This week at Paper Cutz Challenge Mary told the DT it's anything goes. Thank goodness because I have plenty of scrapbook pages to use. If you follow my blog at all, you know that I've been working on a Dr. Seuss scrapbook for my 9th grandchild. My daughter-in-law's baby shower is this weekend and I have to say I'll be glad to move all the Dr. Seuss shower favors, decorations and scrapbook out of my house. I've been working on them for months now. I had a great time designing them all but I most enjoyed the scrapbook. It was certainly a labor of love and I can't wait to get my son and daughter-in-law's reaction. This is the layout I made to document baby's first steps. I did the entire album in red, white and turquoise to keep a uniform feeling throughout. I used my Cricut Expression, Imagine and SCAL to design this double page layout and titled it First Steps.
I started this layout with turquoise cardstock then used my Imagine to cut the white cardstock shape from the Best Friends cartridge. I centered a 6" strip of red polka dot paper and added two turquoise mats with a Dr. Seuss quote in the middle on each page. I printed the quotes with my computer using a Dr. Seuss font. On the top and bottom edge of the polka dot paper I added a gingham checked ribbon that I knotted in the middle.
The banner was cut with my Imagine and the Imagine More cartridge. The original banner on that cartridge has multi-colored flags but using the printing feature of the Imagine I was able to change all the flags to print in red. I added polka dot paper onto the flags then used my SCAL to cut the letters from the Dr. Seuss font that I found on the internet. I added gingham bows to the ends of the banner. The last piece of this design was cutting the footprints. I used the B is for Boys cartridge.
I put a lot of research into this album to find all the Dr. Seuss quotes. One day I went to the children's side of our local library and checked out a stack of Dr. Seuss books. That filled in the gaps to go with all the Dr. Seuss books I still have from when my children were small. I discovered that Dr. Seuss said a lot of cool stuff that could translate to adults. Isn't it true that life is a great balancing act for all of us?
