Scrapbooking--Page Photos

It's very difficult to photograph scrapbook pages, particularly at night when they are in glossy pages! But anyway, this is a photo of the most recent page I made. It features pink polka-dot photo corners, punch out butterflies, a handmade pink paper heart, and pink polka-dot ribbon. Handmade paper looks the best if you rip it, which gives it the neat effect. The ribbon I glued onto white paper to make it more sturdy and stand out more from the black. Getting Alaina to make the hand print is a whole other long story!!
This page was done at the free scrapbooking seminar A.C. Moore had this past weekend. I really liked this black "old journal" paper but I had only taken a family photo with me (you couldn't just take the paper) so I managed to make it work and I really like the finished effect. I did a "cherish" theme with definitions, a metal plate (at top). The frayed paper behind the photo is again handmade paper which I tore. Finally, the other accent is the punched out pieces from a sunflower punch they had at the seminar which I absolutely loved.
I am pretty proud of this page although I still don't think it looks as good as the model I was following. It's a spaghetti and meatballs theme. I couldn't get a good shot of it so 1/2 of the page is missing, but there's six meatballs which feature pictures, scattered randomly amid a bed of noodles. At the top of the page there is a meatball which says "Spaghetti" to title the page and I wrote it out by hand in elongated, bubble letters that look like noodles. It took me a REALLY long time to make this page. It takes a lot of work measuring all the photos to fit on meatballs and all the cutting of meatballs and noodles. I've been looking into buying a circle cutter, but I've realized that I can save that money just by using things around the house--an old cup, canisters, jar lids, etc. for various size circles.
This is my "Superbaby" theme page. I spent a long time, and had several disasters, trying to hand-make a superman symbol in girly colors (instead of just printing out the regular one from a website). It still didn't turn out well but I gave up and made do with this one. The page is a little busy but I just couldn't decide what paper I wanted to use so I mixed them all.

These are my more recent pages. If any of you are interested in seeing more, I can photograph and post some of my older pages that came out well. I have 2 scrapbooks going--one for Alaina and then one for Dave & myself (or a family one). Dog pages go into the family book, although I've done a few really cute pages of Alaina and Blackjack together. Let me know what you'd like to see!