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Adding wording and verbiage to your scrapbook pages is important and fun and a part of creating scrapbook albums.You might be adding additional paragraphs to your layout or using scrapbooking titles, and you may want to include the name of your photo’s subject or a date and location for some of your photographs.  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.You can use scrapbook titles in fun and creative ways to make them appear as actual page elements and not just an 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.Scrapbook titles help your scrapbook page layuts to have a cohesive look.  You can do this with a vacation scrapbook, graduation album, or with just about any album you create.

You can also use scrapbook titles as photo borders or borders for mementos.For example, you can use “baby girl” for a photo of your daughter, but put “baby” above it and “girl” below it so it gives the impression of a frame for your photo.This will anchor the photo and helps to draw the eye toward it too.Some scrapbookers use 3 small photographs all taken from the same angle, but one right after the other on their layouts; using scrapbook titles can help tie these photos together.You can use 3 simple words and put one under each page in order to give them a nice flow.

You will want to pay attention to the type styles and font that you use for your scrapbooking titles too.Use simpler fonts for smaller sizes so you can still read the words, and save the fancy scrollwork for larger lettering on your pages!Or mix them up – one word plain, the next word fancy, the next one plain, and so on.  This will give some personality to your scrapbooking page layouts and really help the wording stand out as well.