Scrapbooking Themed Birthday Party (Part 2) *GIVEAWAY*

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As you all know memory keeping is my passion and is a life style for our family. I am also passionate about sharing my love of scrapbooking. I do that mostly here on my blog but I also want to share that passion with kids. I think it's so important that they learn how and why documenting memories is important. That's one of the reasons we (my daughter and I) chose a scrapbooking themed birthday party for her.

My little girlie's scrapbooking themed birthday party was a huge hit.  (If you missed part 1 you can find it HERE.) We had so much fun (me and the girls). The first thing we did when the girls arrived was took lots and lots of photos. I set up a photo booth in the basement using a black backdrop and a few photo props that I created using my Silhouette Cameo and a few dowels. The photo booth is one area that I was a little bit disappointed with. I forgot to test the lighting out before the party and I ended up having to use the flash on my camera so the photos didn't turn out as good as I had hoped.

After we took A LOT of photos in the photo booth I sent my husband on a mad dash to the one hour photo.

He came home with a HUGE stack of photos. I had him print enough duplicates so that each girl had her own set of photos from the party. We had the tables set up in my kitchen with American Crafts This to That adhesive and a few tools scattered down the center of the tables.

Each girl had a stack of her very own brand new supplies to play with. I chose the Pebbles We Go Together collection because it's such an adorable collection and the party was so close to Valentines Day.
To say the girls had fun playing with all the pretty paper, stickers, and glue would be an understatement. They giggled, laughed, and had so much fun looking at and playing with all the photos we took.

I thought you might like to see the album my daughter made. I'm a proud mommy, I love how her album turned out! Here's the cover:

 Here are a couple of pages inside the album:

I do think that I'm going to have her go back and add some journaling to her pages. I want her to document her thoughts and memories from the party.

Overall, I think the party was a huge success. At the end of the party I had a happy little girl and that's all that matters.

Now, I get to share the fun of this party with one of you. I get to share some of these goodies with one lucky person. I have this to giveaway:

This stack of goodies includes a 6x6 chipboard album, a 6x6 paper pad, and a bunch of embellishments. The paper pad and embellishments are from the We Go Together collection from Pebbles.
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Large Accordion Paper Flowers

Yesterday I shared with you the decorations for my daughters Scrapbooking themed birthday party. Today, I wanted to share with you a tutorial for creating those large accordion paper flowers. To make one 12 inch flower you'll need 2 pieces of 12x12 patterned paper, a glue gun , some adhesive , a paper trimmer , and a Scor-Pal .

1.  cut 2 pieces of 12x12 paper in half so I had 4 pieces of paper measuring 6x12
2. score all 4 pieces of paper at 1 inch
3. accordion fold all 4 pieces of paper
4. attach all 4 pieces of paper end to end to create a long strip
5. attach the ends of the strip to create a circle
6. push the circle down in the center and hold it tightly
7. use a hot glue gun to adhere a piece of scrap paper to the back side of the flower to hold it all together

These large accordion paper flowers are so easy and fun to create. I can't wait to see what you will create with them.

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Easy Handmade Valentines

Valentines Day is this week and it's not to late to create some easy handmade Valentines cards. I used to hate Valentines Day...until I had a sweet tiny baby girl the day before Valentines Day. She changed my whole outlook on the holiday! It's fun to have birthday to celebrate with all the pink and red hearts.

I have a few more Valentines to share with you that I created using the "We Go Together" collection from Pebbles. I used the 3x4 cut-a-part sheet to create both of these cards:

I cut out the sentiment portion for each of the cards.

I added a fancy doily under this sentiment card and added a few layers of patterned paper.

And this one just has a few layers of patterned paper.

Yes, there's still time to create your own easy handmade Valentines cards! :)

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