Traditionally, scrapbooking has been thought of as more of a feminine things but that is no longer the case. Nowadays, lots of people are making scrapbooks for dads, brothers, and other male figures in their lives.

There are many father and son scrapbook layouts to make the pages feel a little bit more masculine as well as pictures of completed pages to give you more ideas about paper and decorations.

Digiscrapping soft ware is also being developed with men in mind. Kits are starting to include colour schemes with blues and greens and textures like denim and plaid. If you are going to digiscrap this will definitely make that page for Father’s Day, a birthday, or any other event much easier to create.

Tips for Making More Masculine Pages

• use bolder colours instead of pastels (don’t have to be mutually exclusive, use your discretion)
• big bold fonts
• use stickers and embellishments to make pages interesting; there are lots of sports related and other “masculine” stickers out there, metals also make good embellishments
• you want the pages to looked finished but not too overdone (this goes for all pages, not just these pages)
• everyday things from around the house can act as decorations (ie. Buttons, twine, string)
• when picking out paper, look for things like denim, argyle and plaid; stay away from florals
• distress the paper; just rub sand paper on the edges or on letters that are going to make your title and you are good to go
• tearing the paper edges a little also works

Resources

Masculine sarapapers™ by Hot Off the Press – coordinated paper that comes with matching tags