Clusters have been a trend in scrapbooking and paper crafts for a while now. It’s a great way to add interest and balance to a design. They can be made of stamped images, stickers, tags, buttons, really any embellishments you … Read More ...
Let’s Go Travel Layout
Annette gathered photos from all her family trips from one year to create this fun design. It features 8 photos in black and white in a circle around the round center title. Color blocks of pattern paper form 4 grid … Read More ...
Nature Traveler’s Notebook
Annette used a tall Traveler’s Notebook style for her wonderful Nature Notebook. Inside are pages filled with plant, flower and animal photos with lots of botanical papers and designs. I love how interactive the pages are with flaps, pockets, tags … Read More ...
Life is Good Sunburst Layout
Danni stitched a sunburst pattern on the background of her Life is Good Layout and filled each section with pattern paper. Notice how the photo is the center point that the rays reach out from and how each area isn’t … Read More ...
Interactive Pocket Layout
Pocket pages are perfect when you’ve got lots of pictures and they are quick and simple to put together. This lovely pocket Travel Layout has a flap to hold 3 large photos. All together this design holds loads of photos … Read More ...
Dreams Layout
Samantha created a beautiful swirl of stars using a stencil with paste and adding blue watercolor over top for this Dreams layout. The black and white photos of her boys sleeping really stand out against the blue and white background. … Read More ...
Happy Happy Happy…. Birthday
I love the rainbow of colors on this festive Birthday Layout! Jackie used a “Happy” stamp and stamped it multiple times down one side of her layout in different colors of ink. It’s a fun way to fill half a … Read More ...
Flower Stencils Layout
Using stencils allows you to be able to create designs with custom colors and place images anywhere on your page that you would like. Lilith used flower stencils and stamping ink 
to create the lovely floral background for this layout.… Read More ...
Border Punch Background
Long border punches 
can create easy shapes and patterns to a layout, you can create just a single border or fill the entire page like in this design from Erica. I love how she used just plain white cardstock to … Read More ...
Updating an Older Layout
I starting getting into scrapbooking around 2003 when I worked at a local scrapbook store, until then I only made cards, so I’ve seen styles and designs really change over the years. I sometimes look at my layouts from then … Read More ...
Rainbow Birthday Layout
Colorful pattern papers are perfect to create wonderful rainbows for your layouts. Monique designed her own large rainbow for this fun and festive Birthday page by using a circle cutter to cut the layers of the rainbow. I love how … Read More ...
Baby Girl Layout
This super sweet baby layout from Meg features lots of pink and lots of soft textures for a lovely vintage feel. The circles of pattern paper and lace ribbon surround the round photo with the babies name in letters following … Read More ...
Stamped Journal Pages
Sometimes all you need for some great layouts is a little pattern paper and some stamps. Kim used lots of stamps to created colorful words and phrases stamped down one side of her layout adding the photo underneath. The other … Read More ...
Triangles Birthday Layout
Stuck for layout ideas? The most basic shapes are great jumping off points for designing an entire page around. Lauren used loads of triangle to create a really fun sketch design. Triangles are easy shapes to cut with a paper … Read More ...
Easy Watercolor Techniques
Adding watercolor to your scrapbook pages doesn’t need to be detailed or complicate so don’t be afraid to dive into watercolor with some simple techniques. Add some details with paint splatter, painted edges or add simple coloring to stamped images.… Read More ...