each corner and attached that under the photograph. I did my journaling on that block in my own handwriting.
I had some floral white rub-ons and used a big spray of those near the bottom right corner of the page and then a smaller spray of them near the top left over-lapping onto my photo's frame. I then applied just one white flower on the top right corner of the photo and glued a purple gemstone onto the center of the flower. I used little white rub-on words under the photo (on the purple photo mat) that say YOU MAKE ME HAPPY as the wee one was soooo HAPPY to have that chocolate donut that pappy got for her!

This page did take me some time to make...I am guessing an hour or so...but I am really pleased with how it turned out.

Scrapbooking | Pappy's Girl Pink Scrapbook Layout Idea

My hubby and I absolutely love spending time with our precious 2 year old grand daughter and when we have our little play dates with her I am always snapping a few photos for my scrapbook. The layout shown above is quick, easy, inexpensive and only takes about 30 minutes to make. I did this in the 12" by 12" format.

My background is made up of 2 different sheets of 12x12 scrapbook paper. The main background is a solid light pink and the accent is a light pink with dark pink flowers which I cut down to measure 5 1/2" by 12" in size and glued it vertically down the left hand side of my page. I had 2 photos I wanted to use of the wee one and I cropped them down, rounded their corners and mounted them onto dark pink solid scrapbooking paper. I left 3/16" border around all sides except for the bigger photo which I left a 1/2" border on the bottom edge of that one so I could journal under it. I used glue dots to attach them to my page as shown in the photo.

My 4 accent pieces are all chipboard pieces. I attached the flower above the right photo, the princess crown with ribbon bow above the left photo, the word "spoiled" under the left photo and an oval chipboard piece that says "The Sweet, Silent Type" near the bottom right of the page. I accented the chipboard pieces with little pink self-adhesive rhinestones and light pink and dark pink sheer ribbons to "bling" them up a bit.

I used my Cricut machine set on the 1 1/4 size setting to cut out the letters to spell Pappy's Girl from dark pink paper and then did the shadow effect and cut them out again from yellow paper. I then stacked them together and glued them onto my page as a title.

Day off!

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What I wouldn’t give to have another day off. I love July 4th and though I usually spend the day with my parents or some other family grilling out and watching the fireworks, this year we didn’t have anything planned so we just stayed at home. It was the most relaxing way I’ve ever spent a holiday! My boyfriend and I slept in and immediately turned on the TV (thank goodness I got that direct tv and watched some movies until I looked down and it was 4pm. We then turned on the cooking shows and found us a great Pad Thai dish to make for dinner and after a quick run to the store, we were all set! It was just really relaxing and quiet and I liked how we didn’t have to make small talk with relatives or cook a big dish and take it over to someone’s house. From now on, this is definitely how I’m going to spend at least one holiday a year just so I can get some R&R!

Scrapbooking | Quick & Easy Birthday Girl Scrapbook Layout Idea

When you do your scrapbook layouts you can do quick and easy ones that don't cost a lot of money or involve a lot of time...just like the layout above! This layout was done in the 12x12 format and features my little 2 year old grand daughter and my 63 year old mother at my little grand daughter's 2nd Birthday party. For this layout...I wanted to do one that utilized items from my scrap box as my scrap pile is growing larger and I really need to use up those scraps that were left-over from other projects.

My background is a solid sheet of light pink scrapbook paper. I made a top and bottom border by using up scraps of Happy Birthday printed paper which I matted on lime green paper and trimmed it so that the lime colored border only peeked out about 1/8 of an inch. I then chalked the edges with a dark pink chalk and glued one strip to the bottom and one to the top of my page. I had 2 rectangular shaped scraps of medium pink vellum leftover from another project and decided to use those under my photos that were matted onto lime green scrapbooking paper. I left an 1/8" edge around the lime mat and then used glue dots to attach them to the top of the vellum and then attached them to my page.

I had 3 letter stickers (round shape) that I spelled out GIA and placed above the photo on the right. I had 3 word stickers that said HAPPy, PARTY and MOMENTS and I matted each one onto the medium pink vellum and trimmed them down so that only 1/8" of the vellum framed them. I then glued each one above the photo on the right. I had a fourth word sticker that said "Cherish the Moment" which I stuck onto a pink scrapbooking tag, added some pink ribbon to the tag pull and then placed it under the photo on the left.

Overall...this page took me about 30 minutes to make and I basically used leftover supplies from other scrapbooking projects. It's a great layout to use up some of those scraps you have lying around your craft room.

Go Camping To Collect Your Natural Crafting Supplies

As you all know, I absolutely love to craft and dabble in many different crafting mediums. When I am not crafting, you will often find me spending time outdoors and one of the things I like to do outdoors is to go camping!

When my family and I go camping...often times we head up into the mountains here in Pennsylvania or we will head down to the Southern Jersey Shore and camp out there in one of the many beautiful campgrounds that are located in the area.

When we go camping we like to spend a lot of time hiking and exploring the surrounding area and we hike on marked and unmarked trails. When we go camping and hiking we always make sure we have the necessary supplies before we even head out.

One of the things I like to do when we are hiking is to take a netted bag along with me and collect various items from nature that I can use in my crafting. I look for pinecones, acorns, moss, driftwood, sea glass, sea shells, etc. There are many "natural" things you can pick up while camping and/or hiking that you can later use in the crafts you create once you are back home.

So, the next time you and your family goes out camping make sure you take a netted bag along with you so that you can collect some "outdoorsy" items to use in your next craft project.

Scrapbooking | Wildwood New Jersey Beach Scrapbook Layout Idea #2

Today I thought I would share another beach theme'd scrapbooking layout that I did a few weeks ago featuring beach photos from Wildwood, New Jersey. Hubby and I absolutely love vacationing down at the Jersey Shore and these 2 photos were taken during a recent trip that we took.

My background is a piece of 12x12 scrapbook paper that looks like sand and has a sandy texture to it. I matted my two photos onto white cardstock and then onto blue cardstock leaving a 3/16" of an edge around each mat. The title of my page is "Life's a Beach" which is a Jolee's 3-Dimensional sticker title that I purchased. I matted it onto blue cardstock and then white cardstock and stuck it at the bottom of my page. Accenting that is a sand dollar sticker on each side. The Jolee's package came with 2 small 3-Dimensional accents which I attached to the bottom of each photo to add some accent to each.

I had 2 clear adhesive "beach" theme'd stickers that I mounted onto white scrapbooking paper and then mounted them onto blue cardstock leaving a 3/16" border and attached those to my page. I added a Pelican (sea bird) sticker above the one on the right top to make it look like he is perched on top of it.

I think this layout turned out pretty nice and the photo's themselves are just gorgeous scenes of the Atlantic Ocean and Wildwood Beach.

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Here is a little bit about the company from their site: In 1990, Patrick Jacquelin discovered the daylight bulb on a trip abroad. Recognizing that natural daylight is the healthiest and more comfortable light for our eyes, he realized that this 'daylight simulation effect' could benefit thousands of individuals who need natural light lamps for everyday tasks, or more specifically, for hobbies that involved intricate detail and color matching. From this The Daylight Company was created. Since then, the company has steadily grown and today we are the market-leading brand of speciality lighting technology for the hobby industry across Europe and we are well on our way to making Daylight the No.1 brand for Craft Lighting.

My Review: I received the Ultimate Table Top Lamp for my product review. This stylish table lamp goes with just about any style of home decor and makes the perfect lamp for sewing, quilting, scrapbooking, cross-stitching, jewelry making and for reading. The lamp features a 20 watt low-heat Daylight (tm) bulb which is equivalent to a 100 watt bulb so that you are always working in optimal comfort. The lamp comes with an extendable arm for extra reach and comes with three removable accessories so that you can customize it to your own needs. The extendable arms gives you 21 1/2" reach. The three removable accessories include:

1. a removable divided tray that has 7 sections so that you can store and sort your small crafting or sewing supplies.
2. a removable chart holder clip that is mounted on a flexible arm. You can insert the arm into the base and use it or totally remove it if you don't need it.
3. a removable magnifier that is mounted on a flexible arm. Again...you can insert the arm into the base and use it or totally remove it if you don't need it. Magnification 1.75.

The lamp has a cone shaped shade and an easy to use on/off switch that is located on the head of the lamp and features a UL listed cord. What is also cool about the lamp is that the head will pivot in any direction that you need.

I am a big time crafter and scrapbooker so once the lamp was assembled I was eager to try it out. The first thing I noticed was how bright and natural the light looked throughout my craft room when the lamp was on. (huge difference). As I sat down to do some scrapbooking I realized how valuable this lamp is! I could easy tell the difference between items that were black, dark brown or dark navy blue whereas in the past...I had issues telling those colors a part due to the poor lighting in my craft room. I loved using the flexible arms on the lamp because I could easily put them in the position I needed them to be in. That magnifier glass is absolutely fabulous and now I can read the fine print on packages and instruction sheets with no problem. I love using that clip...it is great for holding embellishments that I just assembled and having them air dry out of my way. This is the ULTIMATE craft lamp! Seriously, I have been using the lamp for several days now and I don't know how I lived without it!

Overall Impression: This Daylight lamp is made of high quality materials. They thought of everything in regards to this lamp and besides being functional it is beautiful to look at! You can purchase this lamp for only $159.99 which I think is a very affordable price for a high quality craft lamp like this one. I give this lamp and this company 10 stars out of 10 stars on my rating scale! Fabulous!!!

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Scrapbooking | Quick and Easy Beach Scrapbook Layout Idea

Back in May of 2011 my hubby and I took our annual May vacation down to the Jersey Shore just like we have done so for the past 15+ years. We love visiting the Stone Harbor, North Wildwood and the Cape May, New Jersey area...matter of fact, North Wildwood is our FAVORITE beach in New Jersey.

Today I am sharing a beach theme'd layout that I did in the 12x12 scrapbooking format. This layout did take me 1 hour to make so there is some time involved in it.

I took a sand "printed" piece of scrapbooking paper and used that as my background and then I built some accents on top of that piece of paper. I had a sheet of paper that had an all-over sand dollar print and I ripped 1/3 of that off and glued that to the bottom 1/3 of my background page. I then had some pretty ocean blue textured cardstock that I cut three strips from using my wavy edge scissors. Two of the strips measures approximately 2" by 12" and the third strip measures about 3 1/2" by 12" in length and the third strip has a wavy edge along one side of it (used decorative edge scissors) and the other long edge on that strip I hand cut into a wider bigger wave pattern to represent the water washing up on the shoreline. I took a dauber and some silver metallic ink and inked all of my wave edges to give the appearance of seafoam from the wave action. I didn't want to use white ink because nothing on my page is white so I used the silver and I am very pleased with that choice.

I then glued the 3 strips together with a little bit of each one over-lapping the previous one and then glued them all onto my background paper to represent the ocean water. My title of the page is a Jolene's 3-D Title and it says "Vacation Bliss" and I matted that title onto sand colored cardstock and ocean blue cardstock and hand trimmed it so that an 1/8" remained around the borders. I then used glue dots to attach it to the top of my page.

I had 2 photos that I cropped down and matted them onto sand colored cardstock and ocean blue cardstock leaving 1/8" border around each mat. I then used glue dots and put them onto the page. I purchased a wooden cut-out of a large sail boat at the craft store for .35 cents and it measures about 4" tall by 3" wide and used glue dots to attach that to the page so that it looks like it is in the water.

I had a clear "This is Paradise" sticker that I mounted onto sand colored paper and then matted that with ocean blue cardstock leaving an 1/8" border and attached that to the bottom of the layout (bottom left).

I further accented the layout with 3 rub-ons (top right corner, top left corner and right corner of the photo of my hubby).

I absolutely LOVE how this layout came out. It did take me an hour to make but I am very pleased with it! These 2 photos are of myself and hubby and he was looking through one of those big telescopes at all of the ships out in the Atlantic Ocean.

Scrapbooking | Toddler Girl Mommy and Me Scrapbook Layout Idea

On July 4th our daughter and our little grand daughter came up to have breakfast with us at our house. The two of them were sitting on one of our bean bag chairs looking at the wee one's new Barbie sticker book that I just gave to her. It was the perfect opportunity for me to snap a new photo of them together and to scrapbook that memory. I did this layout in the 12x12 format.

My background is a bubble gum pink textured piece of 12x12 scrapbook paper. I took a coordinating sheet of printed scrapbooking paper and tore a section off of it on the diagonal. I then chalked the torn edge in a dark bubble gum pink and glued the piece of paper down the right side of my layout. I then chalked 2 hearts onto the printed section along the right edge as I wanted those hearts to signify the love between mother and child.

I double matted a 4x6 photo first onto yellow cardstock (leaving an 1/8" border) and then onto dark bubblegum pink cardstock (leaving a 1/4" border) and mounted that on the layout but not in the center, more off-center and to the right. I cut eight squares from peach colored scrapbooking paper and each square measures 2 1/2". I used my Cricut machine on the #1 size setting and cut the MOMMY & ME letters from dark bubble gum pink paper. I then applied adhesive and stuck the letters onto each square. I wanted to soften the edges of my letter tiles so I chalked the edges of each square with dark pink chalk and then glued them onto the page near the bottom.

To finish up my layout...I had a word sticker that said THE GIRLS on it which I matted it on peach scrapbooking paper and dark bubble gum pink scrapbooking paper and trimmed the mats so that they only had an 1/8" edge around them. I then used foam adhesive dots and stuck it onto the layout...over-lapping the left edge of the photo. I had some floral print paper which I cut out the flower that you see on the layout and matted that onto peach scrapbooking paper and hand-trimmed it so that only an 1/8" border remained. I used adhesive foam dots and stuck that in the left corner of the photo. I then used a glue dot and stuck a dark pink shiny gem into the center of the flower.

This scrapbooking layout is simple to do...but it is a little time consuming. I spent almost a full hour making it but I do like it's uncluttered look.

Scrapbooking | Loved By All Baby Girl Scrapbook Layout Idea

I made this layout a couple of weeks ago in the 12x12 scrapbooking format and I wanted to do something a little different with this one. These 3 photos are of my grand daughter and she was 1 month old and it was her first Professional Photos that were taken of her.

I had a piece of medium orange scrapbooking paper that had a large pink flower in the top right corner but wasn't sure what to do with it. I decided to take some white puffy paint and outline the flower and while the flower was still wet I sprinkled on irredescent fine glitter and I really covered all of the white puffy paint so it really shimmers when the light hits it. I placed a metal framed round flower disc into the center of the outlined flower. My pictures really don't do this any justice but it's beautiful how it turned out.

I had 3 photos of the wee one which were all wallet sized so I matted them onto black cardstock and cropped them down so that 3/16" of a border remained. I decided to stagger them diagonally across the page. I used my Cricut to cut out LOVED BY ALL from black cardstock on the #1 size setting for the title of my page and placed them near the bottom left of the page using a glue pen.

I had 3 clear adhesive word stickers that I used...the Bottles, Bibs & Booties which I placed above photo #1, Little Diapers above photo #2 and Butterfly Kisses above photo #3. I then added 2 glittered cardstock & chipboard stickers to the layout...a baby buggy under photo #1 and New Born Baby under photo #3 and that one is accented with 2 tiny dark pink brads. To finish it all up...I had some gel alphabet stickers so I spelled out her name and placed that under photo #2 on the black cardstock border.Overall...I am very pleased with this layout and I am going to try using puffy paint and glitter on some other layouts I plan on making next week as I am pleased with how that flower turned out.