Another great technique for scrapbookers is paper layering. It may sound new to you, but it has been used, believe it or not by you in the past and you don’t even know you are doing it! It simply is a technique where you lay a foundation paper of color and design and then overlay it with a picture, a journal, or a 3-D piece. Sometimes paper layering can save you time from formally matting a picture or an illustration you want to add to a page.

For some ideas, try to alternate contrasting paper colors for that "eye jarring" effect. Sky’s the limit in what kind of papers and colors you can combine or layer together with. I have found that making different geometric shapes of different colors and pasting them on top of each other in various patterns make very interesting displays. Try angles, circles, squares, and strips. They all work well together.