Scrapbook Doodling
Pen Possibilities

Check out these pen possibilities

Personalize your scrapbook page layouts with scrapbook doodling. From a couple of strokes of the pen, to a page full of doodles, the possibilities are endless.

Scrapbooking pens can be used in many different ways. Here are just a few.

• Create borders and corners for your pages.
• Hand-lettered scrapbooking page titles.
• Enhance stickers, die cuts and photo mats.
• Add borders around photos.
• Add random doodles to your page.
• Create a fancy monogram.

There are several different tips available. Different tips will create different effects in your scrapbook doodling.

Use just one or mix them all together for creative effects and lettering styles to match the personality of your page.

• Fine-tip Pens – These are a great choice for journaling. They are also perfect for detailed doodles and accents. Great for outlining shapes and letters, drawing fine polka dots, swirls, stitches and dashes.

• Chisel-Tip Pens – Create elegant letters (calligraphy style) by holding the pen at a 45-degree angle. Hold the pen straight up, vertically for a fine line. Position the pen horizontally for a thick bold line.

• Round-Tip Pens – These pens create a consistent bold line. Great for creating bold lettering, tracing templates and making bold polka dots and swirls.

Create borders with scrapbook doodling directly on the page, or add some detail to papers or stickers used for borders. Templates and edge patterns make creating borders easy.

Use them for the base of your doodle, then embellish with stickers and more doodling.

Unique corner accents are a snap. Add a few swirls, dots, or squiggles, decorate with some stickers and there you have it!

Try doodling with shapes that are used in your background papers or embelishments.

Liven up your photos with a few strokes of the pen. Decorate photo mats and frames with a few doodles.

This can be as simple as some dashes or dots, or go all out with flowers, swirls and cute little butterflies. Create a mat or photo frame around the photo with your doodles.

Scrapbook doodling adds flare to any page with hand-lettered scrapbook page titles. This also adds your personal touch to the page. The great part about doodling is they don't have to be perfect.

If you don't feel like you want to go completely freehand try using lettering stencils to lay out the basic letters in pencil. Go back over with your scrapbook pens to fill them in and embellish the letters.

These are few ideas for doodling your scrapbooking page titles.

• Add style to your ordinary letters. Using fine-tip pens, add curls, hearts, dots, etc. to your letters. Add small stickers to the letters to create a similar effect with buttons, dots or flowers.

• Add an elegant calligraphy style to your lettering with chisel-tip pens. Mix thick lines and thin lines together.

• Draw balloon letters freehand or use a template to outline letters. Fill them in with color, dots, stripes, flowers, etc.

• Use a round-tip pen for lettering, then use a different color to outline the letters.

• Draw your designs lightly with a pens, then trace over them with your pens.

• When lettering or drawing borders, draw a light line in pencil as a guide. This will keep things straight. Sketch letters lightly with pencil first to help with spacing. Gently erase pencil marks after ink is dry.

• Everyone makes mistakes. Don't be discouraged, there are ways to camouflage or cover them up. Cover your mistakes with stickers, or paper. Some companies offer correction stickers that matches their scrapbook pages (Creative Memories' Write Again Correction paper).

• Let ink dry before writing over with another color. This well keep tips clean. Wash rulers and templates in mild soapy water.

• Store pens horizontally when not in use. This keeps ink flowing evenly.