| Kids love making craft projects out of foamies. You | | | | centered about an inch from the left hand side of the |
| can find them for almost any holiday or occasion. | | | | patterned scrapbook paper. |
| Watch for them on sale after holidays, one container | | | | This vertical piece will be used to showcase some of |
| can last you for several years! Joann's and Walmart | | | | the Easter foamies. After I glued this piece in place I |
| usually have good selections of them. | | | | placed four foamies vertically on it, two Easter eggs |
| We had fun making crafts with our Easter foamies | | | | and two bunnies. |
| last year, and there were still enough left over to play | | | | I next cut out a white piece of scrapbook paper for |
| with this year. I got out some Easter pictures from last | | | | the heading on the page. It is about 6 inches long and 3 |
| year I hadn't scrapbooked yet, and came up with a | | | | inches high. I then matted this piece with solid-colored |
| couple of cute layouts using the Easter foamies. | | | | scrapbook paper. I then glued this piece approximately |
| For these scrapbook layouts, you will need a container | | | | an inch from the top and an inch from the right hand |
| of foamies that includes alphabet letters. The Easter | | | | side of the patterned scrapbook paper. |
| set I found had a bunch of pastel letters to spell out | | | | On this heading piece, I spelled out the word "Easter" |
| the word "Easter", so that worked out perfectly. | | | | with the foamies. I let my pieces go slightly over the |
| Supplies: | | | | left and right-hand edges of the matting, but if you |
| Easter foamies | | | | want you can cut out a bigger caption piece to fit all |
| Eight family Easter photos | | | | the letters. |
| 12x12 sheet of pastel, solid-colored scrapbook paper | | | | Lastly, I arranged and glued on four Easter family |
| 2 12x12 sheets of coordinating spring or Easter | | | | photographs. I arranged them so that they were slightly |
| patterned scrapbook paper | | | | overlapping the solid piece on the left and slightly |
| Scrap of white scrapbook paper | | | | overlapping each other. For time's sake, I didn't mat |
| Paper cutter | | | | these photos. If you want to, you can use the |
| Glue stick | | | | solid-colored paper to create mats for the photos. |
| Coordinating pastel brads (optional) | | | | Easter Scrapbook Layout #2: |
| I created two different layouts for these sets of | | | | For the second layout, I cut out and glued on the solid |
| pictures. The background papers are the same color | | | | colored piece on the left the same as for the first |
| but a little bit different pattern, and then I used one | | | | layout. Instead of using the bunnies and Easter egg |
| sheet of solid-colored paper for matting for both | | | | foamies, I vertically spelled out "Easter" with the |
| layouts. | | | | foamies. |
| Easter Scrapbook Layout #1: | | | | On this layout I did not include a caption at the top, but I |
| For the first layout, I cut a long, vertical piece of | | | | did use the solid-colored scrapbook paper to create |
| solid-colored scrapbook paper. It is about 2 inches | | | | mats for the photos. |
| wide, and is placed about an inch from the left edge of | | | | After I glued the solid colored piece on the left-hand |
| the patterned paper, and an inch from both the top | | | | side of the page, I arranged the four matted photos on |
| and bottom of the page. | | | | the page and glued them in place. I then used Easter |
| If you want you can attach pastel colored brads to the | | | | egg shaped foamies to fill in the spaces between the |
| corners of this vertical piece to draw more attention to | | | | photos. |
| it. If you are going to use them, attach them to the four | | | | There you go, two easy Easter scrapbook layouts |
| corners of the piece and then glue the entire piece | | | | using Easter craft foamies! |