Son's Scrapbook Frame

Remember the scrapbook frame I made for my daughter for her birthday, well I had to make one for my son! It took a little while to figure out colors I wanted for his, but as soon as I found the little mini banner that says, "A Great Day," and the other embellishments that came with it, I knew how I wanted my son's frame to look. He always says, everyday, "It's a Really Great Day, Mom!" His current bedding is blues, his baby quilt has pastel blues, greens, and yellows so I figured these would go well.
It was super hard with him being 3 1/2 to pick which pictures I wanted to go into the frame. I picked the ones that are our favorites as well as show his personality best.

Orange and Yellow Wedding Gift

I made these canvases for a wedding present. Their colors were orange, yellow and grey.

Flower Ribbon Topiary

I made my first Ribbon Topiary - again for my daughter's first birthday. I was kinda nervous about it thinking it wouldn't be fun to make, but it ended up being very fun to make. I wish I had more time to make more of them.

Tutorial and example from here and pinned here.

Here's mine:

Pictures by The Turquoise Frame Photography

I didn't use a square block to hold the dowel on the bottom like the original did. I just stuck it in my container (from the $1 store) and surrounded it with candy and some glass flowers. It stayed pretty well in place. If you think children will play with it, then you might want to have the foam block for stronger support.

After I was finished, I also added some clear flower stickers on top of some pieces of my ribbon so it kinda looked like a flower tree. =) I wanted to add some butterfly stickers, but I couldn't find any the right size that I liked for it.

For me, I just looked through all my ribbon, found the colors I needed, cut them up into equal pieces and stuck them on. Some people have said to not use a lot of different kinds of ribbon, but I did and loved mine. Some pieces I didn't even loop, I just left straight for a different look.

This is a great project to use scrap ribbon on and spice up a room not just decoration for a birthday =) Think holiday themed ones.

Father's Day Layout

Father's Day layout using papers from BoBunny - "A Hero is Made: Dad"

This photo is from Father's Day 2011.