Scrapbook My Life

As someone with one son and no daughters, I must admit I used to be incredibly annoyed by the lack of cute scrapbook supplies with masculine themes. While glittery butterflies, pastel flowers, and cute pink ribbon bows are easy to find, searching for papers and embellishments to complete a boy’s scrapbook can be a much more challenging task.

Here are a few tips I’ve used when making pages for my son:

• Rough up your plain cardstock by inking the edges with brown charcoal ink.
• Try sanding white cord cardstock for a distressed look.
• Alter the colors of digital scrapbooking supplies in your favorite image editing software to make a feminine kit look more appropriate for your boy’s album.
• Look for companies such as Basic Grey that make scrapbook supplies that aren’t overly frilly and fussy.

If you’re dying to try some of the more feminine scrapbooking trends, such as floral embellishments, add them to your pages in a more gender neutral way. For example, a single dark brown felt flower is perfectly acceptable on a layout of your son playing in his sandbox on a bright spring day. However, a big bouquet of pink silk flowers could definitely be considered overkill.

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