While there's something monochromatic about winter, spring is best suited to pastel colors and soft textures. Here are some ideas for fun spring layouts
Lamb's a Leaping: Using pale blue card as a background with a wide border of pale green, create the grass and the sky. Add some flowers using a stamp (such as Flower Stems from Rhonna Farrer) Use a cricut or another die cutting machine to create fluffy sheep in black and white, and add these to your layout. This looks really good with baby pictures. Add the word 'Spring' and you're done!
Spring has Sprung - the ideal spring motif - copy out the poem on or two journaling tags, (one for each of two facing pages) or write the words with soft souffle pens on cloud shaped tags and attach to a pale blue (sky) background. The whole text goes 'Spring has sprung, the grass has ris, I wonder where the birdies is? The birdies is upon the wing. Aint that absoid? The little wings is on the boid'. Why not cut your photographs in the shape of clouds and layer on a white, cloud shaped matte on the pale blue background. You can create a soft patterned sky by using a tiny (genuine) sponge and Tim Holtz distress inks in all shades of blue to give more interest. For a final effect add some chirping birdie brads or stamp and emboss a bird on your journal ling tags.
Spring Showers. A major feature of spring in some parts of the world is rain and oddly enough we tend to ignore pictures of rain soaked family members, yet these are just as deserving of a place in your scrapbook as the pictures from the sunniest days. Begin with a gray background, distress it with inks. You can add your pictures in the shape of clouds as above or more conventionally in cut out frames which have been embellished with stamps.Pastel Umbrella Brads make a great embellishment for the frames, or you can simply add 'rain' drops of clear embossing or clear glitter. Make your journaling tags in the shape of an umbrella or a raindrop and attach with light and dark blue Rain Drop Brads for an ideal spring layout.
Easter: Easter egg and bunny die cuts are essential for an Easter layout. If you don't have a die cut machine you can use any computer graphics program to draw an oval, print on to card, cut it out and use it as a pattern. Use one sheet of pastel card as a background and layer two more on top, one 2/3 width and one 1/3 width. Decorate these further with swirls and scrolls in white and pastel colors. You might trying smudging these as soon as they are stamped for an even softer effect. Egg shapes can then be used as a matte for your photographs or as a tag for your journaling making a useful contrast with the vertical lines and soft swirls on the background.
Add a die cut bunny and your Easter layout is complete.
Friends are Flowers: This is one of my favorite scrapbooking quotes, Friends are flowers in natures garden. If, like me you have a birthday in spring, you may end up with lots of small pictures of people which cant really be enlarged. This is ideal for a 'friends are flowers' layout. Create a background as before using pale blue card and green paper, You can feather the edge of the paper so it looks like spiky grass. Cut your small photographs in circles showing just the face of your friends and place this in the center of a die cut flower. Choose the color of the flower to compliment the picture. Draw in a stem and then go to town with your embellishments. Add tiny bugs, butterflies and some stamped flowers. Your journaling tags could be in the shape of a butterfly or another flower. You can use small chipboard letters to spell out friends are flowers on one page and 'in natures garden' on the other to complete your layout.
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