A punky baby gift

Okay, first of all, I feel the need to preface this by saying that altering things and mini albums are not my typical way of scrapbooking. I actually had a bit of a hard time figuring out what to do with my fun Punky Sprouts goodies! I received two 12x12 pieces of cardboard-ish stuff, as well as some of their flower embellishments. It finally hit me just a few days ago exactly what I wanted to create with it. My brother and sister-in-law are expecting their third baby in just a few weeks, and I thought it would be neat to create something with one of my favorite bible verses, frame it in a shadow box, and give it as a gift. So, that's just what I did! I still need to get the frame, and actually, now that I made this piece the wheels started turning about how I could make another coordinating project. I'm thinking that I might make one that incorporates some photos of him, too. A little matching set of nursery decor!



I chose the colors of this project based on the colors of his nursery. I actually pulled paper from 4 different Paper Trunk lines for this. The circle background paper is from the 1974 line, the green diamonds is from Maybe Baby, the brown is from Batik, and the small red circles are from Wrangler. I've never mixed and matched so many lines before, and it was really fun to pull together this combination!

It's a little hard to tell in the photos, but I also painted the cardboard a cream-ish color.

For the flower embellishments, I pretty much just crinkled and mashed and twisted until I had "flowers" that didn't look too flowery. A little bling embellishment and I called it done! It was really fun to force myself to create out of the box a little bit for this one.

And finally, your word of the day...



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