After: Baby Gifts

March was a packed month for our house. Besides beginning a major reno project which is limited to mostly weekends, I hosted TWO baby showers! They were great fun! For shower gifts, I, of course, wanted to make sentimental homemade gifts to pass on. I wanted to do some sort of collage for each nursery but wanted it to be more dimensional than a framed scrapbook page. My friend Lindsay posted a picture of a tray she had made as a Christmas gift and I knew trays would be just the ticket for this project! Pictured below are the final products!

These were purchased as empty "artist trays" with the handles already in place for hanging. I crafted inside each box with colors that would coordinated with each baby's nursery. They each hold child-like trinkets and personal touches. Both have a poem I wrote and individualized to fit the name of each baby-to-be! Both are boys and have a jungle animal theme going on in most of their gifts and nursery decor.

Creativity, scrapbooking paper, and glue dots made these projects into the end results you see here. The little metal name plates you see on the white one are menat to be filled with a piece of cardstock with baby's birthdate, weight, time, etcetera. There is also a spot on each for handprints to be added and wallet-size photos to be posted.The dangling pieces were attached by using a small drill to create a hole in the tray and insert an eye hook for hanging. Those, the crayon, and the puffy stickers add some dimension to an otherwise 2-D project.

The end result was a fun project resulting in gifts from the heart: my favorite kind!