A Beginner's Reference to Digital Scrapbooking

Inspirational Sketch

An inspiration scrapbooking sketch is a drawing with suggested spaces for photos and/or elements, a title, and often journaling. The scrapbooker uses the sketch as a blueprint and places items in roughly the same area. Sketches are great for inspiring you to do a layout a bit different than your usual style. There are books of sketches and you can also find sketches on many digital scrapbooking sites. Scrap-Maps is a site dedicated to sketches. In the top example above you can see a digital scrapbooking sketch and a layout based on the sketch.

Scraplift

A scraplift is when you see a layout of someone else's that you like and you then copy it with your own photos and your own flare. Scraplifting is considered a huge compliment, but always be sure to give the person you copied credit if you post the layout publicly. In the lower example above, the layout on the right by Bonnie Covel was scraplifted from the layout on the left by Cara Lowe. Cara used a sketch inspiration from KiwiScraps to complete her layout.