It’s the Christmas season! Another big season for all crafters! You have always come up with a Christmas scrapbook every year, and you suddenly realize that you have been working with the same layout all the time. That’s boring! It’s about time to switch things up. Christmas is a fun season with a lot of fun activities and memories you would love to keep forever. This season shouldn’t pass by without you preserving some of the fun memories!
You can go about this by trying out one or more of the suggested Christmas scrapbooking ideas below. We have compiled some of the best Christmas scrapbooking ideas we could find, with different prototypes, layouts, and themes.
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We hope you find one that suits you and gets you excited. You wouldn’t only be putting a smile on the face of whoever is reading it, but you will also have the fun of your life making it! Keep reading to unravel these ideas. Have a great 5 min read!
Family Moments Christmas Scrapbooking
This is the best time to capture every moment of your family time. Christmas is a fun season when you get to see all your relatives you haven’t seen in a long while.
Since Christmas is a great bonding season for family and friends, this is the best time to take pictures of everyone, The best times are Christmas morning when everyone is unwrapping there gifts or around the table for Christmas dinner!
Nobody has to know that you are about to snap them, unaware pictures are beautiful in their unique way.
How To Make A Great Simple Family Moments Christmas Scrapbook
- Grab your Christmas photos and your album ready to start crafting.
- Choose two of your favourite bright Christmas colours (Or just go for the basic red and white) and get the crayons out!
- Draw a margin around the pages of your scrapbook and shade the spaces of these margins with the crayons. This makes the pages of your scrapbook unique and colourful.
- Organise and lay out all the beautiful pictures you have taken over the least Christmas season, and lay them out on your scrapbook page. You could chose to add Christmas themed backing paper for your pictures at this point.
- Write the back story of each picture in contrasting colours around them. and use glue or double sided tape to fix your pictures in place.
- Add Christmas themed embellishments and stickers to decorate your pages, let lose and make them your own!
Gifts And Presents Christmas Scrapbook
This is a sort of straightforward Christmas scrapbook. All that you are journaling about is the different gifts that each relative and family member of yours got as a Christmas present. It can also include the gifts you sent out to your friends or the gifts your family came together to agree to gift other people.
To make this super fun, you can try to capture the moments when people were receiving their gifts and their reactions in our experience these are the best pictures! The memory’s of tying to capture these moments will bring a smile to your face whenever you are reading through your scrapbook.
Tips For Christmas Gifts Scrapbooking
- Set aside two pages for each person in your family, friends, or any other loved ones you would love to include in the scrapbook.
- The first page will only have two pictures. The first picture will be the gift each person is receiving or giving out. The other picture will be the picture that captured the moment and reaction of both the giver and the receiver of the gift. The second page will be a little note or backstory about the gifts and persons that both gave and received the gifts.
- To make the page more colourful, you can experiment with different Stickers or the pens you are using to note down these memories. Use a combination of red and green pens, with each being used in different sections of your write-up.
We have brainstormed two beautiful themes for the scrapbook above, but this time around, let’s change the layouts!
Christmas scrapbook with different sticker embellishments
The first aim is to get colourful with fun sticker embellishments. One way to achieve this is through the use of great Christmas sticker packs and Christmas paper pads. These embellishments could be as a flat sticker, or 3D if you want something extra fancy.
After building your basic scrapbook pages, you can then play around with the design. With these different sticker embellishments. Asides from Christmas stickers, you can also do Embellishments like ribbons or wrapping paper, or even a customized sticker of your family members!
The aim is to make it colourful like the way Christmas itself is colourful thereby, do not forget to experiment with different colours of stickers on the same page, don’t be afraid of over doing it its your scrapbook after all!
The Shining Christmas Scrapbook Idea
Making your scrapbook shine is another great way to get someone glued to your scrapbook. Imagine the fun of going through what you documented or seeing another person go through your Christmas memories, sounds great! Therefore, you ensure your scrapbooking is lively and fun by adding a shining effect. Nobody should be bored while going through your Christmas scrapbook, so make it unique and make it your own!
This is also a quick and simple way to go since all you need is some basic scrapbooking equipment and techniques to introduce a shimmery effect to your scrapbook. To really make your scrapbook stand out, you can pick up some scrapbooking paper and glitter card stock.
Use these along with punches, die cutters or the humble pair of scissors to create beautiful cut-outs to decorate your pages!
You can also use a glue pen and some glitter or shimmering powder to decorate your pages, or even your photos if your feeling adventures!
A few other ways to make your Christmas scrapbook sparkle is by using one (or more) of the following:
- Heat embossing
- Hot foiling
- Glitters
- Sequins
- Metallic or glitter pens
3D embellishments Christmas scrapbook
Remember we discussed the addition of embellishments with the use of stickers? Well, maybe it’s time we go more creative. Instead of going for embellishments that are like a sticker, why not try a real object? Sounds fun right? That’s exactly the goal! This is the time you can get creative with your scrapbook using your favourite embellishments and objects is the best bit!
You can decide to add embellishments based on the theme of the scrapbook or the theme of each page of the scrapbook. However, this is not a rigid idea, as you can also decide to experiment with whatever comes to your mind. Note that you have to be extra careful during the process when you have to attach these embellishments so you won’t turn your scrapbook into a mess.
You also have to ensure that the colours of the embellishments you are adding must be colours that match. To avoid causing a colour riot that takes the attention off of your photos, we suggest you stick to just two to three colours. Examples of some real-life object embellishment include:
- Ribbons
- Wrapping paper
- Gift Tags
- Fabrics
The Monocoloured Christmas Scrapbooking Idea
So we have been emphasizing using two or more different colours of layouts and additional embellishments in your scrapbook, which is a great idea. but if you feel you are doing too much with colour this ones for you!
Understandably, you might not want to go for too many colours for your scrapbook. Sometimes, less can be truly more. You can decide to work with just one colour for all the layouts and embellishments in your scrapbook. It is however recommended not to go for something low-key or dull. A bright colour, say red or green will surely come out great.
The Christmas Tree Story Christmas Scrapbooking Idea
Having discussed some beautiful layouts of designs for your scrapbook, let’s talk about another interesting theme idea for your Christmas scrapbooking. This time around, you are journaling the events that happened while you and your family were decorating the Christmas tree.
With pictures and small write-ups, you are documenting all that happened, start from the trip to pick out the tree and decorations. And finish with a beautiful picture of your family in front of your finished Christmas tree! Don’t forget to include loads of photos of everyone’s roles in decorating your Christmas tree. This is a fun story to write about as it keeps reminding you of the fun moments you had during the beautiful period of Christmas.
Here a really neat video we love with 10 Christmas scrapbook layouts from, Christine Meyer.
Conclusion
Scrapbooking is the best way of saving different pieces of our lives to share and reminisce later. It is the use of properly journaled photos and writings for easy reference that creates a great scrapbook. But its the personal touches and stories that make it special! This day-to-day photo journaling helps you preserve different memories for new generation to see and enjoy. We do hope the tips above helped. Do leave us a comment below, we would love to hear about your Christmas scrapbooking stories!
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