More alphabet template ideas

      If you are just starting out scrapbooking, I would suggest up front that you get some sort of an alphabet template to help save you a bit of money from having to buy stickers all the time!  A die cut machine is a bit costly, especially if you are just starting out scrapbooking in the first place.  An alphabet template can help you get the perfect titles for all of your pages in no time.  This is just another example of some of the layouts I have done using different types of alphabet templates for my layout titles!!!  Find one that you are attracted to that can be easy enough to cut out too!   
     For this layout, I used the Coluzzle alphabet template which I use for quite a few of the projects I do!  I like how I can cut the letters out that I need and use the rest of the paper for something else.  In this case - I broke down the letters, and matted them in the other colors on the opposite page to make it more interesting!  For the question mark sign - (more stamping techniques used on my layouts) - I took the leftover part of the paper that cut the question mark out - and my white stamp pad, with a small dabber to dab into the white ink pad, and then on the template directly on the paper itself.  
     The title you do does not have to be the same - use the same technique I used on my question mark on a fun layout for your pages, maybe with your initial - or B for Baby - or something like that!  Or, use the same color scheme, or whatever you find for the inspiration to create your own style of layouts.  I did not want to share the journaling that I did for this project, it's not about the journaling itself, but underneath the right side - you can see a line...that actually opens up into hidden journaling with a lot of things I wrote underneath about who I am.  
     As I close, I will tell you the one thing I do not do in my journaling, that will need to be a must from now on - is putting the dates down someplace on the layout itself.  This way, I know when the layout was done, as well as the approximate time of the photos.  I tend to not look at the dates and things - and later on have to look back at when a layout was done to remember that time period in my life!  For me, scrapbooking was used as a therapy tool - to get through a hard time in my life...  I am so glad it was there - and value anyone to do the same through their struggles and pain!  Make sure you check out another fun idea tomorrow - and a great mini album project for 9/11 Tenth Anniversary Blog Hop this Sunday, as well as a Fall Blog Hop on 9/15 and 16!!!   Have a great day - and we will see you later!!!  

Lynda Jeffs

Memories in Tyme