Ideas for Scrapbooking Layouts

Unique page designs and layouts make a far more interesting book. Typical scrapbooks can be fairly simple in design with the use of a background texture or color and photos arranged on the pages. Doing some digital photo editing is essential to create more options of themed images to use in your scrapbooks. More interesting pages include layout or design elements such as:

• Titles in unique type styles
• Names, dates or text on the page layout in a variety of colors and fonts
• Photos arranged in montages
• Notes and text on the page using a font that appears handwritten
• Clip art graphics and images to use as embellishments on the page layouts
• Digitally created special effects such as torn paper, drop shadows or highlights around elements
• Borders or frames around photos
• Layering of background images to imitate layers of paper

You can see how having good skills with photo editing software and learning new computer scrapbooking techniques is essential to accomplish this.

Some of the items listed above are used in traditionally-created scrapbook layouts. Add a new look a feel to elements with computer or digital scrapbooking effects. Adding drop shadows, highlights or other special effects can be done with digital editing.

A layout with a specific theme can be very effective to add to the interest of your scrapbook layouts. Birthdays and celebrations, holidays, family memories and reunions, vacations, travel and genealogy make great themes for a scrapbook – and there are so many other themes that can be used. The neat thing about themes is they provide a variety of images to add along with photography.

A Scanner is a Computer Scrapper’s Friend

Using your scanner and also photo editing your scans is a good way to add custom elements for your scrapbook layouts. To get new and unique images for your scrapbooks, you can create your own elements by scanning pictures or objects that are virtually flat. If you made a sports theme – such as soccer – you could scan soccer related items, such as a team logo or pictures of soccer balls.

To get some paper textures to use as backgrounds, try scanning birthday and holiday wrapping paper. Greeting cards can be another image source to utilize. Just know that if you are scanning anything with a copyright, you can only use the images for your own use (you can’t try to sell a kit with those copywrited images in it). If you want to simulate the use of ribbon, you can scan some ribbon and use your scanned images as an accent to a page.

Scans of scrapbooking chipboard letters or alphabets could also be used. The scanned elements can be photo retouched and edited to add color, shadows or you can rearrange them.

There are also affordable CD ROMs with clip art available with images for themed scrapbooks. You can get free digital scrapbook kits, too. Images such as paper patterns, elements, and tags from kits can be used as is or modified to create your own unique digital scrapbook layouts.

Combine Traditional with Digital Scrapbooking

Just because you’re working on a digital scrapbook doesn’t mean you can’t do some hand writing, drawing or add other embellishments on the pages after you print them out. Hybrid scrapbooking is a when you combine traditional paper scrapbook techniques with digital elements. A creative technique is to use a combination of digital images with traditional paper scrapbooking products.

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