Scrapbooking: Add Text to Your Photo ‘Moments’

Any scrapbook is more interesting when it contains photos as well as text‚ because neither one quite tells the whole story. There are many ways to combine these two elements‚ and by using several different techniques‚ you can have your scrapbook not only tell your story‚ but tell it with style.

Of course your can mount a photo on a page and write the description directly under it. Now look at some ways to make it more interesting. You can give it an interesting font. You can write it freehand or look to your computer for help. You can even find interesting fonts on the internet‚ and you can simply print‚ cut and paste.

From here you can get even more creative. Especially if you have a computer‚ coming up with creative ways to add print to a page gets easier the more that you do it. So start simple‚ and then just keep on building as your ideas start to flow.

Pictures make you think of much more than what you see in the image. Any picture causes you to make connections in your mind with other things that have happened in your life‚ so you can always draw from these sub thoughts to add additional images to add a little spice to your page.

You can always take a sentence and turn it into an artwork by manipulating it in any number of ways. You can make it bigger or only print every other letter. You can divide the sentence or use a different color for each letter. There is no limit to your creation‚ so look at your images and see where they take you.

For example‚ a photo of a Swiss mountaintop that you took on your vacation may make you think of a triangle. So shape your text in a triangle‚ and then color the top third of the words differently than the bottom. This way you will replicate the shape of your photo in the words themselves and can offer an artistic balance to your page.

You could also construct a window page. Simply mount a number of thumbnail photo images across your page. Then cut openings into another page and affix it over top of the thumbnail photos.

You can clasp each window shut with a tiny wire hook‚ and by doing this you have just added a three dimensional as well as an interactive component to your scrapbook.

Then if you want to go 3D on a whole new level‚ you can make a scrapbook cube. Much like a photo cube‚ you simply build scrapbook pages to insert into the square photo cube and you have an instant three–dimensional scrapbook.

Now the cube will not only display photos‚ but it will also display the story behind the photos. You can use embellishments and creative lettering to add interest to your cube pages.

There really is no limit to how you build your scrapbook pages‚ because if you can think it then you can build it‚ so get thinking!

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