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| Surprising Birthday Layout Ideas By: Cecilie Malling, Design Team Member |
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Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest. ~Larry Lorenzoni Every day we each get a little older and maybe even a little wiser and once a year we celebrate the day we were put into this world. Since birthdays are recurrent events and every one in the family has one (at least) once a year we all end up with a large amount of birthday pictures we’d like to keep in our albums. And don’t forget while documenting the family of kids’ and loved ones to also document your own birthday celebrations. At birthdays there are often a lot of activities on and even more clutter around which makes it a difficult to get calm pictures but don’t let that keep you from scrapping the birthday pictures. You need to focus on the memories you are preserving and in years to come it will be fun for you and the kids to return back to the pictures and remember the busy feel of the birthdays even if the pictures aren’t the best in the world. Moreover it might be a good idea to only scrap the very best of the pictures and keep the rest in a separate album or you could do a layout with a hidden part or a pocket to make room for more pictures. It might seem an overwhelming task to tackle all the pictures from birthdays and Melissa advises that you use for instance Becky Higgins’ sketches as a starting point for your multiple photo layouts. That way you can either use the sketch with 4x6 photos or use the sketch as a guideline for resizing of the pictures. These two sketches are based on layouts by Susan and me, and I hope they may inspire your next birthday layouts:
When you have chosen the best pictures from the latest family birthday you still need ways to calm down the busy pictures and give your layout a focus. This might be done in these ways: - mat the photos on cardstock to frame them against one another - you might opt to use less patterned paper, monochromatic patterned paper or just a few colors to calm the entire layout down - really bring attention to one strong picture by having it enlarged on page one of a double-page, framing it differently than the other pictures or having embellishments point towards this photo:
One of the staples of a birthday is the cake with candles and the pictures of the kids’ blowing out the candles might have colors that are muted because the photos were taken in the dark and without flash. Madeline’s tip is that these pictures even with their imperfections make for great pages and that you might bring out the best of muted pictures by using bright or deep colors instead of light or pastel colors:
Since birthdays are so happy, fun and bright in themselves adding a bit of shine to your layouts would be just right. In the latest releases a lot of the items have been glittery and these are really fun products that add shimmer to your layouts. If you want your title to glitter the 3 inches high Scrapworks Shimmer Alphas have a great glossy glittery effect and there size make them perfect for larger titles. The Melissa Frances Pop-out Glitter Alphas are smaller and have a matte effect but I really like how the glitter stays on the letters and doesn’t rub of on the rest of the page elements. For smaller titles or subtitles the new MM shimmer stickers have a fun variety of fonts and sizes. Not only your titles and texts can be glittered up since there are also a lot of new glittery embellishments available. The new Making Memories Shimmer brads come in various color combinations and they have a pretty matte shine. You can even get a glittering skull to use on a funky boy birthday page or sparkling rub ons might add the right amount of glitter to your layout. If you want to add a little glimmer to elements of your page that doesn’t shimmer on their own you might want to try using either one of the many colors of Stickles or try the Melissa Frances’ glitters that can be used with glue to embellish or even write text directly on your layouts. What ever you chose do remember to have fun at the birthday and at the later creation of the birthday layouts. Happy Birthday ;o)
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To view all layout ideas and products used, please be sure to visit the Design Team Gallery: Surprising Birthday Layout Ideas Or Click each image below to see a larger view!
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| Technique Talk: Ribbon Ruffles By: Sonya Shaw, Design Team Member |
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I love ribbon; I have a ton of it stashed in my room, in jars! It’s a weakness and something I think I have to have, well let’s be honest, I do have to have it, and a girl can never have too much ribbon, can she! *wink* However, after time it becomes a matter of what to do with all this ribbon. To me the same old thing gets boring, and I am always looking for something new to do with it to spice up my projects. So one day whilst playing around, I decided to use the ribbon as a ruffle on a page, and loved it!! (Now I want to ruffle everything in sight :) I have put together step-by-step instructions, along with photos to help guide you through this process. If you have any questions, please feel free to PM me, and I will be happy to assist you. Step 1 : After selecting your ribbon, decide where you want to add your ribbon ruffles and place a strip of either Glue Lines or Making Memories Ribbon Glue along the spot. (I personally prefer glue lines just because of ease of use, and if you goof up, it’s easy to pull the ribbon up to redo a ruffle.) It’s totally up to you, however if you use the Ribbon Glue, note that you will have to hold your ribbon down for a moment to ensure that it is sticking before moving on to the next pleat, and always give it at least 15 minutes to dry before stitching. *One tip however to keep in mind, is to not run the glue or place the glue lines in the same spot that you will be machine stitching – it will gunk up your sewing machine*
Step 2: Start adhering your ribbon to the glue lines (or MM Ribbon glue) by pleating the ribbon back and forth to give it a frilly, ruffled look, such as:
Step 4: Now that you have pleated your ribbon, it’s time to machine sew it to your layout. *When sewing, be sure to sew in the same direction as the pleats, otherwise you will be sewing against the pleats, and your ruffles will not turn out right* Such as:
Step 5 : You can add more than one layer if you wish to give it even more depth and add to the visual interest. For mine I have added a total of 3 layers of ribbon, slightly overlapping each, and sewing them one layer at time as you can see below:
Step 6 : Now that you have your ribbon ruffles sewn to your page, you can fluff the ruffles by pulling the edge of the ribbon up. *note* this may only work if you used the glue lines and depending upon how much ribbon glue you may have used. You can then further embellish your page if you wish. To finish mine I embellished it with a My Minds Eye Die Cut; that I cut it into 2 pieces, as you can see below. You can however, place the entire thing under the ruffles but I wanted it to appear as though it were flowing throughout the ruffles. Such as:
And here is the finished layout:
As you can see once I was completely finished, I decided to cut the background out and adhere it to a different piece of patterned paper, so that the ribbon ruffles and colors would pop off the page. (I do this often when scrapping if I don’t like the way it’s completely turning out) It’s easy, just grab your old deco scissors, and go to town. I hope you have fun playing with this technique, and I can’t wait to see all the projects you “RUFFLE UP” in the future. :)
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By: Jackie Bogert and the LM Design Team
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Using Premade Templates http://mb.lifetimemoments.com/viewtopic.php?p=2404616#2404616
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Design Team (Sara Meyers, Miranda Isenberg, Madeline Fox, Kate J., Susan Berg, Tracy Austin, Sonya Shaw, Wendy Chang, Franny Lesniak, Nancy Thomas, Margaret Winters, Melissa Thigpen, Beshka Kueser, Cecilie Malling and Vickie Brown.) designteam@lifetimemoments.com
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