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A Cat's Life"
Scrapbooking Layout
by Rachel Paxton
If you love your cats as much as our family does, you probably have dozens,
even hundreds, of photos of your furry friends. I have been going through
and sorting out all my old pet photos, and I will be creating scrapbook
pages as tributes to each of the pets we have owned. While my husband and I
were looking at the
photos, we noticed all the photos of our cats had one common theme: days of
eating, sleeping and playing! So I decided to put together a scrapbook
layout to celebrate a day in the life of a cat, dedicated to our precious
kitties.
Materials needed:
Paper cutter
Glue stick
6 cat photos
(2) 12x12 pieces of solid colour scrapbook paper
12x12 piece of coordinating patterned scrapbook paper
Scrapbook layout template
Decorative corner punch
Stickers
This scrapbook layout has three layers: a solid piece of paper as the
background, a patterned piece of paper cut slightly smaller and placed on
top of the background paper, and then the matted photos on top.
First I cut down the patterned piece of scrapbook paper with my paper
cutter. I cut just enough to leave about a half inch of the coloured
background page showing around the edges. Next I cut the corners of the
patterned page with the corner punch for added decoration. I then glued the
patterned page on top of one of the colored pages.
To cut out and arrange my photos I used a plastic scrapbook layout template
that I purchased at a craft store. It isn't necessary to use a template,
but it makes cutting and arranging photos on the page very quick and easy.
There is a pattern for both the mat and the photo on the template. After
tracing the
pattern from the template on both the photos and the second piece of
coloured cardstock, I cut everything out, glued the photos to the mats, and
arranged and glued the matted photos on the patterned piece of scrapbook
paper.
I chose to use the phrase "A Day in the Life of a Cat" for the title of the
page. For the captions I used "sleep", "eat", and "play". I typed them up
on the computer in Microsoft Word and printed them out.
I glued the title to the top of the page and matted the captions with
leftover scraps of the solid coloured paper and glued them randomly on the
page. If you want you can use stickers to further decorate the page. I
used several daisy stickers I had leftover from card making.
That's it!
Rachel Paxton is a freelance writer and mom of four. For scrapbooking, card
making, gift-giving ideas, and more family memory-making activities, visit
http://www.crafty-moms.com.
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