Scrapbooking Made Simple

This layout is another 8 x 8 layout I have done. This is a photo of my daughter sleeping on her daddy as a baby. I used my alphabet punches to cut out the letters of the words "Sleeping Beauty" though the S and the B were done with chipboard. I love using easy replenishable methods like these to do my titles. Next I used a piece of wool to decorate down one side and then made ribbon flowers to decorate that border. Along that side of the photo I used a brass template to kindy glitz this shape onto the photo. I used my blade to cut out some of the paper so that I could tuck my photo in behind this.... like the paper is hugging my baby. A simple sticker with a saying on it added the final touch.

This layout is for the opposite page of "The ABC Song" Layout. I have used the same elements in terms of embellishments and patterned paper. I did change my fonts and alphabets for the titles though. I love this photo cause it's so random. Here my mother-in-law looks great as this was well before any illness had taken hold. My DS is looking cute too.....though the smile looks a little pained but that's cause he was trying to smile...lol The rubbons used here were very cheap $2 from a discount store near me. The stickers used for the "say" and "nana" are a set I got in a cheap packet of odds and ends. They were a latte colour and I just coloured them in with a felt pen and then painted them with glitter paint before peeling them and sticking them. And because I've recently fallen in love with the glittery papers from the Die Cuts with a View range I used Kindy Glitz to add some bling to the layout. My journalling is handwritten and follows aro...

This is the layout I did at my SIL's house. These are old photos (considering the baby is now 3 and a half)... and you can easily tell my photographic skills have definitely improved since then. I wanted to do these baby photos even though they're not the greatest photos because I don't have very many photos from when my daughter was a baby.... I had no camera at that time.... doh! Really tragic for a scrapbooker... no photos to scrapbook.... anyway as I was saying I really wanted to do these photos but I didn't want to do a girly pink page as I do lots of those for photos of DD. So I went with this blue, green and orange colour scheme. I also wanted a bit of bling so I inked these chipboard pieces (bella chipboard so very cheap... I didn't feel like cutting out my own... too hard on the hands) and then added kindy glitz to them to give them that sparkly look.