for you, darling mini album

my daughter turned the big 4 this past weekend...sigh.

we had a small little tea party with some of her friends and it was a fabulous time.  it's the first time that i haven't gone "way overboard" with the decorations, food, presents, etc.  i threw everything together the day before.  and believe it or not....it was wonderful.  no stress (other than the "day of" kind of stuff). no worry. no endless nights spent perusing pinterest for the perfect cupcake topper.  nope.  just a simple little party.

my husband and i wrapped her presents the night before the party and he mentioned to me that "next year, we should have some tags on the gifts".  well....guess what i went and did for the next hour?  made tags.  which was awesome, by the way!  :)

as soon as my daughter saw the presents (and bypassed the tags without a glance), i grabbed them up and decided to put them in our project life album.  but then i decided that they looked so awesome together that creating a mini album remembering her fourth birthday would be perfect.  

so, i made a few more tags and turned them all into a little mini.  i tried to use my scraps and things on my table rather than dragging out every little bit that i have.  for the tags....i mainly used plain office supply tags, some dear lizzy tags and these large white tags from studio calico.  for the embellishments, i used some wood veneers from studio calico and freckled fawn, doilies, dear lizzy stickers, buttons and enamel dots.

check it out...

i couldn't quite figure out how i wanted to include the journaling.  the tags are a little small to include a picture and lots of words, so i opted to type the majority of my journaling on the front and back of the first tag.  

i created a little confetti tag using some cellophane wrapper (from a packaging).  i just sewed three sides of the wrapper onto the tag, added my confetti and then sewed up the remaining side.  easy peasy. (ps...i think i will make all of my gift tags like this from now on!)

i created a couple of "fabric" tags using fabric scraps that i had in my scrap pile.  i love how they turned out and i think fabric adds so much to a paper book.

super simple.  and super sweet.  hoping the little misses will enjoy "the tags" i made for her one day.  

thanks for stopping by!!  

xoxo

project life: week 13

week 13 was a busy week for us!  lots of celebrating going on with a sweet girl turning four and easter.

i ended up with so many photos of our birthday celebration and easter fun, and less of the "everyday" moments.  and i'm ok with that.  this week was all about my daughter, anna, and this week spread shows that.  i actually ended up making an insert documenting her birthday party, and i will share that next week with the little black dress kit club reveal.

here is the whole week together.

this week has a mix of papers and embellishments.  several of the cards ("you make me happy", butterfly card and the card with the pink triangles at the top and bottom) are from dearest someday.  i love her cards so so much!  the little bits and pieces are from the studio calico neverland printables, glitz design and freckled fawn (both of which are some sneak peeks of the april little black dress kit). 

here's a closer look at each side...

(from left to right....grocery shopping, dinner date, flower card from anna's teacher, preschool birthday party, flowers, calendar card from studio calico, swinging at the playground and my little bunny).

from left to right...silly family shot, ice cream sundae for a special four year old, a silly boy on a sunny day, our weekly recap, lots of fingernail polish and the colors of the week, birthday cupcakes and family easter photo).

this is a little sneak peek of the birthday insert from this week.  and you got it....more confetti!  i'll share this next week after the april reveal for the little black dress kit club.  (ps....the top card with the diamonds and triangles is a layered template from studio calico.  and yep...it rocks).

linking up to the mom creative

someone is 4....

today is a very special day.

my little girl turns 4 today. sigh.

she's something else, for sure.

she loves the colors pink and purple, marshmallows, ballet, the iPad and wants to be a rockstar when she grows up.

we love you so much sweet girl.  you make everyday full of laughter.  happy day, darling.

on my desk....

lots and lots and lots of goodies on my desk.

lots and lots of ideas in my head.

lots and lots and lots and lots of paper.

you get the idea.

but...

for now i have a preschool birthday party today, a birthday party for a sweet almost four year old on saturday and easter on sunday.  

lots to do.

hope you are having an awesome day!

recently....

recently...

i have been playing with paper alot.

and i love it.

i'm not sure why i never actually created scrapbook layouts before this year.  it is so therapeutic for me. sometimes, though, i get overloaded with ideas and my brain seems to be on over-drive.  

recently....

i have been in love with all the kits from studio calico.  this month's may be my favorite. ever.  

it took me a while to actually cut the paper up and use it.  sometimes i tend to hoard my favorites... but with favorite papers, comes favorite layouts.

here are some of my recent favorites using this month's neverland, wendy and lost boys kits from studio calico....

hold you so close

i created this layout for the weekly challenge at sc.  the challenge was to scrap a layout using a song lyric.  this lyric "hold you so close" is from maroon 5 "daylight" and the picture of my daughter and i snuggling was perfect for the lyric.  i added lots of layers of the maggie holmes "remember this" paper (using both sides) and some of the other lovely papers from the neverland kit.

take my breath away

again...more of the amazing maggie holmes paper.  i couldn't resist cutting up one of the sentences of the paper to add underneath my photo.  sigh.

love your smile

this layout was for the sunday sketch on the sc blog and i chose lisa truesdell's layout as my inspiration. i love the beautiful colors of the kesi art papers in the wendy kit and they went perfect with my photos.

awesome

this layout was chosen as the layout of the week this past weekend.  yay!!

i created this layout with the lost boys kit.  i tend to really like grids and rows, and i love this one.  the wood veneer card (something else i have been hoarding) kinda started the process for this layout.  i was too scared to actually do anything to it and possibly ruin it, so i let it stand by itself.  and the card to the left with the date is actually a flip card that includes all my journaling.  i tend to hid my journaling if i can't quite figure out where i want it to be without standing out....

reveal is tomorrow afternoon (for subscribers) at studio calico.  can't wait to see what's in store for this next month.  it's always like christmas to me.  

happy wednesday everyone!