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Materials Used: Blue cardstock (three different shades), scraps of blue patterned paper, Chatterbox striped paper, circle stamps, blue ink and Sandylion Grandmas & Grandpas stickers.

To create this card, I used sketch #2 from my collection of 50 Card Making Sketches. For those of you with a copy already, please check page 21. If you haven’t got your copy yet, please visit:

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The card sketch called for a square background. I could have just used a single square piece, but I decided to have a bit more fun.

To Create This Background:

1. Cut out 16 squares from scraps of blue patterned paper. Each square should be 1 inch by 1 inch.

2. Arrange your squares to form a 5 inch by 5 inch square frame.

3. Using stamps of your choice (I have used circles) and blue ink, randomly stamp images on your squares.

4. When dry, ink the edges of each 1 inch square with blue ink.

5. Finally, arrange your squares to form a 5 inch by 5 inch square frame in the centre of your card and glue down.

Now that you have a unique background, you can create the centrepiece of your card.

To Create Your Centrepiece:

1. Cut a 3 inch by 3 inch square from light blue cardstock. Mat with dark blue cardstock and glue in the centre of your card.

2. Cut a strip of striped paper approximately 2.5cm wide and 18.5cm tall. Use some decorative edged scissors to create a pattern down the right side. I have used a heartbeat pattern, but you can use whatever you like.

3. Ink the edges of your strip with blue ink and when dry, glue down the left side of your blue square, as shown above.

4. Embellish the rest of your card. I have used a Grandpa and grandson sticker from Sandylion Grandmas & Grandpas stickers.

This is just one idea for using sketch #2. I’d love to know what you create!

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Materials Used: Me & My Big Ideas paper, green cardstock, cream cardstock, scalloped edged scissors, Beary Patch Denim Alphabet stickers and Sandylion Grandmas & Grandpas stickers.

To recreate this scrapbooking idea using scrapbooking stickers, follow these steps:

1. Use the Me & My Big Ideas paper as your background.

2. Cut a piece of green cardstock measuring approximately 18cm by 15cm. Glue it towards the top right corner of your page approximately 2.7cm from the right edge and 3.8cm from the top edge.

3. Mat a horizontal 4×6 photo with cream cardstock. Glue on top of your green cardstock from the previous step. Make sure you leave a gap of about 3.5cm between the bottom of your photo and the bottom edge of the green cardstock.

4. Mat a grandparents sticker from your sheet of Grandmas & Grandpas stickers with cream cardstock and glue towards the bottom right corner of your green cardstock, as shown above. It will overlap the bottom right corner of your photo.

5. Select a collection of small stickers like flowers, cupcakes and hearts. Arrange them in a line along the bottom edge of your green cardstock to create a nice accent for your photo.

6. Place a hummingbird sticker in the top left corner of your green cardstock.

7. Cut a strip of green cardstock approximately 4cm tall. Mat with cream cardstock. For a more interesting effect, use decorative edged scissors to create a scalloped edge along the bottom of your mat. When done, glue across your page approximately 2cm from the bottom edge.

8. Mat a grandparents sticker from your sheet of Grandmas & Grandpas stickers with cream cardstock and glue in the bottom left corner of your page on top of your strip of green cardstock.

9. Use Beary Patch Denim Alphabet stickers (or any other blue alphabet stickers) to write your title across your strip of green cardstock.

10. Finally, embellish your title with any remaining small stickers like flowers and a humming bird.
And there you have it! A layout you can whip up quickly and easily to ensure the special people in your lives appear in your albums.

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I’d love to hear what you think of this grandparents stickers idea. Please leave a comment in the comments box below.

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Stickers with family motifs, quotes and titles allow you to create sensational and heart-warming scrapbooking layouts with ease. You don’t have to spend hours making up hand-made embellishments or procrastinating about how to decorate your pages. Family stickers take care of that for you, leaving you free to just have some fun and enjoy reflecting on your treasured family moments.

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It is important to choose the correct stickers for your family layouts. Of course, the most vital factor is that you love the stickers you have chosen. Never work with a product that you don’t absolutely love! It takes away all the fun of scrapbooking and leads to disappointment with your creations.

There are two main types of family stickers to choose from:

1. Specific Titles And Quotes

Family stickers are perfect for defining and recording the exact relationships between members of your family. For example, if you are scrapping a photo of your Dad, you may choose stickers that specifically say ‘Dad’ or ‘Father’ as I have done in this layout:

Materials Used: Dark brown textured cardstock (for the background), Provo Craft Circles paper, Doodlebug Designs Blue Stripe paper, white cardstock, dark blue cardstock, two light blue brads and Autumn Leaves Love & Laughter stickers.

This layout could then either feature a photo of my Dad or a photo of my Dad and me together.

How often have you looked at old photos and wondered who on earth the people in them are and why they are important to your family’s memories?

By using specific family title or quote stickers like this you can quickly and easily record the relationship the people in the photo either have to you or to each other. And then when you and your family look back on them in years to come, it’s easy to see who everyone is.

Scrapbooking companies like Flair and Reminisce have realised the importance of recording this information and have released a large variety of stickers covering all sorts of family relationships including mother, father, brothers, sisters, daughter, son, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins and more.

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2. Sentiment Stickers

While it is important to record who the people in your photos are, after a while it can become a bit repetitious and boring. For example, if you are working on a whole album about your immediate family (say you, your partner and your children) you do not need to identify everyone and their relationships to you and each other on every single page.

Instead, you may prefer to record specific memories about the event featured or you may like to reflect on what that person (or people) really mean to you.

This is where family stickers featuring sentiments can be a real blessing. They allow you to express your feelings without getting caught up in the terrible struggle of trying to figure out the right things to say. We’ve all had writer’s block before and we all know it’s just not fun.

And it’s also easily avoided! For example, in this layout, I have used a sticker that reads ‘Love & Laughter’ and another that reads ‘Cherish’ to convey my feelings:

Materials Used: Karen Foster Plum Glaze paper (for the background), cranberry cardstock, K&Company Green & Yellow Striped paper, Creative Imaginations Unit 22 paper, green Bazzill cardstock, cream cardstock and Autumn Leaves Love & Laughter stickers.

The ‘Love & Laughter’ sticker reflects how I feel about the events taking place. It’s perfect for any photo/s of loved ones who are smiling and enjoying themselves and it captures the emotions of the moment.

The ‘Cherish’ sticker, on the other hand, conveys what the person (or people) in the photo mean to me. It focuses not on who they are but on my feelings about that person (or people). And, of course, there is nothing stopping me from writing their name somewhere else on the page if I still wish to record it.

So instead of sitting down and tearing your hair out over what to say, you can capture your most important memories and emotions with simple-to-apply sentiment stickers.

Both types of family stickers have an important role to play in your scrapbooking albums. Before deciding which stickers to use, think carefully about what information you actually want to record. And most of all, choose designs you love!

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I’d love to hear your thoughts and ideas for using family stickers on your layouts. Please leave a comment in the comments box below.

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