Baby is Here!!

I'm a little late in posting this, but after helping new Momma adjust to new Baby, then getting back home which I had been away from for almost a month, I needed some time to get used to being back home, and get back in to the groove of my Mommy routine and get back to taking care of my own family again.

Here I am now though, announcing the arrival of Michael Levi Burrell, better known as Little Levi. He was born early in the morning on June 1st, and for the most part has been a very good baby so far. :) Not to mention cute! Holy Moly! So much hair for a new little person, and huge eyes, so alert right from the start. picture taken just after his 1st bath..... he's not even a whole day old yet.

It's hard to believe it wasn't that long ago I was going to Doctors appointments with my friend and here is a Digital page I made of that moment.

While I'm here posting and since I thought of it, here is the Thank You card I made for my friend to give out to everyone who came, or sent something to her for the Baby Shower.

It's been a great month so far, what a great way to start the summer season :)

Happy Memory Making!

~Jenn

Zoo Themed Baby Ablum

I was asked to make a baby album for my Cousin in law for her baby shower. It was fun to do, but I found it to be a challenge. First off, not knowing the sex of the baby had to be the most difficult part of this album. I didn't want it to lean more one way than the other, but I didn't want it to be "blah" either. Luckily Mommy had a theme for the Nursery (Jungle) so I was able to find fun papers to work with (the DCWV Animal Crackers Stack), and went straight to work.

Second issue, it was HARD to not go over board!!! I've done 3 baby albums in the past (one for each of my boys), and I swear I had a page for every move they made, narrowing it down, to not only fit in 1 album (without adding extra pages), but with trying to allow space for all the important moments. I finally settled on doing a page for before baby was born, a double of the day baby was born, and then 1 page for each month in baby's life. Knowing that not every month can be crammed on one page, I also did a double specifically for putting "baby's firsts", now I left those pages pretty open, cause I know how hard it is to capture every moment on camera.

Finally I ended the album with a double of baby's 1st birthday, and a single for Baby at age 1 to complete the first year album. Below are the pages that I came up with.

I actually really liked how this album turned out (these pictures do it no justice!!). Every time I look at these photos I find a different page I like more, so I'm going to take that to mean I like them all equally and I just have a hard time choose which is my favorite.

Thank for stopping by, until next time......

Happy Scrappin'

~Jenn

Quickie Layout Shout Out!

I have just beeing playing around wit some old pictures I have had printed for a very long time and thought I'd finally get them their own layouts and get them in the books. :)

Thanks for stopping by!!

Happy Scrappin'!

~Jenn

Baby Shower Time - Part 2

Wow, Still can't believe I needed two posts to get everything I've done for this baby shower on here. Today I'm going to quickly show you the things I have done for games & decorations.

Games First.... my friend said she liked the "cheesey" Shower games, however, told me not to go over board. So I kept it simple with a Memory Game (a tray loaded with a number of baby items), the classic Clothes Pin game (where if you say Baby someone gets to steal your pin),

and a Diaper Pull Game (I cut mini diapers, everyone chose one as if they were choose a game card, and they opened their Diapers, who ever had the "dirty" one won the game. See, all very simple games, but they kept the activities and conversation going.
For Decorations, we also kept it very simple, my firend and I are BOTH very frugal, and find some things (such as balloons, flowers etc.) to be not neccisarily a 'waste' of money, but that money could be better spent elsewhere.

So I made her a Diaper cake that doubled as a decorative center piece. This was really fun to make, but can be very costly if you don't plan it out.

I have seen some VERY extensive Diaper cakes be made and all I can say is WOW! What little I put on this one cost a fortune! but I think it still turned out really cute, and for my first Diaper cake, it was fun learning how to make it.
Finally, on the other side of the room, to spread the theme around I used baby sleepers and onsies in the colors of the baby's room and decor and hung them on a line as a sort of banner.

Over all I was happy, didn't go over board with the spending, the guests ha d a great time and Mommy to Be was happy too.

Happy Craftin'!

~Jenn

Baby Shower Time!!! Part 1

Yay! Finally I have a Baby Shower to plan!!!! This is all new to me, I'm so used to being the one to have the kids, it's actually quite exciting for me to be on the other side of waiting for a new baby. :)

My best friend is having a baby, and she has chosen a color pallet of Chocolate Brown, Bright Greens (more of the lime family), and random blue things for a slight color change here and there (yes it's a Boy!!), and she also like frogs, so there are frogs all in the room, and on some of the gifts I bought too.

So here is the Invitation I came up with for the Shower. For the most part we used a group in facebook to invite people to the event, but for those not on there, and that wanted the keepsake invite this is what they got. I used a Sweet Shoppe Designs digital scrap kit to make this, and just sent it off to a photo lab to be printed in a large quantity.

I made for her a Baby Block Sign to go in the babies room in the colors she chose.

I also altered this wooden basket to match (when I found it at a thrift store it was really scratched up, white and with a lot of purple flowers painted on it, so it got quite a transformation). In the basket I put the brand of soaps, lotions and creams she wants to use on baby.

I also made her a set of framed photos (again that match the items above), to put on the wall in the babies room. 4 of them in total.... with a photo of each of my boys on their first day, and the 4th is for a photo of her little guy once he gets here.

Then I made this card to go in one of the bags with her gifts (there were more, lots of cute blankets, sheets, and that rag quilt I showed you in an earlier post). Anyway, I used the scrap pieces of paper from the above projects to make this card, so again, matchy matchy.

So I can say I'm excited all I want, but I think with all the spoils posted it really shows. There will be more to share, so stay tuned.

Happy Scrappin'

~Jenn

Cupcakes.... They aren't just for eating anymore.

Cupcakes seem to be all the rage in the crafting world... (or at least one of them), and I've seen these cute lil guys on blogs all over the web so when I knew I would be planning a baby shower, I thought these would make great prizes for some of the games.

These were super easy to make, I managed to find some .svg files to use with my Cricut to cut the Cupcake Wrappers, and I must say, locating the files (which was fairly easy) was the hardest part of this entire project. lol

Next, I took a pair of fleece socks (that I was able to purchase at the Dollarstore), and Rolled them up, and shaped them a little to make them look like a frosted cupcake.I topped each sock cupcake with a little red pom pom, and then packaged them in a clear bag and that was it.... easy huh???
So looky at that, a new way for Cupcakes to give you that warm & fuzzy feeling. Cupcakes: They aren't just for Eating Anymore. :)
Happy Scrappin'

~Jenn

Baseball Season has Begun!

Baseball Season is here!!! It's a great time of year, when spring comes after a long winter season and we can finally get back to doing and enjoying our outdoor activities! Well, the kids get to enjoy doing them, I get to enjoy washing uniforms, driving them to their games and practices, and of course take LOTS of pictures!!! :)

This year I helped design and create a display board for the league to use during the recruiting and sign up days. It was a lot of fun playing around with my cricut and the files I had to cut items so as the baseballs, gloves, and bats.
I created my own files to cut for the team logos (and I tell ya, that Jays one had a LOT of detail and was pretty hard to piece together all the little parts.)

I also cut a bunch of titles and words, and for hours layed out the items I had and tried to make them not only fit on the board, but look neat and presentable also.

In the end it turned out awesome, and I had a lot of fun!

Happy Craftin'

~Jenn