The first step in creating your scrapbook pages is to organize your photos and journal notes so that you can create your pages in a chronological order.

After you have all the necessary items in place, it is time to create a title for your scrapbook and the individual pages.

Titles for your scrapbook do not need to be poetic works of art, just something that will give an overall picture of the items that are to be included.

Scrapbooks that revolve around children and family are among the more popular themes.

In creating titles, you can choose humorous phrases, sentimental thoughts, or denote the special occasion in which the scrapbook is based.

The date and place of a birthday or anniversary party can be used in your titles as can the name and date of birth of the person in which the scrapbook is dedicated.

Company logos, family crests, and the names of teams or groups can be incorporated into your title as well.

In addition to finding the exact words you wish to use in your titles, be creative in the way you put these words in your scrapbook.

You could use acrylic paints to make your letters, print out building block type letters from your computer, or cut individual letters in different shapes and colors from magazines and newspapers and then glue or tape them to your scrapbook in a random or abstract fashion.

The one way that I like to display my titles is to have a sticker for each letter and create a nice background for each letter. I take a square, oval, or circle punch and punch out the nice cardstock that I like and that matches with my layout. You can then take each sticker and mount it onto the cardstock punch. And voila! You now have your nice new title.

The titles of your scrapbook pages can be as colorful or as unique as your imagination allows.

Vera Raposo has been scrapbooking for 8 years. With tons of scrapbooking tips and ideas, Vera is now sharing some of her best scrapbooking ideas for your new baby in her newsletter http://www.baby-scrapbooking.com