Layout Simplicity

Too often in scrapbooking, I see layouts that are just overdone whether it be too much patterned paper or too many embellishments. This is often a common mistake amongst beginning scrapbookers as well as advanced scrapbookers alike. With some pictures, less is truly more. The pictures should do the "explaining" therefore adding a lot of embellishments or patterned paper to a page would just drawn the attention away from the picture. If you have a picture that speaks a thousand words to those who view it, try doing a more simplistic layout.