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By Crafts-a lot Contributor, Mable who is an avid reader of craft blogs & magazines and has aspirations to improve her crafting skills.

I have this growing pile of pictures on my crafting table that I want to add to my scrapbook album. I’ve recently gotten back into scrapbooking and I have a lot of catching up to do! I took an unintentional hiatus from scrapbooking; it’s been over three years. It’s hard to keep up with crafting when you love them all!

Since my last scrapbooking session I finished college, moved to a big city, changed jobs, my parents both celebrated milestone birtdays and their 30^th wedding anniversary.  I was also in my cousin’s wedding, went to a family reunion and went on a few camping trips and beach vacations.

While I was getting supplies for my scrapbook I realized a reoccurring theme of events: Birthdays, celebrations, travel, and hobbies. Holidays and birthdays come around the same time every year, so I figured I should pick out enough to last at least this year (plus my stack of photos…)

Since I used up all my supplies during my last scrapbooking session, I got to pick out new stuff! I first picked out the Autumn Leaves 6 Minute Birthday Scrapbook Kit.

The kit contained 6 patterned pages, 20 mega stickers, 10 chipboard stickers, 5 ribbon pieces, 6 journaling panels, 35 alphabet stickers and a design idea booklet.

I also needed to get more scrapbooking adhesives. I used a glue pen to glue down the photos. It’s the first time I have used one and it works well and very easy to use without any mess or sticky fingers. I usually use double-sided tape or foam adhesives.

Birthday Scrapbook Kit Contents

What I especially liked about this kit, is once the stickers were stuck on; they were re-positional, not permanently stuck right away. Even the large photo borders. The cupcake graphics were very cute.

I also liked that everything had a sticky back, the ribbons, the borders, the fun stickers and the journaling chipboards. I loved the crown as one of the stickers as well. How perfect for a little birthday princess!

Unfortunately two of the three ribbons had been cut at odd angles. I had to cut them down to make it straight and lost some inches of my ribbon.

The paper was fun as were all of the decorations. I liked that the backgrounds were versatile and didn’t necessarily all need to be used as birthday layouts. They were fun and cheery without being overly cheesy.

My favorite layout I created wasn’t even one I used for a birthday page, it’s the “Pool Time” layout. I liked the large half circle base page with a multi-color print in it. The base brown also had a subtle design to it.