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Layout Scrapbooking: How It can Help You.

Before you start scrapbooking layout for any project or event it is easiest and ultimately quickest to make a scrapbooking layout sketch of what you want your page to look like first.

You will save time when you actually start your scrapbooking layout. If you already know how you want to layout your pictures ahead of time, think of how many pages you could actually get done.

Making a scrapbooking layout sketch of your page or pages first saves on materials because you can easily change a sketch or start again and all you've lost is a few moments of time, unlike when I first started I started experimenting with layouts by actually doing the page and I wasted so much of my best paper and borders by changing my mind once I saw what it looked like. So sketch first and then you'll know exactly what you need before you start cutting up your best materials into shape.

I found when I would think of getting started on a scrapbooking layout project what sometimes stopped me was having to get all the materials out to get going when I sometimes only had a small block of time. But when I started each project with a scrapbooking layout sketch all i needed to do that was a pencil and paper and I could do it virtually anywhere. Once I had my layout sketch completed that gave me added incentive to get started on the project.

A notebook or sketch pad to keep all your scrapbooking layout ideas in as a great idea. You will have them all in the one place and you can also keep it with you wherever you go and when ideas come simply record them before you lose them.

I find I have no trouble coming up with great ideas it's keeping these scrapbooking ideas that I have had trouble with so I always keep a notebook handy to jot down the odd flash of brilliance :-)

The first thing you may wish to put in your scrapbooking layout sketch is the title.

Obviously on a 1 page spread it's usually at the top but it can be anywhere really as long as it suggests the theme and catches people attention.

On a 2 page spread it's often on the first page but it can also be virtually anywhere such as:

Horizontally across the page (top, middle or bottom)
Vertically down the left- or right-hand side of the page
Lower right-hand corner of the page

The name of the event and the date of it are useful things to include in the title. It makes for easy reference when people flick through your scrapbook.

If you see a layout of magazine cover that catches your attention or an advertisement somewhere that caught your eye, have a look at it for a second or two and ask yourself; what is it about that layout that caught my eye.

Where was the title
How big is the title text in relation to the rest of the page
Where are the picture placed, how are they used
Anything different used to catch attention? Such as shapes, background embellishments?

Once you have sketched out where you think your various elements should go, use old card stock to cut out the shapes and see how they fit on the page or pages. This will save you money again as you won't waste your best paper on a test.

balance -it needs to look and feel right
making it interesting with the shapes you use
informative
pleasing to the eye