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I need your expertise and assistance please! As you all know, I’ve got this little business and hobby of making scrapbooks and cards and albums and other assorted crafty projects. I’m trying to expand my product line, attract more business, and ultimately find new and interesting things to create! So, I’m dipping my toes in baby products. I just finished a baby colors book decked out in Disney, will be working on alphabet and numbers books soon, and am currently experimenting with baby books.

The Baby Book/Album I’m designing is not a photo album, per say, but there will be plenty of room for lots of pictures. This is intended to be more of a baby memories/information book, where you write all the birth information – time, name, hospital, when the water broke, your first impressions of your infant, etc, keep clippings of your baby’s first haircut, hand and footprints, keepsakes, growth information, medical information, etc.

I really want to make this into a book that Mommies and Daddies will really love and want to use, and a place to record information they actually care about. So I’m asking you, Moms, etc, for your help and advice on what sort of information to include, and any information you don’t really care about. So far I am working off my own baby album from like 28 years ago, and I’d like to know what the modern mom wants to remember about her pregnancy, birth, and the first year or two. If any of you have your babies’ books handy, I’d love to know which parts you filled out!

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The other book I finished about an hour ago is a Disney Baby Colors book. My genius and creative sis-in-law suggested that I see about making some baby books months ago (not scrapbook albums, but baby books, like alphabet, colors, numbers, Pat the Bunny, etc), and I haven’t had the motivation to get started on them. This past week I found out that a dear friend of mine is pregnant with her first baby and I thought what a great opportunity to experiment on these baby books as a congrats present for her and her husband! I had a small 6×6 chipboard album from Bo Bunny sitting in my drawer, and these paper Mickey Mouse ears I was saving for Disney projects. So I designed a baby colors book in a Disney theme! I turned out a lot different than how I had envisioned it, but I’m really pleased with how it turned out. She’s a teacher, so I hope it’s up to teacher standards!

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Some personal projects I have been working on have included a cute Disney accordion album from our anniversary trip my husband and I took to Disneyland in August this year. I have all kinds of pictures from our trip but haven’t had the patience or motivation to sit down and put them into albums, so I decorated an accordion album using the pictures we took of us and various Disney characters around the parks. I haven’t had a chance to take pics of the album yet, but I’ll put them up soon! Also in the works is finishing up our Honeymoon album from a year and a half ago. I have the album pretty much put together, I just need to put in pictures. Easier said than done, believe me.

A couple very dear friends of mine announced they are pregnant the past couple months, so I have been working on projects for them, which have, in turn, inspired me to design more baby projects. I’m working on a Disney colors baby book right now, and am hoping to do an alphabet book soon. I also got a brainstorm idea to design a baby book … not a scrapbook album persay, although it will have plenty of space for lots of pictures, but a baby book for the parents to put down all the baby’s information, first haircut, growth, little notes, keepsakes, etc. This one might take couple weeks in the making to design all the pages and make sure I have included all the information parents might want to record for their baby! I’m very excited about this project though!

I got an idea from one of my coworkers for an altered book, as well. I have never made one before, but her daughter-in-law made her a real cute one for Christmas that gave me some good ideas. I’ll put up pics of the finished project when I get it done – I’m not sure when that will be yet, but I will be sure to keep updates going on my blog!

My wonderful husband has been designing a custom website for me – with a blog and portfolio. It looks fantastic and I am so excited for when he gets it finished!

Remember to check my etsy site: www.L7Designs.etsy.com for my products and creations! I have an adorable Baby word album designed in pink and brown, as well as a cute decorated wooden tray – perfect for breakfasts in bed or to use as a decoration in your home (it would make a great gift too!).

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It’s designed for a baby girl (unless for some reason the Mom chose pink for a boy) – with pink and brown as the primary colors (with some yellow, green and blue as accent colors). I’m generally not a big fan of pink, but I really liked the way this turned out. I used paper from K & Company and some brown woven card-stock for matting pictures and matting some of the embellishments, as well as brown distressing along all the edges. Each letter page has room for a cropped or full size (4×6) photo and both sides of each letter are designed and decorated with different colors and embellishments. I used ribbon, epoxy tags, and baby-ish sentiments, as well as some buttons, distressing and other cutsy things.

It’s a really cute album and perfect for a decoration in a nursery or baby’s room, and especially perfect for a baby shower gift! Here is the link for this adorable album: L7Designs; and some pictures of the album!

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I got my order in of SEI’s Chocolate line with paper and embellishments (including ribbon and buttons!) and my first Club SEI kit that I am really excited about. The club kit features paper and embellishments that aren’t available to the public (at least not yet) as well as instructions for about 12-14 different cards! They are beautiful and I’m so excited.

I also got some of Little Yellow Bicycle’s new Valentine’s line this week. I must admit that I wasn’t too thrilled with their designs this holiday. It’s a big step down from their Christmas and Halloween things, so I only have a few things on my etsy site using that paper.

Anyway, check everything out! I’m planning on putting up another Disney accordion album, and a BABY word album, and a decorated wooden crate this weekend, as well as some more cards!  www.L7Designs.etsy.com

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Also listed on my etsy site this evening is the perfect place to put your memories of the Happies Place On Earth! A 16 (8 front and back) page accordion album decorated entirely with Disney! The cover is an adorable red and yellow pattern with squares full of mouse ears, mickey hands, ‘M’s, and stars. In the upper left corner is a picture of that wonderful mouse, Mickey! Each page is decorated with a different theme and character using Disney patterned paper and embellishments. It’s a perfect gift for any Disney lover – adult or child! Check out my site: www.L7Designs.etsy.com for pictures and details!

Also in the works are some Birthday, Thank You, Generic, Congrats, and Get Well Soon cards, a decorated wooden tray, and a decorated wooden crate (perfect for storing cds, plants or other knick knacks!). Check back soon for more updates!

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As promised, everything currently on my esty site except for my custom-designed journals will be coming off my site to make way for brand new products and inventory! Unfortunately, a few days before Christmas I came down with a flu bug that has turned into a nasty cold and I haven’t had the strength or energy to make anything new, nor did I want to handmake things for people while still contagious. Thankfully, my antibiotics are kicking in and I’m feeling better, and will be germ-free soon.

Therefore, my sale for 50% off your entire order will continue until this weekend (the 3rd of January). I am clearing out my inventory and as of this coming weekend you won’t see any of those things again – so if you’re eyeing something, take advantage!

I have an order in to SEI online for some great paper and embellishments as well as a chipboard Word album I haven’t used before. Little Yellow Bicycle is coming out with their new Valentine’s line, as well as Heidi Grace and many others I’m sure. Also I’m going to come out with all new Birthday, Thank You, Hello/Generic, Congrats, and Thinking of You cards, and hopefully an album or two. Also on my etsy site will be listed my custom 8×8 (or 9×9) albums – cost will vary depending on the album and theme and what products I need to purchase in order to create the album.

Thanks for your patience! Keep checking back, more will be updated soon!

I put together 3 different 8×8 albums – one is a family album using this adorable Paisley and Petals album and line of paper and embellishments from SEI. I bought an 8×8 album kit from Michaels and bought additional pages and paper/embellishments from the SEI website. **NOTE: Those of you who adore SEI like I do check their website for products before going to the store! I found paper and embellishments there cheaper than at the store, and they had a lot more than I was ever able to find! My local scrapbooking store rarely caries much SEI, and typically marks up the price a bunch – go to www.shopsei.com** Anyway, I absolutely love how it turned out. I contacted family and friends of the person I am giving the album to for pictures and printed, cropped and glued the pictures in. I left some pages blank for pictures I wasn’t able to get – and will probably need to make additional pages and send them to her later on!

The second 8×8 album is one of two beach albums I put together. Both albums were ordered for Christmas presents for friends of my Mom. Both of them were created using canvas covered albums from Pioneer Photo Albums, Inc. The first one (and my favorite of the two) was probably the quickest and easiest I have ever made. I got a pack of 8×8 patterned paper from Memory Makers. It’s really cute paper using tan, pink, orange, blue, purple and green colors, lots of different patterns, flowers and half the pages were cut into different shapes (scalloped, circular, a reverse scallop, zigzagged, and others). I decorated each page with beachy chipboard and stickers from K & Company. The 3rd album (and 2nd beach album) is made from Deja View’s Pear 8×8 punch-out tablet. I used colorful, fun, and funky beach and sun embellishments for each page making it a bright, cheerful album!

The Baby album I finished this afternoon is a custom-made word album for a friend of mine having a baby in a few months. I made a LOVE word album a while ago and followed the same pattern and used the same font (or rather, my graphic designer husband did!). My dear friend loves to surf and would spend all her life on the beach … or in the mountains, so beach/surfing was the theme I chose for this album. She is not a girly girl at all, so I found some really cool beach paper from Scenic Paper Route Co called North Shore. I decorated the album using beachy/travel/surfing embellishments and ribbon, as well as some baby quotes and words.

Just a reminder that I am having a 50% off sale on my etsy site! Get 50% off your entire purchase until the end of December. January 1st I will be clearing my etsy site of anything not purchased and will be starting the new year with brand-new products, cards and albums!

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