Spacing is a difficult matter. There is a fine line between having a balanced scrapbook page and a gaudy mess.

If items are too closely spaced your reader will feel overwhelmed. If your items are spaced to far apart your viewer will feel short changed.

Look at your page.

Close your eyes.

Open them again.

Does your page look cluttered? Does your page have more photographs than background? Are your embellishments drawing the focus away from your mementos?

If you answered yes to any of those questions, then you need to simplify your page a bit by increasing the space that you have between the objects. Once you increase the space, if anything is extending over the edge of your page, remove that object and save it or use it to start another page! OK, now you done adding space.

Look at your page.

Close your eyes.

Open them again.

Is your page bare? Is your page uninteresting and colorless?

If this is now the case, think about adding back some more mementos and colorful embellishments decreasing the spacing between objects making your page more energetic. Be cautious to not add back too much and having to completely re-do this process. Adding a few items at a time and taking time to study your page before adding more can be a helpful and time saving technique.