First Birthday Layouts - using photo pages

Here are some fun pages that I finished up yesterday - they are of Brailee's First Birthday. Now why exactly did I take SO many pictures of her eating the cake? Who knows ;-) and so to fit all of these pictures on 4 pages, I used the photo pages - I cut them up and used some as a flip book, and I cut one in half and used it between the cake pages. Can you believe that I got 27 pictures on just 4 pages! Wow, that's a lot of pictures now that I think about it ;-)

Anyway, here are the pages of her opening presents. The left page was done by Tiffany Cheney in the Themed Party Swap she hosted that I participated in last summer. I created the right page to match. I haven't attempted to cut apart my It's A Party stamp set like she did to get the multicolored rings, so I just left that stamp out of my random stamped paper.

Here is the page Tiffany created - I just added my pictures and wrote in the journaling jot.

I cut a photo page down to 6 individual protectors and created a little flip book - I then attached it ON TOP of my page protector using brads, so you can flip through the little book while the page is still in the protector. Does that make sense? Here is a pic of the flip book - here it is pictured outside of the protector just to reduce glare. The journaled piece is on the actual page and acts as a mat for the pics in the flip book.

And here she is with the cake - LOTS of pics on this one ;-)

My SIL, Sandy came over to scrap with me yesterday and she had an AWESOME layout where she had done little wrinkled strips under the pic and then faux stitched around it - it looked so cool and she inspired me on this layout - although mine didn't turn out as cool as hers, and I didn't stitch.

Here is a pocket page cut in half - to add 6 extra pictures...

And here it is in the album, in between the two cake pages...

Products Used - all CTMH: Good Times paper pack, Clear Buttons, Chocolate Waxy Flax, White Bitty Brads, Font CD, Spunky Alphabet (retired), Coluzzle Hula Alphabet (retired), Six Pocket Photo Storage Pages, Foundry Frame, It's A Party stamp set, Chocolate Bigger Brads, Boutique Numbers.

Colors Used - all CTMH: Crystal Blue, Twilight, Sweet Leaf, White Daisy, Chocolate, Buttercup

Thanks for looking!