- One way to use ladybugs in your scrapbooking is to do a summer layout that is a black piece of paper with a large ladybug shape cut out and placed as the background. Try using the ladybug's spots as the frames for photos and for the journaling for the page. This is a good layout idea for a ladybug-themed birthday party page, or a nature and summer page spread. Then you can the spots as mats for any embellishments and keep the color scheme for the layout in black and red to keep the page authentic.
- A ladybug has a beautiful color scheme; black, red and white. This is especially attractive when you use black and white photos. Take a few photos of ladybugs as you see them outside, whether on a leaf or on your hand. Then, with a photo editing program, change the colors of the photos so that they are all black and white except for the ladybug, which you can keep red and black. Use black and whtie for the papers and the embellishments, allowing the red ladybugs in the photo to be the stars of the layout.
- Make your own ladybug embellishments by paper layering to create card stock ladybugs for your pages. Paper layering is the art of cutting out small pieces of paper in the shape of the elements for the object you want to make in different colors, and then layering them together to create a multidimensional piece that uses many colors. For instance, you could cut out the shape of the ladybug from one color of paper, and the dots from another. Layer them together to create an interesting page element.
