Working on the Baby Book

For the first child, of course, because that needs to be mostly done before the next one comes along in three (3!) months.  I stalled after my last spurt of scrapbooking (must've been last June) due to the summer and the Christmas crafting and whatnot.  I dug everything out again and it has taken over the table in my craft room, which really sucks, because I need to quilt something and there's no space.  I need to move the sewing machine to the dining room for a night to get the quilting done.  Anyhoo, so this is what I've accomplished recently.

Also, before we proceed, please be aware that I am not a professional scrapbooker. I have never been on a retreat and I can't for the life of me figure out how to use my second-hand cricut.  Seriously, I've tried and I suck at it.  I think there's a machine malfunction, but maybe it's user error. So, I'm probably what you would consider a sloppy scrapbooker and will not inspire you in any way, shape, or form.  Keep this in mind while you look at my pages.

Well, I guess I did manage to squeeze out a few leaves on the cricut, but that's about all I've managed. No letters, which is why I really want to use it.  My blade drags across everything.  It sucks.

The background was found in a scrapping kit from the Goodwill, which probably came from Target, because they send their overstock to the Goodwill.  The letters are glitter stickers, obviously.

The next page is part of a set, but I left the second page off, because there's a non-family member in one of the photos and I didn't feel like giving her some identity protection (and by that I mean one of those black stripes across the eyes).

I cut out the letters (sloppily) by hand from a letter stencil template that I've had before cricut was even invented, I bet.  The background is from an Asian stack.

I really like to use the art that is sent home from daycare as much as I can.  I have a bunch of those ghost footprints with googly eyes that I want to stick on a Halloween page.  For this one, I took a gingerbread man that they sent home:

I suppose there's space in the middle there for journaling, but I'm not good at that, so...

And here's another example of stuff sent home from daycare:

They made her a crown for her first birthday, so I cut off the name portion and just used that as a big fat border on the page.

And here's the most recent page: