10 Scrapbooking Ideas Using Patterned Paper

It is always good to have a quick refresher on the basics. In the case of using patterned paper, one of the basic design concepts that is important is Repetition. This article shows you how to effectively use repetition in color, pattern, and shape. These fundamentals will make your scrapbooking design much stronger and more pleasing to the eye of the reader. Be sure to take note of an idea in Repetition that I call cross-pollination. It is especially important in double page scrapbook page layouts using patterned paper.

Angie Correa for Hot Off the Press shares with About.com Scrapbooking readers six fun tips for combining patterned papers on your scrapbook pages. How do you go about combining stripes, plaids, florals, dots, paisleys, and more without feeling completely overwhelmed? Angie will show you in six easy tips.

Veronica Johnson challenged About.com Scrapbooking Readers to show us your best ideas for using patterned paper on a scrapbook page and these twenty-eight scrapbook pages are the result of that challenge. Here you will find everything from little boy pages to beach pages. Some of the layouts are focused on events while others focus on introspective journaling. Get inspired to use your patterned paper stash with this massive scrapbook page gallery.

Need a quick idea to add some interest to your next scrapbook page? This border is quite simply a strip of patterned paper with some chipboard embellishments layered on top. This quick and easy idea finishes off this swimming page with a "splash."

Many of you love paper piecing and all of the free paper piecing patterns here on About.com Scrapbooking. Take your paper piecing to the next level by using patterned paper to make your pieces whenever you can. In this 20 page "Album in a Weekend" Jennifer Schmidt uses softly patterned papers to create many of her designs including a lighthouse, sailboat, and life preserver. Free patterns for all of the designs are included with each part of the article.

If you love finding new ways to use your patterned paper, then this is the technique for you. Simply roll coordinating papers into fun, little, paper logs and stack them on the page to make unique designed layouts. This article shows you how to make a Family scrapbook page and a Back to School themed layout. Jennifer's layout includes a shield shaped background element out of patterned paper that can be used on any theme of scrapbook page layout. The free pattern for the shield can be found in the article Free Shield Pattern and Scrapbook Page Sketch.

In this article, Wendy Smedley shares an excerpt from the Simple Scrapbooks Magazine article Just the Facts - July/August 2003. She shows you three design tips for working with patterned paper on scrapbook pages. For more ideas from Simple Scrapbooks Magazine, you can visit Creating Simple Scrapbooks.

Chipboard and patterned paper go together like cookies and milk, peanut butter and jelly, Bert and Ernie, . . . you get the idea. In this article, I show you in detailed step by step instructions how to create chipboard monogram letters that are covered in patterned paper. It is one of my favorite techniques and you will definitely want to give it a try on your scrapbook page layouts. For more ideas for making your own scrapbook page embellishments, be sure to check out DIY Scrapbook Page Embellishments where you will find many, many more ways to create unique pages while saving money on supplies.

A bracket on a scrapbook page works to contain all of the elements that are inside the bracket while telling the readers eye to "Look Here!" This article includes free bracket patterns and ideas for using them on a variety of scrapbook pages including Easter and Back to School themed scrapbook pages.

Pretty much every mini scrapbook that I make is covered in patterned paper. This gallery contains everything from mini scrapbooks that you can put in a mint tin or die box to one sheet of scrapbook paper mini books. Every one of them features patterned scrapbook paper.