Birthday Pictures with Oh Snap Stamp Set

Birthday pictures are a great way to preserve the memories of family and friends and pass those memories down from generation to generation.  Do you scrapbook?  That is an easy way to preserve those memories.  I don’t know who coined this phrase but it makes a lot of sense – “You only existed for as long as someone remembers you”.

Scrapping those birthday pictures doesn’t need to be difficult or time consuming.  Consider some of these alternatives to scrapbooking that are moving away from the traditional methods.

• Project life – documenting and journaling your day to day life.  This type of scrapbooking can be fast and easy if you use pocket protectors and journaling cards.
• Heritage scrapbooks – what about your parent’s pictures that are sitting in a box in your closet or basement.  It’s important to get those pictures organized and documented before no one can remember the who, what, where or why.  I am certainly guilty of that one.
• Digital scrapbooking – where are your pictures?  Are they locked safely in your computer where they can’t be shared or worse still, sitting in your camera.  Using digital scrapbooking software is a great to compile these types of scrapbooks.
• Brag books – grandparents love these as they are small and can be displayed on a bookshelf or coffee table where they can be looked at and shared with others.

The other day I came across a scrapbook that my co-workers put together for me when I retired.  As I looked through it, the memories of great times and maybe not so great times came flooding back.  If I didn’t have this book, those memories would start to fade over time.

So, I don’t have a scrapbook page to share with you but I do have a Birthday card for my nephew.  He is an avid photographer, so the theme of this card is Birthday pictures using the On Film Framelits.  The stamp set, designer series paper and the framelits lend themselves to an easy masculine card.

Recipe

Stamps: Hip Notes (c-133504, w- 133501, p 18 2014 Occasions Catalogue), Banner Greetings (c-129714, w- 129711, p 202 2013/2014 Annual Catalogue – Hostess Reward).

Paper: Baked Brown Sugar, Coastal Cabana, Very Vanilla, Retro Fresh DSP, Gold Foil.

Ink: Coastal Cabana, Baked Brown Sugar, Tangerine Tango.

Accessories: Big Shot, On Film Framelits Dies, Arrows Embossing Folder, Neutrals Candy Dots, Ticket Duo Builder, Coastal Cabana markers.

The image in the picture frame comes from 2 stamps from the Hip Notes stamp set.  The sentiment “Oh Snap” was stamped first and then the “This” from another stamp in the set was colored using a marker and stamped underneath the first stamped image.

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So, keep those birthday pictures close and create the memories.

Happy Stamping