How To Create Premade Scrapbook Pages

Hi. I'm Susie Jefferson and I'm thrilled to have been invited by Kay and Gray with Blade Rubber Stamps to come and talk to you today all about what I know about scrapbooking. Hi again.

Now, we're going to have a look on how to do premade scrapbook layouts. This is a very quick overview here. You can see I've got a couple of pictures, matted layered.

I haven't stuck them down but this is just to give you an idea of where they would go. Ditto on this side. Now, this works beautifully if all your photographs are of the same size.

If you photographs are not same size, then you have to plan ahead a little more carefully, perhaps make a little note on the back with a post-it or something saying which photograph's are going on which page and which place. All of these I've been able to cut to exactly the same size and in fact, as most of my photographs for this album, would be the same size, I could actually continue right away through my book, preparing all of this ahead of time, which is really going to speed it up. Then I can just take my time with my photo corners and my embellishments etc.

This is a little rub-on sentiment. I've got the same one here. These are sticker borders, sticker border there, sticker border there and then of course, I've got my chip board letters and here finally are my little stick on it popsy stickers so I can spell my names out.

Right, now, here are some I made earlier. This is a great idea of you're producing the theme scrapbook because you can pretty much set up all your pages ready to go even with the little blocks where you're going to mount your photographs. Here, I've got border stickers.

Border stickers, again. So I could actually follow my theme all the way through. I might want these mats same colour every other page.

Ditto with these and then all I have to do is actually place my photographs and possibly my lettering. So, this is my little nautical story so that can go there. Then I'll use my usual favourite method of blue photo corners whatever.

Pop that down. That one will go there so I'm echoing my page layout without actually repeating it too closely. Pop all those down there and those are ready to be mounted.

And then I've got a choice for my titling. I might be using these. Again, they go perfectly with both the grey and beige colour.

So, everything is working together. And then in with my actual little letters, possibly the name of the child or some sort of a story, you know 'Gomesc', 'Waitesee'. That's what I'm thinking.

I'm thinking he fell in love, she burnt him, she married that man, she's always regretted it and now he's a sailor. This ends my little tips and tricks on these premade layouts. What I will say is try and keep it fairly generic.

If you're creating an entire album, all the papers are going to go together; all the layouts are going to go together. Try and repeat the same trimmings as far as you can. If not every page, say every few pages.

It gives it a little sense of flowing continuity and I think then you'll find it very pleased with the finished result. .