Love to snuggle with Bear

Who wouldn't want to snuggle with this little guy? Mommy(my daughter) took all these pictures for me and I put the page together for her. Very simple 2-pagelayout- since I was mixing black and white photos with some colorful ones.  I just did some fussy cutting from some special papers and added glitter and made my own 4 embellishments and added some sticker words to complete the layout

Banner for Bear -made with Love

                    Made with Love for my little BEAR- Barrett James born June 23rd, 2013

 Finished and hung in his new nursery this weekend - how adorable is this- and he just turned 1 week old when we put it up- now I did that quick!
First I decided in the papers for the Letters-which took me the longest time- why ? because I have so much paper I wanted to make sure I found the right colors and patterns for this project I had visioned in my head

Then I decided on the size of banners I wanted and cut the chipboard out

I was originally gonna put burlap on the chipboard and then the letters- but I didn't like how it was looking- it was all blending together and didn't care for it- so plans changed and I decided on the plain pearlized cardstock as the background- so I glued that onto the chipboard.

As you can see in the above pic- the letters didn't stand out against the burlap. I used pop dots and inked all the edges in several different colors of ink browns and greens and then doodled or drew faux stitching on all the letters and then found the cutest embossed Bear paper- did some fussy cutting and placed several bears around the letters- oh so cute- I amaze myself with some of my ideas...lol I then added a hand drawn border in brown ink/marker around the edges of the banner found some brown with green polka dot ribbon to tie on - and hung this adorable name banner in BEAR's nursery.....handmade with much love for my first grandchild!

R is for Richards....

How adorable is this...which is now on display in my daughter's bedroom above her bed with lots of picture frames to be filled with photos. Another project I worked on with her last weekend...we had so much fun doing all kinds of crafts-especially this one!She purchased this paper mach'e letter R for $5.00 which is very large about 2 feet high- then we took our time selecting papers and colors and lots of fussy cutting. We decided to just paint the edges in a dark mustard yellow- first. then after all the cutting we laid out everything in its spots and one by one decoupaged everything in place. Then added 2 more coats of mod podge and whoolah it was finished in about 3 hours. Now I want one of these for my bedroom - well a letter D- add it to my list of things or projects to do.....