BBTB2 Frame/Scrapbook challenge

Happy Monday!  It is most definitely a happy Monday for me.  Hubby and I have finished our travel north from Florida to Michigan  (and hooray, we're hooked up to the internet again).  It seems like it took forever, though it was only a week of meandering.  We're grateful to have arrived safely in our RV and look forward to spending time with kids and grandkids this summer.  We are missing the warmth and sunshine of Florida tremendously, though.  It has been cold (50's) and rainy since we arrived in East Tawas, Michigan.  My body is not used to the damp and believe me, every joint in my body is reminding me of that.  Speaking of visiting with kids and grandkids, one of the reasons we arrived when we did is to be able to see our oldest daughter's, oldest child graduate from high school.  How can I possibly be old enough to have a granddaughter graduating from high school?  I wanted to make her a special scrapbook as a remembrance so this is the first page of the album.  (Only 19 more pages to go!!!)  Geez, I remember this photo of her like it was yesterday. 

This week's challenge at BBTB2 is to make a scrapbook layout with a frame on it.  Our wonderful DT sister, Melissa, asked us to make a scrapbook page as an extra challenge, usually we feature cards.  I used my favorite cartridge for creating scrapbook pages for this layout.  Elegant Edges is my go to cartridge for frames and borders.  If you don't own this cartridge, I highly recommend it.  You will not be disappointed.  I cut this frame at 9" to highlight my 4x6" photo.  I added a backing of cream colored cardstock and then matted the photo on a piece of Bazzill Dotted cardstock cut at 4.5x6.5".  I designed this layout on my Gypsy while we were traveling to Michigan.  Love my Gypsy when we're on the road.  I cut the scalloped border from the Elegant Edges cartridge, also, at 1x10".  For the title I used Gypsy font and spelled out the word Perfect then welded the letters together.  My banner is cut from the Sugar n' Spice cartridge along the the letters for the word GIRL. 

I added a couple of storks that I believe came from the New Arrival cartridge, and embellished with a crocheted flower and button.  My journaling strips were done with my computer.  I hope that you'll get a chance to join our challenge at BBTB2 this week.  Now, just in case you don't do any scrapbooking, you are allowed to make a card instead of a layout using any frame from any CRICUT cartridge.  BBTB2 is a Cricut challenge site so that is why you must use a Cricut cut frame for this challenge to be elegible to win our project of the week badge to display on your blog.  Remember also, you must make a new creation for this challenge, no back links.  Have fun and thanks for stopping by and for the sweet comments you leave.  They are so appreciated.