One, two, buckle my shoe

A while ago I posted the cover of the baby book I have been making (see it at this post) and I finally have a layout from it to show, this one features the adorable Baby Blocks Rio from Simply B Stamps’ Baby Teen Scene collection.

To make up the pages I’ve followed the current sketch over at Stuck on U Sketches, I just flipped the sketch horizontally to have the pages mirror images.  I want the whole book to tie in together so for part of the horizontal elements I used the same stencil as I did on the cover only this time I left it white to break up all that pink.

I found some perfect ribbon and ric rac in my stash to complete the horizontal elements.  I don’t do baby stuff often so why I bought two rolls of pink and white gingham ribbon is anyone’s guess but goes to show how deep my stash runs!  As I have ribbon on the page I am entering this in Incy Wincy Designs’ current challenge.

Baby Blocks Rio was the perfect image for this page of clever little firsts, she is so stinkin’ cute.  I didn’t do two images though as I really wanted to contrast the picture page with the journaling page and, besides, it allowed me to add in some cute blocks that I made using shrink film.  To tie the two sides together I mounted both Rio and the blocks on the same die cut and used another for the titles.

As this is a record of a young child’s life I think it suits a theme of ‘forever young’ perfectly so I am entering it in the current challenge at Corrosive Challenge.

Now I really will be posting up the rest of the layouts over the next few days as I have to finish this off once and for all so please come back and see how it all looks.
 

Ingredients:

Copics

Skin E21, E30, E33 (R20 cheeks)

Eyes E21, E23, E27, 0

Mouth R000, R00, R02

Hair T4, T6, T8, 100

Outfit N0, N1, N2, N4, RV10, RV11, RV32, RV34, RV66, 0

Blocks B00, B02, B05, BG05, BG07, BG09, G03, G05, G09, R24, R29, R46, RV32, RV34, RV66, V09, V12, V15, Y13, Y15, Y17, YG00, YG01, YG03, YR12, YR14, YR16

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

Memory Box Stencil ~ Texture Mesh

Spellbinders Little Darlings ~ Lovely View

Spellbinders Nestabilities ~ Stately Circles

Embellishments

Baby Blocks handmade from shrink film

Kaisercraft Pearls ~ Rose

Kaisercraft Stickers ~ Pitter Patter Girl

Making Memories Rub-ons Alphabet ~ Heidi White
Prima Flowers ~ Chantelle Medallion

Inks & Paints etc

Teresa Collins Basically Essential ~ Modeling Paste

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Dusty Concord, Shaded Lilac & Tea Dye

Papers

Carta Bella Baby Mine ~ Alphabet Soup

Graphic 45 Secret Garden ~ Patterns & Solids

Kaisercraft Pitter Patter ~ Special Delivery

Maja Design Shall We Take  Coffee Break? ~ Leja’s Café

Riddersholm Design Fall Flea Market ~ Future Key

Ribbons & Trims etc

Pink Gingham Satin Ribbon from stash

Pink and White Ric Rac from stash

Stamps

Simply B Stamps ~Baby Blocks Rio

Challenges

Corrosive Challenge #203 ~ Forever Young

Incy Wincy Designs ~ Strings and Things (ribbon, thread,string, fibre, etc)

Stuck on U Sketches ~ July 18

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