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MY GIRL LAYOUT
What you will need:
A photo of baby girl
A sheet of patterned paper: sky blue with clouds
A large die cut yellow sun
White cardstock (scraps or new sheets)
Yellow cardstock (scraps or new sheets)
Pink sticker or die cut letters
Pink marker, fine tip
Adhesive (glue stick or double-sided mounting tape)
Scissors or craft knife
Pencil
Ruler
Take the white cardstock and sketch out two clouds. Cut them out and set them aside.
Take the yellow cardstock. You will need a strip as long as the page you are working on. Cut the strip out, approximately 1" wide, with a slight wave to it.
Using a scissor or craft knife, cut a circle out of the center of the sun as large as you can make it. Place it over the photo of the baby and center her face in the circle. Trim the photo so that the edges cannot be seen beyond the sun frame (note: do not use your only copy of the photo!). If you can¡¯t find a yellow sun die cut, make your own sun out of bright yellow cardstock that is large enough to accommodate the photo. Adhere the sun frame to the baby¡¯s photo with glue or tape.
Take the patterned paper and set it before you. Place the baby¡¯s sun-framed photo in the center of the page. Across the top of the page, use the letter stickers or die cuts to spell out the words ¡°MY GIRL.¡± Center the words on the page before adhering, using a ruler to keep them straight.
Take the wavy yellow strip of cardstock. Write on it with a pink pen, ¡°I¡¯ve Got Sunshine On A Cloudy Day.¡± You may need to practice this on similar cut sheets to ensure the letters are the right size and spread out enough to span the entire strip. When you have the writing just so, adhere the strip to the bottom of the page.
DADDY¡¯S LITTLE GIRL LAYOUT
What you will need:
A photo of the baby girl and her daddy together
Sheet music to the song ¡°Daddy¡¯s Little Girl¡±
Acid neutralizing spray
2 to 3 sheets of cardstock in your choice of colors
Adhesive (glue stick or double sided mounting tape)
Scissors or craft knife
Use the famous song, ¡°Daddy¡¯s Little Girl,¡± written by Bobby Burke and Horace Gerach in 1949, to create a beautiful background. It will not be too difficult to obtain the sheet music, as this song is still the number one request for the father/daughter dance at weddings.
Take the first page of the sheet music and spray it with an acid neutralizing spray according to the directions on the can. These sprays are available at most scrapbooking supply companies. It is important to spray the sheet music because the paper it was written on will not be of archival quality and could eventually ruin your layout. The spray will neutralize the acids in the paper and make them safe for scrapbooking use.
Take a sheet of cardstock in your choice of color (mint, yellow, lavender, and, of course, pink, work well for baby girls). Place the sheet music page on top of the cardstock and tilt it so that the corners go slightly off the page. Adhere it with a glue stick or double-sided tape. You can trim off the corners or fold and glue them to the underside of the page.
Matte the photo of the baby girl and her daddy on another piece of cardstock, cut just slightly larger than the photo. If you like, use a complimentary color and double-matte it by placing it on yet another piece of cardstock just slightly larger than the first.
Mount the matted photo directly onto the center of the page, right over the sheet music. Most of the beautiful words of the song will still be seen around the photo.
Tip: if you want to create a spread, use a different page of the sheet music as a background for each.
IN MY DAUGHTER¡¯S EYES LAYOUT
What you will need:
A photograph of baby girl and her mommy
Mommy and Baby¡¯s hospital ID bracelets
Mint cardstock
Pale yellow cardstock
Pink Cardstock
Pink fine-tipped marker
Pink letter stickers or die cuts
A Vellum envelope
2 yards of 1/8" pink ribbon (approximately)
Hole puncher
Adhesive
Scissors or craft knife
Ruler
Pencil
¡°In My Daughter¡¯s Eyes,¡± by Martina McBride, is the ultimate mother/daughter song. To begin this layout, create a matte out of pink cardstock, leaving a 1/8" border all around your photograph. Then take yellow cardstock and create a second matte that leaves a ?" border around the first.
Mount the photo on the pink cardstock matte with adhesive, then double matte by mounting that onto the yellow cardstock.
Take a pencil and ruler. On the back of the yellow cardstock, approximately 1/4" from the edges, make a dot with the pencil in each corner. Then make dots approximately every 1/4" until you have worked your way around the edges of the matte.
Using your hole puncher, punch a hole on each pencil dot. Then, take your ribbon and, starting at the top center, thread it in and out of the punched holes. Finish back at the center, where you can tie it into a bow on the front, right above the photograph.
Take your mint cardstock and use the same technique to mark and punch holes around the border. Thread the ribbon in and out. Again, start at the center, work your way around and finish at the top center with a small bow.
Make a 3X3 inch square of yellow cardstock, then matte it with adhesive onto pink cardstock, leaving a 1/8" border. Using the pink marker, in your best handwriting, journal a line from the song, ¡°...when she wraps her hand around my finger, it puts a smile in my heart...¡±
Take the vellum envelope. On the center of the flap, punch two holes. Thread the remaining ribbon through it and tie a bow on the front.
Across the top of the page, centered beneath the ribbon, use the letter stickers or die cuts to spell out, ¡°In My Daughter¡¯s Eyes.¡± Then, arrange the matted photograph, the vellum envelope and the journaling on the page until you are pleased with their placement. Because there are three, a triangular arrangement will probably work best. Try tilting them and slightly overlapping the edges in order to create visual interest.
Affix the elements to the page with glue or tape. Make sure the vellum envelope flap is facing outward. When they are set, place the hospital bracelets in the vellum envelope as a keepsake. |
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