Author: Helene

Digital scrapbooking for beginners means building photo-album pages on a screen instead of with paper, scissors and glue. You drop your photos onto a ready-made patterned background, add a few decorations and a line or two of text, then save the finished page as an image file. Nothing to cut, nothing to store in a cupboard, and no wasted supplies when you change your mind.

To start you need three things you can sort out in an afternoon: a device you already own, one layout app, and one themed kit of papers and clipart. I’ll take you through choosing each one and making your first page below.

What is digital scrapbooking for beginners, really?

It’s memory-keeping done in a layout app rather than with physical paper. You work in layers, stacked like sheets of glass. The bottom layer is a patterned background (a “digital paper”). On top of that you place your photo. On top of that go the decorations: a frame around the photo, a sprig of clipart in the corner, the date in a nice font. Move any layer, resize it, delete it, redo it. Your photos stay untouched the whole time.

Most kits hand you the four building blocks of a page already made:

• Papers — full-page patterns and textures you use as backgrounds.
• Clipart (elements) — small cut-out images on a transparent background: flowers, leaves, ribbons, little objects.
• Frames — borders you sit a photo inside.
• Alphabets — letters as images, for titles when a plain font feels too flat.

How it differs from the paper version

The big one is that mistakes cost nothing. Trim a paper photo too short and it’s gone; on screen you press undo. You can also use the same kit on twenty pages without buying it twenty times, and your whole album lives in a folder instead of a box under the bed. If you’re still weighing the two approaches, I broke down the trade-offs in Digital vs Paper Scrapbooking.

Scrapbooking for beginners: what do you actually need?

Less than people think. Scrapbooking for beginners comes down to four things, and here’s a sensible first choice for each.

What	What it’s for	Beginner pick
A device	Somewhere to build the page	The iPad, phone or laptop you already have
A layout app	Lets you stack and move layers	Canva (free) or Procreate on iPad
One themed kit	Papers, clipart, frames that already match	A bundle in a colour you like
Your photos	The actual memories	5–10 from one day or trip

You do not need a drawing tablet, a subscription, or any design training. Buying one matched bundle instead of loose pieces is the shortcut that saves beginners the most grief: the colours are picked to work together, so your first page looks deliberate without you knowing a thing about colour theory.

Which app should a beginner pick?

This depends entirely on what’s in your hands right now. All three below open the PNG and JPG files that come in a kit, and all three work in layers.

If you have an iPad

Use Procreate. It’s a one-off purchase, no subscription, and it handles layers and transparent clipart cleanly (the Procreate handbook covers the canvas setup). Set up a 12 x 12 inch canvas at 300 DPI and you’ve matched the size most kits are built to.

If you’re on a phone or a laptop

Use Canva. The free tier is plenty for a first page. You upload your papers and clipart, drag them onto a square page, and stack them. It runs in a browser, so nothing to install.

If you already own Photoshop

Then use it. Clipping masks and layer groups make it the most powerful of the three, but it’s the steepest to learn, so I wouldn’t buy it just for this.

Pick one and commit for your first few pages. Hopping between apps to find the “best” one is how a fun afternoon turns into a frustrating week.

How do I make my first scrapbook page?

Here’s the shortest path from blank screen to a page you’re proud of. Give it an hour.

1. Choose one story. One day, one trip, one person. Five to ten photos, not fifty. A tight set is far easier to lay out than a sprawling one.
2. Open a square canvas. 12 x 12 inches at 300 DPI in Procreate or Photoshop; a square page in Canva. Square is the scrapbooking standard and it keeps your pages consistent.
3. Drop in a paper. Drag one background paper across the whole canvas. Pick a quieter pattern, not the boldest one. The pattern is a backdrop, not the star.
4. Place your photos. Start with one hero photo, larger, slightly off-centre. Add two or three smaller supporting shots. Leave breathing room around the edges.
5. Add a frame or two. Sit your main photo inside a frame so it lifts off the busy paper. Don’t frame every photo; one or two is enough.
6. Scatter a little clipart. A sprig in one corner, a small element near the title. Three or four pieces, then stop.
7. Write a title and a date. A few words and the month and year. This is the part that turns a nice collage into a memory you’ll understand in ten years.
8. Export. Save as a high-quality JPG or PNG. Keep the layered file too, so you can tweak it later.

That’s a finished page. The only skill you used was dragging things around and knowing when to stop.

Scrapbooking for beginners: the snags to skip

Almost every first-timer hits the same handful of snags. Here’s what they are so you can sidestep them.

• Cramming the page. Empty space is doing a job. If it feels too plain, it’s probably right. Add one thing, not five.
• Mixing five themes. Florals, then nautical, then geometric, all on one page. Stay in one kit until you’re confident, which is exactly why a matched bundle helps.
• Stretching photos out of shape. Resize from a corner handle to keep the proportions, never by dragging a side.
• Forgetting words. A page with no title or date is a pretty picture you’ll squint at later. Always add the who, where and when.
• Saving low quality. Export at full resolution. A blurry, pixelated page is almost always a too-small or over-compressed file.

Key takeaways

• Scrapbooking for beginners needs three things: a device you own, one app (Canva or Procreate), and one matched kit.
• Work in layers — paper at the back, photos in the middle, clipart and titles on top.
• Keep your first page to one story, a handful of photos, and a few decorations. Restraint reads as polish.
• A matched bundle does the colour work for you, so your page looks intentional from day one.

Frequently asked questions

Is digital scrapbooking for beginners hard to learn?

No. Scrapbooking for beginners is mostly dragging photos around a screen. The hardest part is choosing your photos, not using the app, especially when your kit’s pieces already match.

What is the best app for digital scrapbooking beginners?

Canva if you’re on a phone or laptop and want free, or Procreate if you have an iPad and don’t mind a one-off purchase. Both open kit files and work in layers.

Do I need to print my digital scrapbook pages?

Not at all. Most people keep their albums on screen and share them as image files, or back them up to the cloud. Printing is optional, not the point.

How much does scrapbooking for beginners cost?

You can start free with Canva and a single kit, using the device you already own. There’s no subscription needed and no recurring supply costs the way paper has.

What size should a digital scrapbook page be?

A square 12 x 12 inch page at 300 DPI is the standard most kits are built for. Setting your canvas to that means papers and frames drop in at the right scale.

Scrapbook page titles work when they’re short, sized to be seen and clearly contrasted against the paper behind them, so the title names the page in a second and then steps aside for the photos.

The fiddly part is alphabet clipart, where each letter is its own PNG and you assemble the word by hand. Get the spacing and contrast right and it lifts a page; get them wrong and it reads unfinished.

How do you make a scrapbook page title that actually reads?

A scrapbook page title earns its place by telling you what the page is in a second, then getting out of the way of the photos. The two jobs people get wrong are size and contrast. A title that’s too small disappears, and one that sits in the same tone as the paper behind it turns to mush.

Pick a short phrase, give it room, and make sure it stands clearly off the background. Everything else is styling. A title is a signpost, not the destination, so if you’re spending longer on the lettering than on the layout, you’ve got the balance backwards.

Where to put scrapbook page titles on the layout

There are really only a handful of spots that work, and they all leave the photos as the main event.

• Top-left or top corner. We read left to right and top down, so a title here gets seen first without a fight.
• Across the bottom. Reads like a caption and leaves the upper page to a big photo.
• Tucked into a quiet corner of the photo. Works when the image has empty sky, water or wall to sit on.
• On a banner or journaling card. A solid shape behind the letters gives instant contrast on a busy paper.

Whatever you choose, keep a clear margin around the word. Letters jammed against a photo edge look like an accident. If the page already has a strong focal point, a single hero photo say, put the title near it but not on top of it, so the eye lands on the photo and the title confirms what it’s looking at.

Alphabet clipart vs a font: which should you use?

Both can set a scrapbook page title. They behave differently once you’re on the page.

	Alphabet clipart	A font
Texture	Painted, foiled, dimensional, matches a kit	Flat colour unless you add effects
Spacing	You place each letter, full control	Type and go, faster
Best for	Big feature titles, the hero word	Subtitles, dates, journaling
Effort	A little fiddly, letter by letter	Quick

My usual move is alphabet clipart for the one big word and a plain font underneath for the date or the place. The textured letters carry the mood; the font keeps the details legible. Trying to set a whole long title in clipart letters is where people lose an afternoon and end up with wonky spacing, so reserve the clipart for the word that matters.

Step by step: building a scrapbook page title with alphabet clipart

Alphabet clipart comes as one PNG per letter, so you’re assembling the word rather than typing it. In Procreate, Photoshop or Canva the steps are the same.

1. Drop in your first letter and size it to roughly the height you want the whole title.
2. Bring in the rest, one at a time, on their own layers so you can nudge each one.
3. Even out the spacing. Trust your eye over a ruler, since a rounded letter like O needs to sit a touch closer than a straight one like I.
4. Sit the baseline level, or deliberately stagger it for a playful look, but commit to one or the other.
5. Group the letters once it reads right, then resize the whole word as a unit.
6. Add a soft shadow if the letters fade into the paper. A small drop shadow lifts them off the background.

Mind the letter spacing

Uneven gaps are the giveaway that a title was built by hand. Step back from the screen, or shrink the canvas right down. Spacing problems jump out at a small size that you’ll miss up close. The eye reads the gaps between letters as much as the letters themselves, so aim for even visual space rather than even measured space. Two straight letters need a little more room; a letter that opens outward, like an L or a T, can tuck closer to its neighbour.

How do you match the lettering to the page?

A scrapbook page title should belong to the same world as the rest of the layout. A painted, oil-textured alphabet looks at home on a warm Mediterranean or vintage page and out of place on a crisp, modern one. A few quick checks before you commit:

• Colour. Pull the title colour from somewhere already on the page, a tone in a paper or a photo, so it ties in rather than floating.
• Weight. A heavy clipart alphabet wants a bold, simple layout. A fine script wants more white space around it.
• Era. A serif or hand-lettered style suits heritage and travel pages; clean sans-serif suits everyday and modern ones.

Do you need a title on every page?

No, and trying to is part of what makes albums feel repetitive. A scrapbook page title’s job is to mark a new chapter or a page that needs context. A run of everyday photos on matching paper often reads better with a single date or a one-word label than a full decorative title fighting for attention on every spread.

A good rhythm across an album is a strong title on the opening page of each section, smaller labels or dates on the pages in between, and the occasional page left to speak for itself. If every page shouts, none of them stands out. Save the big lettering for the moments that earn it, and the album gets a sense of pace instead of feeling like the same page on repeat.

What are the most common scrapbook page title mistakes?

• Too many words. “Our wonderful family summer holiday by the sea” is a sentence. “Summer by the Sea” is a title.
• Clashing styles. A painted Mediterranean alphabet on a sleek modern page reads off. Match the lettering to the kit.
• No contrast. Pale gold letters on a cream paper vanish. Put a banner or shadow behind them.
• Centred everything. A centred title over a centred photo on a symmetrical page is flat. Shift the title off-axis.

If you want a full breakdown of choosing letter sets, I went deeper in Uppercase Alphabet Clipart.

Key takeaways

• Good scrapbook page titles are short, sized to be seen, and clearly contrasted against the paper.
• Use alphabet clipart for the one hero word and a plain font for dates and journaling.
• Build clipart titles letter by letter on separate layers, then group and resize as a unit.
• Uneven spacing and weak contrast are the two faults that make a hand-built title look unfinished.

Frequently asked questions

How do you make a scrapbook page title?

Pick a short phrase, place it top-left or along the bottom, and make sure it contrasts with the paper. Use alphabet clipart or a bold font for the main word and a plain font for the date underneath.

What is alphabet clipart for scrapbooking?

It’s a set of decorative letters supplied as one transparent PNG per letter, so you build a word by dropping in each letter on its own layer. It gives painted or foiled titles that match a themed kit.

How many words should a scrapbook page title have?

Two to four works best. A long sentence reads as journaling, not a title, so trim it to the shortest phrase that still says what the page is.

Why does my clipart title look off?

Usually uneven letter spacing or weak contrast. Shrink the canvas to spot gap problems, and add a soft shadow or a banner behind pale letters so they lift off the paper.

To layer digital scrapbook papers in Procreate, you import each paper onto its own layer in the Layers panel, then reorder, resize and blend them with opacity and blend modes. Clipping masks drop photos into frames, and Alpha Lock keeps texture inside a shape.

The six steps below take a blank 12 x 12 canvas to a finished, layered page.

Any of our digital scrapbook papers can be imported into Procreate the same way.

How do you layer digital scrapbook papers in Procreate?

Layering is just stacking each digital scrapbook paper on its own layer in the Layers panel, then deciding what sits where and how the edges blend. Procreate does the heavy lifting. Once you understand the Layers panel, blend modes and clipping masks, a multi-paper page takes minutes.

Procreate is a popular choice for this because it gives you precise control over every layer, real blend modes, and clipping masks, all on a one-off purchase with no subscription. If you have an iPad and an Apple Pencil, it is hard to beat for scrapbook pages.

The walkthrough below assumes you have digital scrapbook papers already saved to your iPad (in Files or your Photos). If you have those, you are ready. The whole sequence is six steps, and the first few become muscle memory quickly.

Step 1: Set up the canvas

Open Procreate, tap the plus, and choose Create Custom Size. Set it to 3600 x 3600 px at 300 DPI for a standard 12 x 12 inch page. Procreate caps the number of layers based on canvas size and your iPad, so a 300 DPI 12 x 12 is a sweet spot: big enough to look sharp, small enough to keep plenty of layers.

If you go bigger than this, Procreate gives you fewer layers, which bites on a busy collage page. If you go smaller, the page looks soft when you zoom. So unless you have a reason to change it, stay at 12 x 12 and 300 DPI.

Name the canvas something you will recognise later. Future you will thank present you.

Step 2: Import your first digital scrapbook paper as the base

Tap the wrench (Actions) > Add > Insert a file (or Insert a photo). Pick your background paper. It comes in on its own layer. Pinch to fit it to the canvas, then tap the arrow to confirm.

Choose a quiet, textured digital scrapbook paper for the base. A loud pattern here makes everything above it hard to read. A faded linen or a soft olive texture works well as the bottom of the stack.

Step 3: Add more digital scrapbook papers, each on its own layer

Repeat the insert step for every digital scrapbook paper you want. Each lands on a new layer above the last. Open the Layers panel (the two-squares icon, top right) and you will see them stacked. The top layer in the panel is the top layer on your page.

A habit worth starting now: rename your layers as you go. Tap a layer, choose Rename, and call it “base paper” or “blue tile” or “photo”. On a simple page you can get away without it, but the moment a spread has a dozen layers, named ones save you from poking at the wrong thing.

1. Insert the paper.
2. Resize and position it (drag, pinch, rotate).
3. Drag the layer up or down in the panel to change the order.

This is the core of layering digital scrapbook papers in Procreate: one paper per layer, reordered by dragging. Keep the layers panel open while you work so you always know what you are touching.

Step 4: Blend the layers with opacity and blend modes

Two controls do most of the magic. Tap the N beside a layer to open them.

• Opacity fades a layer so the texture underneath shows through. Great for letting a base grain peek through a top paper.
• Blend mode changes how a layer mixes with the one below. Multiply deepens and is good for shadows and overlays. Overlay and Soft Light add texture and contrast. Linear Burn ages a paper nicely.

Here is a quick reference for the modes I reach for most on paper pages.

Blend mode	What it does	Use it for
Normal	No mixing, full layer	A solid top paper or a frame
Multiply	Darkens, keeps shadows	Drop shadows, grungy overlays, stamps
Overlay	Boosts contrast and texture	Adding grain to a flat paper
Soft Light	Subtle contrast lift	A light texture wash over the base
Linear Burn	Deep darkening	Ageing and tea-stained looks

Step 5: Drop a photo into a paper or frame with a clipping mask

Clipping masks are how you get a photo to sit neatly inside a frame or a torn paper shape. Put the photo on a layer directly above the shape, tap the photo layer, and choose Clipping Mask. The photo now only shows where the shape underneath exists. Move or scale the photo and it stays inside the boundary.

This is also how you fill text or a cut-out shape with a patterned paper. Make the shape, drop the paper above it as a clipping mask, and the pattern pours into the shape with the edges already clean. It feels like a trick the first time and then you use it on every page.

Clipping masks deserve their own walkthrough, so for the full version across Procreate, Photoshop and Canva see How to Use Clipping Masks in Digital Scrapbooking.

Step 6: Add depth and export

Two finishing touches lift a flat page:

• Shadows. Add a new layer under a paper, set it to Multiply, and brush a soft grey along one edge. Now the paper looks lifted off the page.
• Alpha Lock. Tap a layer and turn on Alpha Lock to paint texture or colour only inside that paper’s shape, without spilling over the edges.

When the page is done, go Actions > Share. Export a PNG or JPG for the finished image, and a Procreate file if you want to keep every layer editable. Save both, and back them up to a cloud drive or external disk. PNG keeps the most quality, while a JPG makes a smaller file that is perfectly fine for sharing online.

A quick word on which digital scrapbook papers layer best. Soft, low-contrast sheets are the friendliest, because you can stack three or four without the page turning into a fight. Busy, high-contrast papers want to be the only patterned thing on the spread, so use one of those as a feature and keep the rest quiet.

Common layering mistakes in Procreate

• Editing the wrong layer. Always glance at the Layers panel and confirm the right one is highlighted before you draw or move.
• Too many normal-mode papers. Everything at full opacity looks like stacked cards. Vary opacity and blend modes so layers talk to each other.
• Forgetting the editable file. Flatten a copy, never your only file, or you lose the ability to tweak later.
• Clashing palettes. Papers from one matched set layer far more easily than a grab-bag from five kits.

Key takeaways

• Work at 3600 x 3600 px / 300 DPI and put one paper per layer, reordered by dragging in the Layers panel.
• Opacity and blend modes (Multiply, Overlay, Soft Light) are what make layers blend instead of stack.
• Use a clipping mask to drop photos into frames and torn shapes; use Alpha Lock to paint inside a paper.
• Export a flat PNG or JPG plus a layered Procreate file, and back both up.

Frequently asked questions

What canvas size should I use for digital scrapbook papers in Procreate?

Use 3600 x 3600 px at 300 DPI for a standard 12 x 12 inch page. Most digital scrapbook papers are made at that size, and it stays sharp when you zoom in while leaving Procreate plenty of room for layers.

How do I change which paper sits on top in Procreate?

Open the Layers panel and drag a layer up or down. The top layer in the panel is the top layer on your page, so reordering is just dragging.

Which blend mode is best for layering papers?

Multiply is the workhorse for shadows and grungy overlays, while Overlay and Soft Light add texture and contrast. Tap the N beside a layer to reach the blend modes and opacity slider.

How do I put a photo inside a frame in Procreate?

Place the photo on a layer directly above the frame or shape, tap the photo layer, and choose Clipping Mask. The photo then only shows where the shape underneath exists.

To make a digital junk journal, you stack papers, ephemera and photos as movable layers inside an app like Procreate, GoodNotes or Canva, then save each finished spread as an image. There is no glue and nothing is permanent, so you can rearrange a page as many times as you like.

The six steps below take you from a blank canvas to a saved spread you can be proud of.

If you need papers and ephemera to start with, our junk journal kits come as high-resolution image files you can use digitally or print.

What is a digital junk journal, and what do you need?

A junk journal is a scrappy, collage-style book full of layered papers, bits of ephemera, photos and handwritten notes. The “junk” part is the charm. It looks busy and lived-in, not tidy.

A digital one works the same way, except every layer is a file instead of a glued-down scrap. You stack everything inside an app, so nothing is permanent and nothing can be ruined. Delete a layer, slide it three pixels left, change your mind twice. The page does not care.

The pull of going digital is exactly this: no mess, no drying time, no running out of a paper you love. You can reuse the same lace clipping on ten different pages and it never wears out. And because it all lives in files, you can keep a junk journal on a tablet in your bag and add to it on a train, in a cafe, wherever the mood strikes.

To start you need three things: an app you are comfortable in, a stylus (or just your finger), and a kit of papers and ephemera. That last one matters more than people expect. A matched kit saves you an hour of hunting for textures that sit well together. Buy a themed bundle and the papers, frames and little bits already share a palette, so your first page looks intentional instead of cobbled together.

How to make a digital junk journal in 6 steps

Here is the whole process from blank canvas to a saved spread. None of it takes special skill. Step one is the only decision that sticks, so I will spend the most time there.

Step 1: Pick an app and set a canvas

Open your app and make a new file at roughly 3600 x 3600 px, which is a 12 x 12 inch page at 300 DPI. That is the standard scrapbook size and most kits are built for it. If you prefer a book-page feel, a portrait 8.5 x 11 works too.

Keep the file in the app’s own format while you build (a Procreate file, a GoodNotes notebook, a Canva design). You only flatten to an image at the very end.

Step 2: Drop in a base paper

Import one paper and stretch it to fill the whole canvas. This is your background. Pick something with quiet texture, not a loud pattern, because everything else sits on top of it and a busy base fights the layers.

Aged, linen and kraft textures are the safe choice for junk-journal pages. They read as old paper and they let the brighter pieces pop.

Step 3: Layer a second paper for depth

Add a smaller paper on a new layer, sitting at an angle, covering maybe two-thirds of the page. Torn or deckled edges sell the look. If your kit includes torn-edge papers, use them here. If not, a soft shadow under the edge fakes the same effect.

This is the move that separates a flat page from a junk-journal page: two or three papers that overlap, not one paper sitting alone.

Step 4: Add ephemera, a frame and a photo

Now the fun part. Drop in ephemera: tags, tickets, stamps, botanical clippings, lace, whatever your kit gives you. Tuck them under and over the papers so they look slotted in rather than placed on top.

Add a frame, then put a photo behind it (a clipping mask does this cleanly in most apps). One photo per spread is plenty for a junk journal. The papers and ephemera are the point.

Step 5: Write the journaling

Add a text layer or handwrite with your stylus. A date, a line about what happened, a quote. Junk journals lean personal and a little messy, so handwriting suits them better than a neat font. Keep it short. White space is rare on these pages, so a couple of lines is enough.

Step 6: Flatten, save and back up

Duplicate the file first so you keep an editable copy, then flatten the duplicate and export it as a PNG or JPG. Save the editable version too. Back both up to cloud storage or an external drive. The whole appeal of working digitally is that nothing is lost, so do not let it live on one device.

One spread done. The good news is that steps two to five get faster every time, because you start to know which papers and pieces play nicely together. By page three you will be building spreads in ten minutes.

Do you have to print a digital junk journal?

No, and this trips people up. A digital junk journal is meant to be read on screen. You flip through it on a tablet, share a spread to social, or keep it as a private memory book. Nothing has to leave the device.

You can print one if you want a physical book to hold, and the textured papers do print beautifully. But that is an optional extra, not a requirement. Plenty of makers keep the whole thing digital and never touch a printer. Treat printing as a choice you make later, not a step you owe the project.

Which app should you use for a digital junk journal?

Any of these will build a good page. The right one is the app you already own and already know. Here is how the popular three compare for this kind of work.

App	Best for	Layers & masks	Cost
Procreate	Full control, painterly edges, brushes	Strong layers, clipping masks, blend modes	One-off iPad purchase
GoodNotes	A book you flip through and write in	Stickers and images, lighter layering	Low one-off / subscription
Canva	Quick spreads on any device, browser or app	Layers and transparency, no real masks	Free tier works; Pro adds more

If you want pages that look hand-finished, Procreate gives you the most room. If you want something you read like a diary, GoodNotes feels closer to a real notebook. Canva is the fastest start if you have never done this before.

Common mistakes that make a digital page look flat

The pages that do not work usually share the same few problems. Easy to fix once you spot them.

• No overlap. One paper, one photo, lots of empty space. Junk journals want layers touching and tucking under each other.
• No shadows. Flat pieces look pasted on. A faint drop shadow under papers and ephemera gives the page real depth.
• Mismatched colours. Five kits, twelve palettes, nothing agrees. A single themed bundle solves this in one go.
• Too tidy. Perfectly straight, evenly spaced pieces read as a poster, not a journal. Tilt things a few degrees.

New to the whole idea? Start with What Is a Junk Journal? for the plain-English version before you build your first spread.

Key takeaways

• A digital junk journal is the same layered, collage look as a paper one, built as files you can move and undo.
• Work at 12 x 12 inches and 300 DPI, keep the editable file, and only flatten to PNG or JPG at the end.
• Overlap two or three papers, tuck in ephemera, add soft shadows. Layers and depth are what make the page.
• A matched themed bundle saves you from clashing colours and missing pieces.

Frequently asked questions

Do I need to print a digital junk journal?

No. A digital junk journal lives on your device and is read on screen, so there is no printing involved. You only print if you want a physical copy, and that is a separate choice.

What size should a digital junk journal page be?

A 12 x 12 inch page at 300 DPI (about 3600 x 3600 px) is the standard and most kits are built for it. A portrait 8.5 x 11 also works if you want a book-page feel.

Can I make a digital junk journal in Canva?

Yes. Canva handles uploaded papers, layering and transparency, so it suits beginners well. It does not have true clipping masks, so dropping photos into frames is a little less precise than in Procreate.

What is the difference between a junk journal and a scrapbook?

A junk journal is busier and more collage-led, built from layered papers and ephemera with the photo as a small part. A scrapbook usually puts the photos first with cleaner layouts around them.