Are You Using Scrapbook Titles to Enhance Your Pages?

Adding wording and verbiage to your scrapbook pages is important and fun and a part of creating scrapbook albums.You might be adding additional paragraphs to your layout or using scrapbooking titles, and you may want to include the name of your photo’s subject or a date and location for some of your photographs.  Wording can really make your page come alive and can help you remember times and locations for vacation or other photos, and certainly the add some personalization as well – the name of the pet is often used on pages with their pictures, and baby pages usually have the child’s full name as well.  But there are some creative and fun ways you can use scrapbook titles to make them seem as actual elements on the page, not just an addition or afterthought.

For one, scrapbook titles are a great way to tie an album together.  As an example, if you’re putting together a wedding scrapbook album you might want to use different short phrases or words that pertain to a wedding or to romance, and add these on the same spot on every page in the same font.Scrapbook titles help your scrapbook page layuts to have a cohesive look.  You can do this with a vacation scrapbook, graduation album, or with just about any album you create.

Scrapbook titles make great borders for page elements like photos and mementos.For example, you can use “baby girl” for a photo of your daughter, but put “baby” above it and “girl” below it so it gives the impression of a frame for your photo.  This helps to anchor your photo and draws the eye toward it as well.  Many use three small photos all taken from the same angle but one right after another on their pages; scrapbook titles can help to tie these together.  You can use three simple words, one under each page, to give them a nice flow.

Paying attention to the font and type styles that you use for your scrapbook titles is important as well.  Smaller sizes may mean simpler fonts so that you can read the words; save the fancy scrollwork for the larger lettering!Or mix them up – one word plain, the next word fancy, the next one plain, and so on.  This will give some personality to your scrapbooking page layouts and really help the wording stand out as well.