Birthday wishes

Happy birthday to you!  Yea, it's my son's birthday month and this year he will become a first time dad.  So, I am going through all my old photo albums and making a scrapbook for him to show his little one what he looked like at different ages. Here he is at three.

This is XOXO Scrapbooking March scrap lifting challenge.  It is based on a 4x4 grid.  You can put pictures in fours squares or you can mix and match.  This is a great way to use up those bits and pieces of papers that always seem to be left over after a project. I have quite a few 6x6 pads of paper that are just perfect for this type of sketch.   I hope you will join us and maybe next month you will be our Guest Designer!

I love to twik my pages.  The top pic shows how I added a cut out piece behind the tag.  Notice how it makes it stand out more now.

 I won these gorgeous bright cheerful papers from Authentique last month.  How perfect for this layout.  The back ground for these photos were very dark and the subject matter wasn't important so I cut him out of them and used them like this.

 I bought him one of those toys were the top of the drum lifts off and inside you find several more instruments.  He had thick red locks as a child.  Who would have thought that by age 20 his hair line would recede so far back that it was better just to shave it bald!  I did save a lock in his book.

Notice the twik between these two pics.

 In each corner I punched bubble holes for added dimension.

Papers

Authentique  Crave, Wishes, Merriment

Embellishments

Authentique stickers
Ribbon, flowers and bling from my stash

Thanks for stopping by to see what the papers are saying today!  Just nine more to go til I reach my goal of 50 follows.  Hope you are next!  Thank you

Scrap it Girl Birthday challenge!

The Aviary   This month's theme is "Celebrate" and what better way to celebrate than a party!