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Adding wording and verbiage to your scrapbook pages is important and fun and a part of creating scrapbook albums.  You may be using scrapbook titles or you may be adding actual paragraphs to your page, and of course sometimes you want to add the name of your photo subject or a location and date for some pictures.  Wording can really make your page come alive and can help you remember times and locations for vacation or other photos, and certainly the add some personalization as well – the name of the pet is often used on pages with their pictures, and baby pages usually have the child’s full name as well.  But there are some creative and fun ways you can use scrapbook titles to make them seem as actual elements on the page, not just an addition or afterthought.

For one, scrapbook titles are a great way to tie an album together.  As an example, if you’re putting together a wedding scrapbook album you might want to use different short phrases or words that pertain to a wedding or to romance, and add these on the same spot on every page in the same font.  Your scrapbook titles will give your pages a cohesive look.  You can do this with a vacation scrapbook, graduation album, or with just about any album you create.

Try using scrapbook titles as borders for your photos or borders for your mementos.For example, you can use “special day” for a photo of your wedding, but put “special” above it and “day” below it so that it makes a frame around the photo.This will anchor the photo and helps to draw the eye toward it too.  Many use three small photos all taken from the same angle but one right after another on their pages; scrapbook titles can help to tie these together.  You can use three simple words, one under each page, to give them a nice flow.

Paying attention to the font and type styles that you use for your scrapbook titles is important as well.Stay with simpler fonts for smaller sizes so you can still read the words, and use the more fancy fonts for larger lettering on your layouts!  Or mix them up – one word fancy, the next plain, the next fancy, and so on.  This will give some personality to your scrapbooking page layouts and really help the wording stand out as well.

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