Free Scrapbooking Ideas

As beginners, free scrapbooking ideas are bound to set off your desire to scrapbook. Thus, it's a good idea to consume as many scrapbooking ideas as you can in the beginning to see what kind of designs appeal to you.

With so many different layouts and designs, you'll find yourself naturally being drawn to certain elements and styles.

Getting exposed to as many free scrapbooking ideas will help build up your reservoir of ideas to use in your pages. Even when you're getting slightly more comfortable with scrapbooking, you'll still need free scrapbooking ideas to get inspired.

To get ideas, you may reach out for scrapbooking magazines, scrapbooking idea books or even free online ideas like you're doing right now.

There's tons of free scrapbooking ideas floating around everywhere. There's also countless ways to ignite the scrapbooking inspirations within you.

You'll not find yourself lacking of ideas. It's just a matter of being more alert to your surroundings and absorbing ideas. So it's understandable why free scrapbooking ideas are among the favorite searches, for both beginners and advanced scrapbookers alike.

With thousands of different ways that you can scrapbook, and even more thousands of scrapbooking tools and products out there to tantalize you, it can be a dizzying experience at times!

So cool off for a few seconds and take a few quick minutes to read through the below brief and informative article. It'll offer you 7 practical and free scrapbooking ideas to embellish your scrapbook pages with. And these are easy ideas you can even try out on your next scrapbook page.

Just take one scrapbooking idea at a time, and experiment with it before moving on to another idea.

Have fun using these free scrapbooking ideas!

7 Quick Ideas Anybody Can Use
to Make Beautiful Scrapbooks

1. Vellum

Vellum is a transparent, translucent material. Vellum can be used to create a slight shadow or shade change to background or embellishment colors. This can be used as a softening agent for baby scrapbooks, as a touch of elegance to gift scrapbooks, or to create dimension in a boring flat page.

To reduce the cloudiness effect caused by gluing, apply only a thin line of glue along the edges of the vellum. In this way, you will see a slight shadow only along the very edge. This will look like a border to the vellum. Vellum is available in both acidic and non acidic forms.

2. Shadow Boxes

A great way to add depth to your scrapbook page is to add shadow boxes. Basically shadow boxes add a shadow to your images. Shadow boxes are also a great way to make your most important photographs or text boxes stand out form the rest of the page. Shadow boxes can also be to emphasis dedications.

To make a shadow box, simply cut a box shape out of paper. Next, put your embellishment on a larger square of cardstock. Then, add glue to all four sides of the cardstock square and attach it to the back of your paper. The embellishment will show through, adding greater dimension to your page.

3. Patterned Paper

Patterned paper can be used for backgrounds, borders, and embellishments. Often plain white backgrounds look rather boring and dull. Patterned backgrounds add a touch of excitement to your page. The right pattern tailored to your theme and purpose can also increase that professional look.

Colors and patterns can be used to coordinate with your photographs or to add dramatic effects. Paper with various themes and patterns is widely available. For instance, a birthday scrapbook could have a background made of your favorite gift wrap. This could add a touch of elegance or a touch of humor depending upon the patterned paper you choose.

4. Textured Paper

Textured paper can add extra dimension to your scrapbooking page. Textured paper can be used to highlight focus items on your scrapbook page. Textured paper can also be used as a backgrounds or border to give your page an interesting fresh look.

Textured paper is available in a variety of textures and colors and is available in most craft and office supply stores.

5. Book Jacket Backgrounds

For an added personal touch and artist flair use a book jacket as a background. This scrapbook technique looks especially nice when the book jacket is the reader's favorite book or author, adding a wonderful personalized touch.

Be aware, however, that the glossy coating on the book jacket creates an added challenge to sticking objects to this background. Alternative attachment methods include sewing and eyelets.

6. Adding Dimension

One good way to add dimension to images is to use double stick foam tape. Double stick foam tape literally allows items to pop out at your reader adding realism to items. This technique is especially useful in children's art and educational scrapbooks.

Simply, cut the foam tape into whatever shape and size you want. Then, attach to shape onto your scrapbook page. Double stick foam tape is available at most craft stores in various colors and thicknesses.

7. Ribbons and Lace

Ribbon and lace are by far the most common, and most beautiful, border embellishment. The flowing nature of both materials encourages a touch of softness and elegance. Ribbon and lace are especially popular in gift and memory scrapbooks.

Moreover, ribbon is easy to glue and attach. Lace requires a bit more patience.

For an interesting change from ribbon and lace, try using jute or raffia.

About the Author:

Lena Fields loves helping others to save special memories using the fun and exciting art of scrapbooking.

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