TOP 5 Scrapbooking Ideas I LOVE!

Here are the top 5 Pages I love to create that will hopefully give you new scrapbooking design inspiration to make creative, meaningful, and original pages to tell your family story.

When coming up with baby scrapbooking ideas, think of the colors and tones to set the scene. This is especially the case when you're choosing your scrapbook paper (you'll find that scrapbooking ideas come simply from thinking about colors).

I highly recommend either writing a journal on your holiday or at least jotting a few thoughts and ideas down on your phone as you take the many many photos during your stay. Don't forget to include dates and locations - and their correct spellings - as these will come in super handy for your scrapbook later.

Having all these at the ready when it's time to create your page will make it easier to document the holiday and travel adventures with fun titles and journaling.

♥ Beach Ideas

Since having kids, most of my holidays have been by the beach, and creating beach theme scrapbook pages with paint is always so much fun! I love using the palette of blues and greens to really set it off.

Using watercolors on plain white cardstock is a great way to build your own patterned paper. I also put some nautical embellishments (the anchor and wheel) to bring everything together.

Sunsets are my favorite and they look wonderful as minimalist pages! One of my all-time favorite scrapbook ideas is to use monochromatic colors (colors of the same hue) to keep the page simple and the sunset the main feature.

♥ Vacation Ideas

Don't be overwhelmed by the number of photos you may have at the end of your holiday. Scrapbooking your recent vacation shouldn't be as stressful as you think it is. If you need to make a 'one' page spread for one holiday - here's a creative way to do it! Choose 3 of your favorite photos, maybe from different days on your holiday that complement each other with color or theme - e.g. locations you visited, food you ate, windows you looked through, etc. This will enable you to narrow down your photos to a more manageable volume. Here are more ideas on how to choose the right photo from your boxes of pictures.

Choosing the theme of your page is really important in telling your story. Here are some ideas I've recently used on my own pages.

Firstly, try using vintage pages with distress edges, rustic papers and rustic flowers can produce a beautiful design for more mature couples.

Modern papers and a minimalist layout style are lovely for wedding pages. The bride and groom should take centerstage so I recommend keeping everything else to a minimum. Here's an example of what I did for my own wedding page:

For those younger couple pages, including your love letters or handwriting out text messages are some cool ideas to start with.

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I love creating envelopes too! Here's an easy envelope I made for all the letters I received whilst at university. Note some of the precious paper scraps I've adhered to the flap and the beautiful embellishments:

♥ Try taking one year at a time for a double-page spread.

♥ Choose some of your favorite photos from the year that tell the stories you want to tell, then journal about each photo.

You can always go back to add in some embellishments later on - just get your photos laid out on a page and your thoughts and memories written down, then it's likely that more ideas will flow!

♥ Here's a quick tutorial with more family theme ideas.

♥ And don't forget to scrapbook the older generations or even the generations that have passed on (Great Grandparents often left behind their letters). Their stories can live on in a beautiful page. After all, this is what it's about: preserving family memories and creating something to give future generations to come.

♥ Finally - here's some budget conscious ideas for scrapbooking.

If you don't want to actually include the original documents, a great idea is to photocopy them and keep the original extra safe.

Mini tutorial: Check this blog post for other scrapbook ideas that add sentimental touches to your page.

but there are so many other page ideas that help tell your story. Here's a few I really love to make:

♥ Favorite foods - including recipes

♥ Pets

♥ Careers I have had and the places I've worked

♥ Day-to-day experiences

♥ The cars I've driven and the places they've taken me.

♥ Favorite films, artists, writers, poem, artist

♥ Illness and recovery

♥ Christmas, Christmas, and more Christmas!

It's so important for me to create spreads that have every element of my everyday experience and those around me. Scrapbooking the different events in your life is a good idea to remember the special moments you had. If something is important to you it will be important to the person looking through your album in years to come. ♥