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My baby's 1st birthday:)

I have to talk a little bit about my scrapbooks and the sizes that I do.

For my kids, I do a 6x6. It's a challenge at times. Most of the time, I only have 1 picture that I want to put in there because I'm documenting a milestone. But on occasions like birthdays, sports or classes that they have taken where I have several pictures, it's been a bit of a challenge. I feel like I have to print the pictures really small and then I have to still crop them more than I want. I had to totally crop out the cake on his birthday pictures, which is the most fun part. I tell myself it's okay because I have digital copies of everything, but I'm not sure.

For things that are the three boys together or at least two of them, I have a 11x8.5 (it's landscape). This is my favorite album to do. I don't usually do a two page spread... just a single, and it's usually just a few pictures because it's something we've done just during the day or a comparison or a picture of the three of them together or maybe something fun about just two of them.

For anything that relates to the whole family I do a 12x12 two page spread. These are definitely fun and they usually have a ton of pictures.

Go to the labels and click on Anisa for my samples:)

Anisa

Learning to Sit

Little Me

Summer Sundays

Kinderbear

I helped Brenner make this for Kinderbear's journal at school. I thought it was so cute that I made a copy for the journal and kept the original for Brenner's scrapbook. He did the sticker title and the journalling on the right.

Peek-a-Boo!

Learning to Crawl

11 months

Terek's 1st Haircut

Idaho

4th Fun

Little Family Reunion

This picture doesn't do this layout justice.

Cherry Hill

1st Day of Kindergarten

Back to School

So, the other day I put together this super cute layout for when the boys started preschool last year. I went to put it in my album when I saw this....
How pathetic is it that I had already scrapbooked my back to school pics and I had forgotten?

Thankfully, Cami suggested that I could use the single photo layout for something else and just swap photos... now I'm a year ahead on a back to school layout!

Two

Terek

Guys Swim Gym

This IS the Place

Camping

Weekend Adventures

quiet time

Great-Grandma

The Camping Trip That Wasn't

Having a Ball

Kitties

Aprons

Explore

Snow?

So Tired

Can I consider this layout a girly layout because it has pink pompoms??? Will that scar Terek when he's older?

Ella's Preschool Graduation

This is the page that I did for my scrap-a-page contest on my craft blog back in May. The winner ended up being Cami's mom and she wanted me to do a page for her scrapbook of Cami's daughter Ella at her preschool graduation. I love doing girly stuff, but with the colors in the pictures, I opted for a more bright color scheme that didn't end up as girly, but still way fun to do.

I especially loved all of my felt embellishments that I got to sew on and the cute gathered ribbon that I like to do on all of my pages right now.

Birth Announcement

I don't know if this counts, but I wanted to post this birth announcement I made for my friend Rachel. I even took the picture.

Blue Dinos Soccer

I love Sassafrass Lass. Their papers are sooooo cute and so fun!

Here is a layout that I did of Brenner's and Joren's soccer last fall.

I used the patterned paper from Sassafrass Lass. I mounted the larger team picture on black Bazzill cardstock. I used acrylic paint on my foam stamps from a Lisa Bearnson Kit of the Month. Thickers from American Crafts. And I love stitching.... especially the gathered ribbon that I've been doing a lot lately. (click on the picture to see it larger)

After I finished the "professional" pictures (they aren't that good) I had forgotten about the pictures that Ryan and I took. So I had to try to do a coordinating page with my scraps.

Brenner's 5th Birthday

This was a very simple layout. It's fun to pull the corner rounder out once in awhile. Patterned paper is Basic Grey and I love buttons just as much as I love stitching and ribbon.

When I was pregnant with Brenner I got caught up on all of my scrapbooking. I had been doing 8 1/2 x 11 for years and I decided that since we were changing from a couple to a family, I could change my scrapbooking. So I started doing 12x12 for my family album but thought I would do 6x6 for each kid. That has actually turned out pretty good for MOST things. I only need one or two pictures of the first smile, haircut, etc. The hard part has been birthdays. I feel like I have to leave so many pictures out because I just can't fit them on the 6x6 pages. (at least I have digital copies of everything:)

Wipes

Love circles, stitching and buttons... and I love baby T.

Hands and feet

I love the pics of the hands and feet up close... especially when they are pudgy like T's.

New Do

a moment...

Praise You Like I Should

100% Boy

Ella