"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 color scrapbook paper
12x12 piece of coordinating patterned scrapbook paper
Scrapbook layout template
Decorative corner punch
Stickers
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 colored 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 colored 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. For your convenience I have created a .pdf
file of the captions I used:
http://www.crafty-moms.com/pdf/a-cats-life.pdf
I glued the title to the top of the page and matted the captions
with leftover scraps of the solid colored 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! Here is a photo of the finished scrapbook layout:
http://www.crafty-moms.com/scrapbooking/a-cats-life.shtml
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.