Springtime Doodles Scrapbook

Let me preface this by saying that I don't scrapbook enough....I love putting these special books together - and for this historic occasion (Victoria's teacher is having a baby) - some of the moms wanted to do something extra special from the students in the class. Victoria really LOVES her teacher and I adore her too!

I grabbed an 8x8 cloth bound scrapbook that was a cross between a moss and celery color. I used a blue & green color scheme throughout the book, but wanted to do a little something special to the cover, and since it was so plain, I decided to create a fun cover! I took a piece of rustic cream cardstock and stamped the dandilion from {Springtime Doodles} in celery and bashful blue ink . I placed a button on the center of each flower. I created the sentiment (which I saw on Nichole's blog) on my computer because for some reason, I do not have that stamp set that Nichole used (YET). I stamped the bee, colored it with copics and then adhered it to the main sentiment layer. I faux stitched the sentiment layer too. Finally I sponged the edge of the paper with ink.





I used this fun sentiment for the inside of the scrapbook. Very simple way to personalize your scrapbook!








Here is Victoria's page. I asked each parent to give me a current and baby photograph of their child for the book. I also gave everyone a piece of 3x5 cardstock for them to write advice to the teacher. They could also write advice to the 18 month old son of the teacher about being a big brother. The responses were precious!

I used the ladybug from Springtime Doodles to embellish the page, along with some buttons and ribbon. The Cutie sentiment is from another Papertrey set {baby button bits}. I used both sets throughout the scrapbook.


Here is a close up of Victoria's advice to her teacher (and her husband/aka Johnnycakes). Of course Victoria wants to be sure that Noah does NOT feed his baby raisins (like Karen did to her when she was just a baby) -- check the diaper often! :) and the most important -- SLEEP! Smart girl!

stamps: {springtime doodles, baby button bits} Papertrey Ink
paper: celery, designer paper, rustic cream, bashful blue
ink: black, copics
misc: buttons, ribbon, dimensionals