Spring Scrapbooking – Creating Spring Scrapbook Layouts

Spring scrapbooking layouts, like flowers after a winter hibernation, dare to peak out at you. Six weeks before the Vernal Equinox, according to tradition, the Groundhog is consulted on how much longer winter will last. Early spring is expected if the day is cloudy or six more weeks if the day is sunny. However we get there, eventually the season changes. The seasons of nature change as the seasons of our lives.

Spring scrapbooking can bring many interesting projects over the next three months. Create spring scrapbook layouts that celebrate the different holidays. March brings St. Patrick’s Day, Palm Sunday and for the scrap booker, the beginning of the spring scrapbooking season.

Whether March comes in like a lion or a lamb, spring scrapbooking is a good reason to try out new ideas and just find that fresh new look you are after.

One spring scrapbooking project or at least what I consider as one, is a cd calendar made only a month or two into the year.

CD Calendar Scrapbook Theme

Recently I purchased my own pink handled crop-a-dile tool and used it to help make this project. Materials I used were cd’s, (whether an AOL disc or music cd), cardstock by DCWV “Pocket Full of Posies” stack, Bazzil papers and DMD Paper Reflections papers; gel pens, and adhesives in the forms of a glue stick and Yes! Paste. I also used ribbons and rings to attach them together.

Another idea for using cd’s in a spring scrapbooking project would be to use them for the backdrop of your photos, linking them together horizontally with rings or ribbons or even wire and showcasing your scrapbooking project on the wall. Still another spring scrapbooking idea would be to create a spring scrapbook layout about the spiritual side of the springtime celebration of Easter for you. Good Friday comes before Easter and some practice observing the Stations of the Cross. In what way might you express this in a spring scrapbook layout?

As said before, March this year brings the Vernal Equinox and Daylight Savings. What does the beginning of spring mean for you? Show that in a spring scrapbooking layout of your own.

April brings Easter but also Earth Day and Arbor Day. One way to honor the meaning of these days might be to use material in a recyclable format in your spring scrapbooking layouts. Use leftover fabric scraps and the smallest pieces leftover from your cardstock to create a spring scrapbooking page. Take a look around your home to see what pops out at you that you might build your page around, like the piece of a broken watch or part of a necklace out of the jewelry box.

May brings to us for our spring scrapbooking creativity highlighted days of Cinco de Mayo, Mother’s Day, Armed Forces Day as well as Memorial Day. In addition, scrap bookers have their own special day for scrapbooking called National Scrapbooking Day. This day falls on the second Saturday in May. Celebrate that with an especially fun scrapbooking project to ring in the spring scrapbooking new year.

Do you know someone in the military? Consider purchasing a military scrapbook album for whichever branch this person is in and keep all those photos and memorabilia of this part of their lives in it for remembering that time in their lives or remembering them.

The year of 9/11 many acts of patriotism were seen all over the area I was living in, including the playground near where I worked at that time. Below is some photos of what people expressed and I decided to keep in one of my own albums.

In Remembrance 9/11

Free and Strong

One idea to use your scrapbooking skills in would be what one girl in Peachtree City did. Flipping through their channels, they came across the disaster unfolding in Haiti. The girl, a member of a Baptist Church there, decided to make bookmarks. She called them Bookmarks of Blessings. She used some of her own mother’s scrapbooking supplies to put them together. She sold them and was able to donate that money to Haiti Relief. What needs do you know about in your community or outside it that you could affect for good with your spring scrapbooking ideas this season?

As scrap bookers, we have our own National Scrapbooking Day. How will you celebrate it? Find ideas for spring scrapbooking layouts by taking a scrapbook class offered by several different scrapbooking and other craft oriented stores in your area. Teach a non-scrap booker something about scrapbooking this spring scrapbooking season. If you know that some of your neighbors already scrapbook or would be open to that, invite them over for an evening or weekend crop session. Go out and buy that scrapbooking tool you have been wanting but do not yet have. Put some money in savings toward your next scrapbooking goal. Do a spring scrapbooking layout that celebrates National Scrapbooking Day. Let your imagination and your heart be your guide as to how you choose to honor this day.

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