Scrapbooking Ideas to Help Build Your Pages
29 May 2007Most people get all stressed when trying to come up with scrapbooking ideas. It’s really simple. Just do what comes to mind. Make a few mistakes. Try different things. I mean, your first couple of scrapbooking pages may look like crap. And certainly if you continue to scrapbook and look back on your early works you may laugh at how bad they were, but also marvel at how much you have improved. Just try something. Just do something. Any scrapbook idea is better than nothing.
Here are some great ideas for you to use when making the ultimate scrapbook:
1. Album
You can buy these online or at a local crafts store. The album that you choose will dictate the overall design of the album so take your time in picking one.
Look at the material used in the paper. If you plan to make a collage and include heavier materials, look for a thicker paper. The regular thickness of craft paper will do if you just want to stick many different photos in your scrapbook.
There are various sizes to choose from, beginning from a letter-size album which is 8 ½” x 11” or the smaller square-sized paper of 6” or 8”.
For a smaller format, you can use just one or two pictures to showcase on each page and just add on embellishments.
2. Themes
Look around you and you will surely find an inspiration when it comes to the theme of your scrapbook.
The weather is one example, look for a bright-orange or yellow-based color. Then, you could cut out photos of sunflowers and loop a yellow yarn and glue it on to represent the sun.
Next, paste the pictures on the pages of your scrapbook and finish up with writing a personalized quote or paste a clipping from a newspaper. Glue on additional memorabilia of a different medium then your scrapbook is as good as gold.
3. Borders
You can use the same theme for the borders as the page itself or the borders of the photos.
Pasting a picture on top of a paper which will serve as your border will add depth to your scrapbook layout.
You can also cut a big shape then inscribe another shape or pattern – like a square inscribed in a circle, then place the photo underneath the border.
4. Design and Layout
You can either go with the theme and coordinate it with the design or make a completely different design altogether. Within the layout, you can go with the standard photos or memorabilia items in the middle or you can put them on either side of the page.
These are just some simple scrapbooking ideas you can try. You just have to start something. Make a page. Fix a page. Just keep building a scrapbook page until you get it the way you like it then move on to the next. The next will probably show your improvement.
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