FREE Easter Scrapbook Paper - Frugal Friday

Using this Free Easter Scrapbooking Paper I'm going to create a festive Easter scrapbook spread using a combination of these 4 papers. I love to layer paper!

To download this Free Easter Paper, just click the link above the image of the paper you would like. Keep in mind that when you print them, You'll need to print them on paper bigger than 12x12, so that there won't be a white boarder around the edges. You can also print 8x8 paper from these files. Call or visit your local Alphagraphics and they can help you out. Thats where I do all my printing and they're really awesome.

I'd love to see your creations with my paper, so please feel free to send me a picture of what you create!

Download Easter Paper #1

Download Easter Paper #2

Download Easter Paper #3

Download Easter Paper #4

Free Easter Egg Download - Frugal Friday

I wanted to make some easy Easter cards that you can download as a free easter gift! I made an Easter Egg Template that you can download for free to use for your Easter Cards.

Download FREE Easter Egg PDF

Here is a sample of a finished card! It's a 5x5 folding card.

Step 1: Cut a 5 x 10 inch piece of card stock paper and fold a crease in the center.

Step 2: Cut a 4.5 x 4.5 inch piece of paper and paste it to the front of the card.

Step 3: Take a 2 x 4.5 inch piece of green paper and trip alternating divots to create a grass pattern.

Step 4: Print out the Free Easter Egg Template PDF onto 8.5 x 11 inch paper (I used a patterned 12x12in and just cut it down)

Step 5: Place the Grass and the Egg onto the front of the card according to your preference and knock yourself out with any embellishments you want!

And there you have it! A cute homemade and inexpensive Easter Card!

Birthday Invitations - Little Girl

My sister came to me and wanted a couple birthday invitations for her little girl. She was having a butterfly and flower themed birthday party. I looked at my supplies and lo and behold I had some scrapbook paper and embellishments that were perfect!

They took me just a few minutes to make and I think they turned out really cute! I just cut out 4x5 inch rectangles and decorated them to my hearts content :)

Template Tuesday - My Vacation 12x12 Spread

This scrapbook page design is great for event photos. The template displays 9 photos and still gives plenty of space for journaling sections, embellishments, etc. That's why I used it as a vacation spread.

I'll take you through a 3 step process where we look at the scrapbook sketch, the scrapbook layout, and then the final page.

You'll need to get a circle cutter if you don't already have one, and you'll also want to pay close attention of the boarder sizes.

all of the boarders are .25 inches (so the 3x3 boarder square is 3.5 x 3.5 inches)

EXCEPT for the 4x6. That is smaller so cut it 4.25 x 6.25 inches

The 2.5 x 3.5 photo and the 5x5 circle both have double boarders (also .25 in)

The strips underneath the squares are 4x12 inches

Scrapbook Adhesives - Mounting Squares

We all know that when you scrapbook, you have to tape/glue stuff together right? Well, I find my favorite thing to use to paste embelismnets, borders, pictures, etc. are Mounting Squares.

They come in a little box of 500 and there are a bunch of different brands that you can find at your local scrapbook supplier.

All they are are little double sided tape squares that are easy to dispense from a little box. Plain and simple. I tried using another brand besides scrapbook adhesives, but it had you individually peel off a back to each piece creating way more work as well as leaving a lot of trash. This kind is simpler and way less of a mess.

Just another tool that makes my scrapbooking life a lot easier :)

Template - 8x8 - Mirrored Horizontals

Here's a template I've used several times and LOVE

This is a template for 8x8 albums

All you do is place a horizontal 4x6 in

the top left corner of the page (I always try

to put a 1/8 to 1/4 inch border around my pictures)

and then placing a 2.5x3.5 wallet size image below it.

Add a border to the left side of the page and some

embellishments or journaling sections on the bottom left.

Rotate the template 180 degrees for the next page,

and there you have it!

Why do I love it?

-It gives a very uniformed look

-It makes plenty of room for pictures while

still leaving enough space to get creative

with embellishments or journaling sections.

-You can do a lot of different variations

Here are some samples from pre-made scrapbooks:

Journaling - helping out my handwriting

I wouldn't say I have "bad" handwriting...

But I wouldn't call it pretty either.

When I made my baby book with my mother in law,

we left a bunch of empty spaces for journaling sections.

While I'm happy that I was able to write some

narrative to some of the photos, I don't really

like my handwriting.

To solve this problem, I thought to intermix my

handwriting with sticker letters so that it would

look a bit more designed. Turned out that it

also served nicely as shout outs, so that the

most important words are emphasized.

Here are some examples that I used on last

year's christmas spread: