Sunni Days

Hayden's First Birthday Book

Since I had a free 8x8 photo book as a thank you gift from Shutterfly, I decided to put together a book of Hayden's first birthday festivities, from his birthday party to his actual birthday events to the first haircut that happened just a couple of days after his birthday. This transition took him from a baby to a one year old who looks like a little boy now instead of a baby. I started with some templates by Misty Cato that I greatly modified to create my pages. I wanted a clean lines look with the emphasis on the photos. I was quite pleased with the resulting book.

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Shutterfly Thank Yous

If you have ordered from Shutterfly recently, be sure to check your account for any "special offers". Many of us are finding a gift of a free 8x8 photo book has been added to our accounts. Some have received emails to let them know but others have simply found them added to their accounts. They are only good until the 24th of June I believe so hurry and check your Shutterfly account to see if you have a nice thank you gift from them!

From Our Dog's Point of View

As a member of the Shutterfly Scrapbooking Advisory Board, I was asked recently to write an article for the Shutterfly Storytellers Blog on the topic of vacations. We haven't been taking many vacations in the last few years as we have spent our time and money on home projects lately so I had to look back a couple of years to get some inspiration. We had taken a trip to San Diego, a favorite destination for us since it's less than 6 hours from Phoenix, and took along our little Yorkshire terrier. The end result of our vacation was my first Shutterfly photo book and also an article called From Our Dog's Point of View that is now on the Shutterfly Storytellers blog. Visit the link above to read the entire article and take a look at the book in the Shutterfly Gallery.

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Hayden's Big Sleepover

When our little grandson stayed with us for several days while his parents went on a cruise, I decided to make a little memories book for him for him to have a keepsake of his first big sleepover. We planned lots of little activities to make the days he spent with us a little vacation for him as well. I created 4x6 brag book sized pages using a 20 brag book by Misty Cato. This made things go a lot quicker when I sat down to put together the story in photos. I enlarged the quick pages a wee bit and added them to a 5x7 white background. The quality was still good by enlarging the images about 10%. The Shutterfly 5x7 Casual books are great for smaller albums.  I am using the Embed Photo Book option through Shutterfly to post the book here in my blog at a reduced size but you can also click on the link to view the book on the Shutterfly site as well where it is much larger.

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Birthday Party Invitation

Wow, it's been a crazy month so far but it looks like things are quieting down finally. Between a store wide sale for SBE's 4th anniversary and the extra activities that go along with that, having the fabulous opportunity to have our precious grandson stay with us for several days while his parents went on a cruise, getting the monthly newsletter ready for SBE, finishing up taxes and then having Hayden staying here while his Mommy was sick and having him get sick while he was here...well, it's been an event filled month for sure! I have managed to sneak in a bit of scrapping time though as I wanted to document Hayden's little vacation here with us as we did a lot of fun things that made us all happy. More of that in the near future though. With Hayden's first birthday approaching quickly, his mommy wanted to create a birthday party invitation for him that reflected who he is rather than something generic. This child has quite a personality and one of the things he has found interesting is animals..particularly zoo animals. His favorites are the tiger and the lion and shows preferences for them in many ways. He can do a pretty admirable rooooaaarrr and grrrrrr as well. Tracey Monette just added some darling doodles of zoo animals to the store at Scrapbook-Elements so I used those to build his invitation. The colors in Misty's Rowdy Boy set were perfect to go with the cute overalls and shirt he was wearing in the photo I chose to use. I think his invitation turned out well and definitely is a reflection of who this little guy is at this age. The invitations were ordered from Shutterfly as 4x8" photo cards in matte. If you check under the Solutions option at the top of the page at Shutterfly when you select one of the various types of projects available, you will find Digital Scrapbookers. This page lists the starting point for books, cards, and calendars with your original designs.