Scrapbook pin board yearbook theme idea – design tips and ideas
Yearbooks are in essence a gathering of your memories and things you feel are important/fun to revisit – similar to a pin board or scrapboard!
The scrapbook theme is one of the most popular yearbook design and for good reason; it looks awesome. There are loads of ways you can create a scrapbook feel, and loads of reasons you should consider it.
Creating a scrapbook yearbook theme
Here’s some helpful design tips for putting together a student page using the scrapbook artwork in Yearbook Hub:
Post it notes – Post it notes are pretty vital to a scrapbook theme. You want to make your yearbook look like it is a ‘work in progress’ like you have worked on it together making notes and jotting down quotes. Post it notes are perfect for this.
Lined paper – Or at least paper of some kind. But using paper as a background or to create a separate section works really well in this theme. Especially if the paper is torn or crumpled in some way.
Doodles – Using handwriting style fonts and including doodles and arrows that look hand drawn are the perfect way to add those finishing touches to this theme.
Polaroids – Polaroids are a great way to get pictures into a scrapbook theme. They can be used throughout the yearbook, or on the student profile pages. Too much emphasis on these can be a little bit ‘overkill’ though so best to mix it up a little.
Sticky Tape – It’s the small touches that really make a difference. So little things like adding graphics of sticky tape to make it look like pieces of paper or pictures are stuck to the yearbook are really vital.
Creating a pinboard yearbook theme
For a pinboard yearbook theme you may want to use different design styles. We’ve put together some useful ideas below to help you with the look and feel of this theme:
- Choose a cork board texture for your background. This is the base of your design which you can fill as much or as little as you wish.
- Use pins, tape and paper clips to create the effect of photos being pinned or attached to your board. Why not use polaroid photo frames on images for an ultra scrapbook effect?
- Add sticky notes, lined note paper or paper scraps for text entries.
- Prom, travel, gig, theatre, etc. tickets look great on pin boards – simply scan them in to use in your ‘create your own’ yearbook or supply them to us to include.
- Personalise your pin board by adding some fun shapes, sketches or characters (this is ideal if it’s your own yearbook profile page)
If you want a bit of variation in your yearbook design, use a pin board theme on just one, or a few select pages such as, profiles (teacher/student), things we remember, photo montages or the yearbook committee thank you page.