Six Steps To Designing Your First Scrapbook Page | Articles Obsessed

It is a common misconception that traditional scrapbooking and it?s digital counterpart are two separate past-times. Personally I see them as the same but the way in which you finally get your scrapbook page ideas down are dissimilar.

Thus the process that follows can apply to both traditional and digital scrapbooking. The steps are the same just the medium that you use is different.

Step 1. Select the pictures

The main purpose of any scrapbook page is to capture memories. The majority of the time this is done by using photographs as the centerpiece of the design. So it?s just fitting that step 1 in the procedure of making your first scrapbook page is to choose your photographs.

There are no hard and fast rules of how many photographs you should use. I?ve seen many successful page layouts made using just 1 image and others using as much as 10 or more.

My tip is to choose one photo as the primary focus, the entire page design can then be based around it, which makes your job as a scrapbooker all that more straightforward.

Once you have picked your principal photograph you may want to use others to compliment it. Attempt to use extra photographs that enhance the story that you are trying to tell. These maybe photos taken from different angles/view points.

Step 2. Pick a theme

Picking a theme is generally easier when you have selected your principal photograph, as everything can be based around that main focus.

Pick out one or two colors from the photograph to base your page around. Or for a bolder statement try a contrasting colour.

Also see what textures are present in the image and incorporate those into the design. For traditional scrapbooking this could be gluing similar textures and objects to the page. For digi scrappers you might use digital elements or extra textured overlays.

Step 3. Organize your materials

This step is generally directed towards traditional scrapbookers who have picked up a huge stash of scrapbooking supplies. Going through your supplies now will both save time later but could also give you more inspiration for the next step. If you are scrapping digitally sort through the files on your PC in the same way will help. You might even need to have a look online and see if a kit is available based totally on your selected theme ? this alone is one of the great benefits of digital scrapbooking ? the convenience and speed of gaining more supplies by a click of the mouse.

Step 4. Plan the layout of your page

My tip here is to have a look at what other scrapbook designers are doing. This is superb way for inspiration and new ideas to try in your scrapbook layouts.

Whatever you do always attempt to add your own stamp (no pun intended) and do not copy everything precisely.

When you start working out your layout try not to be too symmetrical. To the eye this is dull. A page can be much more fascinating with a few layout tweaks.

Many artists around the world use the rule of thirds when they?re composing a work of art. The same rule can apply to scrapbooking too. Divide the page into thirds. This is horizontally or vertically and attempt to include an interesting element in each 3rd. Try not to be too rigid with the structure by laying your pictures and elements a little outside of the 3rd to link everything together.

If you are traditional scrapbooking don?t fix anything down till your certain on the layout. Clearly digital scrapbookers can experiment and play around as much as you like, even saving variations of the layout which could even be used on different page later along the line.

Step 5. Add depth by layering

One of my fave systems of giving my scrapbook pages a lift are by adding depth. I do this by layering.

Now this may be using 2 or 3 different papers with slightly offset overlaps as the base of the page. Or I use the same method underneath my pictures.

Step 6. Add journaling

The final step is to add journaling. Don?t include journaling for the sake of it. Everything on your page should have a purpose. Frequently I will not include any journaling in any way. But if I?ve a story to tell that enhances the photos, or there was an event that proceeded the particular photograph being taken, I can document this memory on the page.

Making your first scrapbook page shouldn?t be disconcerting. There isn?t any wrong or right way to scrapbook. There are only easier ways. It?s a simple formula that I find works for me. Give it try yourself.

Rich Pargeter is an artist and digital designer based in the United Kingdom. In his free time he enjoys making digital scrapbook designs and shares them together with more scrapbook page ideas on his blog at TopScrapbookPageIdeas.com

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