Happy Mothers Day to Rachel

All of us at some time in our lives as 

Mothers,

need to be reminded of how cute our kids

were at one time.

I had a picture of my 5 older kids framed in my

bathroom for years.  They were all dressed in Navy Blue

Sailor suits and dresses.

It is one of my favorite pictures of the kids together.

Each morning when I went into the

bathroom and got ready for the day, I would look

at how cute they all were and smile.

Always brought a smile to my day.

Rachel is my only daughter right now who

is a mother. Years ago

she gave me a binder and a folder of pictures

for me to scrapbook for her.

On the front of the folder it said

"don't forget these pictures belong to Rachel"

I just found that folder about 3 months ago when I was cleaning out

some boxes, trying to get rid of stuff I no longer needed.

So, I scrapbooked the pictures, and sent them

back to her last month.

I also found a group of black and white pictures

I took of Chelsea at Easter time in this folder.

She was so cute then, and at the time

she was our only grandchild,

so we have a special bond because of this.

I took those black and white photos

of Chelsea and decided to make a mini book for 

Rachel as a Mother's Day gift.

This is her reminder of how cute Chelsea

was as a little girl, and to remind

her and me of all that extra love we shared with her.

Chelsea Book Cover

The theme of the book is all in peach,

even though I know Rachel would prefer a different

color, I loved how the pictures look,

the black and white with the peach.

Robin's Nest papers/printed cardstock look

awesome with  black and white photos.

Here are some photos of the
cover page of the book, instead of scans.
You can see the dimensions of the layers on
 the cover of the book.

Here you can see the different
layers of the floral picture from Ecstacy Crafts.
I just cut each layer of rectangles and
glued them on top of
each other, the top layer I used pop dots.
I also used one of the photos of Chelsea
and cut it out as part of the book cover embellishments.

You can see here there are lots of little stickers
and layers of little embellishments I just kept adding
onto the book cover until I liked it and it felt complete.

I always lately need to find a place
to add a book page cut out.
These come from actual paper back books.
I cut them with a spellbinders butterfly die,
and distress it with ink.
I have found that it is cheapest to buy a
paper back book at the dollar store, second hand stores
are around $2.50 or more,
or get a free book from a friend.

Here I have used Glitter Discovery Girl CS

on the cover of the book.

I also used a flower dimensional layered motif

from Ecstacy Crafts, and a bird from Altered Pages

both partners in past months.

I used the bunny strip from our Easter border CS,

and various cut outs from the back side of 

the Glitter Discovery Girl,

and of course nothing is complete

without dew drops.

All other embellishments are from my 

scrapbook stash.

This is just a simple page of pictures on 

a cream cardstock and embellishments

and mini dew drops.

Again I have used the Glitter Discovery Girl CS,

Page shapes are cut from Accut dies, 

and you can buy the blank chipboard book from our website, 

already cut out into these cute pages on chipboard.

You can see here the layers of flowers,
dew drops, and stickers, and ribbon.

Glitter Discovery Girl CS on one side

and on the other side is Creame Foil Stamped CS

now retired.  I used a cute border bunch

to create my edges with  a creame

cardstock. I also used the Gerber Daisy
stickers from the Glitter Teen Girl sticker.

Purple and peach mini dew drops are added to the page.

Glitter Discovery Girl CS,

and Peach mini dew drops.

I had some really old Beatrice Potter stickers

that I decided to use on this book.

It just seemed to fit, and I so love  Beatrice Potter.
At the top of this layout page is a
scalloped sticker and on each scallop
is a dew drop.  It looks so cute in real life, it was
hard to capture in a scan or even a photo.

These photos also reminded me as I looked

at them of the cute Berkenstocks that Chelsea

always wore.  I was so sad when she grew out 

of them.

This is an insert mini page that 

is in between the two pages above.

I have left all the journaling for Rachel to do,

She can tell about all her fond memories of Chelsea

at this cute age.

When I was first learning how to tint black and

white photos, I think the picture on the right was my first

try at it.  It isn't the best tint job out there,

but it was my first attempt at it.

I so love those cute tulips in her hands,

her knuckles aren't even showing yet, 

just the cute dimples in her hands.

I have a darling picture of me as a little 

girl holding a chocolate bunny up away from 

my face with both hands.

I wanted to create something similar to

that picture when I took this pic.

Chelsea was always so photogenic as a child

I had so much fun taking pictures of her.

Again I have used the

Glitter Discovery Girl CS.

and Dew Drops.

The Book pages are so cute layered
on top of each other at the edge.  I so love
how this turned out.

All other products you see in this cute

book come from years of collecting stickers,

flowers and embellishments.

They just come from my stash.

You can purchase these

Robin's Nest products I used 

on our website

www.robinsnest-scrap.com

Well for now, here is my book

creation this month.

I try to get a book done a month

but am not always successful at it.  It

just depends if we have been on

a Humanitarian Trip or not during the 

month.  This month we will

be traveling to our 

son in Colorado, and to help

Dana's Sister and her hubby who

was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in October.

And one weekend for

Humanitarian Work.
So maybe I will have a book in June,
we will have to see how my creative
juices are  when
we get back!

I look forward to your comments.

And 

Happy Mother's Day Rachel

I hope you like your book!

Ciao,

Robin