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I picked up the Imaginisce B-Day Bash paper pack and coordinating embellishments at the scrapbooking convention I went to with Kristy in September. I thought it would work great with all the kids’ birthday parties. So I ordered some prints from my niece’s first birthday party from ScrapbookPictures.com, a new photo site I tried out for a digital scrapbook project I am working on.  I had wanted to play along with Imaginisce’s monthly sketch in October with these pictures, but I ended up being too busy getting ready for Jessica’s first birthday party. I think this November sketch worked better with the pictures though, so I’m kinda glad I didn’t have time. What do you think of my take on the sketch?

I decided to do a coordinating second page for the rest of the pictures I deemed scrapbook worthy. And then I wondered where there was room for the journaling. You might look at this page and wonder “I don’t see any journaling.” Well, I’m sneaky like that. That little red rectangle with the present hides the journaling that will pop out like a jack-in-the-box. That space wasn’t big enough for all I wanted to say (thank you blog post on said party for providing what to say) and so I got creative. What do you think?

Cardstock: Bazzil white and red; DCWV caribbean
Designer Paper: Imaginisce B-Day Bash
Stamps: Stampabilites Sophie Alpha Upper & Lower
Ink: Stampin’ Up Craft Whisper White
Embellishments: Imaginisce B-Day Bash chipboard stickers and rub-ons; The Twinery Caribbean twine; DMC white floss; Stickles yellow; dimensionals
Tools: Martha Stewart Balloon punch; Nestabilities Classic Ovals Large

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This month’s Imaginisce sketch is actually a card sketch, but I was inspired by Aphra and Cari‘s scrapbooking takes on the sketch.

I picked out some pictures of my cutie-patootie and came up with the following layout. I’m loving these Imaginisce monthly sketches as it really gets me in the groove to scrapbook my baby girl.

Cardstock: DCWV the Spring Cardstock Stack (pink and blue), the Paper Studio Textured Cardstock Darks (green)
Designer Paper: Imaginisce Fairest of Them All
Accessories: Imaginisce Fairest of Them All chipboard stickers, rub-ons (adorable and flower); Hobby Lobby Valentine’s Day 2010 ric-rac

For my mother and mother-in-law for Mother’s Day, I put together photo albums with pictures from the first 3.5 months of Jessica’s life. When I printed the photos at Costco, I also printed copies for me. Now it is easy to scrapbook Jessica as I can just go through the photos organized chronologically in the photo box and pick out some to scrapbook. This makes challenges easier to accomplish on time as I already have photos printed.

This layout uses Imaginisce’s May Sketch. I was especially inspired by design team members Melinda and Liz‘s takes on it. I found it somewhat challenging since I don’t have a lot of photos of Jessica that worked well square, so if you look closely,  my photos aren’t quite square. I used the super cute  Imaginisce Wild Things Collection and coordinating solid paper I picked up the scrapbooking convention I went to last September with Kristy. I thought the collection would be really good to scrapbook all the zoos I like to visit when we travel, but it also worked perfectly with the adorable little outfit our friend Robert sent to Jessica. I just added a touch of purple paper.

I had a few extra pictures from that same day, so I made a second layout that coordinated with the first. This is where writing a blog comes in handy as my journaling came from this post about Jessica.

Paper: Imaginisce Wild Things Collection; Paper Studio purple textured cardstock; Stampin’ Up Bashful blue (title, journaling, stamped elephants)
Stamps: Imaginisce Wild Things Elephant
Ink: Stampin’ Up Basic Brown (elephants); Dell (printed title, journaling)
Accessories: elephant brads
Tools: Xyron 5″ Creative Station; Nestabilites Standard Circles Large

Each month Imaginisce hosts a layout sketch on their blog challenging you to use their products. Here is the March sketch.

The journaling reads: Jessica was only a few hours old when she met her Nanny and Papa, and then Uncle Jason and Aunt Julia for the first time.

I was very inspired and made a corresponding second page in addition to my take on the sketch. All these sketch challenges are forcing me to get my butt in gear in terms of scrapbooking Jessica. This was my first time actually using rub-ons and they were much easier than I thought they would be. This is also my first effort at combining two pictures into one.

Paper: Imaginisce Fairest of Them All, Bazzill Basics Strawberry Splash
Accessories: Imaginisce Fairest of Them All chipboard and rub-on embellishments; blue sparkly brad from my stash