Shared Ideas of Scrapbooking Pages

There are thousands of patterns and prints to layer and create any scrapbook page theme.

Scrapbooking is a fun and easy hobby for people of all ages. It allows you to remember, reflect, recap and relax. You and your friends can spend hours sifting through pictures and mementos to highlight in a scrapbook. The pages you create freeze memories that people can enjoy for years to come. Any moment of your life or element of your environment can become an artistic scrapbook page; the hardest part is choosing from the thousands of possible themes and designs.

Back to School

Education is an important part of everyone's life. With all the time spent at educational institutions, there are plenty of important moments to save in "Back to School" pages within your scrapbook. To capture the academic theme, make the page look like a chalkboard. Use black or dark green cardstock paper to capture the chalkboard color, and create a wooden border for the chalkboard by hot gluing brown cardstock paper, balsa wood, or Popsicle sticks around the edges. To imitate chalk, apply white rub-on decal fonts. Include stickers of school-related items like apples, buses, books and pencils. These decals should be juxtaposed with a picture of the student at school or a school function. The next page could feature a special project the student completed during the year.

3-D Nature

Experience the world around you by exploring nature's millions of insects, animals and plants; observe their life cycles and changes. Your scientific observations, collections and research will make fascinating scrapbook pages. Instead of just creating one page, create a page each year featuring the same list of species. In your scrapbook, you might capture mutations and evolutions of small organisms and microorganisms. Take pictures of the skies, storms, forests and other natural events and ecosystems within your environment, and frame the best shots in your scrapbook. You can dry and press wildflowers growing in your area to add to your scrapbook in order to create texture and dimension. Use a piece of brown cardstock as the page and place a smaller square of light green in the center with a decorative edge. Add cool embellishments to these nature pages using patches and appliqués of butterflies, flowers, trees, leaves and animals. Let these pieces come overlap from the green center onto the brown, which gives the effect that they are growing off the page.

Party Page

Life's a party, or at least that's how people like to remember it. Capture the best parties you've attended in scrapbook pages. Use close ups of people on pages with differently patterned frames. Using group pictures aren't as effective because it is harder to see individuals, but pictures featuring one or two people allow their faces to be detailed. Surround the party pictures and mementos with a festive border on each page.

Party memories usually take up multiple pages. Fill up any empty spaces with mementos from the party like noisemakers, party hats and party favors. Insert rub-on word decals or sticker letters to explain the occasion, and add stickers to represent other elements of the party, like champagne glasses for a toast or microphones for karaoke.

References

• Scrapbook Page Ideas: Mia
• Fave Crafts: Back to School Scrapbook Layout