Another Scrapbook - Allison's Baby Book

First I would like to say thank you for all the great comments on Chris' scrapbook. I will post more pages on this next week. Posting this reminded me of other ongoing scrapbook I have. When I was pregnant with Allison, I decided that I didn't really need to have a traditional baby shower since I was having another girl and kept everything (clothes, baby gear) from my first daughter Aimee. So instead I had a scrapbooking baby shower. My BFF Merrigrace and mom threw it for me. They bought one of the Rock-a-Bye Girl Simply Scrappin' kits one of the 12x12 linen albums, and an extra pack of Whisper White cardstock from Stampin' Up!. Then I pulled out all of my inks, punches, baby stamps, ribbon, etc. and had my friends and family over to create a baby scrapbook for me! Here are some shots from the shower:

Everybody hard at work.

Even Aimee did a page.

More hard work.

The end result.

So, at the end of it all, I have a beautiful scrapbook made with love and all I have to do is add the pictures! How great is that? There is a page for every month as well as a page for the birth and a page to commemorate the shower itself. So today I will share with you everything up to 2 months, since I haven't yet printed out Allison's 3rd and 4th month pictures. (I hope to do that this weekend so I will hopefully be able to post those next week.)

Here is the cover of the album. I ended up embellishing this after the fact. I used the 1 1/4" Pink Pirouette Grosgrain Ribbon, the A from the On Board Simon Upper chipboard (retired), and a chipboard pink heart from American Crafts that I had in my stash. I covered the A with Whisper white craft ink and then sprinkled on some dazzing diamonds.

This is the first page in the album. This page was made by Merrigrace and commemorates the shower. She had the ingenious idea to take everyone's thumb print and make a flower out of it. Aimee's little print is in the middle. She hand drew a stem, which is kind of hard to see in the photo.

This next page is for Allison's birth. Don't I look glamorous? Ladies, this is what you look like after being in labor for 23 hours and then delivering a 9 lb. 11 oz baby! This page was made by my friend and neighbor Diane. I journaled all the vitals on the sticker on the right.

Next we have Allison's one month photo. This page was made by my mom. The feet prints are from the retired Stampin' Up! set "I'm Here".

And lastly, here is the 2 month page. This page was made by my sister Kelly.

I have to say, the Simply Scrappin' kits are awesome. We made this whole book and I still have a bunch of pieces left over that I can use to create more pages. Stay tuned, because next week I will hopefully have the 3rd and 4th month completed pages to share with you.