Scrapbook Layout Titles

The Importance of Page Titles

While not all scrapbookers choose to incorporate page titles into their layouts, there are many benefits of adding a title to your project. Titles often provide useful information, such as “Emily’s First Christmas” or “Logan’s Superhero Collection.” This type of title makes it easy for the viewer to determine the topic of your page without taking the time to read a large journaling block. Even titles that are a bit more abstract in nature, such as “Can’t Help Falling in Love” or “Home is Where the Heart Is” are still useful in that they can help reinforce your page theme.

Finding Ideas for Scrapbook Layout Titles Online

The Internet is a great resource for finding scrapbook title ideas. To begin your search, LoveToKnow Scrapbooking suggests visiting the following helpful Web sites:

• The Perfect Title lives up to its name by helping you find unique titles for all of your scrapbook projects.
• Scrapbook.com has compiled an extensive database of title ideas for scrapbooking projects. Suggestions are organized by theme, such as ancestors, friendship, country life, sports, vacations, and work.
• Scrap Sayings is a large directory of poems, quotes, and sayings for scrapbooking projects. Many of their suggestions would work well as page titles.
• Scrapbook Creations has a simple collection of page titles grouped by theme.
• Witty Living provides title suggestions for some of the most common scrapbooking topics.
• Quote Mountain has a short list of quotations that would work well as scrapbook layout titles.

Scrapbook Title Idea Books

If you frequently scrapbook away from your computer, you may wish to invest in an idea book that features suggestions for scrapbook layout titles. For example:

• Totally Toppers and Titles: The Little Pink Book by Cheryl Bradbury
• The Write Words by Crystal Dawn Perry
• Embellished Emotions for Scrapbookers: Designing Pages with Poems, Quotes & Sayings by Trudy Sigurdson
• Scrapbook Borders, Corners & Titles: Fresh Techniques and Innovative Ideas for Designer Pages by Memory Makers
• Tips, Tags and Titles: Scrapbook Sampler Idea Book by Leisure Arts

Creative Title Treatments

Once you’ve chosen the perfect title for your scrapbook page, consider using one of the following fun techniques to add extra pizazz to your project:

• Print your title out using a fun font, then highlight the most important words with a bit of scrapbook chalk.
• Print your title on a transparency, then layer it over top of your layout’s dominant photo.
• Use rubber stamps to spell out your title on a tag and accent with a piece of pretty ribbon.
• Combine several different styles of epoxy letter stickers to create a title with a “ransom note” effect.
• Fake the look of a hand painted title by printing your words on the lightest gray setting possible. Color directly over the title with acrylic paint, colored pencils, or watercolors.
• Experiment with the text effects in Microsoft Word to create titles that circle around your page.
• Design a layered title by printing part of your title on a sheet of vellum and placing it over a background of sticker letters.
• Make a rebus style title by using small picture embellishments to replace some of the words in your title. For example, a heart shaped brad can be substituted for the word “love” or a smiley face sticker can be used in place of the word “happy.”
• Use a label maker from an office supply store to create your title.
• Apply rub on letters to plain tin tiles, then attach to your page with glue dots.