Lasting Memories Challenge ~~ Let's Celebrate! ~~ Kenzie's 1st Birthday

Hi everyone! Welcome to yet another challenge over at Lasting Memories!

This week we want to see a special celebration layout - birthday, anniversary, milestone, graduation...etc.The possibilities are endless!

For my layout I scrapped Kenzie's first birthday party. Her theme was ladybugs so I got double use out of her Halloween costume which was only one month before! Talk about getting your money's worth! ;)

Here is my double page layout:
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My background paper is from Recollections Bright and Basic and the 8.5x11 red paper is Recollections Jewel tone cardstock. The photos on the right are during her party that was outside. We had a princess jumpy house and sandwiches. There was about 30 people there including kids! The photos on the right are post-bath so she had to change her clothes because cake got everywhere!! Here we are opening her presents which were mostly animal print clothes! LOVE!

      

The balloon picture is her actual balloons that were at her party, I saved the big mylar one. The picture on the bottom right is her and grandpa, in the middle is her and my summerschool prego buddy's daughter Summer all the way from Virginia to visit for Thanksgiving, and on the right is my neighbor's daughter Jamie who is absolutely in love with Kenzie.

Close up of her balloons.. popped up on pop dots.

Closeup of the second page

In the center of both pages is my banner that I made for her party using Create-a-critter and Simply Sweet for the letters. I took three pictures at these angles, cut them out and glued them together to look like one banner and it worked perfectly as my title!

My tag is cut from the lacy labels cartridge at 4" and I doodled with white and black pen for my lady bug trail.

I used 4 little Recollection glitter 3d ladybugs and Recollections bling along with my white gel pen for flourishes. The blings were the $1 cheapy ones and it showed.. they were really hard to stick down in the right pattern as they were super flimsy and kept folding back on themselves. Really hard to get down but I think they are still super cute.. I don't think I will buy these again though. Maybe only because they were so cheap... lol

I really hope you will join us in our "Let's Celebrate" challenge over at Lasting Memories!

We are sponsored by ArtChix this week!

The prize that you could win are these cute little wooden tags with your name on them!! How cute are these!!??

You have until Saturday, March 3rd to link up your celebration layout!

Challenges I am entering:

Alphabet Challenge - Bugs

Sassy Cheryl - No embossing

Cooking with Cricut - Birthday theme with cake, cupcakes and/or balloons

Terrific Tuesdays Challenge - Tag

HAPPY SCRAPPING!