Find the perfect way to share your happy family photos, sunny holiday snaps and other precious memories!
Scrapbooking will always be a fun, creative and colourful way of displaying your favourite photos. Unlike standard photo albums, you can add colourful decorations, creative layouts and all kinds of embellishments to make your scrapbook completely one-of-a-kind.
From adding sparkly glitter to crafting elaborate backgrounds, the possibilities really are endless. This can make scrapbooking seem a little daunting for beginners, so we’ve put together a list of easy scrapbook ideas you can try without any fuss.
It doesn’t matter if you’ve never made a scrapbook before in your life, these photo scrapbook ideas just require some scissors, glue and your printed happy memories.
1. Start your theme with a killer front cover
Before you start any gluing, cutting or pasting, you’ll need to choose a theme or topic for your photo scrapbook. Whether you’re filling the pages with cute baby photos, sunny summer snaps or precious family memories, the best scrapbooks set the scene right from the front cover.
Although you can buy scrapbooks with a ready-made theme, there’s just no beating a cover that showcases one of your own amazing photos.
2. Frame single images with colourful embellishments
Sometimes less really is more. Instead of filling pages with as many photos as possible, this easy scrapbooking idea involves using one photo per page to highlight a particularly amazing memory, event or person.
Simply stick your chosen photo in the centre of the page, and then surround it with colourful stickers, tape, doodles, trinkets, patterns and other embellishments that really draw the eye. This scrapbook page idea is all about bringing a single photo to life and making sure it gets the attention it deserves!
3. Cut photos into fun shapes and sizes
There’s not a boring rectangular image in sight. Using the same old standard photo prints can soon get repetitive, so try cutting your photos into circles, octagons, hexagons and loads of other shapes to mix things up a bit.
Using these photo shapes within repeating patterns is also a super-cute scrapbook idea. Just imagine how striking your octagonal photos will look atop an octagonal background, displayed alongside octagonal stickers, artwork and other embellishments!
4. Design a vintage black & white photo scrapbook
From old family photos to using filters on your phone, print your photos in black & white to create your own vintage-style scrapbook page. For the most jaw-dropping effect, display your black & white photos alongside colourful artwork and backgrounds to serve up an absolutely gorgeous visual contrast.
5. Get creative with bright colours and vibrant patterns
Scrapbooks are a place for creativity to run wild. Slotting photos inside a standard photo album is all well and good, but scrapbooks give you a chance to play around with patterns, backgrounds and colours to really bring out the best in your photos.
You might want to fill a page with beautiful floral patterns, cute love hearts, colourful stripes, polka dots or a million other things that really make your photos pop.
6. Add text to tell a scrapbook story
Don’t be afraid of using too much text in your scrapbook, as this is always the best way to share your most special stories. Colour scrapbook backgrounds and glitter are always fun, but large blocks of text will add context to those truly memorable photos and let you write out your memories to look back on.
7. Showcase your photos with colourful washi tape
Using colourful washi tape is one of the easiest scrapbook ideas on this list. Simply grab an array of different colours, and use the tape to separate different sections, border your photos, create grids and shapes, reduce negative space or simply add some flair to your scrapbook pages.
Washi tape is available in so many colours and patterns you might not know where to start. It’s all about choosing tape that suits your scrapbook themes - whether that involves flowers, sunshine, puppies or outer space!
8. Store photos & trinkets inside mini envelopes
Here’s one for those looking for small and cute scrapbook ideas. Stick mini envelopes to your pages and fill them with small photos, tickets, letters or any other trinkets you want to save in your scrapbook forever.
Colourful, patterned envelopes look the most adorable here, but you can always add your own scribbles and doodles to old standard envelopes instead. Whether it’s a family day out or a memorable first date, little envelopes are great for storing extra memories alongside your treasured photo.
9. Arrange your photos in bold shapes
Skip the standard scrapbook page layouts, and arrange your photos and embellishments into bolder, more creative shapes instead. While there’s nothing wrong with a good old square grid, arranging photos into stars, triangles, circles and even Christmas trees makes your scrapbook feel much more fun.
10. Share your travel adventures with maps
Location, location, location. Those looking for travel and holiday scrapbook ideas should try including maps that show where a photo was taken, the route of a journey or any other meaningful place you’ve visited during your travels.
Maps can be turned into beautiful backgrounds, little embellishments to surround your photos or even as the main focal point of your page. Print out your favourite holiday snaps and then arrange them on top of the map to show exactly where you were!