Capture the anticipation and fun of back-to-school in your school and everyday layouts by using school-inspired scrapbooking products. Here are three unique ways to use these products (including two sketches to help you scrapbook faster) and three fresh school-themed products you'll want to add to your scrapbook stash.

Experience by Joey Manwarren. Digital Supplies: Software: Adobe; Patterned paper, alphabet, clock, flowers, stitching, and tags: Katie Pertiet; Journal spots: Jen Allyson and Katie Pertiet; Overlay: Anna Aspnes; Font: CK Marissa.

Scrapbooking Cheat Sheet Page Type: Everyday life School Supply: Assignment card Cool Use: Journal a lesson learned in or out of school

Remember filling in the blanks on your elementary school worksheets? A quick-to-complete journaling spot makes it just as easy to add details of a special memory to a layout-just as Joey Manwarren did.

Good Chemistry by Aly Dosdall. Supplies: Patterned paper, die cuts, and stickers: Jillibean Soup; Buttons: BasicGrey and Creative Imaginations; Punch: EK Success; Other: Adhesive. Digital Supplies: Action: Pioneer Woman; Font: SBC Courtney's Journal; Other: Software.

Scrapbooking Cheat Sheet Page Type: Everyday School Supply: School-themed patterned paper Cool Use: Make a play on words

Out of the laboratory and into the scrapbook. Aly Dosdall's layout demonstrates how easy it can be to adapt a school-themed paper for a brand new subject.

-- Find more school-inspired scrapbooking ideas on page 2 --

Appeared in:

September 2011