We’ve noticed various requests popping up here and there on the message boards, people looking for things from licensed characters like Disney Princesses, Pixar’s Cars, and Winnie-the-Pooh. Since we cannot do collections with licensed characters in them, we’ve come up with an article to help you use those great Scrap Girls products you already have (or should have!) in your stash for these types of themes.

Disney Princesses

Do you have pictures with your little ones meeting Cinderella for the first time or dressing up as Belle for Halloween? Then we’ve got some ideas for you!

How about using A Princess Collection with all of its bright colors, pretty ribbons, crowns, and wand? There’s also a Brush Set: Princess, along with Brush Set: Fairy Princess, and even an Assemble Your Own: Wand.

Layout by Laurel Lakey
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You can use these along with Assemble Your Own: Family Labels and the birds from Card Set: 4x5.88 Altered State Altar to create a great title, as seen in this layout. Also used is a shoe from the Anna Grace Collection Mini, covered with a paper from the Just the Basics Paper Biggie, with the ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Frosted Glass 6401 style applied to it. The bright papers are from the Basic Brights Paper Biggie, which coordinate wonderfully with the bright colors of the princess dress, which was taken from the Wedding Dress Card Set, and colored to match the layout.

Also, the Harvest Pumpkin Collection has a pumpkin for Cinderella’s coach, and you can find apples for poisoning in the Harvest Pumpkin Collection, ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Precious 1, and Digital Stickers: Fall Fun Biggie.

If you’re looking for something to work with Ariel from The Little Mermaid, try Water Paper for an “under the ocean” feel, with animals from the ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Silly Sea, and you can add a water feel to any title with the ScrapSimple Tools – Styles: Water 6101. You can write your journaling on a wave shape with the ScrapSimple Type Paths: Waves 3801, along with the ScrapSimple Tools – Shapes: Waves 3801.

Layout by Launa Valente
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Launa Valente used the ScrapSimple Digital Layout Templates – Layered: Storybook Castles to create a whimsical backdrop for a photo of her daughters dressed up as princesses, wearing a crown from the ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Bedazzled.

	Note: Commercial license versions of Brush Set: Princess, Brush Set: Fairy Princess, ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Frosted Glass 6401, ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Precious 1, ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Silly Sea, ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Water 6101, ScrapSimple Type Paths: Waves 3801, ScrapSimple Tools - Shapes: Waves 3801, ScrapSimple Digital Layout Templates - Layered: Storybook Castles and ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Bedazzled are also available.

NASCAR

Do you or someone in your family have an obsession with everything NASCAR? What about cars in general, or is there a little one in your life who loves Lightning McQueen? Then how about using the FASTCAR Collection Mini (or its Brush Set and ScrapSimple Paper Templates). Or the Cruising Collection to showcase that love!

Layout by Jo Corne
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Jo Corne did a layout using these collections, as shown here. And notice how she cleverly used a race flag for the R in the title. So cute!

Layout by Laurel Lakey
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For the title piece shown here, I used the ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: License Plate – 3D Biggie, ScrapSimple Tools – Styles: Rusted License Plate 6102, and ScrapSimple Tools - Shapes: Weather 1501 for the lightning shape.

	Note: Commercial license versions of Brush Set: FASTCAR, ScrapSimple Paper Templates: FASTCAR, ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: License Plate-3D Biggie, ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Rusted License Plate 6102 and ScrapSimple Tools - Shapes: Weather 1501 are also available.

Winnie-the-Pooh

Layout by Laurel Lakey
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When I was a little girl, I loved Tigger from Winnie-the-Pooh, and since I’ve had my son, I have tried to pass on a love of Tigger to him. This included dressing him in various Tigger outfits and accessories from the time he was only three months old. But since we don’t have a specific Tigger collection, I decided to think outside the box, using ScrapSimple Paper Templates: Animal Prints - Biggie to mimic his orange and black stripes.

For Winnie-the-Pooh layouts, there are a lot of things you could use! For instance, how about creating a forest by using the Forest Path Paper, Naturescape Collection Biggie, and Texture Set: Leaves of Time.

You can also find bees and butterflies in the SpringSigns Collection, Baby Cake Collection Biggie, Brush Set: Grunged Butterflies, Brush Set: Le Jardin, Delightful Collection, and Dynamic Brush Set: Garden Party 6301 Biggie. A great idea for a blustery day type of layout is to use the Dynamic Brush Set: Variae Formae 8201 to create a windy feeling to the background. You can even find a blue balloon for Christopher Robin in the Assemble Your Own: Birthday Party Balloons!

	Note: Commercial license versions of ScrapSimple Paper Templates: Animal Prints - Biggie, Texture Set: Leaves of Time, Brush Set: Grunged Butterflies, Brush Set: Le Jardin, Dynamic Brush Set: Garden Party 6301 Biggie and Dynamic Brush Set: Variae Formae 8201 are also available.

I want to stress that these suggestions are not an exhaustive list -- they just represent a small percentage of the type of products you can find if you look creatively and think outside the box.

I hope that with these great products at your disposal you’ll be able to creatively use those themed photos to make wonderful layouts that you’ll treasure.

Have fun!