Winter Scrapbook
From LoveToKnow Scrapbooking
If it's too cold to leave the house, it's time to dig out your cardstock, patterned papers, and embellishments to create some winter scrapbook layouts.
Winter Scrapbook Ideas
When the temperature drops, you'll find several opportunities for creative scrapbooking. Aside from all the obvious family Christmas scrapbook layout ideas, winter pages for your scrapbook album can include:
- Building a snowman
- Making snow angels
- Catching snowflakes on your tongue
- Having a snowball fight
- Going sledding
- Shoveling sidewalks
- Sipping hot cocoa by the fire
- Bundling up in warm coats, scarves, and gloves
- Ways kids stay occupied when school is canceled because of the snow
- How your perception of winter has changed throughout the years
What if you live in a warmer climate? There's no need to give up on the idea of making a winter scrapbook page! Try journaling about how you celebrate the season without snow or how your children feel about where they live. For example, has your daughter ever tried to make a snowman from sand on the beach? Does your son ask to move to the Midwest whenever Frosty the Snowman is on TV?
Winter Quotes and Page Title Ideas
Here are some great ideas for quotes to use on your winter-themed scrapbooking projects:
- “Winter must be cold for those with no warm memories” –Author Unknown
- "Even when it's cold outside, our memories keep us warm." –Author Unknown
- “No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.”—Hal Borland
- “Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all.” –Stanley Horowitz
- “If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.” –Ann Bradstreet
- "Winter is the time of promise because there is so little to do - or because you can now and then permit yourself the luxury of thinking so." –Stanley Crawford
- "Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home." –Edith Sitwell
- “In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer” –Albert Camus
For scrapbook page titles, consider the following:
- Ice Magic
- Ice Queen
- Snow Days
- Furious Flurries
- Cold Days, Warm Hearts
- Bundle Up Tight!
- Walking in a Winter Wonderland
- Baby, It's Cold Outside!
- Let it Snow!
- Like a Snowflake, You're One of a Kind
- Some of My Best Friends are Flakes
Design Choices
The most natural color scheme choice for a winter scrapbook layout is blue and white. However, silver accents also look great with this type of project. For a more contemporary look, you can even try adding a touch of purple to your page.
Many of the newer winter-themed patterned papers and embellishments include glitter or flocking. These special touches can help add some pizzazz to your page.
If you're looking for a frugal way to accent your scrapbook page, try using a winter-themed font that features snowflakes, icicles, mittens, or other seasonal elements. Here are a few options to consider:
- Ice and Snow features bold capital letters covered with snow.
- Frosty is a contemporary font with small snowflake accents.
- Snowbiz is a decorative font featuring snowmen holding each letter of the alphabet.
- Fontasy Penguin has adorable penguins dangling from the letters.
- Marshmallow World is a dingbat font with various images of pretty winter snowflakes.
Digital scrapbookers or those interested in creating hybrid scrapbook layouts may also want to check out the free papers and embellishments in the Winter Magic Kit by Monica or the Winter Kit Mini Freebie by Silvia.
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