The key parts of a scrapbook page are:
- photos,
- journaling,
- title,
- embellishments,
- canvas
Not every page has every part—but most pages have most parts.
Knowing this gives you a framework, touchpoints as you put things together and make photo, supply, and design choices.
It’s also a great starting point for gettting new ideas for your pages.
For an introduction to each page element:
- Scrapbook page parts: canvas
- Scrapbook page parts: photos
- Scrapbook page parts: embellishments
- Scrapbook page parts: titles
- Scrapbook page parts: journaling
We’ve got plenty of articles that give you ideas and how-tos for each of these elements here:
Photos
- 10-Photo Scrapbook Pages
- 3 Steps for Photo-Inspired Storytelling and Sharing
- 3 Ways to Edit Your Photos for Scrapbook Pages with Totally Rad Lab
- 3 Ways to Scrapbook “Portraits”
- 4 Ways to Tell Scrapbook Page Stories When You Don’t Have Photos
- 4 Ways to Use Repeated Photos on Your Scrapbook Pages
- 5 Photo Ideas for the Scrapbook Page
- 5 Reasons to Use Black-and-White Photos on Scrapbook Pages
- 5 Tips for Taking Everyday Life Photos
- 6 Design Solutions for Getting More Photos on Your Pages
- 6 Reasons to Mix Color Photos with Black-and-Whites on Your Scrapbook Pages
- 8 Photo Apps for Adding Text and Art Overlays To Your Pictures and Scrapbook Pages
- Add Your Scrapbook Page Journaling Directly to Photos
- Before You Press the Shutter: Four Ways to Improve Your Photography
- Blurring the line between photo and canvas adds design oomph to your scrapbook pages
- Crop Combinations that Get Both Details and Context on Your Scrapbook Pages
- Cropping Photos of People for Scrapbook Pages
- Designing Scrapbook Pages with Square Photos: Stable But Not Boring
- Easy Scrapbook Page Recipe: Make Repeated Photo Border
- Finding Room for Journaling on Scrapbook Pages with Lots of Photos
- Give Old Photos and Stories New Life on Heritage Scrapbook Pages
- How to Make a Scrapbook Page Focal Point When Everything is the Same Size
- How to Organize and Present Party Photos on Two-Page Scrapbook Layouts
- How to select events photos for scrapbooking
- How to Use the Lines in Your Photos to Strengthen Scrapbook Page Design
- Hybrid Scrapbooking: fill text with a photo
- Hybrid Scrapbooking: Make a “Photo booth” Photo Strip
- Idea Round Up | 6 Ideas for Scrapbooking Your Family Heritage
- Ideas for Composing the 2-Photo Scrapbook Page
- Ideas for Composing the 3-Photo Scrapbook Page
- Ideas for Composing the 4-Photo Scrapbook Page
- Ideas for Composing the 5-Photo Scrapbook Page
- Ideas for Editing Your Poor-Quality Photos with Apps, Actions and Techniques
- Ideas for Making Multi-Photo Scrapbook Pages
- Ideas for Mixing Old and New Photographs on a Scrapbook Page
- Ideas for Photo Shortcuts To Help You Scrapbook Faster
- Ideas for Playing with Human Scale on Your Scrapbook Pages
- Ideas for Scrapbook Page Designs with Tilted Photos
- Ideas for Scrapbook Page Storytelling with Full-Width and Full-Height Photos
- Ideas for Scrapbook Page Storytelling with Photos You Didn’t Take
- Ideas for Scrapbook Page Storytelling with Staged Still Life Photos
- Ideas for Scrapbook Pages with 6 Photos
- Ideas for Scrapbook Pages with 7 Photos
- Ideas for Scrapbook Pages with 8 Photos
- Ideas for Scrapbook Pages with 9 photos
- Ideas for scrapbooking retro photos and memories from the 60s, 70s, and 80s
- Ideas for Taking and Scrapbooking Photos That Create a Record of Your World
- Ideas for Telling Stories on Scrapbook Pages Without Photos
- Ideas for Using Double Exposure Techniques on the Scrapbook Page
- Including context in your photos
- Meme Trends and Old Photos
- Organize Your December Album by Theme This Year
- Organizing Events Photos
- Organizing Everyday Life Photos
- Organizing Photos
- Scrapbook Ideas for Using 360 Degree Photography to Tell Your Stories | Page Guide No. 12
- Scrapbook page parts: photos
- Scrapbook Page Storytelling with Retro Filtered Photos
- Scrapbooking Heritage Photos with Contemporary Product
- Scrapbooking Ideas for Getting Your Story Told with Selfies
- Scrapbooking Ideas for Layered Photo Treatments
- Scrapbooking Ideas for Photo Backgrounds and Foundations
- Scrapbooking Ideas for Using 4″ x 6″ Photos on Your Scrapbook Pages
- Scrapbooking Ideas for Using Nature Photos to Tell a Personal Story
- Scrapbooking Ideas for Using the Sight Lines in Your Photos
- Scrapbooking Ideas Inspired by Artsy Portraits
- Scrapbooking your childhood with limited or no photos
- Smart crops for multi-photo scrapbook pages
- Some Scrapbook Page Stories are Best Told with a “Single and Pretty” Approach
- Speed scrapbook page design with smart crops
- Storytelling on the Scrapbook Page with Photos of Objects
- Take Control of Your Photo Volume
- Tell Your Scrapbook Page Story With Photos of Details
- Ten Quick Ways to Make Over Your Photos!
- The Art of Photo-less Scrapbooking
- Transforming Photos into Digital Art
- Use Documentary-Style Photography to Tell a Story About Motherhood
- Video Blog | 3 Ways to Scrapbook Portraits
- Video Blog | Scrapbooking Ideas for Using Nature Photos to Tell a Personal Story
- When A Photo Series Is the Best Storytelling Approach
- Win a spot in The Phone Photography Project
Journaling
- 10 ideas for placing scrapbook journaling on your page
- 10-Photo Scrapbook Pages
- 20 Lessons on Scrapbook Page Journaling
- 3 Color Scheme Approaches for Scrapbooking Heritage Photos
- 3 Journaling Treatments That Add Texture and Dimension to Your Scrapbook Page
- 3 Scrapbook Page Stories You Can Tell with a Venn Diagram
- 3 Steps for Photo-Inspired Storytelling and Sharing
- 3 Ways Kim Watson Uses Everyday Photos to Ponder the Big Stuff on Scrapbook Pages
- 3 Ways to Include Dialogue in your Scrapbook Page Journaling
- 3 Ways to Scrapbook “Portraits”
- 4 Ways to Tell Scrapbook Page Stories When You Don’t Have Photos
- 4 Ways to Use Repeated Photos on Your Scrapbook Pages
- 5 Photo Ideas for the Scrapbook Page
- 5 Reasons to Use Black-and-White Photos on Scrapbook Pages
- 5 Tips for Taking Everyday Life Photos
- 5 Ways to Get Computer-Printed Journaling On Your Paper Scrapbook Pages
- 5 Ways to Make Scrapbook Page Journaling A Dynamic Part of Your Visual Design
- 6 Reasons to Mix Color Photos with Black-and-Whites on Your Scrapbook Pages
- 6 Storytelling Approaches for the Scrapbook Page
- 6 Ways to Create More Room for Journaling on Your Scrapbook Pages
- 7 Ways to Make Meaning-Rich Events Scrapbook Pages
- 8 Ideas for Scrapbook Layout Design with Circles
- 8 Voices To Capture in Scrapbook Journaling and Titles
- Add Your Scrapbook Page Journaling Directly to Photos
- Craft a Memoir One Story at a Time.
- Crop Combinations that Get Both Details and Context on Your Scrapbook Pages
- Cropping Photos of People for Scrapbook Pages
- Delightful Days of Supposing | A Personal Essay on One Family’s Gifting Culture
- Designing Scrapbook Pages with Square Photos: Stable But Not Boring
- Easy Scrapbook Page Recipe: Make Repeated Photo Border
- Everyday Storytelling with Modern Media
- Evoke feelings and abstractions by writing with concrete details – The Merle Haggard way
- Finding Room for Journaling on Scrapbook Pages with Lots of Photos
- Give Old Photos and Stories New Life on Heritage Scrapbook Pages
- Give Your Photos Stories Podcast | 001 Posed with Cars
- Give Your Photos Stories Podcast | 002 Grandma
- Give Your Photos Stories Podcast | 004 Big Storms
- Give Your Photos Stories | The 5 Story Prompts and a Swooped Story Example
- Give Your Photos Stories | Use the Details in your Photos to Find and Move a Story Forward
- Go from Photos to Scrapbook Page in 5 Steps (free e-class)
- How 1 Set of Photos Inspired 3 Scrapbook Page Stories
- How to get computer-printed scrapbook journaling onto decorative tags
- How to handwrite in shapes on your scrapbook and journal pages
- How to include scanned handwriting on your scrapbook page
- How to make circle journal spots for your scrapbook and journal pages
- How to Make Scrapbook Page Designs that Appeal to the Senses
- How to Organize and Present Party Photos on Two-Page Scrapbook Layouts
- How to select events photos for scrapbooking
- How to Tell Your Story | 10 Stories to Start Writing Your Memoir
- How to use journaling strips to rock your scrapbook page design
- How to write with narrative and scene in your scrapbook page journaling
- Idea Round Up | 6 Scrapbook Page Storytelling Angles
- Ideas for Adding Visual Pizzazz to Your Scrapbook Page Journaling
- Ideas for Composing the 2-Photo Scrapbook Page
- Ideas for Composing the 3-Photo Scrapbook Page
- Ideas for Composing the 4-Photo Scrapbook Page
- Ideas for Composing the 5-Photo Scrapbook Page
- Ideas for Editing Your Poor-Quality Photos with Apps, Actions and Techniques
- Ideas for Including Trendy “Easter Eggs” into Your Scrapbook Page Storytelling
- Ideas for Mixing Old and New Photographs on a Scrapbook Page
- Ideas for Passing Along Wisdom via the Scrapbook Page | Page Guide No. 19
- Ideas for Scrapbook Page Designs with Tilted Photos
- Ideas for Scrapbook Page Storytelling with a “Photo Journalist” Style | Page Guide No. 1
- Ideas for Scrapbook Page Storytelling with a Timeline
- Ideas for Scrapbook Page Storytelling with Maps
- Ideas for Scrapbook Page Storytelling with Photos of Bugs and Critters
- Ideas for Scrapbook Page Storytelling with Retro Tech Motifs
- Ideas for Scrapbook Page Storytelling with Scallops
- Ideas for Scrapbook Page Storytelling with Staged Still Life Photos
- Ideas for Scrapbook Page Storytelling with the Family Tree Motif
- Ideas for Scrapbook Page Storytelling with Trendy Brush Script Elements
- Ideas for Scrapbook Page Titles from Inspiring Quotes and Sayings
- Ideas for Scrapbook Pages about Gifts Given and Received
- Ideas for Scrapbook Pages that Record Your Intentions
- Ideas for Scrapbook Pages with 6 Photos
- Ideas for Scrapbook Pages with 7 Photos
- Ideas for Scrapbook Pages with 8 Photos
- Ideas for Scrapbook Pages with 9 photos
- Ideas for Scrapbooking A Favorite Personal Indulgence
- Ideas for Scrapbooking A Treasured Friendship
- Ideas for Scrapbooking Gardening and Yardwork
- Ideas for Scrapbooking Graduations and Milestone Ceremonies
- Ideas for Scrapbooking Household Chores
- Ideas for Scrapbooking Inventory Photos that Record Your Everyday Life
- Ideas for scrapbooking retro photos and memories from the 60s, 70s, and 80s
- Ideas for Scrapbooking Travel Preparations
- Ideas for Scrapbooking with Free Public Domain Images
- Ideas for Scrapbooking Your Goals
- Ideas for Shapely Journaling that Reinforces Meaning and Story on Scrapbook Pages
- Ideas for Writing Scrapbook Page Journaling in the Form of a Letter
- Including context in your photos
- It’s a Love Story | Scrapbook Ideas for Telling Your Love Story
- It’s not “Murder on the Orient Express” But . . . How to Write Memoir
- Make a Scrapbook Page Based Upon a Journaling Prompt
- Meme Trends and Old Photos
- Merge Title and Journaling for a Scrapbook Page Story with Unity and Charm
- Objects of My Youth | on the need to create
- Pair Your Photo with Haiku Journaling to Evoke a Moment
- Scrapbook Ideas for Bringing Conversations to the Page
- Scrapbook Ideas for Journaling With Your Own Handwriting
- Scrapbook Ideas for Making Your Story the Star of The Page
- Scrapbook Ideas for Stories About Dress-up and Disguises
- Scrapbook Ideas for Telling More of Your Character’s Back Story
- Scrapbook Ideas for Telling Your Tribe’s Story
- Scrapbook Ideas for Using a Q + A Journaling Approach
- Scrapbook Ideas for Using Interactive Elements on the Page
- Scrapbook Page Design Choices Inspired by Board Games
- Scrapbook page journaling: justification that strengthens design
- Scrapbook page parts: journaling
- Scrapbook Page Starter: Use a Story-First Approach | Page Guide No. 6
- Scrapbook Page Storytelling Inspired by the “Humans of New York” Blog | Page Guide No. 10
- Scrapbook Page Storytelling When Setting is Key
- Scrapbook Page Storytelling with a “Moment” Story Style that Evokes Mood | Page Guide No. 13
- Scrapbook Page Storytelling with Cross-Out Poems
- Scrapbook Page Storytelling with Cut-Paper Collage
- Scrapbook Page Storytelling: Start a Ticking Clock
- Scrapbooking Ideas for Designing with Text Elements
- Scrapbooking Ideas for Getting Your Story Told with Selfies
- Scrapbooking Ideas for Storytelling with a List
- Scrapbooking Ideas for Telling A Story with Numbers
- Scrapbooking Ideas for Telling Stories about Luck
- Scrapbooking Ideas for Using Striped Patterned Paper to Evoke a Mood
- Scrapbooking Ideas for Visual Storytelling with the Artsy Story Style
- Scrapbooking Ideas for Visual Storytelling with the Compositional Story Style
- Scrapbooking Ideas for Visual Storytelling with the Reflective Story Style
- Scrapbooking Ideas Inspired by Artsy Portraits
- Scrapbooking pages with perspective: consider opposing points of view
- Scrapbooking With Intention
- Scrapbooking with Perspective: your place in someone else’s life
- Smart crops for multi-photo scrapbook pages
- Some Scrapbook Page Stories are Best Told with a “Single and Pretty” Approach
- Story Forms for Scrapbook Pages: Tell a Journey Story
- Story Forms for Scrapbook Pages: Tell a Slice-of-life Story
- Story forms for Scrapbook Pages: Tell an Ah-ha! Story
- Story forms for your scrapbook pages: There’s a bear at the door!
- Storytelling on the Scrapbook Page with Photos of Objects
- Take Control of Your Photo Volume
- Tell the Story of an “Object of Your Youth” and What it Means Today
- Tell Your Scrapbook Page Story With Photos of Details
- Ten Quick Ways to Make Over Your Photos!
- The Art of Conversation: Transform Your Scrapbook Journaling Through Dialogue
- The Art of Photo-less Scrapbooking
- The Scrapbook Pages With BOTH Narrative and Visual Tension Are the Ones that Resonate
- The Typewriter is a Retro Motif Perfect for Personal Storytelling on Scrapbook Layouts
- The Work Travels Forward | on creativity and doing work you love
- Tips for writing about yourself on scrapbook pages
- TLS007: Make a Scrapbook Page | Finding Your Story
- Transforming Photos into Digital Art
- Typesetting on Scrapbook Pages: Alignment
- Use a Known Phrase as Metaphor for Your Scrapbook Page Story
- Use Apps and Social Media for Pre-Scrapbook Storytelling
- Use Design Elements to Reveal Character in Your Scrapbook Page Stories
- Use Documentary-Style Photography to Tell a Story About Motherhood
- Using Round-ups on Your Scrapbook Pages
- Video Blog | 3 Journaling Treatments That Add Texture and Dimension to Your Scrapbook Page
- Video Blog | 8 Voices To Capture in Scrapbook Journaling and Titles
- Video Blog | How to Pile New and Trendy Products On Scrapbook Pages and Still Tell A Story
- Video Blog | Ideas for Including Trendy “Easter Eggs” into Your Scrapbook Page Storytelling
- Video Blog | Ideas for Scrapbook Page Storytelling with the Family Tree Motif
- Video Blog | Paper and Digital Techniques for Making Your Own Flat Geometric (Low Poly) Elements
- Video Blog | Scrapbook Page Storytelling When Setting is Key
- Visual Storytelling on Scrapbook Pages with Character, Setting, and Plot
- When A Photo Series Is the Best Storytelling Approach
- When Short Journaling Works on a Scrapbook Page
- Write a Six Word Memoir or Life Story for Scrapbook Page Journaling
- Writing that conveys your story AND the times in which it takes place
Titles
- 10 Ideas for Quick Scrapbook Page Titles
- 10 Ways To Put a Title on Your Scrapbook Page
- 20 Scrapbook Page Ideas Inspired by Movie Titles
- 4 Formulas for Generating Scrapbook Page Titles You’ll Love
- 4 Ways to Create Scrapbook Page Titles with Contrast
- 5 Ideas for Using Digital Word Art for Scrapbook Page Titles
- 5 Ways to Make High-Contrast Titles and Tell Your Scrapbook Page Story
- 5 Ways to Make Your Own Ransom-Alphabet
- 6 Scrapbooking Ideas for Telling Your Story with High-Impact Type Treatments
- 8 Voices To Capture in Scrapbook Journaling and Titles
- 9 Embellishing Perk-ups for Your Scrapbook Page Titles
- Big Scrapbook Page Titles that Earn the Space They Fill
- Build Your Own Suite of Favorite Fonts for Scrapbook Page Titles
- Content and Design Ideas for Long Scrapbook Page Titles
- Do you need that scrapbook page title? Only if it’s doing a job and doing it well
- Font Tricks for Making Scrapbook Page Titles
- How to come up with scrapbook page titles from sayings, quotes, titles, famous lines & lyrics
- Hybrid Scrapbooking: fill text with a photo
- Ideas and Design for Two-Part Scrapbook Page Titles
- Ideas for Designing with Fonts on Your Digital and Hybrid Scrapbook Pages
- Ideas for Long Titles on Scrapbook Pages
- Ideas for Scrapbook Page Storytelling with Trendy Brush Script Elements
- Ideas for Scrapbook Page Titles from Inspiring Quotes and Sayings
- Ideas for Scrapbook Page Titles that Come From Your Journaling
- Ideas for Scrapbook Page Titles With Meaningful Content & Design
- Ideas for Titlework on Project Life and Pocket Scrapbook Pages
- Ideas for Using Designer Art and Font Bundles for Your Digital and Hybrid Scrapbook Pages
- Ideas for Using Short Titles on Scrapbook Pages
- Ideas for Using Subway Art on Your Scrapbook Pages
- Merge Title and Journaling for a Scrapbook Page Story with Unity and Charm
- Roundup of Ideas and Tutorials for Scrapbook Page Titles
- Scrapbook Ideas for Creating Tension with Type | Page Guide No. 18
- Scrapbook Ideas for Playing with Orientation in Your Title Work
- Scrapbook Ideas for Using Geometric Fonts in Your Titles
- Scrapbook Ideas for Using Hand Lettering in Your Titles
- Scrapbook Page Titles
- Scrapbooking Ideas for Ransom-Note Titlework
- Scrapbooking Ideas for Speeding Up Title Work and Embellishing
- Scrapbooking Ideas for Telling A Story with Numbers
- Video Blog | 8 Voices To Capture in Scrapbook Journaling and Titles
Embellishments
- 4 Design Elements that add Scrapbook Page Polish: Color, Texture, Pattern & Shine
- 4 Ways to Strengthen Scrapbook Page Design with Embellishments
- 5 Ways Wilna Furstenberg Uses Patterned Paper to Embellish Scrapbook Pages
- 6 Ways to Add Banners to Your Scrapbook Pages
- 6 Ways to Embellish Scrapbook Pages With a Series Cluster
- 6 Ways to Make Embellishment Clusters on Scrapbook Pages
- 8 Ideas for Embellishing Scrapbook Pages with Circles
- 8 Ideas for Embellishing Scrapbook Pages with Washi Tape
- 8 ideas for placing embellishments on the scrapbook page
- 9 Embellishing Perk-ups for Your Scrapbook Page Titles
- Choosing Embellishments for the Scrapbook Page
- Embellishment Collections Have Over-the-Top Appeal and are a Great Way to Stash-Bust
- Get Inspired by Stand-Out Product for Your Next Scrapbook Page
- Go Off the Edge with Clusters and Bits For Scrapbook Pages with Tension
- Go-to Embellishing Approaches Make Scrapbooking Easier
- How to Make a Paper-pieced Monkey Embellishment
- How to Pile New and Trendy Products On Scrapbook Pages and Still Tell A Story
- Ideas for Copic Marker Coloring on Scrapbook Layout Embellishments
- Ideas for Embellishing Scrapbook Pages with a Sprinkling or Trail
- Ideas for Embellishing Scrapbook Pages with Monograms
- Ideas for Oversized Embellishments on Scrapbook Pages
- Ideas for Scrapbook Page Embellishment Clusters
- Ideas for Scrapbook Page Embellishment with Clusters
- Ideas for Scrapbook Page Embellishment with Found Objects
- Ideas for Scrapbook Page Storytelling with an Emoji Motif
- Ideas for Scrapbook Page Storytelling with Badges
- Ideas for Scrapbooking with Free Public Domain Images
- Ideas for Using Designer Art and Font Bundles for Your Digital and Hybrid Scrapbook Pages
- Ideas for Using Product that Help You Scrapbook Faster
- Ideas for Using Subway Art on Your Scrapbook Pages
- Keep Your “Small and Versatile” Embellishments Handy for Every Scrapbook Page
- Keeping the Grid Design Fresh on Scrapbook Pages | Using Grids Within the Design
- Make Your Own Paper Scrapbook Page Embellishments with Digital Products
- Make Your Own Scrapbook Page Embellishments with Dingbat Fonts
- Place embellishments to support scrapbook page flow
- Pom Poms on the Scrapbook Page Add Trendy and Fun Texture, Color, Shape and Whimsy
- Scrapbook Embellishments Idea | Tone-On-Tone Color-Blocked Grids
- Scrapbook Ideas for Combining Embellishments in Clusters, Stacks, Series and More | Page Guide No. 14
- Scrapbook Ideas for Upcycling Your Older Products | Page Guide No. 17
- Scrapbook Page Design Embellishing with a Visual Triangle and Visual Hierarchy
- Scrapbooking Ideas for Including Memorabilia on Layouts about Entertaining
- Scrapbooking Ideas for Speeding Up Title Work and Embellishing
- Scrapbooking Ideas for Storytelling and Design with the Constellation Motif
- Sian Fair Makes Scrapbook Layouts with Charming Details | Motivated to Scrapbook Series
- Some Scrapbook Page Stories are Best Told with a “Single and Pretty” Approach
- Tell a Story with Vintage Ephemera | Caroline Preston’s Scrapbook Novel
Canvas
- 4 Ideas for Starting Scrapbook Pages with a Pieced Background
- 6 Tips for Using Patterned Paper Backgrounds on your Scrapbook Pages
- Blurring the line between photo and canvas adds design oomph to your scrapbook pages
- Creative Cutouts for Your Scrapbook Page Canvas
- Get Started Scrapbooking | 6 Ways to Make the Page Canvas
- Get Started Scrapbooking | Why Canvas Shape and Size Matter
- Save Time, Play with Technique, and Use Scraps by Pre-Making Scrapbook Page Bases
- Scrapbook Ideas for Using Meaningful Shapes and Silhouettes in Your Scrapbook Page Foundations | Page Guide No. 7
- Scrapbooking Ideas for Patterned Paper Backgrounds
- Scrapbooking Ideas for Photo Backgrounds and Foundations
- Scrapbooking Ideas Inspired by Blurred Backgrounds in Web and Graphic Design
- Tell a Bigger Visual Story When You Extend Your Scene Off the Canvas | Page Guide No. 11
- Video Blog | 5 Ways to Use Shapes to Start Your Scrapbook Page Designs
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