scrapbooking layouts

Scrapbook Layouts

October 20, 2010

Scrapbook layouts has become a major focus for this website – mainly because I enjoy designing so much. In recent years, I’ve almost exclusively created digital layouts using PSE on my computer. It makes it wonderfully easy to re-use everything, or adapt for new pages. Below you’ll find a compilation of my articles about scrapbook [...]

Scrapbooking Sketch #39: Stack Em

August 17, 2010

Our scrapbooking sketch is late this month due to technical difficulties. However it is here at last and we hope it is useful to you. It’s a 4-photo layout idea on a layered background, with title, sub title and journaling block.

Scraplift: Sugar and Spice Beauties

July 16, 2010

This is just to let you see the two recent scraplift layouts together. Isabella’s says, “At first I wasn’t convinced it would work. Having made them both I’m 99% fine with it, but there’s a little niggle at the back of my head and I can’t quite work out why.”

Scraplift: Beauties

July 15, 2010

Today is a scraplift again. It is the companion page to yesterday’s scrapbook layout, Sugar and Spice. A scraplift is when you use the same or similar products as well as copying the layout.

Scraplift: Sugar and Spice

July 14, 2010

Isabella’s scrap book layout Sugar and Spice is a scraplift from an idea she saw in an advertising leaflet from Pebbles Inc., a scrapbooking supplies company.

Scrapbook Layout Idea with Circles of Life

July 10, 2010

Here is a sample scrapbook layout idea with our recent sketch 38: Circles of Life. It is a multi-photo layout with seven photos in three sizes. Read on for more info about the layout, the products used, and some PSE tips.

Scrapbook Sketch #38: Circles of Life

July 9, 2010

Take our multi-photo scrapbook sketch and make it your own, not only with the products you use but with your own twist on style, meaning or play on words. Circles of Life allows you to add your touch to make a great scrapbooking layout.

A Travel Scrapbook Page with 30 Photos and Room for More

June 25, 2010

A travel scrapbook page with 30 photos and room for more? Is that possible and still be able to see the photographs? I thought if I forced myself to make a one-page layout it would make me choose the best and most representative photos from the huge number I’d taken.

Travel Layout Idea with FREE Digital Layout Template

June 22, 2010

I love to travel – whether it’s near or far. And this travel layout idea uses the free digital layout template download we offered recently. As well as changing the direction of the photographs, we decided to tear the edges of the cardstock.

Sample Wedding Layout: Love Today and Always

June 21, 2010

A scrapbook wedding layout for a summer wedding – most young girls’ dream. And since it’s mid summer’s day what could be more appropriate? The jumping off point was sketch 37 but we digressed! Instead of surrounding the photograph

Sample Layout: Bounce, Grandad, Bounce

June 15, 2010

Our sample layout this month is ‘Bounce, Grandad, Bounce’, made with our recent scrapbooking sketch 37. Layout ideas always come a day or two after the scrapbooking sketch is posted, giving you free reign. However, if your creative juices still do not flow and you need a little help, here it is.

Scrapbook Sketch 37: Take a Bow

June 11, 2010
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It’s a while since we’ve had a scrapbook sketch that lets one photo shine, but we have just that for you this month. We filled the space with the design, but you could decide to reduce all the elements and leave even more ‘white space’. As always with a sketch, it’s up to you what you do with it.