How to Scrapbook for Boys - Part I

Have you ever seen a kit and absolutely fall in love with it, only to realize you have no photos to go with it? As a mother to a boy, this happens too often. I sometimes scrap my baby photos or photos of my sisters, but I would much rather scrap about my son. So what do I do? I buy the kit and use it on pages of my son! Yup, I have used flowers, pink and many other “girly” elements on my boy pages without making them looky, well, girly.

I bought this kit, Happily Ever After, by Nitwit Collections and Kay Miller Designers. I also bought the Happily Ever Flowers and Happily Solids (there is also an alpha, brag book and quickpages available too) by Nitwits Collections. I loved this kit so much I couldn’t stop myself from buying it. The dragons, frogs and flowers are wonderful! I told myself I needed to buy for this layout, which is very “girly”:

So how do I create a layout from a kit with a lot of pink? Well not everything is pink. I stuck mostly to the greens, browns and blacks that were also in the kit. You can also alter the color of an element or paper if you want to. Below is a layout I created of my son. I used some pink but I also used green, blue and black. The blue is from Bear Necessities by NitWit Collections. I even included a flower, which is tan, not pink. Basically I used the more generic elements as the dominate elements of the layout.

In the layout below I used the same kit and again stuck to non-pink elements, however this layout does use some pink.

Other “girly” kits I used for my son’s layouts are On a Lark Mini Kit by Correen Silke [layout], Festival by Shabby Princess [layout], Tag Sale by RetroDiva [layout], The Sun is Finally Shining by Pamela Gibson [layout] and Forever Yours Collection - Eternity by Jen Reed and Krista Mettler [layout] (this last kit is not exactly girly but it is geared towards weddings).

I would love to see your boy layouts using “girly” kits. You can post a link to your layout in the comments and I will take a look.