Another blogpost filled to the brim with awesome Thanksgiving Scrapbook Layout Ideas & Inspiration! So, if you’re looking for some scrapbook inspiration to document your family’s Thanksgiving, you’ve come to the right place! This is part 2 in a series of blog posts featuring awesome Thanksgiving themed layouts! (Click HERE to see all the wonderful Thanksgiving scrapbook layouts gathered in Part 1!). 

But enough chit-chat! Let’s take a look at some gorgeous and unique layouts!

Big Stylized Page Filling Embellishment

When making themed pages, it is a great idea to use a big element to support the theme, in this case: Thanksgiving! Here are some examples of page filling stylized elements!

This beautiful layout features a large colorful leaf. The cutout spaces are filled with lovely color-coordinating pages and delicate needlework. It could be a great way to use up your paper scraps! The photo is put on top of a stack of pattern paper pieces, creating a solid base for the cluster. And, of course, cute little embellishments are added! But the undisputed star of the show is the big stylized leaf! 

Design elements: Use a big cut-out stylize leaf as the base of your layout.
Finishing touches: The cluster is the perfect way of displaying your photo.
Cute details: The delicate embroidery added to some parts of the leaf are truly exquisite!

Another big stylized leaf! This time the leaf cutout exposes little multicolored pattern page rectangles, giving a lovely quilted effect. Two smaller leaves are used to cluster the two featured photos. Small pieces of pattern paper rectangles are added to the border of the page, nicely tying the page together. In my personal opinion, a more minimalistic look, with lots of white space around the large leave element and cluster would have looked very nice as well.

Design elements: Cut out the whole leaf, exposing pattern paper underneath.
Finishing touch: Two more of the same type leaf are used in the photo cluster, continuing the theme of the page.
Cute details: The cutout leaf as well as the smaller leaves have an embroidered border. What a lovely effect!

On this page, the big element is build up out of lots of hexagons. Their colors coordinate beautifully with the flowered pattern paper used in one of the hexagons. The photo is in black and white, which heigthens the contrast between the colorful background design and the feature photo. I love the simplicity of this look. The little leaves and flower clusters form the base of the design triangle!

Design elements: Build up your big stylized background out of repeating shapes, for instance: hexagons!
Finishing touches: The cluster of leaves and the cluster of flowers form a design triangle with the title.
Cute details: Stitching around the individual hexagons and larger leaves. 

This layout oozes simplicity and style. Cute leaf shapes are cut out from pattern paper and clustered with a button and string. And the whole page is pulled together with a stylized laurel wreath. The finishing touches are the striped lines in all the corners. Such a lovely page!

Design elements: Pull the different page elements together by surrounding them with a large element, for instance: a stylized laurel wreath.
Finishing touches: The photo is flanked by a card on both sides. This makes the layout more playful and creates an internal design triangle.
Cute details: The stitched or striped corners!

Another great idea for a big stylized page element: This cluster of cutout leaves makes a colorful, yet uniform, background to the photo with the beautiful fall colors. Some of the cutout leaves have a backing of pattern paper, some have a simple light gray backing. The effect is quite awesome! Notice the use of white space: the multileaf background does not cover the entire page, but is spread like a banner, leaving a top and a bottom area of white space. 

Design elements: Create a background using similar cut-out shapes, in this case: little leaves.
Finishing touches: Filling some the cut-out leaves with different pattern paper is pure genius.
Cute details: The paint splatters lift up the grey background paper with a little pop of color, coordinating nicely with the rest of the color scheme.

Another page with a repeating background pattern: this time the background is filled with colorful hearts and matching cute embellishments. The hearts are arranged in a grid, which helps to keep the page neat, organized and not too overwhelming. The photo fits perfectly in a 4×4 piece of the larger grid. And the large title is the perfect finishing touch. 

Design elements: Use a grid of big colorful hearts as your background.
Finishing touches: Same colored embellishments in the different hearts liven up the page, whilst still keeping it neat. 
Cute details: Did you spot the raccoon? And the little blue toadstool? So cute!

The large stylized element on this page is built up from different kinds of leaves hanging from washing lines. Some of the leaves are filled with photos, and one is filled with journaling: what a cute and original idea! The way the leaves are hanging creates a grid, forming a nice repeating pattern that frames the large and prominent title. Little embellishments are added to the hanging leaves as finishing touches. 

Design elements: Build up your page using different shapes of fall leaves.
Finishing touches: Adding photos to some of the leaves.
Cute details: The itty bitty staples used to hang the washing lines!

Another great stash busting layout! The featured photo forms the center of a large paper flower that is built up from pattern paper leaves. The photo itself is pretty dark. This makes it possible to use all kinds of colors and patterns for the petals. I love how some of the leaves are double layered and some single. And notice how the journaling is added all around the edge of the layout!

Design element: Make your photo the center of a beautiful stylized flower.
Finishing touch: Double up with your pattern paper on some of the flower petals.
Cute detail: Write your journaling all around the edges of your page!

Of course, there was bound to be a big pumpkin on one of these layouts! This lovely white cutout is filled with a very sweet pumpkin pattern paper. The colors of this cute paper fit perfectly with the central photo. The whole pumpkin, complete with orange flower clusters, is on top of a distressed wood pattern paper and the whole layout is matted by a distressed stripe pattern paper. Had the pumpkin cutout itself not been neutral and white, the whole layout would have been a bit too much of a good thing. The choice for a white pumpkin, however, combined with the choice to fill it with the same pattern paper in every open cutout space is spot on and really pulls this layout together.

Design elements: Use a page filling cut out pumpkin as the base of your layout.
Finishing touches: The gorgeous flower clusters on the top and bottom of the pumpkin.
Cute details: Notice the cute little butterflies near the flower clusters!

In this layout, the title itself is the big stylized page element. The font is playful, combining capital and low-case letters and the pattern papers that fill them are funky and colorful. The tile, photo, and flowered clusters are all grouped together in the middle of the page, leaving enough white space to ensure this layout in total doesn’t become too busy.

Design elements: Design your page around a big colorful title.
Finishing touches: Color coordinate the pattern paper used in the title with the colors of the other embellishments on the page.
Cute details: The stitching in two corners almost resemble little flower stems.

Document The Silly Moments

Of course! You want your layouts to be beautiful and classy and Pinterest-worthy. I mean, don’t we all? But please, don’t forget about documenting some of the silliness of your family members (or yourself)! Every family has its own silly moments or people and a holiday like Thanksgiving is the perfect opportunity to capture that goofy side and to create a funny and unique scrapbook page. Let’s get inspired by some of the documented silliness of other scrapbooker’s family members and get ready to get your silly on this Thanksgiving!

If you have a goofy pilgrim turkey hat like this glorious specimen, of course you need a picture of every family member wearing it! Crop those silly photos vertically and you can fit all of them in one layout. I particularly like the fact that the pilgrim-hatted turkey is not only on the people’s heads but also has a fitting place elsewhere on the page in the form of a very cute matching turkey embellishment!

Design element: Crop your goofy portraits vertically to fit them all on your silly layout!
Finishing Touch: The matching pilgrim-hatted turkey embellishment.is the perfect finishing touch.
Cute detail: I just love the pictures and the groovy smiles on the people’s faces.

This is not so much a silly layout, but the featured photo does capture a spontaneous and funny moment, and those moments are worth documenting! The page doesn’t sport the traditional Thanksgiving color scheme, but is a brighter layout with all sorts of different colors. The large words on the left side of the page have been cut out of white cardstock, and a multi-colored pattern paper is put behind it to make those words color pop. This is such a cool idea!

Design element: Cut out big words (or just your title) and layer them on a multicolor background.
Finishing Touch: The floral arrangement around the photo is the perfect finishing fouch.
Cute detail: I love the little button in the R of the words “leftovers”.

Now this is my kind of picture! I mean, what’s the point of cooking up an entire turkey meal, not to have someone devour one of its legs! What a wonderful moment to capture on camera and what a great idea to feature this photo prominently on this page! The turkey leg is almost as big as his head! This photo just tells the entire story and therefore the rest of the layout is kept pretty minimal. Overall, the page looks very cute!

Design element: If your photo is goofy and silly enough give it pride of place and keep the rest of the layout pretty minimal.
Finishing Touch: I love the scalloped edges of the pattern paper.
Cute detail: The little turkey button on the left side of the page! So cute!

Showing her nice and a bit goofy smile, this girl is ready for a Thanksgiving pageant! I love the way that there’s one featured photo and that both photos are grouped together inside of a stitched circle swirl layered with all sorts of cut-out leaves. This creates dimension and movement on the page, a very nice effect!

Design element: Create movement on the page using flurries and swirls. In this case: A stitched swirl of autumn leaves!
Finishing Touch: The blue chevron pattern paper behind the two photos contrasts with the traditional Thanksgiving colors, creating a color pop and adding interest of the layout.
Cute detail: Well, you gotta love that featured photo! It is just too precious!

Document The Thanksgiving Dinner Cooks

Don’t forget to document all those wonderful people who cook all those delicious Thanksgiving meals for us! The cooks work so hard to prepare this annual turkey feast, spending days on end planning, grocery shopping, stirring pots and baisting birds in kitchens all over the land. Let’s celebrate their efforts and achievements and give them pride of place in our layouts!

A whole “pumpkin pie” layout with the cook in the center and small black and white “passport-like” portrait photos depicting all the lucky family members who got to partake in the prepared dinner! What a great idea for documenting all the people present: so many photos on one page! I love the little piece of pie that is cut out and filled with journaling. 

Design element: Arrange a lot of small photos inside a pumpkin pie around a central photo.
Finishing touch: The journaling is done on one of those recipe index cards.
Cute detail: I love the “yummy’s” and the little flower frame around the turkey.

A colorful layout documenting the great turkey preparation tradition of this family! One big color photo, two smaller black and white photos and a large multicolor title. Small embellishments, mirroring the title colors, are the finishing touches. My personal favorite embellishment is the small yellow crochet heart with the little blue button. It’s so cute! Notice the subtle journaling describing the Thanksgiving turkey preparation in more detail.

Design element: Clearly showcase your featured photo by leaving it larger and in color, whilst making rest of the photos smaller and black and white.
Finishing touch: The colorful title made out of different patterned papers.
Cute detail: I love the yellow crochet heart!

A simple grid style layout with some matting, some pattern paper and a lot of room for journaling. The chef, again, has pride of place in the featured image, but the happy eaters are certainly not forgotten! I love the title “The Turkey Whisperer”!

Design element: If you have a lot of journaling keep the rest of your layout simple.
Finishing touch: The chosen patterned paper matches the color scheme of the photos beautifully.
Cute detail: I love the little circles of patterned paper.

Document The Thanksgiving Food

Thanksgiving wouldn’t be Thanksgiving without all the gorgeous food! So make sure to not forget to document all the goodies that make Thanksgiving so yummy and special! Let’s look at some layouts that celebrate all the lovely nomnoms!

This first food-related layout is a fairly straight forward grid type page. The photos of the food are displayed in vertically oriented closeups and each dish has a little banner with some journaling details on it. Using only partial photos is a very good idea, especially because it is very difficult to take a good (and, more importantly, tasty-looking) photo of food. By zooming in and cropping the plate, the food immediately looks more appetizing and it saves a lot of space on the page. 

Design element: Use close-ups of your food and crop them vertically to show only part of the photo. This makes your food look more appetizing.
Finishing touch: The cut-out “Thanksgiving” title is a very subtle shade of the pattern paper underneath. This focuses the eye on the photos and not on the title.
Cute detail: The little owl with the big heart!

This layout celebrates the food and the lovingly set dinner table. The photo is vertically oriented, making it possible to flank it with a big vertical title and an abundant cluster of color-coordinated flowers. These elements are added in a slightly tilted angle, giving the layout a playful finish.

Design element: When using a vertical picture, angle your title and patterned paper cluster overlay to give your layout a more playful look.
Finishing touch: The beautifully color-coordinated flower cluster.
Cute detail: I love the little brads in the corners of the photos. Together with the title they form a sort of design triangle.

I’m not exactly sure if this turkey is made out of chocolate, but I’m sure the creator of this layout has explained it all in her journaling. I love that she included a closeup op the bird itself and one of herself holding the precious item. The layout is simple and straightforward with a clear emphasis on the main photo. Notice how the title color matches not only with the journalling background, but also with some orange details on the main photos. This creates another one of those “design triangles”!

Design element: Give your Thanksgiving food creation pride of place! Finishing touch: I love the color choice of the title.
Cute detail: The blue strip of flower pattern paper offsets the more traditional Thanksgiving colors beautifully.

This layout fills one half the page with a photo grid and the other half with the title (love those brackets!), journaling and a cute turkey embellishment. Again, cropped closeups were used to highlight the food, making it all look as yummy as it undoubtedly tasted. The visually ” busy” photo page half is beautifully balanced by the restful ton-sur-ton title and journalling. Any other color would have been a bad choice as it would have been too dominant and drawn the eye towards the words, rather than the photos. The stylized turkey drawing fits in with this muted color scheme very well and (in digital scrapbooking) can be size-adjusted easily to fit the space left over after the journaling is done. 

Design element:  Grid the close-ups of your food photos together on one side of the page.
Finishing touch: The tone-on-tone color of the title and journaling give the illusion of white space on the right side of the layout.
Cute detail: The blue feathered turkey embellishment!

This layout radiates happiness and joy! It is very colorful and filled to the brim with different elements. I personally would have chosen to leave a little bit of white space around the photo area, in stead of the (cute!) little houses pattern paper, whereby focussing a little  more clearly on the photos. I love the colorful little turkey embellishment and the combination of food and “around the home” shots documented on this page. 

Design element: Just go overboard and put everything you love about Thanksgiving on the page: the people, the food, the turkey centerpiece. Create a page that makes you happy!
Finishing touch: The photos are numbered to enable journaling about the individual photos elsewhere on the page.
Cute detail: The colorful turkey embellishment with the heart button.

What a great idea to document the first turkey ever prepared! I love the step-by-step photos, complete with the gorgeous golden brown final result and the photo of the happy eaters! The page derives its color from the four columns of pattern pater, each carefully border-stitched. A little frame was added to the finished turkey photo, complete with fork and knife embellishments. We’re all ready to dig in!

Design element: Keep your food preparation photos small and bring a pop of color using patterned paper.
Finishing touch: The cute frame around the people enjoying that first turkey!
Cute detail: I love the little knife and fork next to the journaling.

The sandwich looks absolutely scrumptious and is clearly this page creator’s favorite. This particular turkey sandwich is not directly linked to Thanksgiving (other than the turkey component), but it is a great idea for a layout to celebrate the Thanksgiving dinner leftovers! I love the polka dots and the journaling strips!

Design element: Keep your layout simple and balanced by not using too many colors or too many types of patterned paper.
Finishing touch: Wow, that turkey sandwich looks scrumptious!
Cute detail: The vertical stitching on the left-hand side of the photo and journaling.

Thanksgiving! What a great holiday to celebrate! And what a great opportunity to document your gratitude for family and life in your scrapbook pages. Need some inspiration to get your creative Thanksgiving-layout-making juices flowing? Well, look no further! 

I’ve searched the internet to find some awesome, creative, unique and unusual Thanksgiving scrapbook layouts. So, let’s get inspired together!

Document Your Unique Family Thanksgiving Traditions

Not everybody celebrates Thanksgiving the same way. Some families have cultivated their own specific Turkey Day traditions. Does this sound like you and your family? In that case, it is even more important to document your unique Thanksgiving celebrations! Make sure all the memories and traditions of your particular Thanksgiving day are preserved and documented. Let’s take a look at some of the specific traditions (and how they are documented) of other families!

This lovely layout documents the family’s tradition of putting on their pajamas right after Thanksgiving dinner. The photo is so cute and fun! I love how the title “pajamas” is made out of felt letters. This adds some real coziness to the layout. The photo itself is turned to black and white and both the photo and title are matted by a lovely duck egg blue colored paper with little black polka dots. Pattern paper is added to the title, photo and journaling cluster. Notice the little detail of the clock embellishment giving the time that the photo was taken! This is a cute detail that adds to the memories and the story of this family’s Thanksgiving traditions.

Design elements: Journaling about family traditions on Thanksgiving Day.
Finishing touches: “Pajamas” title made out of felt letters.
Cute details: Little clock embellishment showing the time the photo was taken. The exact time is also noted in the little tag on the left side.

The family traditions of the creator of this lovely layout consist of going to a movie on Thanksgiving Day. This movie going tradition is documented by showing a lovely photograph of one of the participants and clustering some ticket embellishments around the page. I love the big “traditions” title, making this page a bit more usual and non-traditional for Thanksgiving, but still fitting their own tradition. I’m a big fan of the muted, but colorful, background and layered cluster of embellishments. Notice the little wooden cutouts of the word “thankful” and of the little people indicating the number of people participating in their movie going activity. I love those kinds of subtle additions to a page: they make a layout very personal and contribute to the memory keeping. And finally: really now, who can resist a lovely yellow chevron stripe?

Design elements: Embellishing the page with movie ticket stubs.
Finishing touches: The strips of journalling.
Cute details: The three wooden cut-out people showing who went to the movies.

Journal About What You Are Thankful For

Thanksgiving is a wonderful holiday to think about document all the things in your life that you are thankful for. Studies have shown that being grateful can be a very positive influence on your life, and the Thanksgiving holiday is a great opportunity to not only write down what you are thankful for but to get more creative and make a whole layout around the topic.

This cute layout has a very fitting title: “Give Thanks With A Grateful Heart”, and it documents all the things that the creator of this page is thankful for. The journaling is done in a very creative way: using die cuts, hearts and stamps. This makes the journaling box an actual design element of the page. I love the way that the colors come from a matching set of Thanksgiving or fall papers, with pumpkins and a muted flower pattern paper. Even with all this color, the main subjects still are the black and white photos of her family, taking pride of place in the banner across the top of the page.

Design elements: Creative way of using several embellishments in the journaling.
Finishing touches: The cute embellishments spread along the bottom of the page.
Cute details: The little heart in the cloud die cut.

Another way of documenting all the things that your family is grateful for, is to have them write it down on a small piece of cardstock. In this layout, the creator used a grid to showcase all those little square pieces of thankfulness. She typed in all the names of the people. Don’t you just love this idea? It is great to have people write it down, because then you not only get to document what they are grateful for, but also their handwriting! Almost all the squares are filled. The ones in the top left and in the low right corner are filled with some fitting embellishments, emphasizing what the page is all about.

Design elements: Grid layout of handwritten notes of gratitude.
Finishing touches: The little bows put around some of the squares that have a little white space.
Cute details: The little embroidered pumpkin near the title.

The creator of this lovely page went all out with the leaves embellishments! The layout has a fairly straightforward look with the journaling strips on top, the black and white photo of her family taking pride of place in the middle and some pattern paper on the bottom to balance out the design. The flurry of leaves across the layout adds a wonderful playfulness to the page.

Design element: The flurry of leaves give this straightforward layout a playful look.
Finishing touches: Leaf banners were used to frame both sides of the page.
Cute details: Who can resist the cute owl? It balances the “give thanks” element perfectly!

I absolutely love this layout! It’s a straightforward grid, that not only includes the written notes of gratitude, but also the photo of the family members themselves! It’s a wonderful way to document your family’s Thanksgiving. And it’s a great way to remind yourself of all the things your different family members are grateful for. I love the simplicity of this idea, and it’s execution. The photo grid on top and the bottom very minimally embellished with a little strip of patterned paper and two circles with little buttons. And the title just says it all!

Design element: A simple grid that enables the photos to tell the story.
Finishing touches: The chosen color pallet helps the photos to stand out more.
Cute details: The cut-out circles with the buttons in the middle add the perfect detail.

The creator of this layout lists five reasons to be thankful, and she goes on to list those five reasons in separate journaling strips, embellished different pattern paper strips. It might be difficult to read the French journaling, but it’s reasonable to assume that her reasons to be thankful have to do with those cute kids in the photos! She uses two different sizes for the photos, adding a little playfulness. The way that the layout is set up clearly makes these photos the star. Notice how the sewn circle clusters make one of those designer triangles!

Design elements: Using different strips of patterned paper to embellish separate journalling strips.
Finishing touches: Circles are sewn on some of the pattern paper strips to make the layout more playful.
Cute detail: I love the little stables that were put in the title and in the little tag above the photos.

Make The Photo The Star

It has been mentioned a couple of times already: some layouts are designed specifically to make your photo shine! This is a little bit easier if you have only one photo on the page, but it’s still possible to make one of the photos the star if you have multiple photos on your layout. Let’s take a look at some layouts where one photo is clearly the star and notice how many different kinds of design can make that wonderful photo of yours truly stand out and shine!

This first layout clearly has a star photo! The cute baby’s first Thanksgiving is documented in a very effective way on this page. The photo is made the center of attention by making it slightly larger than the other elements on the page, including the other photo. The page is build-up out of very simple elements: The brown polka dots background color coordinates nicely with the brown outfit of the cute little boy and the circle with the fall colored leaves pulls all the separate elements beautifully together. The finishing touch is the cute turkey embellishment. 

Design element: If you have more than one photo on a page, make your star photo the largest.
Finishing touch: The cute turkey with its top hat.
Cute details: The little cornucopia embellishment in the lower left corner of the main photo forms a design triangle with the turkey and the “1st” title.

This is a very traditional way of making the photo the star of the page: giving all the space to a group photo that it needs. You’d want to make a group photo large enough so you can actually see the people’s faces! The lovely family photo is very minimally embellished with a tone on tone layered background look and stamped title in gorgeous typewriter script.

Design element: Group photos deserve a large space on your page.
Finishing touches: Stamped leaves embellishing the title .
Cute detail: The little buttons added in several places to the page.

This is a different approach of making a photo the star. On this layout, the photo has become truly integrated with the rest of the page. I love the way that the page naturally flows from top to bottom. The little design elements flow naturally into the photo and are balanced below the photo with a little bit of journaling and some patterned paper. All the page elements fit beautifully together!

Design element: If possible, let your page let your page layout flow naturally into the photo and beyond.
Finishing touch: The “Thankful” title on placemat surrounded by the cute handmade feathers.
Cute detail: The little paint splatters on top bring a whimsical feel to this layout.

Being the only photo on the page, it can’t help being the star by default. But the eye is even more drawn to the object of the photo by the addition of the polaroid-style photo on top. You can also create this effect by adding a white frame. The colors of this family’s outfits and those of the nature scene behind them are beautifully mirrored in the chosen color palette. In all it’s simplicity, this layout is a very effective and cute design. 

Design element: Put extra emphasis on the subject in your photo by placing it. 
Finishing touch: The little banners of different pattern paper give a whimsical look to this layout.
Cute details: I love the scalloped edge on the bottom side of the photo.

This photo is clearly the star, as your eye is immediately drawn to the two lovely people on it. The photo is not put in the middle, but on the left side of the layout and it is balanced on the right-hand side by a grid of stamped pieces of cardstock, decorated with some embellishments. This layout clearly shows that you do not have to put your photo in the middle of the page to make it shine. 

Design element: Experiment with putting your photo on one side of the page, balancing it out with other page elements.
Finishing touch: I love the way that the date is stamped on one of the square cards, as well the initials of the two kids in the photo.
Cute detail: Notice how the square brown background is place on top of a scalloped edged piece of pattern paper with stitching all around it. 

This is such a fun photo and it certainly deserves pride of place in anyone’s Thanksgiving layouts!. The photo is put a little bit above the center and is framed by lovely sentiments and flowers. The addition of the lovely “Home For Thanksgiving” title finishes off the page beautifully. And sometimes that is all you need!

Design element: Frame your photo with lovely sentiments and embellishments.
Finishing touch: The little flower cluster on the left-hand side adds a little pizazz to this layout.
Cute detail: Notice how the “Thanksgiving” in the title is doubled up by a dark hand-letter font underneath. These details add depth to your layout.

Another very cute photo! This one is put on the page slightly off center and is layered on several pieces of angled patterned paper. This creates a bit of more whimsical look than if you would layer the papers in a straight way. This whimsical feeling is enhanced by the cluster of flowers on one side of the page and the row of little banners and tags on the other.

Design element: Layer your main photo on top of several angled pattern paper pieces and create a design triangle between the photo itself and embellishments on the lower left and right-hand side of the page.
Finishing touch: Angle your title with the angled pattern paper background.
Cute detail: I love the little brads used to create the washing line that holds up all the little tags and banners.

Make Your Own Thanksgiving-Themed Embellishments

All sorts of cute Thanksgiving-themed embellishments are for sale in stores and online. But wouldn’t it also be fun to make your own? You can use whatever papers and materials you have in your scrapbooking stash and around the house to create your very unique handmade Thanksgiving embellishment! It is far more cost-effective and very creative! And you can make your embellishments as big or as small as you need. This can be a tremendous advantage if you are a traditional paper scrapbooker. Let’s get inspired by other scrapbookers and take a look at their creations!

I adore this handmade turkey! It’s so cute with its little polka dotted burlap head and body. And the little bow tie is just to die for! Just look at the gorgeous plumage he has been given. Those tailfeathers are made from all different scraps of a pattern paper (stash busting, anyone?) that somehow just all fit together. This little turkey is clearly a happy fellow, no wonder he’s holding a little flag saying “Happy Day”! 

This handmade turkey is the main focus of the page. The photos that are included are little squares and are snapshots of things around the house. None of the photos have that “star quality” that you’d be looking for in a feature photo, so it’s a great idea to make your own handmade Turkey embellishment the star! It sets the atmosphere and theme for the rest of the page.

Design element: Of course, the main design element of this page is the lovely handmade turkey!
Finishing touch: I love the gold paper strips (scalloped and straight) that frame the middle part of the layout. This gold paper is also used for the feet and little bow tie of the turkey, and in the chevron arrows pointing at the “Turkey Day” title.
Cute details: I just can’t resist that “Happy Day” flag, it’s so cute!

Another handmade turkey! This one is made up out of different patterned papers and has a really flamboyant set of colorful tail feather plumage! What a lovely and colorful addition to this layout! Again, the turkey is the star of the page, but is closely followed by the cute kids on the photo! Don’t you just love the title “I Love My Cute Turkeys“. 

Design element: Use “real” feathers for your handmade turkey! This gives your layout a soft and touchable finish.
Finishing touch: The strip of turkey pattern paper is so cute!
Cute detail: I love the way that the title is build-up out of smaller letter tiles and playfully arranged larger “Turkeys” letters.

Use Photo Grids To Get Many Photos On One Page

Using a photo grid on a scrapbook layout is nothing new. It is a great way to put multiple photos on one page. Photo grids are very practical, but certainly do not have to be boring. Just add your own creative flair and away you go! Let’s take a look at some of the photo-grid techniques used by different scrapbook layout creators and get inspired to use photo grids on our own Thanksgiving layouts!

This grid-style layout is a bit fuzzy, but still clearly features one larger photo (doesn’t that turkey look amazing?) and a couple of smaller photos. This is a great way to add those “around-the-house” shots that are not spectacularly beautiful, but still add to the story and the memories. 

Design element: Feature one larger photo and make a grid of the smaller photos.
Finishing touches: The orange pattern paper beautifully coordinates with the color of the lady’s blouse!
Cute detail: The lovely food embellishments surrounding the “Thanksgiving” title. 

This “messy” grid layout layers polaroid-like photos on a colorful background. Love those vertical chevrons! The images themselves are mostly closeups of “Thanksgiving type things”, and create a lovely library of “small” memories that are worth preserving.

Design element: Make a messy grid of those small photos.
Finishing touch: Ground your photo cluster grid with a strip of ribbon or pattern paper on the bottom of the page.
Cute detail: The orange paint splatters add a pop of color to the brown background. 

“Turkey Day”! If you have a lot of photos that you want to use, a grid layout like this is definitely the way to go! I love that the title is put on a corner, and not just in the middle on top, making the grid a bit more playful. The cute turkey embellishment is a fitting finishing touch!

Design element: Use an extensive grid (with rounded or straight corners) to fit a lot of photos on one page.
Finishing touch: Make your grid a bit more asymmetrical by adding the title in the corner.
Cute detail: The cute turkey embellishment!

This layout shows a different kind of grid: the photos are clustered together in one corner of the page and the rest of the page is embellished with pattern paper, buttons, stitched leaves etc. I love the mix of square, vertically and horizontally oriented photos! Changing the images to black and white makes it easier to fit different photos together, since you don’t have to worry about clashing photo colors. The different pattern paper and various embellishments  provide some lovely matching colors.

Design element: Turn your photos to black and white to more easily group them together.
Finishing touch: Bring pops of color with strips of different pattern papers.
Cute detail: The little buttons added on one vertical paper strip!

Yet another type of grid! The bottom half of the page is used to grid some photos. The photo colors fit beautifully together because they are all quite dark. Using only part of the page for your photo grid leaves you with more than enough space for some extensive journaling. 

Design element: Only use part of the page for your photo grid.
Finishing touch: Darker photos more easily group together without clashing.
Cute detail: I love the green “grass” effect on the bottom of the page. 

In this layout, the page is divided in two parts. The upper half is filled with the title, the lower with a grid-type photo strip. Notice how one of the photos is in color, while the rest is black and white. The embellishments and pattern paper coordinate beautifully with the colors in the photo. 

Design element: Us a grid-type photo strip to display your photos. If you want, change them all (but one) to black and white.
Finishing touch: The large title is playfully laid out and made up out of cozy word pattern paper.
Cute detail: The twine wrapped around the top of the page.

This lovely layout also uses a grid type photo strip. The strip consists of only two photos that are taken only seconds apart. That creates a “short movie”, adding to the story telling of the layout. The photos are cropped closely to only show the people and not much of the surroundings. This way you immediately focus on what the creator of this page wants you to focus on. The middle of the page is taken up by a large title and some large embellishments and the top of the page is mostly white space. 

Design element: Use photos that are taken only seconds apart for a great storytelling effect. 
Finishing touch: The beautiful “Thankful” die cut title.
Cute detail: Little lines of sequins are added to several places on the page.