My Son And I Just Designed Our First Topical Stamp Page!

You and your son did a very nice job on this page.
This is the BSA stamp collecting merit badge.

Apastuszak
Nice page! Something you will take pride showing to friends and relatives. Nice to read your son takes interest in stamp collecting. For my Europa collection I do standard pages but spend time writing good topical descriptions. I do the translation to french, I'm french Canadian.

Ok, we fixed the mistakes and added a few things:

1. Matched the color of the picture on the bottom with the border to give it a more consistent look.
2. Eliminated the gap between the border line and the bottom graphic
3. Added a watermark background of the international scout symbol

Here it is with the stamps mounted on it:

For the curious, Washington Press (the makers of White Ace albums), make very nice blank topical pages for scout stamps:

That is a beautiful page of stamps! You're setting the bar pretty high for the rest of us

Very nice page. I created a first day of issue cachet for the 2012 stamp (which you did not include) on the occasion of my son's troop 50th anniversary. The cachet shows a picture of three former troop members who were all Eagles - a Coast Guard Officer, Army Sargent, and Police Office (all in dress uniforms) but it has not been returned and I fear it was lost in the process. The cop is my son, now 27. I'll post a pic if I ever get it back.

The 2012 stamp is on the new page later in the thread.

Cool stamp collecting badge there, Russ!

Nice looking page!

timbres667,

That's a really nice Europa page! I always thought it would be cool to have a nice descriptive Europa album. A nice way to get a sample from a number of different countries.

Since I find it impossible to create a nice stamp page layout and not give it away for everyone to use, I have put up the template for anyone to use.

Here you go:

http://stamphacks.com/wp/?p=194

Here is what the blank page looks like:

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Many, many thanks! I am going to start including this in the binders I give to scouts for the stamp collecting merit badge.

You have no idea how excited my son was when I told him that other scouts were going to use our page design!

apastuszak

Have a look at this blog on Europa stamps. The 2007 theme was for "100 years of scouting"

http://europa-stamps.blogspot.ca/search?q=2007

Cick countries names you can see all pictures of stamps.
I'm not up to date in my Europa collection. The last year I bought was 2006. I buy complete years at reasonnable price so I have to wait they are offer.

Very nice! I really like the page design.