When you are driving through the main street of your town and you look overhead and see bunting stringing from one side of the street to the other, it can’t help but bring the feeling of excitement!!! You know that something special is happening in your town today! Here in Australia, we celebrate Australia Day on 26th January and our town goes all out! We have banners of Australian Flags criss-crossing the street and it’s a real cause for excitement and wonder.

You see bunting & banners everywhere. Take a look around! We are having new telephone poles installed out the back of our house at the moment and there is bring orange bunting everywhere! On the news and tv shows we often see crime scenes surrounded by bunting & banners. When athletes return to their home towns after great athletic triumphs abroad, they are welcomed with bunting & banners.

Buntings and banners in scrapbooking bring the same excitement!! When you look at a page that has bunting & banners featured on it then you know that it is commemorating an important occasion. It’s little wonder than that bunting & banners have made their way into the scrapbooking industry! We love to commemorate important occasions in our lives through our scrapbooking pages. We commemorate the birth of a child, birthdays, important events, celebrations and moments of wonder.

Time to Party by Stacey Young

Supplies: Paper: American Crafts, October Afternoon, My Minds Eye, Doodlebug Designs, Chipboard: The Chip Chop Shop, Sassafras Lass, Crate Paper, Alphabet: Maya Road, Pink Paisley, Alphabet Stickers: Doodlebug Designs, Flowers: Prima Marketing, Felt: Sassafras Lass, Pins: My Little Bit Of Whimsy Paint: Kaisercraft, Pens: Uniball, Thread: The Chip Chop Shop, Other: material, handmade balloons and present.

Design Notes: Pick coordinating pictures to match your color scheme of your layout. I wanted this layout to be really fun as it was for my son’s 2nd birthday. I added lots of handmade embellishments and centered the pictures so your eye was drawn to them.

30 Feet Tall by Dawn Inskip

Digital Supplies: Kit: Warm Wishes Collection by Dawn Inskip, Software: Adobe Photoshop CS2, Fonts: Bookman Old Style.

Journaling: Don’t worry about the size of your Christmas tree, in the eyes of children; they’re all 30 feet tall.

Deck the Halls by Holly Takatsuka

Digital Supplies: Page Template: Snowflake Clusters, part 1 by Busy Bee Designs Elements: Christmas Wish by Kasia Designs, Vintage Frames by Jen Ulasiewicz Designs, Joyeux Noel by Stolen Moments Designs, Software: Photoshop Elements 8.

Journaling: Deck the Halls lyrics.