Are you behind in your scrapbooking? This page is designed to help you catch up! Filled with tips and tutorials, this page will not only get you started if you're new to scrapbook art, but will help you grow and expand your horizons even as an experienced scrapbooker. We have everything from scrapbook page layouts for inspiration and complete scrapbook tutorials, to step-by-step walkthroughs teaching you how to make your own, unique, handmade embellishments. We even have a variety of digital designs including printables, digital cut files, and digital stickers that you can use in your own graphic design projects!
No matter what type of scrapbook you're planning to make, digital or traditional, we've got you covered. Planning to create a wedding scrapbook? A baby scrapbook? A digital scrapbook? Any kind of photo album! Browse through our page! If you're looking for help to capture your cherished memories, you're in the right place! Check back often for more scrapbooking fun.
If you don't already have software to create digital scrapbook pages, or design your own graphic elements, I use, and highly recommend Adobe Photoshop (for scrapbooking and working with photos) and Illustrator (for creating graphics). You can read a little more about them both on my Digital Library page here, or click here to learn more about Adobe's Creative Cloud membership plans that allow you to use their powerful tools, at an affordable monthly rate.
Here are 10 creative scrapbook themes perfect for capturing memories and adding a unique touch to any scrapbook collection.
A Year in the Life of Our Family
Capture a full year of family fun and milestones with monthly spreads. Include photos, journaling, and keepsakes from each month, creating a cohesive story of your family’s journey. Perfect for reflecting on growth and special memories with beautiful scrapbook embellishments!
Our Wedding Story
Relive your wedding day by creating pages with photos from the proposal to the "I do" and everything in between. Use lace textures, wedding quotes, and mini envelopes for love notes to capture the romance of your big day.
Baby’s First Year
Create a heartfelt scrapbook celebrating your little one’s first year, with pages dedicated to “First Smile,” “First Words,” and “First Steps.” Add milestone cards, baby footprint stamps, and soft color palettes to make a keepsake that you and your child will cherish forever.
Family Vacations & Travel Memories
Document your adventures with a travel scrapbook filled with maps, tickets, and snapshots of special places visited. Perfect for incorporating themed stickers, travel quotes, and interactive elements like pockets for souvenirs.
A Tribute to Grandparents
Honor the family’s roots by gathering stories, photos, and keepsakes from grandparents. Dedicate pages to their lives, their stories, and their legacy with vintage-style paper, antique embellishments, and heartfelt journaling.
Seasonal Celebrations
Create a scrapbook highlighting your family’s favorite traditions through each season. Whether it’s summer picnics, fall leaf-pile jumping, or holiday gatherings, capture each season’s unique vibe with themed stickers, bright colors, and fun borders.
Pets and Pawprints
For animal lovers, a scrapbook dedicated to your furry friends is a beautiful way to showcase their personality. Include their milestones, cute photos, and pawprint embellishments to create a delightful collection of pet memories.
Friendsgiving & Family Gatherings
Document cherished gatherings with friends and family through a “Friendsgiving” or “Reunion” scrapbook. Capture candid moments, handwritten recipes, and memories of shared meals with journaling cards and decorative frames.
Home Sweet Home
A scrapbook about your home tells the story of where memories are made. Include pages dedicated to each room, special decor, and seasonal changes. Add texture with fabric swatches or paper piecing for a warm, inviting feel.
A Craft Journey
Showcase your own creative journey with a “Craft & DIY Projects” scrapbook! Use before-and-after photos, notes on favorite supplies, and embellishments from your stash to reflect on your personal growth as a crafter.
Scrapbooking - The Basics
Just starting out with scrapbooking? Here are some pointers to get you going. Just follow these simple steps, and in no time you'll be putting on the final touches and moving on to your next album. Scrapbooking is a great hobby to get involved in. Recording your family's history for generations to come is only part of the fun, scrapbooking is an art. Express your creativity, preserve memories and create treasures!
Picture Selection:
Select, edit and print your pictures so that they are ready to go in your scrapbook. This will help you determine the size and style album you'll need.
Size & Style:
How many, and what type, of pictures you have will play a big part in determining the size and style for your scrapbook. Will it be a 12"x12" album? A miniature one? Will you make it an interesting shape? How will your book be bound? Post bound? Spiral bound? Ring bound? Or will it have a sewn or glued spine?
Mount your Pictures:
Choose the paper for your pages and mount your pictures. Capture your memories one page at a time by arranging your pictures to tell a story! You can mount pictures onto your pages with adhesives, photo corners, or even small cut slits in the pages to slide the corners of your photos into. Always remember to use acid and lignin free paper, adhesives and embellishments.
Embellishments:
Decorate your pictures and the pages of your scrapbook with embellishments such as stickers, diecuts, stamped images, ribbons, brads, buttons, tags are more. Remember, nothing lasts forever but you can increase the longevity of your albums by only using high quality, archival materials.
Now that you've conquered the basics, ready to move on? There are countless techniques, craft supplies, tools and machines out there to help your creativity bloom.