A very warm welcome to The Cherry On Top, scrapbookers, crafters and memory keepers.
Memory keeping is a wonderful hobby. There are so many different ways to document your memories and scrapbooking tops the list. It is an awesome experience, paging through a scrapbook. Each and every time you turn the pages, you’re flooded with cherished memories.
What an experience it is, designing your own wedding scrapbook. Especially the one for your wedding or someone you love. You’ll find yourself smiling, laughing and reminiscing about all of the fun and memorable scenes as you work on your scrapbook.
It might seem like a daunting task. We’re here to make the process easy, fast and enjoyable. Check out these tips and tricks to beautify and speed up the process. You will be totally inspired and itching to get started.
You can use our page inspiration and tips and tricks to scrapbook a traditional, paper scrapbook, too. I have dozens of blogs on paper scrapbooking. Scroll back and see what you can find or use our search at the top of the blog.
There are a lot of things to consider before you get going. Let us help you hash it all out.
Things to consider for your albums:
How much time do you want to spend on your album?
How much money do you want to spend?
How many pictures do you want to include?
What kind of order do you plan to go in?
We’ll go over some details for all of these so that it will be easier for you to make a decision and we'll give you ideas for your album as well. Hopefully, you’ll find new concepts, too.
Do you want to get this over and done with as soon as possible or do you plan on taking your time, enjoying the entire process and have zero time restraints?
Consider the style of your scrapbook and how much time you are willing to spend on each page. There are wonderfully easy and fast styles to scrapbook in. Here is an example of an insanely difficult layout, made easy with a layered digital template.
Below, I used a template to quickly crop in adorably fun photos of my niece and her “team”. You can design a page like this in 15 minutes or less! It’s also an awesome way to get a lot of pictures on one page. The page scraps in minutes and I could use a lot of pictures. You could go even smaller with the photo sizes if you have to. That way, you could even double the amount of pictures on your page. If you have a lot of pictures and you want to save time and money, then go for a style like this.
If you plan on going more ornate or if you wear the cluster queen crown, then you’ll need to give yourself more time.
The above page requires more hours, for sure. I am sharing a way to get around this further in the blog. So keep reading if you want totally gorgeous, ornate pages quickly.
If money is of no consequence, then any style and format will do. Lucky you! If your expenditures are limited there are still a lot of options. Scrapbooking digitally will save a lot of time, hassle and money. Whoo hoo! There are very few items you’ll have to purchase and depending on the size of your album and how many pages are in them, you can control printing costs.
You can choose to print at home and creatively bind or print on a smaller format if you don’t have a large 12x12 printer. A super easy option is printing through a company like Persnickety or even a local store.There is typically quite some room to play, financially. The more pages, the more it’ll cost ya. Shiny pages cost more and the kind of cover you choose can also increase your overall cost. As well as what kind of cover hard or soft, etc.
Important Notes About Your Wedding Pictures
Carefully place your clusters on your page and don't be afraid to keep it simple.
As you can see with the above layout, the pictures are not great quality. This is what happens when you use pictures from a cell phone. Keep that in mind, for sure! If you can afford a photographer to click all the way into the night, it is highly recommended. Especially, if you are wanting a high quality, gorgeous scrapbook.
Size matters! In regards to your pictures, keep size in mind. If you are going to design your scrapbook from start to finish, all on your own, page by page, then just size the pictures as you go. Let me show you what I mean.
If you were to print out all of your pictures professionally, in the same size, you wouldn’t have this kind of flexibility. This is not only a huge sized photo, but it’s crazy easy and fast to scrap. It looks pretty amazing as well and the photo is significant enough to enlarge to this size, too.
Another tip about photos that will help with choosing a process, style and type of album, is picture organization. Gather and group photos how you want them on the page. You can do this physically as well as digitally.
Organize photos in an envelope and put a page number on the envelope (in pencil, you will probably change it a lot). If you’re doing it digi then simply slide the photos you want on a new page and scrap later. Each page represents a page in your album. That’s how I did mine.
Another thing to consider is where you want to start? Will you start from when you were dating? The proposal? The bachelorette party? The shower? Will you simply scrap the wedding and reception? Think about all of the things we already mentioned as well as this and the order you want to go in and you’re nearly ready to get started.
Chronological is probably the easiest way to scrapbook and organize.
Coordinating a Scrapbook for Your Wedding
Considering our above questions, it’s time to start thinking about the details. If you are one of these mitchy matchy types, then I’d suggest purchasing an enormous digital (or physical) collection that would include: embellishments, journal cards, word art, borders, paints, paper and graphics. That's what I did.
This way everything and or all of your pages throughout the album will match. This style is most often the one preferred by most. If you notice throughout this blog, that was what I’ve done. This is also a huge way to save time. You won’t have to keep looking and searching for a style, theme and colors that all match.
Make sure you stay cohesive with your theme and style. Cutesy, whimsical on one page and vintage on the page next to it, may not give you the affect you are looking for.
Look for a collection, coordinating packs with a fair amount of colors and elements. This way, you won’t get bored by page 5. If the color palette is extensive, it will go a lot further.
I totally recommend sticking with a style. Use it throughout your album for the best cohesive look. If you’ve got just a little software savvy, you could tweak the colors in all of the different packs so that everything fits perfectly together with your palette.
Also worth mentioning, when you’re surfing around type in different things in the search like, “romantic, love, wedding, bride, hearts…” and all kinds of different items will appear.
I customized this entire collection to match the colors in my niece’s party. Tip: If you’re finding it difficult matching the colors exactly, go for a palette that is neutral. Perhaps mostly white, off white, light grey, beige and slip in some colors that coordinate with the colors in your pictures.
See how colors like these might go with any kind of wedding photos? Super light colors and or black and white is versatile, too. Also note the color repetition. It’s a great way to keep a cohesive look on your page.
Save Time Designing Your Scrapbook With These Tips
Another awesome time saving tool for scrapbooking your wedding album or any album or page layout are templates. Templates are amazing! Shave off hours of scrapbooking time and you don’t have to think about “how” you want to scrap your page because the design has already been laid out for you. Fantastic, right?!
Nearly all of the pages I designed for my niece's wedding were from my templates and they don't have to be wedding templates.
Gather as many packs of templates that would look awesome for weddings and change them up when you can, by turning them on their head or even just 45 degrees to the right or left. Check out the two pages below. It's the same page, with different pictures and the pretty cluster is shifted to other side of the page. These look gorgeous side by side.
Consider journaling because you won’t remember everything. Trust me on this one. Leave some space to journal, use quotes, poems and even things that your guests may have said that brought a laugh or warmed your heart.
Choose a font or three and stick with those for a more cohesive look in your album. Consider the style of text you are going to use.
Another cool way to save time and get creative is by using svg’s geared towards romance, love and weddings.
Hiring someone to design your scrapbook might seem like a great idea. Let me point out some pluses and minuses with that. You will still spend time gathering the photos you want the designer to use. You’ll still have to choose colors, themes and give information like dates, names and perhaps help with titles and journaling and tweaking it all together at the end.
It is very expensive and after all of that, you might not even love the end result because it isn’t all yours. The process of scrapbooking is very fulfilling. You don’t have to be an expert or have a lot of experience or supplies.You just need a little guidance, some examples, great templates and fabulous designs for your album pages.
I design professional scrapbooks for people and it costs $40-$70 a page! You can choose your style, colors...I can even design an entire scrapbooking collection for the pages like I did for my niece, but it'll cost ya! Hehehe...And it will take a few months to complete. Then you have to pay for the printing and the cover choice.
You can spend as little or as much time and money on a scrapbook and get great results with these tips.
Hiring someone to design your scrapbook might seem like a great idea. Let me point out some pluses and minuses with that. You will still spend time gathering the photos you want the designer to use. You’ll still have to choose colors, themes and give information like dates, names and perhaps help with titles and journaling and tweaking it all together at the end.
It is very expensive and after all of that, you might not even love the end result because it isn’t all yours. The process of scrapbooking is very fulfilling. You don’t have to be an expert or have a lot of experience or supplies.You just need a little guidance, some examples, great templates and fabulous designs for your album pages.
I design professional scrapbooks for people and it costs $40-$70 a page! You can choose your style, colors...I can even design an entire scrapbooking collection for the pages like I did for my niece, but it'll cost ya! Hehehe...And it will take a few months to complete. Then you have to pay for the printing and the cover choice.
You can spend as little or as much time and money on a scrapbook and get great results with these tips.
You can totally do this! Start planning your wedding scrapbooking album, today. Peruse shops for templates and designs that appeal to you. Look through our YouTube channel for helpful tips and pop over to our community to ask questions and get ideas.
Gather those pictures, write down some memorable quotes, look for fabulous designs and get your crafty scrap on.
If you still need more inspiration, take a look at the rest of my pages and I've got a super fun run through of the album in a video, too. See it quickly and all at once, here.You might be surprised how nice a digital album comes out. I know I was!
I'll quickly run through the next pages and add tips and tricks where I can to help you even further.
Above I used one of my templates and designed the truck element to match the collection.
This is a similar page I designed for Plus that you can grab.
The black on gold is so luxurious, no? I only used a few elements on the page, above. Copy, paste and position to perfection.
How you crop your photos depends on the space you've got when it comes to getting a lot of pictures on one page and depending on the template shape form. Ya may have to get a little creative at times. Just don't ever distort your pictures. Leave some extra background or maybe even cut off part of a person. Look carefully above at what I've done.
I've got loads of tutorials as well as, Watch Me Scrap videos.
I just designed the above wedding products so I could give ya a freebie. If you want them all, pop over to my shop and make them yours. CLICK HERE to see which design is today's freebie.