How you get your pages scrapbooked is influenced by their content.

Your approach to scrapbooking photos from events will probably be different from that used for everyday life photos or moments photos. The volume of photos from an event is often quite substantial. Thus, scrapbooking them requires efficient culling, selection, planning for multiple pages, and looking for smart groupings.

The challenge in everyday life scrapbooking is a different one. For these pages, you must decide how to present photos that can seem almost random in a way that reveals the fabric of your home and life. Consider the following types of pages and check out our resources related to each.

Scrapbooking events

A substantial portion of your photos are probably from events: birthday parties, vacations, school ceremonies, holidays, park outings, family hikes, travel. We all like to record these happenings—and usually by taking more than one or two photos.

Scrapbooking travel and vacations

Chronicling your travels on scrapbook pages allows you to relive the trip even when you’re back home. Photos, memorabilia, facts and journaling impressions are all part of making scrapbook pages that capture the trip.

When scrapbooking travel and vacation photos, you’re usually working with more than one page, and, thus, organization of an album as a whole is another piece of the puzzle.

Scrapbooking everyday life

This pages are about scrapping your around-the-house, hanging-out-with-friends, recording-the-garden’s-progress kind of photos. This group of photos can be the hardest to “get your arms around.” They aren’t associated with a particular holiday or event, tend to be broad in scope, and don’t always lend themselves to chronological organization.

Scrapbooking collections

Collecting related photos that were taken at different times onto one page is a great way to scrap more photos efficiently. Additionally, when related photos are gathered on the same page you can see the bigger meaning: the forest as well as the trees.  Show a month in review, gather highlight photos from a school year, or track a baby’s progress from month to month.

The Get It Scrapped Project #7: Scrapbooking Collections

Scrapbooking moments

These are the pages that hold the photos, insights, and messages to others that compel you, the ones you come back to again and again. The key to getting Moments scrapped is to BE READY so that when you feel the impulse, you can GET IT SCRAPPED.

Scrapbooking yourself

Yes. You really should get YOURSELF scrapped: the basic facts as well as your feelings, habits, achievements and outlook on life. And do it now because some of this stuff is going to change and this chance won’t come again.

Scrapbooking to leave a record of your world

What did your childhood home look like? What about the town you grew up in, or the dishes your family ate off for years? Take everyday life one step farther by leaving a record of the life you lived in the past as well as the life you are living now.

Ideas and inspiration for scrapbooking the places of your childhood

Scrapbook your stuff

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.