Handmade Scrapbook Embellishments from Paper You Already Have
Turn cardstock offcuts into layered flowers, accordion rosettes, banners, bows and leaves that match your page exactly.
Scrapbooking ideas for every page
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Turn cardstock offcuts into layered flowers, accordion rosettes, banners, bows and leaves that match your page exactly.
A quick three-pile sort, a mix of wide, medium and close-up shots, and one focal photo turn an unmanageable stack into a page-sized selection.
Trim copies of your photos so the subject fills the frame, then add a paper mat with even borders. Includes mat sizes and trimmer steps.
Arrangements that suit one, two, three, four and up to six photos on a single page, with the spacing and cropping each one needs.
Pick three or four colors from your photos, use the color wheel to find partners and decide how much of each belongs on the page.
A spread works when two facing pages read as one design. Learn how to divide the photos, link the pages with a shared line and handle the gutter.
A focal point, the rule of thirds, balanced visual weight, a triangle of repeated elements and deliberate empty space: the checks that make a layout easy to read.
Everyday photos need a structure to hold them together. These generic layouts include a four-photo grid, a paper family tree, a week-in-the-life page and then-and-now pairs.
Generic layouts for birthday, wedding and graduation pages, with advice on using palette and simple paper shapes to set the mood without burying the photos.
Route map pages, wide scenery bands, day-by-day grids and pocket pages for tickets: generic travel layouts that work for a day out or a long journey.
Twelve simple page structures, from a single off-center photo to a grid, a paper band and a pocket, so a blank sheet of cardstock always has a first move.
Crowded photos, scattered embellishments, uneven gaps and missing journaling are the usual problems on early pages. Here is what each one looks like and how to repair it.