Tuesday Tips!

Your Tuesday tip for today involves templates! Say that five times fast!

Do you ever find yourself absolutely stumped? You have some great pictures, but you can't think of a thing to do with them. Or you really want to do some scrapping, but you're pressed for time. This is when scrapbooking templates can come in very handy.

There are a lot of designers out there who offer layered templates on their websites or blogs. I like templates much better than Quick Pages (which are pre-finished pages that you just drop a photo into) because I control the papers and elements being used on my page. I can also delete some of the elements if I decide not to use them, or add additional elements as well. I do find that you have to be selective when looking through templates. You might have to do some searching to find a few that are perfect for you. For example, I enjoy using multiple photos on my layouts, but many templates are set up for a single photo. A great template I found today can be found here. (Scroll down a bit - it's at the bottom of her blog entry!)

Also, if you are new to using templates (or to digital scrapbooking altogether) there is a wonderful video on using templates that can be found here.

Happy scrapping!