7 HEADACHE-FREE SIMPLE SCRAPBOOK LAYOUTS YOU CAN TRY TODAY!

Scrapbook Coach brings you a range of inspirational ideas and products to make your projects that much more special and fun. These simple scrapbooking layout ideas will help you create a scrapbook album filled with wonderful pages that look as though it took a lot of time and effort when in reality, it was easy! Sounds too good to be true? Read on for seven amazing ideas that won't take up a lot of your time! One word of warning though, once you discover how easy these layout ideas are, you'll want to use them over and over!

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When it comes to easy and fun styling options, creating a 3×3 design is at the top of the list.

Choose four photos for your scrapbook page. Using card stock, divide your background paper into nine equal sections–three blocks across and three blocks down.
Make the dividers a half-inch wide. Before adhering the dividers into place. trace the inside of the middle square and the four corner squares.

If necessary, crop each photo to fit inside one of the corner squares. Ideally, the photo should fill the entire square and once the dividers are added, it will appear as though the photo is framed.

Cut a piece of card stock for the center square of your scrapbook page. Add your title to the card stock. Adhere the photos and title to the page and then adhere to the dividers. Use the empty squares for journaling and embellishments.

The same format can be used with three photos instead of four. Arrange the photos horizontally, vertically, or even diagonally.

Is there a photo that speaks for itself? Does just looking at the photo trigger an emotion?

Make a scrapbook using a 5×7 copy of the photo, place it off-center onto the background of your scrapbook page. Add a title to the upper left corner of the layout. Journal beneath the photo with just a few words. Add a border to one of the sides of the layout and embellish with a tiny bow, old buttons, or a sticker message.

Index cards are a great way to help in creating a scrapbook album. Try this:

1. Begin with a solid background for your scrapbook page.

2. Frame two photos with the same paper or cardstock or even washi tape on your page.

3. Place the photos in the upper left and lower right corner, with at least an inch and a half from the photo to the edge of the paper.

4. Using the index cards, journal about the photos. Feel free to use these cards throughout your scrapbook pages. It's a great journaling idea for a scrapbook page.

5. Center the index cards in the upper right corner and lower-left corner of your scrapbook page.

6. Matt the journal cards with a quarter-inch of paper.

To highlight a couple of photos, scrapbook layout ideas can easily be diversified by using different shades of one color.

Let's say for example, that you want to make a layout of your kids jumping into the leaves. Use orange as your background. Cover the left half of the background with a leaf-patterned scrapbook paper that has muted yellow and orange leaves in it. In the center of the page, adhere orange card stock that is lighter or darker than the background. Now you're ready to add your photos to the card stock. Add a title to the page and journal in the lower right corner.

Embellish the page with a few tiny fabric leaves.

Sometimes simple scrapbook layouts provide more eye appeal than detailed designs. By keeping things simple, your eyes are naturally drawn to the photos on the page. If there are lots of embellishments and intricate stamp work, a photo can get lost.

Here is an easy way to keep the focus on the photos. Begin with a patterned background. As an example, you want to make a layout of your ten-year-old baseball player. You would choose a background paper that has lots of baseballs on it. Next, form a square using a 5×7 photo, a smaller photo, and two pieces of card stock. Use a 5×7 photo of your son in his uniform, underneath, add card stock for journaling.

Next to the cardstock add a smaller headshot photo of your son. Above the photo, add matching cardstock. Use this space for the title. Add tacks to the four corners of the square and you're done!

This is one of those scrapbook layout ideas that looks like it takes a lot of work, but actually doesn't! Begin with a patterned background to start your slanted photo page.

Matt both photos with the same material and add them to your layout. Overlap the photos by using the lower corner of one and the upper corner of the other, and slant one upwards and one downwards. Add a slanted title and a framed box for journaling. This is super quick and easy and looks like a lot of work because of the background and matting.

Using a square and circle template can help create simple scrapbook pages. Crop the square photo into a 5×5 or 4×4 square. Using the round photo, crop three photos with a 3-inch diameter. Use a solid background for your layout. Using patterned paper, place a one-inch strip across the top of the scrapbook page (about 3 inches from the top) and a one-inch strip vertically along the right side of the page (about 3 inches from the right).

Use additional paper to create a simple bow to cover where the strips cross each other. Along the top strip of your scrapbook page, center the three-round photos. Center the square photo in the open space below the top strip. Journal to the left of the photo.

Now that you are equipped with these seven beautiful yet convenient scrapbook layout ideas, you can get started today! And the best part is that each of these options can be used more than once. As you use different backgrounds and matting, each page of your album will appear unique and different.