If you're scouring the internet for unique and interesting scrapbooking technique ideas, you're in luck.  One great thing about scrapbooking is that there is just no end to the creativity involved and you never run out of new ideas!  Every day there are new products being offered for scrapbooking and new experts willing to share their tips and techniques.  Of course you don't want your scrapbooks to look like everyone else's, so how do you keep your scrapbooking technique ideas fresh and original?  Here are some unique and interesting ways to go about doing that.

One of the first things you might consider when it comes to original scrapbooking technique ideas is to forego the embellishments you buy and see what items you might have around the house that you can use.  When you use everyday items for embellishments you know that your scrapbooking technique ideas are going to be unique and original and not look as if you purchased your scrapbooks in a store or are just using premade templates.  As examples of how this works, if you're creating a page for that beach vacation, see if you have some sandpaper you can cut and use along the bottom of the page to resemble the sand of the beach.  You have color and texture this way.  Cotton can be used for fluffy white clouds.  Take a fresh look at anything and everything you have around the house to see how these things might fit into your scrapbooking technique ideas.  Are you doing a photo of your new home?  You can paint popsicle sticks white and line them up to resemble a white picket fence.  Sewing scraps usually provide a wealth of items you can incorporate into your scrapbooking technique ideas.  For example, if you have a photo of someone all dressed up such as for their prom, you might try some type of rich red fabric to run along the bottom of the page and add stickers or cutouts of people in the background snapping photos, as if the person is dressed up and arriving at a Hollywood red carpet event.  By using actual fabric rather than just coloring the page red, you give the page some 3D appeal.  Think of how you can use fabric scraps and other sewing and craft scraps for your scrapbooking technique ideas.  You can cut and paint a small dowel and drape fabric over it to make what looks like a curtain looking out a living room; your outdoor photo can seem like the view outside your own window.  Use a small piece of ribbon to pull the fabric to one side the way you would an actual curtain.

You can use other items from around the house for your unique scrapbooking technique ideas.  Ribbon you might use for a child's hair makes for a great border element.  If you want to add a fun element, you can use wrappers from candy as decoration; fold them back up around pieces of cardboard so that it looks like the candy is still in them.  Envelopes from greeting cards can be glued face down on the paper; your photos can be poking out of them.  There's no end to the ways you can use everyday items for unique scrapbooking technique ideas!

And something else you want to incorporate into your scrapbooking technique ideas are mementos from the occasions you're honoring.  Ticket stubs, programs, invitations, greeting cards, and items like these should be incorporated into your scrapbooking technique ideas as much as possible.  If this might make your page too crowded or busy, try two-page layouts with the mementos on one side and the photos on the other.

There are some scrapbooking technique ideas that might need a little bit of practice.  For example many people tear the edges of cardstock to give them a textured feel and unique look.  This might require some practice so that you don't make rips in the paper and don't bend it.  Use some cheaper cardstock to practice and then you can incorporate this into your scrapbooking technique ideas.  You might also want to manipulate paper in other ways - cutting shapes like hearts, circles, and so on.  Again, you might need to practice with a stencil and work to get a steady hand.  It has probably been a few years since you cut out papers like this!  So don't hesitate to practice these things with practice papers before you try them on your scrapbooking technique ideas.

While it's easy to make pages look too busy when trying different scrapbooking technique ideas, it's also a mistake to keep them too bare.  Take a look at many examples of scrapbook pages that you see online and you might notice how many different elements are incorporated and how layering is used.  Most scrappers use not just one piece of paper behind a photo for a border but layer several, turning them slightly so they all show or cutting them into different shapes - large square on the bottom, a large circle on top of that, then a smaller square, then the photo.  Typical scrapbooking technique ideas for borders include not just a strip of contrasting paper along one side of the page but a line of buttons or eyelets under or on top of that strip, and even another smaller strip of different paper or another element underneath those.  These layers should be proportionate in size to the page and other elements but when you use more than just one item or embellishment for borders you really add visual interest to your scrapbooking technique ideas.

Being creative with your scrapbooking technique ideas doesn't mean that you should never look at another scrapper's work for inspiration, just make sure that you're only using them for inspiration and aren't copying them exactly.  Give your scrapbook pages your own unique and personal touch no matter what scrapbooking technique ideas you use; after all, that's the most fun of scrapbooking!