What about a friendship page? You could use some of lyrics from "You've Got a Friend" by Carole King, maybe decorate your border with musical notes.

Doing a page about someone’s birthday? You could journal words from “Happy Birthday” and embellish border with cakes, candles or other birthday memorabilia.

Don’t limit yourself to just a section of a song, use all of it if you want to.

Write or print out complete song lyrics onto some nice paper and add it to your page. If you don’t have room left on your album page make a pocket envelope to put your song sheet into.

You can apply this scrapbook journaling idea to any kind of page theme, not just ones listed here as examples.

There have been tens of thousands of songs published over years covering all sorts of subjects – possibilities for resourceful scraper are endless.

Just make sure that song title or lyric you are going to use is suitable for theme of your layout and you’ll soon add a quick, simple and memorable piece of journaling to your page.

Elaine Clay is the owner of Online-Scrapbooking-Guide.com - your one-stop online scrapbooking resource. Find inspiration, increase your creativity and have fun with our helpful tips, ideas, articles and much more.

Although it may be tempting, to make layout look attractive, don't stagger paths. Put them in straight lines wherever possible. Remember, you will probably be wheeling a barrow down them at some point, and a straight line is shortest route between two points.

If you're doing a four-course rotation, double dig one bed in four for four years, incorporating large quantities of compost and, if possible, farmyard manure, as you replace soil, and removing all perennial weeds. The incorporation of large amounts of organic material means that completed bed has a surface several inches higher than pathway on either side. These heavily manured beds will be used for more hungry crops, such as brassicas. Single dig and weed remainder. From this point on, beds aren't walked on or disturbed.

The initial manuring of beds will provide adequate nutrients for first year's cropping. From then on an annual dressing of blood, fish and bone or another organic fertiliser in Spring, together with further applications of compost as a mulch, will keep soil fertility high.

Check pH of beds every other year with a soil testing kit and apply a sprinkling of calcified seaweed if beds are becoming too acid. Avoid any major disturbance of soil: just sprinkle fertiliser or calcified seaweed onto surface and hoe it in lightly. Because soil is so friable, it is possible to harvest deep-rooting crops such as carrots, parsnips, salsify and scorzonera without aid of a fork: they can simply be pulled out by hand.