When you want to sit down and scrapbook but haven’t preplanned, you need scrapbook page ideas — quick ideas. Here are 6 sources for ideas and plenty of links for each: product, technique, design, page elements, topic prompts, and outside inspiration.

1. Go looking for inspiration.
2. Do something new with scrapbooking product.
3. Try a new technique or use a familiar technique in a new way.
4. Look for new ways to render the elements (journaling, embellishments, photos, title) on your canvas.
5. Try out a new design approach.
6. Scrapbook a prompted topic.
7. Lift a page you love

Once you understand layout design principles AND the basic parts of a scrapbook page, scrapbooking gets easier and more fun. 12 lessons cover this territory with hundreds of layouts to illustrate. Click here to get lesson 1 today -- and then new lessons every couple of days -- all at no cost.