Little Hoot...Hoot...

So cute, this little hoot was the last of it's kind. The makers DCWV have retired this stack.  Only fitting that the ending on a cute paper should be celebrated with the welcoming of a new baby!

The inside pages look this, ready for all those bits of advice.

An addition to this custom baby shower guest book album is the gift pages.

For the photo pages, I stamped a little hoot...hoot... owl in turquoise on the lime green pages.

Hopefully, Baby Richardson will soon be arriving, and the family will soon be having another kind of celebration!

Pregnancy and Mommy Journals

I was quite impressed how yesterday's paperback book came out so well. I guess you could say I got carried away. My paper cutter is probably happy to have a breather after all the cutting and scoring I've done to create this last bunch of books.

I really like these 8 x 8 sized paperback journals. I've also been on a pink kick lately and have noticed that my shops are low on baby themed guest books.

I've always been one to journal, journal almost every day if I can. But I remember journaling through my pregnancies and even after my babies were born Chad bought me this "mommy journal". It was just a simple wire bound book with blank pages and it was divided into three sections on each page and each section had a place for a date. Inside this mommy journal you'd write things like miles stones, firsts (words, steps, etc...), and even funny things or just something your child did that day you wanted to remember.

I enjoy filling out that journal and alot of time I'd tape picture inside it too.

So when I created this last batch of paperback journals I decided to put photo pages in the back. I've officially named them "Journal Albums". 

With the sweet pink and nursery rhyme theme they'd make a wonderful mommy journal or even a pregnancy journal.  There's 100 pages for writing and between 14 and 20 pages for photos (each book varies due to book colors).

The photo above is the Strawberry covered Journal Album . It has pink writing pages and red photo pages.

Just like yesterday's paperback book, you could also use these journals as guest book. I left most of them blank, but stamped a few, like this floral one. I got carried away with flowers.

And I stamped this one with the cute little chic to match the little chic cover on the front

Can you imagine your little one reading this and looking at all the photos when they're ready to be parents?

And yes, for all you mothers of boys, I can create them with boy theme colors and prints too. :)

Think Hot Pink

After yesterday's post I've been in a pink mode. It appears that pink has been and always will be a popular color. I've had a few request lately for pink guest books, so I just got some new papers that are a variety of pinks, gray, black, and ivory. They're foil and gloss.

I put together this pink dotted foil guest book album and slipped some matching paper into an RSVP pen.

Inside I used gray and pink paper and stamped using a new stamp set I just got with these
 unique bow type flowers.

With 40 signature pages and 16 photo pages, it's perfect for those weddings, bridal showers, and baby showers.

 There's plenty of room to write within the signature pages. And it just occurred to me that this could also make a nice pregnancy journal too. Forty pages means one page a week to record your pregnancy and the acid-free and lignin free card stock pages can hold plenty of belly shots! 

And for those brides, it can be making lists, recording wedding plans, and making a wish list and photo collage as you prepare for the big day.

I just love how vestal these books can be, don't you?