Scrapbooking Ideas & Layout Design
Don't let your photos have hazy stories. Use scrapbooking ideas, writing prompts, design how for your scrapbook layouts.
The 5 basic parts of a scrapbook page are canvas, photos, journaling, title, and embellishment. Any one of those parts can take the starring role on the page and be its focal point. Take a look at how our teach has featured each of the parts on their pages. 1. Canvas Devra Hunt says, […]
An easy and appealing way to emphasize your focal point is to embellish it. Not only does this draw the eye, but it can also be used to add an additional layer of meaning to the page. Our Creative Team members share their pages with embellished focal points here. Check out the ideas and using […]
We like to share “go-to” designs that give you a starting place for your scrapbook page design. The best “go-tos” are arrangements that ensure there’s a spot for key page parts in a design that has balance and appeal. The “piecework” design is one that’s a little like a pieced quilt, with blocks of various […]
In a symmetrically balanced visual design, elements on either side of a central axis (vertical or horizontal or both) mirror one another. That mirroring may be exact but can also be approximate. Using this type of balance on a scrapbook page can strengthen a focal point placed at page center. In the pages here our […]
Paper strips present many options to be creative and thrifty when it comes to the scrapbook page. They are also a great place to start when it comes to creating your first “foundational” layers. See four ways our Creative Team has use strips to create a page foundation. 1. Rows Deborah Wagner says, “This is […]
The 2-by-2 design is one of several layout configurations of combined elements that scrapbookers use again and again when making scrapbook pages (blocked, clustered, shelf, cross, band and more). These foundations are used again and again because they work well for housing the most frequently encountered combinations of elements (1 to 5 photos with title and journaling) and they consistently […]
Line is a fundamental element of visual design. Lines can be straight, curved, thick, thin, vertical, horizontal, diagonal, solid or broken. The rendering of a line can imply a mood or tone. Soft and curving lines signal tranquility. Jagged diagonals evoke a more jarring tone. On the scrapbook page, you can use lines alone or […]
Your scrapbook page canvas establishes a space within which you’ll design–by arranging elements within that space. As you arrange those elements, it’s important to pay attention to the way your foreground elements define the surrounding “white” space. A great way to try new approaches to working with space is to look at inspiration pieces and […]
Your scrapbook page canvas is usually a square (12″ by 12″) or a vertical rectangle (8.5″ x 11″) or, in the case of a two-page design, a landscape rectangle (24″x12″ or 17″ x 11″). That canvas defines the space within which you can organize elements: photos, title, journaling, embellishments. You can actually create differently sized […]
Year-in-review pages are a fun way to combine your favorite moments and stories for the span of a year all in one place. The challenge is to select the stories you want to tell, to find and combine photos, and to tell the stories succinctly. See how our creative team members take this challenge and […]