An American Girl Birthday!

I have been working on an album celebrating my daughter's 9th birthday.  We surprised her with a trip to Atlanta, GA and a visit to the American Girl store.  She was in heaven spending all the birthday money family and friends gave her and enjoying lunch in the bistro.  I have really been enjoying finally getting it all in an album for her...she is now 16! It is pretty safe to say, I am not a chronological scrapbooker! ;)

This week at Use Your Stuff, my team was challenged to do a project using at least 2 buttons so I made sure to incorporate some buttons on a couple of the LOs. 

Here are 2 layouts using buttons.  I have been using American Girl scrapbooking products for this album.  I was able to get a big pad of 12x12 paper from Michaels back in the day and then I snagged some embellies from a little crafting kit my daughter had and grew tired of.  So glad I hung on to it all this time!

These pics are from when the staff was singing Happy Birthday and she got a birthday sundae!  Saved the birthday sticker they gave her too and so I was able to use it on the LO.

This LO is actually the very last one in the album.  It is my girl and her Just Like Me doll that she named Julie.  This place was so cute as it had chairs for the dolls to sit at the table with you not to mention doll-size menus, plates and cups...super cute for any American Girl fan!

And this is the title page for the album.  I saved an AG tag from one of the items bought and used rub-ons to make the title.

A Little on the Monochromatic Side...

So our challenge this week over at Use Your Stuff was to create a monochromatic project.  I was inspired by a photo of my daughter with a stuffed Stitch at Walt Disney World.  The photo is from 2014 but my girl has been a lover of all things Stitch since before she was 2 years old.

I have been wanting to use a heart cut file for the longest time so this challenge was just the push I needed as I thought it would be perfect with the photo.  I tried really hard to keep it all blue but really wanted a little something extra and so rather than using black for the title I opted for the golden yellow...not sure if this make my LO a fail for the challenge or not, but I am really happy with how it turned out. 

Be sure and stop over at Use Your Stuff and check out the rest of the Design Team's projects and maybe even share yours!

HAPPY SCRAPPING!