Simple Scrapbooking Page Ideas
There are times when the most creative of croppers, surrounded by the most personal pictures, and the most inspiring implements, simply don t know what to do. While the basics always apply, (you will need a topic, background and decorations), it s not always easy to decide what the specifics will be. If your well has run dry, here are a few scrapbooking page ideas to bring back your muse.
Location, Location, Location
If the event your photos cover is even remotely location specific, (vacation, visiting family, trip to a museum), this offers you an easy theme to utilize in your design scheme. Simply choose a background paper, use a 2 to 3 inch tall rectangular accent the width
...with blank spaces for the guests to write down their addresses once they have attended the party so that the mother remembers the guests who have attended the party and send a word of thanks to them. One of the ...
How Cute!
Here are some great ideas for working with children or pets. Leaf through an expressions book for a theme like, Puppy Love , Spring fever or Wild Thing! Use stickers to spell out the expression down one side of the page. Then use circular cutters to round
...bring home the greatest creations of macaroni, glitter, and finger paint. Unfortunately, the macaroni bits and glitter is soon all over the floor or eaten by the dog. To save these creations, without the macaroni and glitter mess, simply scan ...
Time of Your Life
You have already figured out that having a theme will make creating your page an easier task. Teachers use this method when planning lessons for elementary students because it helps to bring the different elements of a task together.
Focusing your scrapbooking page on a time period, or season, also works well. For instance, your may call your page The Wonder Years
...bring home the greatest creations of macaroni, glitter, and finger paint. Unfortunately, the macaroni bits and glitter is soon all over the floor or eaten by the dog. To save these creations, without the macaroni and glitter mess, simply scan ...
Borders are a fun technique for these themes. For instance, it would be easy to locate a snowflake themed kit. You could then create a snowflake border, interspersed with small round face cutouts among the falling snowflakes.
When in Doubt Cut It Out
If you are really feeling stuck, remember that simpler is best. Some of the most elegant pages created have little more than background paper, a few lines of meaningful explanation, and a border.
Try this single picture technique. Choose a vertical picture to display. After selecting three papers that compliment your photo, cut one into a circle with the diameter the same
...yourself the hassles of thinking up a theme or a design of the scrapbook. If you have some free scrapbooking ideas, you can just move on with the stage of making the scrapbook itself. This saves you a lot of ...
When trying to come up with your scrapbooking page ideas, just keep in mind that you will need a theme, a background and the embellishments. Simply trying out some ideas on your page is likely to get the creative juices flowing again.
Barbara Kirby
...effect. Add additional ornaments with favorite Christmas Scrapbook memories. This Family Tree idea and other Christmas ideas for scrapbooking will make your family album lots of fun to look at in later years. A few more Christmas Idea scrapbooking techniques: ...