Jeralyn's 6th birthday

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I've been working on this spread for weeks (not kidding).  Of course, I wasn't working on it the whole time.  I started it, but then I got stuck.  I made a minor change and decided I was done.

Jeralyn probably thought her 6th birthday was the most pathetic birthday so far (no party), but she was a pretty happy girl anyway.  I just love that easy-going way about her.

Family

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Yesterday, I was having a moment of frustration, and guess what I wanted to do?  I wanted to scrapbook.  I needed a creative outlet.  And so I sat down and found these pictures.  It felt GOOD to put out that energy to something good.

I am so thankful to be a family of 5!  And here we are all together on our first family photo shoot.

Project Life 2016: June

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So today is July 1st...and I'm posting JUNE's Project Life spread!  It's seriously a miracle!  I was so excited to get these photos on the pages.  I even planned to just have fun working on it this evening.  June Project Life?  Check!!

JUNE:

I am so excited about all of the photos I had for this month's spread.   I think I had 22 photos and I had to choose 19.  I'll probably have to do a double spread or added pages for July because I have a feeling there will be lots of photos (visiting with family).

Jeralyn's 4th Birthday

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Well, it's been a very long time since I have blogged...or scrapbooked for that matter!  I had a baby...more on that later.  Ha!  But I did manage to find some time this week to work on a couple of pages.  This is Jeralyn's 4th birthday.  I had found a really fun mermaid kit on Sweet Shoppe Designs.  I love all of the colors and how it goes so well together with the decorations for her party in the photos.

Happy

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How is it that it's October?  Wow!  I'm still getting used to it being 2015.  In fact...today when I was writing in my journal, I almost put a '0-something date.  Like, were have I been?

 

This page took me 10 minutes.  Love that!  I just really wanted to be creative and I only had a short amount of time, and it all just came together.  Yay!  I guess that's what can happen when you work from one kit.

 

Anyway, here's a layout of Jeralyn. 

 

Happy:

 

Mermaid Ballerina

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I feel like I'm on a roll with scrapping.  But I may roll off...so don't get too excited.  Ha!  (Not that you were/are).

 

I wanted to use a princess kit I purchased months ago and I wanted to scrap these photos.  I like them together.

 

Joy

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Seriously, doing Project Life by the month is already making me feel more free to create regular pages.  Although, I've only done this one (below) so far since I've switched to months instead of weeks...but it definitely felt so good to sit down with intentions to scrapbook and know that I was caught up on Project Life (monthly) and could just create a regular page.  Whoop!

 

And I knew exactly what photos I wanted to start with.  Quent took these photos when they were hiking and I haven't been able to get these photos out of my head since I first laid eyes up on them.  I wanted to capture this on a page and capture her, in this moment because this is Jeralyn through and through.  She loves life--very much!  It reminds me of that scripture in John 10:10, which says that Christ came to give us life abundantly.  Well, she has been an example to me of what that means.  I have much to learn from this girl!

 

 

I don't have a plan to scrapbook regular pages in any type of order.  It will be what my heart desires.  If a photo speaks to me, it may be documented in a scrapbook page.  No pressure.  Just pure photo and life capturing.

 

Oh, and I also wanted to mention that when I sat down to scrap these photos, I looked up some ideas I've pinned in my Scrapbook Pages board on Pinterest.  And I found one that spoke to my heart by Sasha Farina.  It's interesting because I used to find a lot of scrapbook inspiration in the late Creating Keepsakes magazines, but now it's Pinterest.  Gotta love Pinterest!

Inside look at Jeralyn's album

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Today I would like to take you on a little tour of Jeralyn's baby album.  I have it in a 12x12-inch D-ring We R Memory Keepers album (my favorite album to date).  It's her baby book.  I didn't want the traditional, fill-in-the blanks baby book.  It's a continuous work in progress and probably won't be complete until she's like 18 years old!  Ha!  Like for instance, I need to create a "milestones" sheet that I can write the dates in for (like her first tooth, first steps, etc.). 

 

At age 4, she already enjoys looking through her album.  The last time we looked through it, she was really impressed with the princess stickers I kept from the doctor's office with her weight/height written on them.

 

Let's take a look:

 

This is the first page(s).  I kept the guest sheet from a baby shower because it really meant a lot to me (for a lot of reasons). 

I have all sorts of things in the album.  On the left it's some stuff I kept from a surprise "mail" baby shower my friend Carrie put together for me.  On the right is the "birth certificate" that the hospital created. 

There are those princess stickers. *wink*  The thank you card and birth announcement I designed.  The tape they measured her with.  These are in the Project Life kind of pages with the pockets. 

And then there was some stuff I wanted to save, but there was nothing out there on the market (at the time) that would display these things, so I created my own pockets. 

I include a little bit of something from her birthday parties (sometimes).  Ultrasound photo.  Her first swim class evaluation.  And a scripture I wrote out on a card as we tried/waited for Jeralyn for 7 years.  These are special things--all that have a story or purpose. 

First hair cut locks that I saved. 

I found a free printable to record her teeth.

I have a few of her first drawings.

Project Life has these cool 12x12 pocket folders that I have put her first hats, head band, and the first program from her first ballet performance. 

And of course the weekly pages, all 52. 

Newspaper clippings of when she's been famous. 

Birthday scrapbook pages.

 

I have really enjoyed making and adding to her baby book/album.

 

So that's about it!  If it becomes too bulky I will probably have to take some things out or compile information.

 

Hope you enjoyed the tour!



Frozen Snow Princess

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Wow, it's been awhile!  And it's been awhile since I've done regular scrapbooking.  And it took me 10 months to scrapbook Jeralyn's 3rd birthday.  But you know what, that's okay!  I'm so glad I looked up "frozen" on Designer Digitals because it came up with this perfect mini-kit that you can find here.  Yay!  It fit the theme so well and I'm so pleased!

 

Birthday #2

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I thought I would break things up with the Project Life and Baby Journal posts to share a page I made of Jeralyn's 2nd birthday.  I'm not sure why it took me this long to scrap/document it, but here it is:

 

 

The theme for her birthday was turtles (she LOVES turtles!).  The colors were green and purple.  Honestly, this was a challenging page for me to scrap because I'm not really that fond of purple (although the shade of Jeralyn's dress is my favorite shade when it comes to purple).  And I'm not really into bright green.  I'm more of a teal green kind of girl.  Or in the (back in the day) Stampin' Up! world, "Garden Green".  Not mint green (which is what I had to work with here).  I was tempted to turn most of the photos to black & white, but I wanted to preserve the colors so Jeralyn could (one day) look back and see what colors I made her cake.  I played with this page several times over the last few days.  I'm happy with it.