Using scrapbook quotes should an essential part of your scrapbooking page ideas. It not only sets the scene, but is a great way to describe the emotion or feeling being portrayed in a photograph.

In this instance the words ‘and then he said’ have been used because at the moment the picture was being take the little boy said something that the scrapbooker wanted to capture and remember, ‘Nanny, you’re rubbish at football’.

Because the photo on this scrapbook page is black and white, the background of the page is a plain teal colour which is not very dark. This ensures the photo is not lost in the background.

The paper used along the top of the page has another scrapbook quote on it which says, ‘FUN has u right in the middle of it’. This quote was already on this piece of paper however if you do not have it already printed you could always write it free hand or use rub ons or scrapbook stickers.

The piece of scrapbook paper that runs down the side of the page has a child theme of robots and is simply a strip of paper that has been cut from a 12 x 12 scrapbook sheet. Decorative edge scissors have been used to cut this strip to give it a fancy edge and it has been attached to the page using double sided tape.

The cogs have been drawn with a cog stencil and cut from peach colored card. Small orange circles have been put into the centre of the cogs and scrapbook stickers have been used to put the name into the middle of the cogs.

To make the cogs stand out they have bee attached to the scrapbooking page using 3D foam and a silver brad.

The Journaling has been done on a shop purchased scrapbook embellishment and has been hand written. It is always a good idea to add the date or place of where the photo was taken when doing your journaling as these bits of information are the things you may forget in years to come.

The brad in the centre of the cog is silver however you can easily change the colour by using peel off pens or embossing powders.

Scrapbooking page ideas should always try to catch the essence of the photo and involve the reader by having interesting scrapbook quotes and journaling which describes the scene or event.