Color is my thing. I don’t like to put too much on a page – one can overdo it with all the awesome stuff out there. I am careful to match colors in the pictures to papers and things I use, but I try to match one of the less dominant colors. It makes things pop.

I love the rub on stuff that’s out there now, much better than the first rub on products.

i also collect stickers with sayings and quotes to use for areas that need a little something but I don’t want to journal. Sometimes just a few words say it all.

I guess everyone has their own scrapbooking philosophy. Some love to journal, some will decorate a whole page with just one picture. Some are techniqe junkies!

That’s the great thing about scrapbooking, it’s all your own style.

Color and Balance. It took me all those words to just say that.

I also like card making as well as scrapbooking. I like to use stamped/embossed lettering, verses, pictures etc to decorate the page. I also like to use unique decoragive yarns to make like a banner to hang the words from.
One of my other favorites is printing onto velum in all different lettering and colours. You can scan your Marrieage Certificate, or some other kind of certificate onto clear velum printed faintly and put that over a main picture on teh mirrored page.

I Love Scrapbooking!!! Okay i would say the most important thing to me is to have a theme and have a layout planned out before you put your pictures down.

Remember that the point of scrapbooking is to preserve your memories. It doesn’t matter what the scrappers in the magazines do. I only use stickers, cardstock, paper, stamps, and pens since I can’t afford all the fancy stuff with my budget(I don’t get allowance!)

Two organization tips I love (I answered someone else’s question with this):

I keep my stickers in a binder filled with two-sided sticky pages with a plastic covering each side (they used to be photo albums, before the sturdier ones we have now were invented; now you can buy them almost anywhere). This is perfect for me, as I simply lift the plastic, take out what I need, and put the remains back in. Also, I can easily rearrange pages and stickers to keep the album organized by subject (food, letters, numbers, stars/flowers, smileys, etc.), and the binder hardly takes up any room.

Another idea is to have one 12×12 scrapbook filled only with decorative scrapbook papers (the removed white ones can be used to replace a mess-up). This way they can be viewed and removed easily, and this too does not take up a lot of space.