scrapbooking2angels: Happy 6th Birthday layout with Save the Date from Kaisercraft

Monday, August 13, 2012

Happy 6th Birthday layout with Save the Date from Kaisercraft

My biggest challenge using these fabulous Kaiser Save the Date papers, is choosing whose photos to scrap. I have so many birthdays to choose from - and the papers are perfect for male or female, both young or old – so I am loving them!!!

Today I have selected my daughter's 6^thbirthday ... I had these gorgeous photos to scrap and loved the colours in the papers!! Tracy has fabulous co-ordinating embellishments for the papers too, so today I am going to showcase some of them for you!!!

I started with plain white cardstock, as it's a great backdrop for the beautiful colours in the papers!! I also like to ink my papers to give them more definition against the white background. Tracy has an awesome collection of inks instore Here!!

I used the Streamers paper to cut a large banner and adhered it to the left side of the white card. I then used the Milestone paper, as I loved the mini icy poles on it!! To balance this, I then used the striped side of the Invite paper .

I also love papers where you can cut bits out and use them - and in this instance I have cut out the Happy birthday title and banner for the photo from the Hip hip paper.

I love ric rac – you can add it to anything and the shape and colour give your layout a pop!! In this instance, I have run a string of pink ric rac across the bottom of the striped paper – my photos will sit just over and under the ricrac. I popped the smaller photo up on popdots so the photo pops off the page.

I hand-cut the banners and added them after I adhered my photos. At this point, your basic layout is done - all that is left are the fun bits – adding some funky embellishments to distinguish your page!

I love the white stemmed star flowers and have tied them together with a little piece of twine – love the stuff!!! To balance that, I added a cute resin flower in white.

Under the smaller photo I used one of the scraps of paper and stamped the present stamp and cut it out – I have then added pop dots to the gift, so that it stands out from the page. I love the Happy birthday present pin - the green goes so well with the papers – so I slid this in behind the stamped gift.

I adhered the cut out Happy Birthday and added the gorgeous rainbow charm – LOVE these!!! - and a couple more resin flowers.

For me, the journalling is important – I like to record the event and what my thoughts were when I scrapped the photo! I think it adds depth and meaning to the memory!!