Page Plans
Call them what you want – a template, sketch or pattern – a page plan does exactly what it’s name suggests: provides you with a PLAN for placing photos, journaling and embellishments on a page. We often use plans to help us achieve our goals, so why not use a plan for your page in order to achieve the goal of preserving and sharing your memories?
Professional designers, scrapbook artists, first time scrapbookers, those who say they are not creative, those who have limited time to spend on their scrapbooks, frugal scrapbookers and smart scrapbookers can all benefit from page plans.
Simply choose a plan and copy or imitate where the photos, journaling and embellishments are placed to create your own new layout. This is called “scraplifting” and it is highly encouraged within our hobby!
Start by gathering your photos and supplies and start playing with them, placing them in approximately the same positions they are on the layout. Sometimes your layout will turn out very similar to the original plan and sometimes they take on a life of their own!
Once you find a plan you like, make sure to keep a copy for future reference. Try storing a paper copy in a 3 ring binder or copy the jpg to a folder on your computer.
There are lots of places to get page plans. We will be adding them here on a regular basis for your use so check back often. You can also find them in books and magazines, and online.
Becky Higgins is the queen of sketches. Her work appears regularly in Creating Keepsakes Magazine and she has published several books of page sketches as well. Look for “Becky’s Sketches” articles in almost every issue.
Becky Fleck provides “Page Maps” on her blog and in Memory Maker’s Magazine.
Scrapbooks Etc. Magazine is another magazine with lots of great sketches. And they include all the sketches on a pull-out sheet at the end of the magazine to pop in your reference binder.
Check back as we list more sites and sources.
