Dawn's Creation Station

 

I have had Jetmax storage cubes for my stamping and scrapbooking storage even before I had my Creation Station. I do not work well when I have everything visible...it's just overwhelming for me!  But I do need to remember everything I have!  And yes, I have a LOT of supplies and product on hand!  The fairly recent addition of my chalkboard labels helps me keep everything in it's place.  I purchased adhesive chalkboard labels from Michaels and trimmed them down a bit to fit inside the bookplates that are part of the drawer handles.  I use a fine-tip chalk marker to write on the label.  This works great, looks neat, and I can easily change around my products and just erase and change the label. (*I use a baby wipe to get the chalk marker off when I want to re-label.)

After I completed the Baby Boy album I was still into "baby-mode" so I recreated the same layouts with papers and accents for a Baby Girl album!

Once again, I used Whimsy Fundamentals papers...these 2-sided papers are so versatile!

The Baby Girl Complements pack has gold glitter accents, but I used the same idea as the Baby Boy album to create the month accents.

I also used papers from the following paper packs: 

Hello Lovely

Sugar Rush

Kaleidoscope (retired)

Calypso (retired)

Picture My Life cards were added for journaling boxes and the title box.

Hopefully someday I will get a little granddaughter whose photos will grace these pages!

If not, I have a gift, made with love, for a special baby girl:)

I am SO EXCITED to be a grandma!!  Our first grandchild is due in May and it's a BOY!!!

So I created an album for his first year of life!

(This is what I hinted at in a recent post!)

Here is the title page:

For this album I used current papers from Whimsy Fundamentals & Hello Lovely and the cute page accents from the Baby Boy Complements.  I also used a variety of papers from retired packs:

Georgie

Caboodle

Happy Times

I love how papers from several packs can be combined to create beautiful layouts!

The glittery numbers and 'month' vellum strips are part of the Baby Boy Complements.  I cut and layered patterned paper and cardstock to create these accents for each layout.

I love the little critter stickers from the Complements pack!  The journal block with the elephant is a Picture My Life card cut down a bit and matted on cardstock.

Close To My Heart has fantastic How-To Patterns in several publications to guide me in creating beautiful lay-outs...work smarter, not harder!!

Once the basic lay-outs are complete I love to add fun accents to the pages to make them extra-special!

**Coming soon I'll share similar lay-outs for a Baby Girl!

Some of my amazing CTMH sisters!

I also had to travel a bit, to visit and help out my folks, and to celebrate our 'baby' turning 21! (sigh)

I hosted a card class, had a creative 'play day' with a fellow papercrafter and worked on layouts for 2 baby albums! (I'll post that cuteness soon!)

And so the result is that my workspace in my station looks like this:

There is absolutely no room to work on anything! Ugh!  So today was spent tidying up and by day's end my workspace looks like this:

Whew!! Now I feel like I can breathe!  I've already got my next invitation design in the works, so I will be able to get busy in a neat and tidy space:)