Made for your moments
Make a scrapbook collage
Kraft paper, tape and hand-drawn marks, laid out so it still prints cleanly.
Drop photos here, or paste from your clipboard
Examples
The details
| Backgrounds | 20 textures — paper, linen, kraft, grid, dots |
|---|---|
| Decorations | 24 scrapbook items — tape, clips, pins, torn labels, corners |
| Doodles | 20 marks |
| Tilt | up to 3° |
| Type pairing | Patrick Hand with Inter |
| Best print size | A4 at 300 DPI — 2480 × 3508 px, the size a scrapbook page usually is |
How it works
- Add your photos.
- Pick a paper, then add tape, clips and a few marks.
- Print at A4, or export for sharing.
A digital scrapbook page is trying to look made by hand, which means the things that give it away are the regular ones: identical spacing, perfect right angles, decorations placed on a grid. The scrapbook style here builds in a small tilt per photograph and offers decorations that sit over the corners rather than beside them, which is where tape and photo corners actually go.
The paper matters more than the decorations. Twenty textures are included — kraft, linen, grid, dots, torn edges — and the choice sets the whole tone before a single photograph is placed. Kraft with white frames reads as a physical album; grid paper with no frames reads as a notebook. Both print well, which plain white does not always: a textured ground hides the slight banding that some printers produce across large flat areas.
Because the target is usually paper, A4 at 300 DPI is the sensible canvas, which is 2480 × 3508 pixels. At that size a six-photo page shows each photograph at roughly 1000 pixels across, which any phone photo can supply. The resolution meter marks anything that will print soft before you export.
Tape, clips and pins are SVG rather than images, so they stay crisp at any print size and can be recoloured where they are single-toned. The photographic ones — real tape, torn paper — are raster, because a vector version of a torn edge looks like a vector version of a torn edge. Both are in the same picker and behave the same way.
If the page is one of a series — a holiday, a child's year — keep the paper and the type the same across all of them and vary only the arrangement. A scrapbook reads as a book when the pages share a ground, and as a pile of loose sheets when each one is styled differently. Saving the first page as a template takes one step and makes the rest consistent by default.
Nothing is uploaded, and the PDF export goes out at the exact physical size with optional bleed, which is what a print shop wants if the page is being produced properly rather than printed at home.
Questions
What makes a digital scrapbook page look handmade?
Irregularity. A small tilt per photo, decorations over the corners rather than beside them, and a textured paper rather than flat white.
What size should a scrapbook page be?
A4 at 300 DPI — 2480 × 3508 pixels — which is the size most physical scrapbook pages are. 12 × 12 inches is the other common one.
Can I add tape and paper clips?
Yes, 24 of them. They sit over the photos, so they never crop one, and the single-toned ones can be recoloured.
Will the decorations stay sharp when printed?
The vector ones will at any size. Tape and torn paper are photographic and are supplied at 1024 pixels, which is sharp up to about A4.
Can I print it at home?
Yes. Export as a PDF at A4 and print without scaling. For a print shop, add 3 mm of bleed.