Baby Books Part 2- Helping a friend

Don't you just love the name Audrey for a little girl! Here is the second Baby Book that my friend wanted to do with my "help". I think this one turned out much cuter then the first one. I guess I am much fonder of the SU Cherry DSP then Deb's original pick of papers for the first Baby Book. This time my "help" was much less, The choice of papers and matching goodies were much easier to match and pick from this time around. Of course I had to do a title on my Pazzles. When I first was learning my Pazzles I found this great font that had cherries and of course I had to turn it into a diecut. This cherry paper and diecut were made for each other. The mom this baby book is made for is not really a pink kind of gal, she is more of a 1950's style with the dark black hair ........cute like "rosie the riveter". Ok.....only 2 or three more baby books...If only I could talk her into using one of the Simply Scraping Kits!. See the last BabyBook post for all the tools and where the inspiration came from.

Baby Books- Helping a Friend

Deb's Baby Book 1: The Story:

I have a friend that is what I call a HOARDER... she has all the items to create lots of crafty things BUT never uses them.... We all know what that means.. she has talent but needs a bit of coaching to start something and finish it. Yup we are both procrastinators! Now I am a very knowledgeable crafter that has been doing this for a long time...also I am a bit meticulous with my cards as in no crooked cuts or catty-whompus stamped images. She on the other hand has a different more relaxed view on things... like crooked is OK and certain off papers mixed and matched are OK. Now we come to the day that I "coached" her with this book. Compromise; that was the key word. Working with the papers she wanted to pick from and adding some of my Stampin' Up papers was the challenge for that evening! But look how cute it came out! Many of the items we used were from her stash of goodies but I added a few die cut items either designed by me from my Pazzles or from the Stampin' Up exclusive Big Shot. The album was scored using my Scor-Pal and bound together with my Coil-Mac 41. We also covered the front and back using GBC transparent covers that I purchased from Staples. The original book was a design I found on Patty Bennetts blog and from Splitcoast Stampers website.

Card Holder Booklet

This great Card holder was inspired by Patty of http://www.pattystamps.com/ . I changed it just a little bit. I personally do not like the BIA/ Bind It All for me, I have used comb and spiral binding for years. Spiral binding offers such fun colors (Yeah Yeah I used white for this one...Boring) from Pinks to Browns.......lots of colors. I also bind my catalogs with it too. Back to this great card holder........I utilized the big pockets by punching a half circle on the top of one side and glued the bottoms together to create a pouch for additional lists of envelopes.
I love this paper too. I took the mottled green side and glued it to some thick cardboard then cut it with some Sizzix's Alphabet Original Dies ( The thicker ones) to get my letters. Used the Signo White pen for the white dashes of the letters to match the ribbons tied to the spiral. I happened to find a brown ribbon with dashed white lines that matched SU's ribbons and paper perfectly. Created another booklet with the Summer Picnic too... Not as cute as the Afternoon Tea Paper but still cute.