Stop Scrapper’s Block

Ideas for using Products

Ideas for different Techniques

Ideas for Journaling & Titles

Use a paper doll or the sizzix doll diecut, don’t have either of those, improvise.  Cut a circle for head, triangle/rectangle for body and add legs/arms, use a pen to detail

Use only cardstock on a layout, if it is too bland, use rubber or foam stamps to create a background, tear and chalk or ink edges, weave the CS to mix & match colors, etc.

Journal in your own handwriting, if you don’t like your writing, find a creative way to hide it, in a tag behind a photo, a journal box that flips open, under a photo that flips up, etc

Use glitter/glitter pen or stickles on a layout, use it to accent diecuts, stickers, punchies, etc.

Use a black background (can be black printed paper) accent with red, white or dark purple

Mix template letters for a title, try using the negative of the cut out letter.

Use alphabet rubber or foam stamps, instead of ink try acrylic paints

Use only scrap pieces of paper from your stash except for the background paper

Pick key words in your journaling to highlight in a larger font

Use a specialty paper on your layout (cork, metallic, diamond dust, Mulberry, etc)

Use bright & bold colors for a layout, great for summer photos or birthday party photos

Embellish various letters in your title with brads, eyelets, or doodles

Use letter stickers, diecut letters, or rub-ons

Mix patterned papers; Use at least 3 different patterned papers in the same layout

Create a handwritten title

Use flowers somewhere on your layout (diecuts, fabric flowers, silk flowers, punches, etc)

Make a pocket page.  Great for holding celebration cards, kids artwork, momentos, or brochures

Turn on the TV, use the first words uttered on the TVin your layout

Use decorative scissors

Use crumpled or creased paper on a layout.  Try crumpling, inking “mountains” and flattening back out.

Journal on vellum over a photo

Use stickers creatively; try sanding, inking or painting them; or make a scene w/stickers

Make a monochromatic layout ; meaning use at least 3 shades of the same color, can be cardstock or pattern paper

Hand cut out the letters for a title using an xacto knife/tiny scissors; use mirror print on PC

Cut images from patterned paper to use as an embellishment

Try your hand at sanding your pattern paper

Journal 2 different points of view for each photo

Use a game piece (puzzle pieces, scrabble, cards, etc) in a layout

Print a photo on watercolor paper, tear and chalk edges

Use single word adjectives to describe the person in a photo

Use a decorative punch; do punch art

Do a vellum overlay over a photo; or try printing our photo onto a piece of vellum.

Use colored pencils or markers on your title

Use beads (you can glue directly onto paper, or string them, get creative)

Incorporate the use rubber stamps on a layout

Use die-cut letters for a title

Use fabric for background, or mats, try cutting out flowers or other diecut images out of it.

Do paper weaving or folding, try your hand at origami, or iris folding on a layout

Use a quote on a layout

Use magic mesh, try embossing it with gold or silver even.

Use multiple circles or ovals in various sizes on a layout

Cut a title from cursive font

Use ready-made frame, border, title on a layout.  If it is too *whatever* - sand and ink it up.

Use a lot of photos, try creating a layout using 10 photos, think creatively to accomplish this.

Incorporate the name of a television show into the title

Use a paper crimper, try inking the humps for a fun distressed look.  Stamp an image onto a piece of paper, then crimp, then ink edges, gives it a sort of an oriental look.

Write a letter to the person in the layout

Use the name of a book for a title

Use something you received in a swap, never done a swap – join a online group and give it a try.

Use colored pens or markers somewhere on your layout

Place the page title vertically

Use a diecut creatively; try sanding, painting, inking, chalking, add glossy accents, glitter, beads, etc

Make a quilt page

Print title on vellum and attach to layout using brads, eyelets, or sew it on

Use photo corners, can be punched, metal, etc.  If they are a boring color – change the color, ink or paint em’

Create a black and white layout

Dangle something from a letter in the title using (wire, raffia, string)

Use a keepsake pocket or vellum envelope. If you don’t own an already made on – make one there are lots of templates free for download online.

Use stencils as part of your title or journaling.

Use the title only to explain your pictures - no journaling

Use something stringy…fibers, ribbon, lace, wire, twine, or raffia.  Make a frame, weave behind the title, border, or hang something from them.

Do a color-blocking layout

Do hidden journaling, Journal under a lift up photo or on a tag behind a photo

Use something from nature, doesn’t have to be real, a stamped image, a diecut or punch

Crop a picture in a circle or oval

Use the name of a song for a title

Use all pastel colored paper in a layout.

Use only patterned paper

Use a poem on a layout

Use eyelets, brads or buttons

Dangle tags from photo mat

Journal using a list

Use dried, pressed flowers/leaves, pick up some silk flowers from the craft store

Make and use a shaker box

Use a computer-generated title

Use pop dots to create a 3D effect on an embellishment

Make and use a paper piecing

Use the word love in the title

Use the last thing you bought

Use only red, white, and blue

Use a prayer or bible verse

Use a photo mat, if you normally single mat, try a double or triple mat on a photo or two in your LO

Do quilling on a page

Machine sew or hand stitch a title

Use a charm

Use only scrap papers from stash

Put title letters on individual tags

Use a template of any kind, could be an envelope, a tag, a shape, or alphabets for a title, etc

Machine sew on a layout

Journal on a photo mat

Incorporate the use of plaid paper into your layout.

Embellish the four corners of a layout

Use a photo for a template letters

Use clay

Wet or Dry emboss on a layout

Create a Shaker box title

Use a new to you tool; check out what your LSS carries or perhaps your friends at a crop

Make a shadow box layout with foam core

Use foam stamps and paint to create title

Use bugs (dragonfly, butterfly, lady bugs, etc) on a layout, can be diecuts, punches, stickers, etc

Hand stitch or cross-stitch on a layout

Use rubberstamps to create title

Find a fun item in your hubby’s toolbox to use as an embellishment

Do a paper-tearing layout; tear the photo edges; tear a paper piecing and use it

Use a pre-made title, if you don’t like it – try sanding and ink to change the look of it somewhat

Use glossy accents, try creating page pebbles, fill a bottle cap and add beads and such, add to diecuts, etc.

Use a brayer and create a unique one of a kind background

Use various different letter stickers to create your title

Ideas for different Layouts

Print a photo on vellum

Use a panoramic photo on LO

Create a fall layout

Use a 5x7 or larger picture on a layout

Create a vacation or dream vacation layout

Scrap a holiday in non-traditional colors

Take a layout you've created that you love, and recreate it with different colors and theme

Create a layout using photo edited photos, like color tinting, black and white, etc

Create a layout based on a single word (like love, art, passion, inspiration, determination, etc)

Create a school related layout

Create a winter or snow layout

Create a house and home layout

Scrap a family tradition

Create a spring or garden layout

Create a church activity layout

Create an animal layout (zoo, pets, and could be people)

Scrap a food related event (cooking, picnic, restaurant)

Scrap a toy related layout (big boys, kids, dogs)

Create a “In Remembrance” of layout

Create a layout w/out pictures (must have journaling)

Create a holiday or other celebration layout

Create a heritage layout

Scrap a patriotic page

Scrap a sports event or game

Create a career layout

Scrap a current event

Create a summer layout

Create a before & after layout (remodel, make over, diet, pregnancy)

CASE a layout-meaning copy and steal everything - use the same colors and techniques

Use photos from different time periods (to show change or similarity over time)

Scrap an accomplishment - yours or family

Create a like father like son or like mother like daughter layout.

Convert an 8 ½ x 11 page to a 12x12 layout

Create a “back in time” layout

Create a nautical layout; something water related (beach, pool, pond, lake, bathtub, rainstorm, or squirt gun)

Create a “All me” layout using your pictures of you doing what you do whether housework, hobbies, etc