Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Little Yellow Bicycle - Baby Safari

This has been the most productive month for me (at least scrapbooking!). This is the 2nd kit from my book club. It's another one that I copied exactly. The title of the book is accordion folds. That's a matchbook that has been made into an accordion book instead....
This is one side of the accordion pages...
And this is the other side. I'm not sure if we were supposed to cover both but I couldn't leave the back bare!
And this is just supposed to be one matted photo but I had too many full size photos that I wanted to include. So I made it a foldout book as well....


This is how it looks with both books unfolded....
I don't take too many pictures that I can crop and it will fit in the matchbook, so I'm not sure I would use that much in the future. (Though, if I had a printer that worked, I could just print them smaller...) I really do like making foldouts for the full size pictures though.

This really cute paper is by Little Yellow Bicycle and is the boy line of Baby Safari. They have a girl line as well and I think I've already bought every piece of girl Baby Safari paper (as well as most of the embellishments!) during the Houston Area Roundup. I *heart* this line, more so now that I've gotten to play with it! And even though it's a boy line, it still worked for my little princess :)

Sunday, April 19, 2009

Rainy Days - Accordion Book Foldout

We had some bad weather in the area Friday and Saturday. It didn't really hit us hard until Saturday but the warnings were bad enough to keep me inside both days. Since it looked like this: I was able to stay inside and get some scrapping done! Here is the two page layout:


The first wagon is actually an accordion book that has 6 pages when you open it...







This was such an easy way to get lots of pictures on the layout!

It was one of the kits from this month's book club and I just copied it from the book making only a couple of minor changes. It still took several days to complete since I can't devote any long stretch of time to sitting at my craft table...and I'm still struggling with napping or scrapping ;) It was also a lot of punching and cutting out - I think my scissors hand needs a break!

Thursday, April 9, 2009

Milk Carton Bunny Easter Basket

Look at me! One week after major surgery and I'm posting again ;) But I have to admit this is NOT a craft that I made.

My 3 year old's preschool teachers made these baskets for the kids. I think they are adorable. Such a cute idea if you're looking for something to do with kids. She was so excited to have it (and not just because there was candy in the eggs!). She was most excited about the soccer egg since she is playing soccer now. I guess I will be running out this weekend trying to find some soccer eggs...