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BIRTHDAY SCRAPBOOK LAYOUT
PAGE KITS TO THE RESCUE Sometimes using an imaginative and colourful page kit can mean that your layout can start building itself. I used Bazzill Basics green and blue cardstock to pick out the page kit colours. A page kit can really help when your photos aren't the greatest! CAPTURE THE MOMENT WITH JOURNALING As the Page Kit included some green one word tags with a birthday theme, I tried to mirror that by placing three blue tags of my own around the theme of that unique day, when his grandfather provided the entertainment! (I'm afraid he hasn't got the phonecall since birthday no 6!)Birthday parties can be great 'theming' opportunities themselves - helping me on one occasion to produce a Pirate scrapbook layout. A BIRTHDAY PRESENT FOR YOURSELF! I treated myself recently to what I think is a book of excellent value. Not only does it contain lots of page ideas including some great tips on making a birthday scrapbook layout but the author, Maree Galt, has 'thrown in' several other books as well - all written in an idiot-proof style that I find very appealing! Go figure. 3D EMBELLISHMENTS ARE THE ICING ON THE CAKE I liked the idea of breaking the green-blue domination, so I chose four orange buttons to be the flames of the candles. The page kit also included 'cupcake' motifs, topped by blue buttons that I could mirror with my own 'actual' buttons. Your photos can often give you embellishment ideas. OTHER BIRTHDAY TREATS One direction you might consider is cardmaking which although I don't do myself, always makes for a crowded aisle or two at Scrapbooking shows I've been to! If you'd rather buy and receive cards than make them, there are some great ideas for a birthday layout on and offline, as well as cards for all occasions. THOSE LITTLE CHARACTERS! You might want to get hold of some Sesame Street Scrapbook paper or the odd printable scrapbook sticker with Winnie the Pooh on. Go online and check out some free scrapbooking graphics, as well as digital scrapbook supply (if you're that way inclined) and your next birthday page could be a very special occasion! To return from Birthday scrapbook layout to Home Page
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