Free Red Hat Ladies Scrapbooking Designs to Print
We now have 4 downloadable sets of scrapbooking paper designs for the Red Hat Ladies to print to use to make scrapbooks about their many fun activities. Our Free Sample of 2 pages will show you how it all works.
These scrapbook sets are not affiliated with or endorsed by the official Red Hat Society, but simply here for your fun.

Red Hatters--Please send us a scan of your Red Hats Layouts to share with the world on our site !

     Scrapbooking Set #3 for the Red Hats Ladies

Click here to download Free Printable Red Hat Set #3

Remember that any of these pages can be printed in lots of different sizes, so you can make photo frames, name tags, place cards, napkin rings for all your Red Hat functions. They can also be printed in your printer's 'draft or economy' mode for a pastel version of what you see here.

Scrapbooking Set #4 for the Red Hats Ladies

Click here to download Free Printable Red Hat Set #4

These scrapbook sets are not affiliated with or endorsed by the official Red Hat Society, but simply here for your fun.

We hope that all your lovely ladies of the Red Hat organization will find these scrapbook designs useful for scrapbooking your photos and memories from the many events,  parties and functions.

For those of you who want a little history of this group of Gals and how it came about:

All across America (and elsewhere) bodacious women are gathering in groups and calling themselves The Red Hat Society. It has become quite a 'movement'. The official colors of the Red Hat Ladies are Red (of course), Pink & Purple. The organization is dedicated to fun after fifty (and before) for women of all walks of life. They believe silliness is the comedy relief of life and, since they are all in it together they join red-gloved hands and go for the gusto together. Underneath the frivolity, they share a bond of affection, forged by common life experiences and a genuine enthusiasm for wherever life takes them next.

The idea was begun by Sue Ellen Cooper of Fullerton, California when she and a few friends took inspiration from a popular poem entitled "Warning" by Jenny Joseph. Since the poem mentions wearing a red hat and purple clothes, she and her friends formed a group that met on a regular basis for tea in their red hats and purple dresses.

Here is a portion of the poem that started it all:

Warning

When I am an old woman I shall wear purple
With a red hat which doesn't go and doesn't suit me.
And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves
And satin sandals, and say we've no money for butter.
I shall sit down on the pavement when I'm tired
And gobble up samples in shops and press alarm bells
And run my stick along the public railings
And make up for the sobriety of my youth.
I shall go out in my slippers in the rain
And pick the flowers in other people's gardens . . .

by Jenny Joseph

When Sue Ellen and her friends were featured in Romantic Homes magazine in July 2000, they began hearing from other women who wanted to start their own chapters.
They suggest rather strongly that women under 50 stick to a pink hat and lavender attire until THE BIRTHDAY (50). This adds an element of fun to aging, which they think is invaluable to women who have learned to dread aging and avoid it at all costs. They believe that aging should be something anticipated with excitement, not something to dread.
You can learn a lot more about the Red Hat Society and see if there is a local Red Hat Society in your area at their official website- www.RedHatSociety.com