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! 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.
There are a lot of things to consider before you get going. Let us help you hash it all out.
Template and Designs from The Cherry On Top and Kreative Design Studio and a Fun Front Page Idea
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 efficient layout.
Template and Designs from The Cherry On Top and Kreative Design Studio and Look at all of the Photos
Above, 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. I liked up a similar template. If you are a Plus member, type in grid scrapbook template and you'll see a whole bunch of my template designs with this super easy style.
The Cherry On Top Template and Designs from Aimee Harrison with a Monotone Look
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.
If you have a lot of pictures and you want to save time and money, then go for a style like this.
Template and designs from The cherry On Top and Multiple Photo Idea
The page above 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.
Important Notes About Your Wedding Pictures
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.
Template and Designs from The Cherry On Top and Kreative Design Studio, Large Photo and Borders
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.
Template and Designs from The Cherry On Top and Kreative Design Studio and an Album Cover Idea
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.
Template and Designs from The Cherry On Top and Kreative Design Studio with Large Photo for Impact
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.
Here’s a selection from Design Bundles that would create a lot of pages for your wedding album.
The stationary or cards would make great matting and backgrounds. The lovely built clusters and frame clusters would save you a lot of time, too. There are papers and an alphabet in the pack. That’s perfect for titles and word art.
I totally recommend sticking with a style. Above is watercolor. Use it throughout your album for the best cohesive look. I’ll show off a few more examples on how you can pair up items from Design Bundles and Plus.
More beautiful watercolor designs from Plus that would rock your album.
All of these items are soft and similar in color. They might even pair well with the big pack I posted above. Now, that combination would definitely get you through an entire album. 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.
A sweet ensemble of light colored papers that go well together.
Mix and match papers from Design Bundles and Plus to get your background and matting together. Above, is a suggestion. Again, alter your colors to match perfectly if you know how. Though this match up isn’t too shabby.
Here is a different kind of style that might appeal to you. I’d call it cutsie or whimsical. Keep using this style throughout your album if that’s more your kind of thing. Check out how that pink watercolor paper matches with it. That sure would be a great paper pack to have in your stash.
For the above two images, simply make your own pack of solid, textured papers by color picking out the colors from the designs. These ideas will take you through a lot of wedding scrapbooking pages.
Also worth mentioning, when you’re surfing around Design Bundles, 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.
Template and Designs from The Cherry On Top and Kreative Design Studio, Keep it Simple
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
Template and Designs from The Cherry On Top and Kreative Design Studio, Change it Horizontally
How’s that for a sweet double pager or side by side layout and a fabulous time saver? Just change the juxtaposition of your page, plug in different photos and finished! You can do this a few times throughout your album.
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.
Template and Designs from The Cherry On Top and Kreative Design Studio, End Page Idea
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.
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. This font would be just dreamy for a wedding page layout and album.
Designs from Design Bundles Plus for a Journal Card and Elements
Another cool way to save time and get creative is by using svg’s geared towards romance, love and weddings. Here are a few examples from the shop and how you can use them on a scrapbook page from your wedding. Use them for titles and more.
Design quickly, easily and inexpensive with designs from Plus.
I quickly put together this page using a beautiful svg from Plus, just a few elements, shapes from Photoshop Elements and some texture. Add your gorgeous picture and you’re all scrapped.
Check out how you can use a “card” shape from Plus and a romantic svg to design a page.
Quick pages are scrapbooking pages that are 99% finished. All you have to do is add the photos.
