GreenChicken31

  I made another birthday layout for my daughter's scrapbook.  This time I used Paper Secrets challenge layout with a twist to help me along.  The twist was to use a number on your page, but it had to be more then an alpha sticker.  A while back I found a bunch of number paper clips, so I used the number 2 paper clip.   I don't have very many birthday embellishments, so I made the little candle charm.  I just love how it looks on the background paper from Simple Stories I (Heart) Summer.  I thought the summer paper was a bit refreshing from the normal birthday paper.  It works well since my daughter has a summer birthday!     Here you can see the 2 paper clip better and some cute heart shape balloon stickers.

  What a bright page this turned out to be!  I made this page for SWAT drill #10 .  Summer never seems to start out here in the pacific northwest until July.  So, what better way to make a page celebrating summer than with one about July!     It's actually a fairly simple page, but the crazy red, white, and blue paper make this page seem kind of busy.  So, I kept my embellishments to a minimum.  My favorite part is the little wood star I used to dot the i in Firework.

I super excited to announce that I'm a design team member for the Memory Nest for July and August!  So keep your eye out for some cute layouts that are coming!  

  There is no lack of color on this page!  It's bright and colorful just like my daughter.  This page started when I saw this color challenge on paper lovers studio.  The rainbow colors immediately made me think of this paper and I knew I just had to use it.  I also used this sketch from scrap you story.   I was able to use up a few random things that I have had.  My favorite is the little cake stamp that I have been holding on to for a long time.  It came from a birthday card somebody mailed to me a while back.  Actually, I looked up the price of stamps and last time it cost 44 cents was back in 2009.

I don't do very much digital scrapbooking.  And my digital scrapbooking stuff was so unorganized.  Most of my files were still on my old laptop.  I might have been up at 4:30 this morning organizing them....  I have started to work on a making a photo book for my daughter.  It is all about a day in her life as a two year old.  A few weeks ago I recorded her entire day and happily snapped lots of photos and jotted down a few notes.  I hope this turns out as cute as I envision it and I can get it done in a short amount of time.  At least digital scrapbooking is faster for me, so I might actually get it all done soon.  To help jump start this page, I used a sketch from Paper Lovers Studio.  

  I made this page for the Paper Girls Beach challenge .  I had to dig deep into my photos for some beach photos.  I finally found these photos of my daughter and I last year.  I got a little chuckle that not one single photo showed her face. Oh well.  It took a while for this page to come together.  I had a very different paper as the background and I kept trying to make that paper work, but it just kept getting worse, so I abandoned it and started fresh with this pink polka-dot paper.  When I was almost done with this page, I went to check what the date of these photos were and I totally had forgotten that they were taken on mother's day last year.  I can't believe it was even warm enough to go to the beach that day!  I totally thought these were taken more in the summer time.

  Ahh the warm colors of summer.  I used this color pallet from Scrap Friends  as my starting point for this page.  Color challenges are always so tricky for me.  I have particular colors that I like to use and have a difficult time meandering away from them.  Part of it also tends to be that I don't have colors or hues in my stash that the color challenges always seem to want, but the warm colors was one I actually could make do with.   I am so happy with how the little pink polka-dot frame.  I traced another frame I had lying around onto some white card stock.  Then I colored it with a pink marker.  Then I took a polka-dot stamp and stamped all around it.  I am so happy with how cute it ended up being.     I also found this cute song challenge at Scrap Your Story .  I knew I just had to add the ee-i-ee-i-oh.  I didn't want to add old McDonald though because it is grandma and grandpa's farm and that would just be too silly.  I also made another vellum shak

  My daughter has lots of these little ponies that she likes to bring with her everywhere, so I thought I would make a roll so she can bring them with her in something more interesting then a Ziploc bag.  This roll also works well for small dolls.  The pony roll is very similar to my car roll , it just is a tad longer and has a 3-d house.  I mostly just took photos of how I made the house,  so feel free to refer back to the car post for more step by step pictures on the mat itself.   Supplies: 1/4 of a yard of green fabric 1/4 of a yard of some fun print fabric Batting (about 17 inches (I liked the extra inch of wiggle room) by 9 1/2 inches) and some extra batting for the house 6 Pieces of scraps of fabric that are 4 inches by 3 1/2 inches Felt for house, roads, tree, and water (I used the felt rectangle pieces you see everywhere in craft stores) Velcro Bias Tape Button Elastic or a hair tie  Step 1: Cut 2 17 inch by 9 1/2 inch rectangles.  One should