Spicing Up Easter Layouts

For scrapbook designers looking to put a little hop into an otherwise boring Easter-themed layout, consider channeling your inner Jerry Seinfeld or Maya Angelou. Sharing a smile along with Easter photos of your family members can go a long way to liven up a traditional holiday page design. For instance, rather than simply adhering a bunch of pictures of your children participating in an outdoor egg hunt on plain scrapbook paper, pepper the space with silly Easter jokes, such as: What did the eggs do when the light turned green? They egg-cellerated What kind of plants do eggs keep? Eggplants! … Continue reading

Ideas for Easter Scrapbook Layouts

Holidays are the fuel that drives most scrapbookers, though after a few years, these special layouts may get a bit stale. With Easter just around the corner, consider spicing up your holiday page designs with the following ideas: POEMS Easter lends itself to a variety of prose, from religious to whimsical. If you are creating a memory book dedicated solely to Easter, consider creating a couple of pages that highlight original or reproduced holiday-themed poems. You could opt to design a layout around a single Easter poem and embellish it with stickers and stamps or adhere a copy of the … Continue reading

More Ideas for Easter Layouts

My all-time favorite Easter-themed scrapbook layout features a timeline of my young daughter’s encounters with the Easter Bunny. Typically, these meet and greets take place at the mall, though I have a few photos of her in recent years trying to hit up the Bunny for chocolate at outdoor Easter egg hunts sponsored by the city or our local zoo. This year I will keep the tradition going by snapping her in the park with Peter Cottontail and adding the photos to the layout. There are a variety of ways you can make a page design like this work, though … Continue reading

Egg-cellent Scrapbook Ideas

With Easter just a couple of weeks away, my local scrapbook supply shop is decked out in egg-straordinary cute decor. In addition, the main display table has been reconstructed to look like a huge Easter basket filled with scrapbook tools, paper, embellishments and books filled with egg-citing layout ideas. This may be one of the first times when I have gravitated more towards the adorable Easter-themed scrapbook paper than the festive stickers that I typically covet. I fell in love with a variety pack of paper that features vibrant-colored Easter eggs in an array of different sizes. The sample layouts … Continue reading

Creative Collages Scrapbook Layouts

Designing scrapbook layouts is a fun way to give your scrapbook personality. There are so many options for scrapbook layouts, it is often hard to decide on just one layout. Personally, my favorite layouts always include photo collages. I enjoy creating collages of my son for his scrapbook. For example, if we went to the beach and I took photos of him playing in the sand with a beach ball and holding a sea shell, I would create a layout and make a collage of those three photos. Then, I would design a page with shell designs around the edges, … Continue reading

Scrapbooking Week in Review for March 10-16, 2008

Springtime is near and more than likely you are already getting the mixed up spring time weather in your neck of the woods. I adore being outside on the warmer days and enjoying the fresh air. On the colder days, I use them to get caught up on scrapbooking. What layouts have you been creating lately? I am getting ready to begin working on last years Easter pictures so I can get in the mood for the upcoming holiday, which is just around the corner. Hope you all have a wonderful week. Check out what has been happening in the … Continue reading

Decorate Easter Eggs With Scrapbooking Supplies

Easter is only two days a way. If you haven’t already decorated your Easter eggs, now is the time to do it. Easter is great time to use your scrapbooking supplies. They can be used to decorate baskets, easter eggs, and greeting cards. You can even use floss, yarn and raffia as Easter basket fillers, just like plastic grass. Decorating eggs with scrapbooking supplies is super easy and lots of fun. You can use your leftover supplies, or even buy new stuff to use just for Easter. There are tons of products out there to decorate your layouts with, so … Continue reading

Easter Pictures For Scrapbooking

Easter is a special time of year. It is probably the most celebrated holiday in the Christian faith. A time for new beginnings and new life, it is a time for celebrating Christ. It is also a time for family traditions, typical Easter celebrations and attending Church services. There are so many wonderful family traditions and celebrations that can be photographed at this time of year. Remember to use your camera and take lots of pictures this week, to commemorate your Easter memories and create beautiful layouts with. Church – Don’t leave your camera at home. Take it with you … Continue reading

Less Can Be More

I can often be found drooling over the elaborate layouts displayed by the owner of my local scrapbook shop. Her page designs are beyond phenomenal. They are crammed with unique embellishments, creative photo arrangements and memorabilia that I’d never consider placing on a scrapbook page. The purpose of the shop owner making these grand masterpieces is two-fold. First, she features as much of the shop’s new merchandise in her monthly page designs to show customers how they too can incorporate the items in a variety of ways in their own memory albums. This not only gets one’s creative juices flowing, … Continue reading

Tempting Templates

When you are short on time and money, but still want to design attractive scrapbook layouts, then printing out free templates may be an offer that is too good to pass up. What’s more, with the surge in digital scrapbooking, the uber-affordable templates are easier to find than ever before. I’ve had the most luck with free templates offered by Scrapbook Scrapbook. The company has a gigantic array of scrapbook supplies you can access at no cost, including templates and clipart. Moreover, the online resource is one of the easiest to navigate. You can select from thousands of free templates, … Continue reading