Fun with Echo Park's Bundle of Joy.



When I set out to make my niece's 1st year album, I found the selection of baby-themed products to be bleak. Luckily, I happened upon Echo Park's Bundle of Joy girl collection and fell in love. The colours were perfect and it coordinated nicely with the collection I used for my nephew's album the year before, just in case I wanted to mix the two together for a brothers and sister page.

This first picture is a tag I made for Scott's cousin's baby shower. I actually hated it until it got tied to the present.

The next one is a layout that went into my niece's album. It's for pictures of her with her big brothers....minus any product from the baby boy collection that I previously mentioned. I totally forgot about the plan to mix up the collections! Oh well....

This next layout was my favourite of the whole album. It was a last-minute add-on, a filler to help finish the album and meant to show off some cute, random candids.

The title was designed using Cricut Craft Room, including the backdrop of hearts. The lamb is a sticker from Bundle of Joy and the butterfly is a Martha Stewart punch. I'd used that punch throughout my nephew's album too.

Some more sticker work here, where I perched an owl on the branch and then added another butterfly punch.

And now, my work with this album is complete. All my sister has to do is add the pictures and journaling!

Challenge Accepted!

 





Thanks to Paula, I've been lurking the Craft Hoarders Anonymous blog for some time now.  They've got some really fun challenges that have appealed to me, one previous one that I even completed....too late to enter the challenge, but completed just the same!

Here's one that actually got done, and on time to boot! It's the final page of my niece's baby album:



This layout is inspired by prompts from both Challenge 6 (expired before I saw it....sigh) and 7. I used the sketch and the mix of new products (all the paper) and old products (rubons and ribbon), as required for Challenge 6. The ribbon (pink ric rac and teal bottom border) is also needed for Challenge 7, which I'm actually on time for and able to enter!
The title, including the background, was designed in my Cricut Craft Room and embellished using old Basic Grey rubon flowers and a Martha Stewart butterfly punch. Underneath the title, you can see a bit of the texture and design in the teal ribbon used at the bottom of the page.

I added some more coordinating rubons to the journaling card. Beneath that, you can see some of the dainty pink ric rac used at the edge of the brown cardstock.

Thanks for stopping by! I hope to have some more layouts from my niece's album posted soon.