Scrapbooking Themes Quickstart: Birthday Pages
by Debbie Hodge
This is a new series that provides “starter” lists for making scrapbook pages on a particular subject. Each post will include a list of hallmark images and motifs associated with the theme as well as phrases and sayings, fonts and some “do-it-yourself” embellishment ideas. Use these “starters” to jumpstart your creative process and come up with layout ideas.
Maybe one of these images or phrases will be perfect for your page. If not, it could spur thoughts of a story you want to tell or a photo you want to feature. It could be the source of a color scheme or just a way to get your creative juices flowing.
It’s all about the QUICKSTART — check it out and see where it takes you.
hallmark images/motifs of birthdays
- cake
- gifts
- balloons
- candles
- streamers
- banners/pennants
- clowns
- ice cream
- party hats
Look for these images in your paper stash, your stamps, brushes or rubons. Or find a digital product or clip art or magazine photo you could transfer. The idea is to get the process started. These images came from iCLIPART.com (affiliate link) where I have a subscription that lets me download as many high resolution images as I want for a year.
phrases associated with birthdays
Here are some phrases commonly used around birthday time. Use them to make titles or embellishments or, again, to spur your ideas. I’ve shown them rendered in fonts that would work well on a birthday page – the name of each font is in black and white below the phrase – links to the fonts are in the next section.
- celebrate
- party time
- surprise
- make a wish
- happy birthday
- you are 1 (or 2 or 50 or . . .)
- blow out the candles
fonts
Here are a few fonts you might like to use on birthday pages (these are all used in the phrase examples above). While most of them aren’t great for rendering a block of journaling, you could them for titles, embellishments or to emphasize selected words in the journaling.
- Century Schoolbook (included with Windows OS)
- Claritty
- Desdamona
- Fontdinerdotcom Sparkley
- Honey Script
- Gigi (included with Windows OS)
- Lily UPC (included with Windows OS)
- Quiggley Wiggly
do it yourself
Take a look at some of the hallmark images and think about how you might make your own embellishments from standard supplies in your stash.
You could make a bunch of balloons from buttons, punched circles, tags, and epoxies. For the strings, add stitching, rubons, or drawn strings. This bundle is made with digital products from Designer Digitals (Button Brights, Stitched by Anna Pink No1 by Anna Aspnes; Janine Kit by Michelle Martin).
A series of trimmed triangles makes a great pennant banner. This one uses Wonderific Solids, Wonderific Paper Pack by Jesse Edwards; DIY Party Pennants, Little Enamel Alpha by Pattie Knox all from Designer Digitals.
A stack of wrapped packages can be easily made with paper and ribbon scraps–paper or digital. These packages are made with Get Happy Paper Pack by Jesse Edwards, My Wonderful Adventure and Photo Wraps No 11 by Katie Pertiet all from Designer Digitals.
There you have it! Quick ideas for scrapbooking birthday pages. Let me know what they inspired you to do. (and look for ensuing posts like this on summer themes like gardening, weddings, and more!)
Related posts:
- Scrapbooking {Summer} Themes Quickstart: Gardening Pages
- Scrapbooking {Summer} Themes Quickstart: Wedding Pages
- How to select events photos for scrapbooking
- Digital products to use on your hybrid scrapbook pages
- What’s your motif? Images and meaning on your scrapbook pages
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Thank you for these great ideas! I linked to this article from today’s scrapbook news at http://exm.nr/anQKCt
thanks, Irene!