Cute Birthday or Anniversary Layout

Apr 15, 2006 7 Replies

Saw a neat idea for a layout (new to me; maybe some of y'all have seen something like it before) in the April 24th issue of "People" magazine (wow, a little ahead of themselves, aren't they?). It's on pages



112-113 & is for the 80th birthday of Queen Elizabeth.

It's a grid of circles (3/4"-1" in diameter) 11 wide by as many rows high (9 in this case). In the first column of each row except the first is a colored circle with the decade (1930, 1940, etc) in it. Since the Queen was born in 1926, a circle with "1926" in it was in the 7th column, leaving 4 circles for photos for 1926, 1927, 1928 & 1929.



The next row had "1930" in the circle in the first column, followed by



1photo per year for each of the 10 years in the 1930s. The rest of the rows followed suit, ending with 7 photos in the last row, 1 for each year from 2000-2006. Cute, huh?

Most of us wouldn't have a photo for every year, but you could put the year in place of the photo (or something more creative) for each year you didn't have a photo for. May have to do one for my dad's birthday.


Alicia



Sounds really cute. Thanks for the description Alicia.

Teresa in MD

That sounds cute! Thanks for the description. I'll have to file that idea away, because I know I'll never remember it. LOL

I know the feeling. The question is, are you any better than me at remembering where you put it once you file it away?

Alicia

That is a cute idea. Believe it or not, it sounds very similar to one I gave my mom on Sunday (I didn't see the People magazine, honest!)

Mom wants to do a display of the "older adults" in the church. She took head & shoulder pictures of people and wanted an idea of a nice display. The stained glass windows of the church gave me inspiration...

The church windows are a diamond-shaped mosaic with black lead between the colored diamond panes. So, I suggested that she recreate a "window" using various colors on a black background. She could then circle cut or profile cut each picture and place it in a diamond pane. The real windows have random shapes like leaves. I told her she could probably find embellishments like these or make them pretty easily.

I gave her a title too...."Corinth's Older Adults are the windows to our past, present, and future". She wanted it a bit shorter so I think she is going with "Corinth's Window of Older Adults".

I could easily see this concept applied to a child's school photos, pre-K to 12 all on one page.

-- Amy L.

that sound interesting! thanks for sharing it with us! Linda

LOL That would be a huge NO! Just ask MC. I don't know how many times I've put something away "so I'll know where I put it" or "so it's nice and safe" and later on when I need it, can't remember where I put it! LOL I may have to start a list of where I put things!

Ahhh the "safe place" wonder where it is? It's right there when you need to put things away. Then poof! it's gone when you need to find that something you put there.

Lynne

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