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To create this page, I used sketch #128 from my collection of 500 Scrapbooking Sketches. Please note that I have made this page to feature photos from a young girl’s birthday celebrations, but the colours could be easily changed to suit anyone.

Materials Used: Scrapbooking papers by Provo Craft, white cardstock, alphabet stickers from Doodlebug, Diecuts With A View and Mrs Grossmans and Sandylion Birthday Icons Borders stickers.

This birthday layout is very easy to create. Begin by making your backdrop. To do this, you will need two pieces of co-ordinating paper. Use one as the base for your page. Cut the other at an angle, like that shown above, and glue to the bottom of your page.

Use the yellow and orange border sticker to cover the join between your two papers. This gives your page some character and is far more interesting than a straight edge. Please keep in mind though, that because it is at an angle, it will not stretch the whole way across your page. As a result, you need to cut it in a place that will be eventually covered by one of your photos. This will enable you to leave a gap between the two pieces (behind one of your photos) so that it looks like it goes all the way across.

Now that you have your background, it’s on to the photo mats. These are very easy to make too. First, mat two vertical 4×6 photos with white cardstock. Mat again with pink paper, but this time, leave a gap at the bottom of the photo mat. This is so you can stick your streamer border sticker across the bottom of each photo mat to give a festive look to your page.

How you create your title is up to you. I used a selection of letter stickers of different sizes, fonts and colours. If they were white, I also matted them with pink paper so they wouldn’t get lost against the background. I also added two small birthday stickers to add interest to my title.

Finally, I arranged a small selection of birthday stickers in the bottom right corner of my page to add interest and give balance to my design. If you wish, you could also add some journaling here.

Oh, and for one last touch, I added a birthday balloon sticker between my two photos. And then it was done. In very little time, I had a fun and festive birthday scrapbooking page. And all it took was some fun papers, a scrapbooking sketch for guidance and some cute birthday stickers.

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The Original Post is Located Here: Birthday Wishes Scrapbooking Idea

Birthday cards do not always have to feature birthday icons like candles or presents. You can also use characters or images that reflect the personality and interests of the recipient. On my birthday card, I used a cute ant image from our cute range of animal rub-ons.

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This card was very quick and easy to create…and is easily adapted to suit any colour scheme and style:

Materials Used: Cream cardstock, green background sticker from Karen Foster, ‘Celebrate’ sticker from American Traditional Designs and ant rub-on from Piggy Tales Flowers & Bugs Rub-Ons.

The background is a sticker from Karen Foster. However, it could easily be recreated in your own patterns and colours using a selection of patterned papers. All you need to do is tear down one side and then layer your papers to create a similar effect.

Similarly, you can create the sentiment however you wish. I have used a sticker with a clear backing. You could also stamp the image, use alphabet stickers or even mat a sticker with cardstock or patterned paper for a more unique look.

For the final touch, choose a character or image you (and your recipient) like and position it above your sentiment. This gives your card personality while focusing attention on your message.

And you’re done. It really is that easy. And, it’s a great way to make a card for a guy without have to resort to the stereotypical images like fishing, golf, bow ties and the like. All you need is a cute image like the ant I have used from our range of animal rub-ons

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I hope you find card idea useful and easy to adapt to your own card making projects. I’d love to hear what you think of my Birthday Card Idea. Please leave a comment in the comments box below.

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The Original Post is Located Here: Cute Birthday Card Idea

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I was very excited to get crafting with these beautiful stickers so I made this cute birthday card:

Materials Used: Pink cardstock, scrapbooking papers by Provo Craft, light purple cardstock, light pink cardstock, pink glitter gel pen, ‘Happy Birthday’ stamp, purple ink and Kamio Super Puffy Animals & Sweets Kawaii stickers.

I chose a blue cat sticker as my centrepiece. He is carrying a plate of macaroons and features a heart-shaped rhinestone near his left ear. Does it get any cuter?

He is also extra puffy for that extra special touch. He’s about 5mm thick, giving great depth and dimension to my card.

With such a dominant embellishment, you do need to anchor him to your page. And by anchor, I don’t mean how you attach him – he’s an ordinary sticker you just stick down as normal. However, your card design needs to include other elements to support him so that he doesn’t look out of place.

It comes down to weight distribution. Thanks to gravity, we all expect heavy things to be at the bottom and for extra heavy things to have other elements to support them. Keep this in mind when creating your own cards.

In this card, I have a big, heavy embellishment. So, I have placed him in the bottom right corner of my card. This places the weight of my design at the bottom of my card – where you would expect it to be.

I have also added an extra element to support that weight – the light purple square behind my embellishment.

Balance is another important element of design that is closely tied with weight distribution. Think about a table with one leg in the centre to support it. A table is designed to take some weight being placed on it. However, if you keep putting weight on just one corner of the table, it will eventually fall over. If, instead, you distribute that weight around the table, it will remain sturdy and balanced.

The same principle applies with card design. If you have a heavy element in one corner, you need to add extra elements to give it balance.

In this card, my super puffy sticker is positioned towards the top right corner of the purple square. To balance this out, I have placed my ‘Happy Birthday’ sentiment in the bottom left corner of the purple square. This distributes the weight of my design between the two opposing corners.

However, due to the dominant nature of my super puffy sticker, just doing this was not quite enough. So, I added two much smaller, less dominant stickers, one on either side of my large sticker. This did the trick … and made my card even cuter!

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I hope this card idea has helped give you an insight into how I make cards and some of the important elements that make up a great card design. I’d love to hear what you think of my Kawaii Card Idea. Please leave a comment in the comments box below.

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For most of my birthday cards, I used birthday stickers as my embellishments. They give my cards personality without taking too much time.

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I thought I’d share with you what is sure to be the first of many birthday cards I make this year. I hope you like it:

To create this card, I used white cardstock and scraps of paper I had left over from previous projects. The background is a simple blue patterned paper – great for setting the scene on a birthday card for a guy. I have inked the edges with blue ink to give it character and depth.

I then added two over-lapping vertical rectangles on the left side of the card to create a background for my embellishment and to create a contrast with the background paper. Again, I inked the edges to give them definition.

I then added my ‘Happy Birthday’ message. I did this before adding my embellishment so I could work out the best placement for all the different pieces and ensure that I had plenty of space for my sentiment.

To create the sentiment, I used a range of stickers. The large white alphabet stickers are from Doodlebug. The blue ‘H’ is a Creative Imaginations alphabet sticker matted with white cardstock. The ‘Birthday’ sticker came on a sheet of birthday stickers but you could easily replace this with small alphabet stickers.

Finally, I added my cupcake sticker to complete my design. You could use any birthday-themed sticker as your embellishment. Or you could use a sticker depicting something the recipient of the card really loves (like a sport, destination, hobby etc). It’s up to you!

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The Original Post is Located Here: Happy Birthday Card Idea

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Rilakumma is known as a relaxed, somewhat lazy, bear. The name Rilakkuma is actually a combination of the Japanese word for relax and the Japanese word for bear. He is often seen lying around and enjoying some time off. I thought I might try to follow on with this theme in my card design:

Materials Used: Brown cardstock (two shades), scraps of scrapbooking papers, brown ink, a brown pen and San-X Shiny Rilakkuma Fruit Kawaii stickers.

I choose a sticker of Rilakkuma leaning back against an apple as my centrepiece. I placed it in the centre of a pink circle which I then matted on a brown flower-shaped cut-out. To further highlight my centrepiece, I inked the edges of both the circle and flower with brown ink and drew a dashed border with a brown pen.

I then created a colourful background using pieces of scrapbooking papers left over from other projects.

First, I covered the top half of my card with a leaf-patterned paper and covered the join between it and the brown cardstock background with a strip of dark brown paper. I then placed a row of four strips of patterned papers on the left side of my card to create a backdrop for my Rilakkuma centrepiece.

Finally, I added a row of mini Rilakkuma and fruit stickers across the bottom of my card. If you wish, you could also add a sentiment like ‘Happy Birthday’ in the bottom right corner, just above the stickers.

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I’d love to hear what you think of our new Rilakkuma stickers. Please leave a comment in the comments box below.

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The Original Post is Located Here: Rilakkuma Card Making Ideas

Materials Used: Paper Garden Watermelon Plaid paper, Beary Patch Grapebeary Dot paper, green cardstock, white cardstock, pastel eyelash ribbon and Doodlebug Birthday Girl stickers.
 
To recreate this scrapbooking idea, follow these steps:

1. Use the Paper Garden Watermelon Plaid paper as your background for both pages

2. Place your border sticker down the left side of your left-hand page

3. Mat a horizontal 4×6 photo with white cardstock. This should be your primary photo. Mat again with Grapebeary Dot paper. Leave a little extra room under the photo as this is where your title will eventually go. Glue to your left page so that it is centred horizontally and is positioned towards the top edge of your page

3. Mat a second horizontal with green cardstock. Glue it towards the bottom right corner of your left page, making sure you leave plenty of room to add a birthday cake sticker later.

4. Cut another piece of Grapebeary Dot paper and glue towards the top right corner of your page, as shown in the layout above.

This will add structure to your layout and draw the different elements together. It also creates a nice balance with the purple dot mat on the left page.

5. Mat your remaining photos (one vertical, one horizontal) with green cardstock and position on your right page as shown above.

6. Cut out a journaling box from white cardstock. Add your journaling and glue on your right page below your vertical photo.
 
7. Before you begin decorating your layout with birthday girl stickers, construct two tags. For each tag, cut a tag shape out of green cardstock. Cut a smaller version from purple dot paper and tear it into two pieces. Glue the two pieces to your green tag so that there is a thin strip between them. Place your birthday sticker on top. Finally, punch a hole in the top of the tag and thread your eyelash fibre through.

8. Place your ice-cream sticker tag on the left page and your cupcake sticker tag on the right page, as shown above.

9. Decorate the rest of your layout with your remaining birthday girl stickers. For a fun effect, layer your gift stickers on top of each other in the bottom right corner to create a pile of presents.

When you are done you will have a bright cheerful layout to reflect the joy of a birthday celebration. The circular birthday stickers carefully arranged on your page also help create the party atmosphere.

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The Original Post is Located Here: Birthday Girl Stickers

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Materials Used: Cream cardstock, green cardstock, Foofala brown patterned paper, Patchwork Cocoa Plaid paper, It Takes Two Pink Fibre paper, Scrapbooking Memories Pink and Brown paper, Basic Grey paper (for the leaves), brown cardstock, brown ink, pink ink, a ‘Happy Birthday’ stamp and Paper House Gardenias stickers.

To recreate this card making idea, follow these steps:

1. Cut a piece of cream cardstock measuring 14cm by 28cm. Fold in half to create a card. Place in front of you with the fold down the left side.

2. Cut a piece of Foofala brown paper measuring 12.6cm by 12.6cm. Ink the edges with brown ink. When dry, mat with green cardstock. Ink the edges of the green cardstock with pink ink and when dry, glue to the centre of your card.

3. Cut a piece of Patchwork Cocoa Plaid paper measuring 10cm by 14cm. Ink the edges with brown ink. When dry, glue down the centre of your card, as shown above.

4. Cut a piece of It Takes Two Pink Fibre paper measuring 7.2cm by 11cm. Tear along the bottom edge, as shown in the card idea above. Ink the edges with brown ink and when dry, glue in the centre of your card.

5. Cut a piece of Scrapbooking Memories Pink and Brown paper measuring 7.2cm by 1.6cm. Ink the edges with brown ink. When dry, glue across your pink fibre paper approximately 1.9cm from the top edge.

6. Place your Gardenia sticker so that it is centred on top of your pink and brown paper from step #5.

7. Cut out two leaf shapes from Basic Grey paper (or any paper of your choosing). Arrange them one on top of the other towards the bottom right corner of your pink fibre paper, as shown in the card idea above. When you are happy with their placement, glue them down.

8. Using brown ink, stamp a ‘happy birthday’ message on a piece of brown cardstock. When dry, cut down to size and then ink the edges with brown ink. Again, when dry, glue to your card, as shown above.

And you’re done! You now have a beautiful and unique birthday card to give someone special on their next birthday. And as you can see, the Paper House sticker makes a gorgeous central feature of your design.

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I’d love to hear your thoughts and ideas for using Paper House stickers on your layouts and what you think of this page. Please leave a comment in the comments box below.

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The Original Post is Located Here: Paper House Stickers

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The photo was taken at my niece’s birthday party, but instead of focusing on the celebrations, I wanted to focus on the young lady she was growing up to be. I chose a sophisticated colour scheme of pinks (bright pinks, not baby pinks) and browns to show her maturity and mixed in several sweet fairy stickers to show her youth. I also added character to my journaling by mixing up my fonts. Try using some of these techniques in your own pages.

Materials Used: Daisy D’s Daughter Plaid paper, Paper Garden Watermelon Ribbon Stripe paper, Bazzill Cardstock (pink and pale pink), pink cardstock, pink ric-rac, Amethyst ink pad, Petal Pink ink pad, alphabet stamps (2 fonts), pink pens, glitter and Sandylion Pink Fairy stickers.
 
To recreate this scrapbooking idea, follow these steps:

1. Use the plain pink cardstock as your background. It will be completely covered, so the exact colour is not important.

2. Cut two strips of Daisy D’s Daughter Plaid paper each. The first should be approximately 5.5cm tall and the other should be approximately 8cm tall. Adhere the smaller strip across the top of your page and the larger strip along the bottom.

3. Mat a vertical 4×6 photo on pale pink Bazzill cardstock giving it 5mm border all the way around your photo. Mat again on pink Bazzill cardstock. This time the border should be approximately 1cm at the top and bottom and 2cm at the sides. Your photo mat should now be approximately 18cm tall.

4. Cut a piece of Paper Garden Watermelon Ribbon Stripe paper. This will be your journaling block. You will have to calculate the size of this piece based on the size of your matted photo. It should be the same height as your matted photo (approximately 18cm tall) and when placed next to your matted photo, the width of the two pieces together should add up to the width of your page (i.e. 12 inches). You may wish to make this piece slightly wider than necessary and allow your photo to overlap it once adhered to the page.

5. Now is the tricky bit – your journaling. Consider what you would like to say in your journaling and how you would like to arrange it on your journaling block. Jot it down on some scrap paper so you know what you are working with.

6. Begin with the first word of your journaling. This goes across the top of your journaling block and should be the largest word. In my case, I stamped the word ‘Ashleigh’ across the top. Try not to line up your letters perfectly – sometimes the haphazard look is much more effective.

I also stamped the letter ‘A’ on a rectangle of pale pink Bazzill cardstock, inked the edges of the rectangle with the same ink and used that for my first letter of my title to make it stand out.

7. Add the last word of your journaling across the bottom of your journaling block. Make sure you leave plenty of room on the left for the fairy tag that you will add later. The last word of my journaling is ‘pink.’ I used a different stamp set and stamped each letter on a circular piece of pale pink Bazzill cardstock. I then inked the edges of each circle with Petal Pink ink and Amethyst ink before adhering them along the bottom of my journaling block.

8. Write the rest of your journaling in between the two words you have created. Write directly on your Watermelon Striped paper with a pink pen. Every now and then, add emphasis to certain words by switching to a purple pen and writing in a larger, fancier font.

9. Select a few other words you would like to emphasise. Write these words on small pieces of pale pink Bazzill cardstock and cut into rectangles. Ink the edges of the rectangles with petal pink ink and glue in place.

10. Adhere your journaling block to the left side of your page, in between the two pieces of plaid paper you have already glued across the top and bottom of your page. It should overlap slightly with each of them.

11. Adhere your photo mat next to your journaling block. Make sure you position it so the top and bottom edges are in line with the top and bottom edges of your journaling block.

12. Cut two pieces of pink ric-rac. Adhere across your page to cover both joins between your plaid strips and your journaling block and photo mat.

13. Finally, cut four small tags from pale pink Bazzill cardstock. One should be smaller than the other three. Ink the edges with petal pink ink and punch a hole in the top. Select four Sandylion Pink Fairy stickers and adhere one in the centre of each tag. If you wish, you can add a little glitter to their wings. Thread a small piece of pink ric-rac through each hole and adhere your fairy tags as shown in the layout above. 

Now you have a sophisticated page to delight any pre-teen!

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The Original Post is Located Here: Fairy Stickers

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This week I wanted to scrap a photo from my 26th birthday, but instead of choosing a traditional birthday design, I thought I might create something more whimsical and feminine. The Springs Birds & Flower stickers from Karen Foster are so pretty and were just perfect. Here are the results:

Materials Used: Dark purple cardstock (for the background), Metallic blue Bazzill cardstock, American Traditional Glitter paper, Fiskars Purple Stars paper, It Takes Two Leaves paper, purple border stickers from Hunter Leisure, Making Memories Alphabet stickers, a purple pen and Karen Foster Springs Birds & Flower stickers.

There are a few stages involved when re-creating this layout but it is quite simple. Once again, I have used a sketch from 500 Scrapbooking Sketches to guide my design (although I turned it upside down).

Here are some tips to note when re-creating a layout like this.

1. Printing photos in black and white or sepia are a great way to give character to your photos. They also allow you to scrap with whatever colours, patterns and embellishments you want, without having to worry if they will clash with the clothes the subjects of your photos are wearing. In this case, it allowed me to scrap a photo that was heavily dominated by greens and blues with purples and pinks (and of course, my pretty Karen Foster stickers).

2. I cut around the patterns on my American Traditional Glitter paper to create unique corners for my layout. It not only made my page unique, but turning the paper into embellishments gave me the opportunity to highlight the beautiful swirls and flowers on my paper instead of covering them up with photos.

3. I used a purple pen to draw a dashed border around both my purple stars paper and my leaf paper. This gave the designs some distinction so they didn’t get lost in the design. It’s a wonderful, but subtle way to make things stand out without making them the centre of attention.

4. Just because border stickers tend to be 12 inches long, that doesn’t mean you have to use all 12 inches of them. In this layout, I have only used sections of my border stickers to create nice accents at the top and bottom of my page.

5. One of my favourite things to do with stickers is to stick them on white cardstock and cut them out. I don’t always do it, but I find that it’s nice to help some stickers stand out from the page.

Most Karen Foster stickers are made from cardstock so they already have some depth, but their clear range is made to resemble rub-ons and so have very little depth. I love the new line. They really do look like they could be rub-ons – no ridges when crossing layers, no outlines…just beautiful. But on this page, I wanted the pink bird in the middle of the page to stand out, so I stuck it on white cardstock and then cut it out before gluing it in place.

There is a Karen Foster sticker to suit almost every scrapbooking project. They come in lots of different themes and styles. Find the ones that make you smile!

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Don’t forget to check out how I embellished the balloons too!

This layout was created using Provo Craft Blue Circles paper, Doodlebug Baby Boy Stripe paper, white cardstock, Beary Patch Grapebeary Dots paper, black cardstock, purple ink, purple alphabet stickers, blue thread and Stickopotamus Birthday Boy Balloons stickers.

To recreate this scrapbook page idea, follow these steps:

1. Use the Provo Craft Blue Circles paper as your background.

2. Cut out several ring shapes from Beary Patch Grapebeary Dots paper. It doesn’t really matter what size they are or even how many you have. You can also use solid circles or a combination of the two. You are just trying to create an interesting background. Use the layout above as an example.

3. Ink the edges of each ring or circle from the previous step with purple ink. When dry, glue randomly around your layout, keeping in mind the bottom third of your page will be covered later by photos.

4. Glue four 3×4 vertical photos in a row along the bottom of your scrapbooking layout.

5. Cut a strip of Doodlebug Baby Boy Stripe paper approximately 1cm tall. Glue horizontally across the top of your line of photos.

6. Mat a horizontally 4×6 photo with white cardstock. Mat again with Doodlebug Baby Boy Stripe and again with white cardstock. Glue in the centre of the space remaining above your line of photos.

7. Select the purple alphabet stickers you wish to use for your title and mat each one with black cardstock. Arrange towards the left side of your page, directly above your line of four photos, as shown above and glue in place.

8. Select five balloon stickers from Stickopotamus Birthday Boy Balloons stickers. Place each one on white cardstock and cut out. This enhances the brilliance of the blue, plus gives them dimension so they stand out from your page.

9. Tie a piece of blue thread to each balloon. Make sure each piece of thread is about 12cm in length. You can trim it down later.

10. Stick two balloons towards the top left corner of your photo, as shown above. Stretch the thread down to underneath your photo and secure in place with a blue star sticker. Trim your thread to the desired length.

11. Stick three balloons to the right of your photo, as shown above. Again, stretch the thread down to the desired location and secure in place with a blue star sticker. Trim your thread to the desired length.

12. Finally, place your remaining blue star stickers randomly around your page.

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