a bag of chips: New CK KOTM by Becky Higgins.

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I got the chance to play around the new Creating Keepsakes Kit of the Month designed by Becky Higgins. This one is all about babies! And that is prefect timing, really. With my not-so-little Nadia turning two years old yesterday, this kit gave me the darling products I needed to get busy scrapping more about her birth and adoption.

Lisa's kits are always amazing and contain tons of cute, quality products, but this baby kit is beyond generous! This kit was much larger than I anticipated and contains enough products to make layouts, cards, mini-albums, and it even includes some fun time capsule stuff. What I liked most about this kit is that it was very easy for this adoptive parent to use. So much stuff out there isn't all that appropriate for adoption scrapbooking, but this kit was very flexible. There's even a page for becoming "official" which suits the photos I have of finalizing Nadia's adoption.

The other thing I like so much about this kit is that it is for either a boy or a girl with lots of darling pinks and blues, but also lots of gender-neutral greens and yellows to suit any baby album project. All the patterned papers are double sided with one side for boys and the other for girls. So once I finish up more of Nadia's pages, I can start on Makena's and then on Aidan's. With as much as there is in this kit, I'm pretty sure it'll last through all three.

Below are three of the layouts and one little ringed booklet I created using the time capsule cards:

Just about everything I used on these LOs are from the kit, with the only exception being the kraft paper and the scalloped edge punch.

And here's the project I did with the time capsule cards:

Front

Back

For this project I sandwiched some thicker kraft cardstock between the information card and a piece of the patterned paper or journaling card from the kit. I then took my wallet-sized prints from Nadia's first two days and put them on the back of the info cards, using one of the puffy stickers for some baby flair. I tied some of the kit ribbon onto a binder ring and voila! A quick and cute little trivia booklet about what the world was like in September 2006.

For the info I included on each time capsule card, I Googled what I wanted to know, like "hot fashions in 2006". I got a bunch of great hits and varied my resources for each card, then included the resource on the card. Here were some of the places I found what I needed: www.rollingstone.com for Top 10 Movies; www.billboard.com for top music and musicians, although www.grammy.com would have been just as helpful. www.nytimes.com is great for bestsellers, www.babycenter.com gave me the top baby names from 2006, www.tvguide.com or www.tv.com is good for television trivia, and, believe it or not, www.time.com gave me the hot fashions of 2006 (remember skinny jeans?). I loved this little project and I look forward to doing the same with 2004 and 2002 for Makena and Aidan.

Becky's Baby Kit ships October 10, and pre-ording is now available. If you are having a baby, have babies, or know someone who is adopting or having a baby, this kit is a must-have for no-excuses baby scrapbooking. For more awesome examples of Becky's kit in action, check these blogs out:

Back to regularly scheduled blogging later this week.

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