Using Happy Album Kits on Your 12×12 Scrapbook Pages

Ever since its release, Happy Album has been consistently coming out with new kits and products that are absolutely adorable and joy-inducing. These products add so much to your Happy Album, but what about all your 12×12 albums? Have you ever found yourself wishing that you could use a Happy Album Kit inside one of your other albums? Blog contributor Noreen Smith is here to help; check out how she’s incorporated bits and pieces of the Happy Album into her full-sized albums!

Noreen’s Inspiration:

Have you discovered the Happy Album and all the super cute kits that go with it? I love mine for creating quick layouts to record all the things that make me happy, and I’m also using the Happy Album Planner as our family’s memory book for 2019.

I love the variety of kits that are available with their fun patterns and unique embellishments. Kit #15 has a whole sheet of versatile stickers and a fabulous “bulls-eye” patterned paper that I wanted to use on a traditional 12×12 layout. The papers in the Happy Album Kits are sized specifically for the Happy Album and measure 6.75″ x 11″, so it’s a bit of a challenge to make them work efficiently for larger pages.

To create this layout, you’ll need:

• Happy Album Kit #15
• White Cardstock
• White Script ABC/123 Stickers
• Original Border Maker System with the Rainbow Border Maker Cartridge
• 12-inch Trimmer
• Tape Runner
• Foam Squares
• Black Dual-Tip Pen

Step 1: Cut each patterned paper into a 3/4″ strip, a 6″ x 6″ square and a 4″ x 6″ rectangle. (Note: Because I wanted to use the middle of the bulls-eye pattern, I had to trim a bit off both sides of that paper.)

Step 2: Adhere the four 6″ x 6″ squares in a checkerboard pattern across two sheets of White Cardstock to form the base for your layout. This creates eight blocks to add photos, embellishments, journal boxes or titles.

Step 3: Decorate your page however you want! Here are instructions for the page you see above:

• Use one of the 4″ x 6″ rectangles as a photo mat on the bottom right side of the layout. Trim a photo to measure 3-3/4″ x 5-3/4″ and adhere it to the mat.
• Trim several photos to measure 4″ x 4″ and mat one of them onto another piece of patterned paper.
• Add blank sticker strips to each photo to write captions with your Black Dual-Tip Pen.
• Adhere White Script ABC/123 Stickers onto a 2″ x 4″ rectangle of pink patterned paper and outline them with a Black Dual-Tip Pen to make them stand out.
• Punch some borders with the Original Border Maker System and the Rainbow Border Maker Cartridge, then use the outer skinny scalloped strips to enhance the photos as shown.
• Add more stickers throughout the layout and cut the two green photo corners into smaller triangles to anchor the title.

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If you love the Happy Album Kits, why not use one (or more!) of them in your traditional 12×12 scrapbooks too? There’s no reason to limit your happy to your Happy Album! What types of ways have you been using the Happy Album products in your full-sized albums? Let me know in the comments below!