Heart To Heart: Ideas For Love Pages
February is known for its association to the emotion of love. After all, love makes the world go 'round! Loving moments, loving embraces, loving families and persons in our lives make the BEST moments in life. There are so many forms of love in the world and what a wonderful emotion to scrapbook! Remembering the good times gives us a warm fuzzy feeling and helps build us up. We all have loving moments to scrapbook so I will share a few ideas here in honor of St. Valentine and encouraging more caring in the world!
The greatest and best known symbol for caring and love in our society and even worldwide is the heart shape. Way back in the olden days, people thought your heart organ was actually the part you 'felt' sentiments with instead of your brain. More modern medical science has taught us that our brains actually control emotional sensations. But still the heart continues as the symbol for love of all types. As we create pages, we can manipulate the heart shaped motif many ways to work it into our scrapbook pages. Hearts are not just for romance, they can fit the page for anything you care about or love to do! Here are a few from my own albums in figures 1-3.
Hearts can be worked into the picture, so to speak, as clip art for computer made backgrounds (fig. 3) or the shapes of the photos themselves (fig 2). And sometimes all a classic page needs is a little extra touch like the corrugated heart in figure 1 or the single punched hot pink heart on the darling monkey page in figure 4. The addition of the heart motif communicates so much, so simply.
Sometimes you have a great photo and you even know you want to use a love or heart theme but you don't know where to get just the right "love" page topper? Check here for lots of wonderful titles and quotes for all your 'heartfelt' pages! Whatever you love, scrapbook it! Check the sections that best suit your own heart page. I recommend the Couples, Kisses, Family, Friends, Home, Love, and Laughter headings at :
http://gracefulbee.com/avenueb/titlecompany/alphabetical.html
Punch art heart borders are a great way to carry a love theme onto a page as in the red set in figure 5. The use of super shiny metallic papers adds to the accent's WOW! factor! What a romantic treatment!
In figure 6, punch art is again used in a very different border. When joined with the daisy, it brings a summertime freshness to the layout. It communicates sweetness and innocence.
Not only do we love our sweethearts and children, we love our homes too.....and the same heart punch yields yet another completely different look on this "Home is where the Heart is..." page (fig 7). Little blue house punches are added to the border for a fresh look. Hearts don't always have to be red, or go with red accents on red pages.
Your hearts don't have to be red or even pink to communicate love. My daughter loved the experience of being a 'big sister' at school and a reading buddy. The playfulness of multi-colored hearts brings youth to the page as well as caring in Figure 8.
You can even stretch out and rubber stamp your hearts in whatever color suits your needs. In figure 9, I used plum ink to add heart border all around the photo star. Unconventional? you bet! But it works here to reinforce the love of family referred to in the poem.
Dry Embossing a lovely heart (figure 10) and chalking it can make an elegant page addition. I did just this on the heritage wedding page I created for my mother in law's wedding album in figure 11.
I also used lace acid free doilies on my mother-in-law's wedding album and they gave just the right delicate yet romantic look to the page in figure 12.
Your sticker binder and your template collection needn't feel abandoned in the search for heart page additions either! Every brand of sticker made has at least one heart motif in its line. Just match the mood and color of the photo to the mood and color of the sticker (figure 13) and use your templates and colluzzles to cut more than just photos into heart shapes! Let your imagination go and dream up new uses for the heart templates like this Christmas tree in figure 14.
Is your head swirling now with heart-shaped ideas? Feel like putting hearts to work on your pages? This February, fill your album with the sweetness of love by incorporating more sentiment in your page titles and more heart-inspired themes onto the pages...You'll be glad you did!
