Challenge 17a - 2

And with this layout, I finished Liam's birthday album (minus his first birthday, for which I have not yet located the photos). And I finished it ON his birthday.

I assembled all of the pages in the correct chronological order and gave it to him as a gift. And he loves it. LOVES it!! Even gave it a thumbs up. That's what it's all about.

Challenge 17a was my inspiration for this layout. (WOO HOO, only 5 more challenges to go until I've done them ALL!!)

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Some observations on the process and products used:

1. The inspiration layout is a double spread, mine is a single. But I stole the strip of smaller bordered photos that kind of overlap each other. That's about the only similarity between the two. And that's OK.
2. When Kev looked at the page, he said, "Wow, where was his second birthday at?" And I read the journaling to him, "We celebrated your second birthday at a rented cottage on Big Star Lake." Kev's reply, "OOOOhhhh, yeah." That's what scrapbooks are for, to help us remember.
3. I had originally printed the photos across the top in full color, but thought that turning them to sepia would make them coordinate with the paper, better.
4. Speaking of the papers, another SU! paper set.
5. The arrows on all of the photos point to Liam's sports related gifts. It was a sports birthday.
6. He was such a good looking baby!!

Inspiration Layout:

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Another Birthday layout for Liam....DONE!! And, it's a good thing Amy was there again and took pictures, these are all her shots. Where are mine, you ask? Good question.

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Challenge 15a - happy birthday

WOWSA DOWSA DOO - I finished a challenge layout before Tina added any more challenges! Challenge 15a, and by my count, I am only 6 challenge lay outs behind. Not bad.

AND, I got another birthday layout of Liam's scrapped in the process!! WOO HOO!!!

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Some observations about the process and the products used:

1. "happy birthday" Heidi Swapp sticker. LOVE that.
2. No real title, so, "happy birthday" will have to do.
3. You might not be able to tell very well in the photo, but I added brads to the center of many of the flowers in the CTMH patterned paper. That was my way of taking it to the next level.
4. I busted out my flexible ruler, all prepared to do the wavy title and accents, and I just couldn't bring myself to do it. But, I still followed the lay out pretty well - 1 large square photo, with 2 smaller square photos.
5. Journaling font is called Baby Bowser
6. The photos from this celebration did not turn out very well, which is why I turned the two smaller photos into black & white.
7. Who's gonna be the next one to post a challenge layout?!? Get scrapping, girls!

Inspiration Layout:

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So, I'm working on Liam's birthday book, since his birthday is THIS Thursday.

I still have to do layouts for his 1st, 2nd, and 4th birthdays. I have the photos ready for his 2nd and 4th birthdays but I'll be damned if I can find his 1st birthday photos!! So, those might not make it into the book until, well, until I find them!!

Thanks, Aim, for the photos of this birthday celebration. I thought I took some of my own photos, but couldn't find any. Mother of the Year, yes, I know. At least I saved the ticket stubs.


Used the same SU! kit that I used for this layout. But, they're going in different books, so that's OK.

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