The key parts of a scrapbook page are:
- photos,
- journaling,
- title,
- embellishments,
- canvas
Not every page has every part—but most pages have most parts.
Knowing this gives you a framework, touchpoints as you put things together and make photo, supply, and design choices.
It’s also a great starting point for gettting new ideas for your pages.
For an introduction to each page element:
- Scrapbook page parts: canvas
- Scrapbook page parts: photos
- Scrapbook page parts: embellishments
- Scrapbook page parts: titles
- Scrapbook page parts: journaling
We’ve got plenty of articles that give you ideas and how-tos for each of these elements here:
Photos
- 3 Ways to Edit Your Photos for Scrapbook Pages with Totally Rad Lab
- 3 Ways to Scrapbook “Portraits”
- 4 Ways to Use Repeated Photos on Your Scrapbook Pages
- 5 Reasons to Use Black-and-White Photos on Scrapbook Pages
- 5 Tips for Taking Everyday Life Photos
- 6 Reasons to Mix Color Photos with Black-and-Whites on Your Scrapbook Pages
- Add Your Scrapbook Page Journaling Directly to Photos
- Before You Press the Shutter: Four Ways to Improve Your Photography
- Blurring the line between photo and canvas adds design oomph to your scrapbook pages
- Crop Combinations that Get Both Details and Context on Your Scrapbook Pages
- Cropping Photos of People for Scrapbook Pages
- Designing Scrapbook Pages with Square Photos: Stable But Not Boring
- Easy Scrapbook Page Recipe: Make Repeated Photo Border
- Finding Room for Journaling on Scrapbook Pages with Lots of Photos
- Give Old Photos and Stories New Life on Heritage Scrapbook Pages
- How to Make a Scrapbook Page Focal Point When Everything is the Same Size
- How to Organize and Present Party Photos on Two-Page Scrapbook Layouts
- How to select events photos for scrapbooking
- Hybrid Scrapbooking: fill text with a photo
- Hybrid Scrapbooking: Make a “Photo booth” Photo Strip
- Ideas for Composing the 2-Photo Scrapbook Page
- Ideas for Composing the 3-Photo Scrapbook Page
- Ideas for Composing the 4-Photo Scrapbook Page
- Ideas for Composing the 5-Photo Scrapbook Page
- Ideas for Scrapbook Page Designs with Tilted Photos
- Ideas for Scrapbook Pages with 8 Photos
- Ideas for Scrapbook Pages with 9 photos
- Ideas for scrapbooking retro photos and memories from the 60s, 70s, and 80s
- Ideas for Telling Stories on Scrapbook Pages Without Photos
- Including context in your photos
- Meme Trends and Old Photos
- Organize Your December Album by Theme This Year
- Organizing Events Photos
- Organizing Everyday Life Photos
- Organizing Photos
- Scrapbook page parts: photos
- Scrapbooking your childhood with limited or no photos
- Smart crops for multi-photo scrapbook pages
- Speed scrapbook page design with smart crops
- Take Control of Your Photo Volume
- Ten Quick Ways to Make Over Your Photos!
- The Art of Photo-less Scrapbooking
- Transforming Photos into Digital Art
Journaling
- 10 ideas for placing scrapbook journaling on your page
- 20 Lessons on Scrapbook Page Journaling
- 3 Journaling Treatments That Add Texture and Dimension to Your Scrapbook Page
- 3 Ways to Include Dialogue in your Scrapbook Page Journaling
- 5 Ways to Get Computer-Printed Journaling On Your Paper Scrapbook Pages
- 5 Ways to Make Scrapbook Page Journaling A Dynamic Part of Your Visual Design
- Add Your Scrapbook Page Journaling Directly to Photos
- Evoke feelings and abstractions by writing with concrete details – The Merle Haggard way
- Finding Room for Journaling on Scrapbook Pages with Lots of Photos
- How 1 Set of Photos Inspired 3 Scrapbook Page Stories
- How to get computer-printed scrapbook journaling onto decorative tags
- How to handwrite in shapes on your scrapbook and journal pages
- How to include scanned handwriting on your scrapbook page
- How to make circle journal spots for your scrapbook and journal pages
- How to use journaling strips to rock your scrapbook page design
- How to write with narrative and scene in your scrapbook page journaling
- Ideas for Shapely Journaling that Reinforces Meaning and Story on Scrapbook Pages
- Ideas for Writing Scrapbook Page Journaling in the Form of a Letter
- Make a Scrapbook Page Based Upon a Journaling Prompt
- Merge Title and Journaling for a Scrapbook Page Story with Unity and Charm
- Scrapbook page journaling: justification that strengthens design
- Scrapbook page parts: journaling
- Scrapbooking pages with perspective: consider opposing points of view
- Scrapbooking with Perspective: your place in someone else’s life
- Story Forms for Scrapbook Pages: Tell a Journey Story
- Story Forms for Scrapbook Pages: Tell a Slice-of-life Story
- Story forms for Scrapbook Pages: Tell an Ah-ha! Story
- Story forms for your scrapbook pages: There’s a bear at the door!
- The Art of Conversation: Transform Your Scrapbook Journaling Through Dialogue
- The Art of Photo-less Scrapbooking
- Tips for writing about yourself on scrapbook pages
- Typesetting on Scrapbook Pages: Alignment
- When Short Journaling Works on a Scrapbook Page
- Writing that conveys your story AND the times in which it takes place
Titles
- 10 Ideas for Quick Scrapbook Page Titles
- 10 Ways To Put a Title on Your Scrapbook Page
- 20 Scrapbook Page Ideas Inspired by Movie Titles
- 4 Formulas for Generating Scrapbook Page Titles You’ll Love
- 5 Ideas for Using Digital Word Art for Scrapbook Page Titles
- 5 Ways to Make High-Contrast Titles and Tell Your Scrapbook Page Story
- 5 Ways to Make Your Own Ransom-Alphabet
- 9 Embellishing Perk-ups for Your Scrapbook Page Titles
- Big Scrapbook Page Titles that Earn the Space They Fill
- Do you need that scrapbook page title? Only if it’s doing a job and doing it well
- Font Tricks for Making Scrapbook Page Titles
- How to come up with scrapbook page titles from sayings, quotes, titles, famous lines & lyrics
- Hybrid Scrapbooking: fill text with a photo
- Ideas for Long Titles on Scrapbook Pages
- Ideas for Using Short Titles on Scrapbook Pages
- Ideas for Using Subway Art on Your Scrapbook Pages
- Merge Title and Journaling for a Scrapbook Page Story with Unity and Charm
- Roundup of Ideas and Tutorials for Scrapbook Page Titles
- Scrapbook page parts: titles
Embellishments
- 4 Ways to Strengthen Scrapbook Page Design with Embellishments
- 6 Ways to Add Banners to Your Scrapbook Pages
- 6 Ways to Make Embellishment Clusters on Scrapbook Pages
- 8 Ideas for Embellishing Scrapbook Pages with Circles
- 8 Ideas for Embellishing Scrapbook Pages with Washi Tape
- 8 ideas for placing embellishments on the scrapbook page
- 9 Embellishing Perk-ups for Your Scrapbook Page Titles
- Choosing Embellishments for the Scrapbook Page
- Go Off the Edge with Clusters and Bits For Scrapbook Pages with Tension
- Go-to Embellishing Approaches Make Scrapbooking Easier
- How to Make a Paper-pieced Monkey Embellishment
- Ideas for Oversized Embellishments on Scrapbook Pages
- Ideas for Scrapbook Page Embellishment Clusters
- Ideas for Using Subway Art on Your Scrapbook Pages
- Keep Your “Small and Versatile” Embellishments Handy for Every Scrapbook Page
- Keeping the Grid Design Fresh on Scrapbook Pages | Using Grids Within the Design
- Make Your Own Paper Scrapbook Page Embellishments with Digital Products
- Make Your Own Scrapbook Page Embellishments with Dingbat Fonts
- Place embellishments to support scrapbook page flow
- Tell a Story with Vintage Ephemera | Caroline Preston’s Scrapbook Novel
Canvas
- 4 Ideas for Starting Scrapbook Pages with a Pieced Background
- 6 Tips for Using Patterned Paper Backgrounds on your Scrapbook Pages
- Blurring the line between photo and canvas adds design oomph to your scrapbook pages
- Get Started Scrapbooking | 6 Ways to Make the Page Canvas
- Get Started Scrapbooking | Why Canvas Shape and Size Matter
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