Use pencils, markers or crayons to add doodles to your scrapbooks.
Doodling may not be a waste of time, after all, as it adds youth and a funky artistic twist to traditional scrapbooking methods. Many scrapbookers have decided to take a doodling approach to decorating pages rather than using the common stickers, stamps and embellishments alone. Give it a try on one of your scrapbook pages.
Child Doodles
Create a colorful scrapbook page for your family. Give your child a set of colored markers or crayons and a blank scrapbook page. Give her only the colors that you want included on the page, and ask her to draw something specific that relates to the pictures you're planning to put on it. For example, specify a house if your pictures are of the whole family. Arrange your pictures on the page the way you normally would, and then add extra embellishments if you like. The result will be a scrapbook that not only holds your photo memories, but also the child's artwork.
Word Collage
Place your photos on the scrapbook page in any way you want. Add a few ribbons, stickers or other embellishments. Leave most of the page blank around the photos. Use a pen or colored marker to hand-write descriptive words or names of people and things that either relate to the pictures or are things you like. For example, around the photo of you and your best friend, write words and phrases like "friends forever," "best friends," or "best buds." Write words in random styles, like bold print, cursive, bubble letters and block letters.
Tattoo Doodle
Create fancy and delicate designs or rough and rugged shapes.
Create a scrapbook made up of interesting and increasingly popular tattoo art. Tattoo art has become very fashionable, as clothing designers have begun incorporating tattoo-like graphics on trendy t-shirts and purses. Draw your tattoo art from some of your local tattoo shops, or get inspiration from body art that you've seen on other people. Choose tattoo-type images that wok well with the photos on the page. For example, if you are making a page for your mother, draw a classic heart with "Mom" written inside.
