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Research indicates Americans take billions of photos each year, so why not put them in scrapbooking albums for posterity sake? Unfortunately, most of the same avid photographers are often lost when it comes to to preserving the very pictures they’ve worked so hard to take.
Start with the basic scrapbooking supplies that any scrapbooker needs: a variety of different types of stickers, or an alphabet set and one versatile stamp set, two or three colors of coordinating scrapbooking paper and ink, and one or two accessories.
Choose a general theme or subject that offers exciting possibilities for a variety of your photos. Try to select a theme that also allows you to use photos from different years that can be used together for a beautiful layout in your scrapbooking albums. With this idea, you can create dozens of pages on this theme, all color-coordinated, to possibly cover an entire lifetime. The end result might be scrapbooking albums as gifts for grandparents, children, or a family album preserving precious family photos.
Try to select a simple muted color palette for your scrapbooking albums. It is a key to creating quick and easy pages. Muted palettes go well with most photographs, and there’s no time wasted picking new colors for each spread. If you’re worried about certain photos coordinating with your scrapbook pages, you can always print your photos in black and white, which looks great with virtually every color in your scrapbooking albums.
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The next time you’re considering scrapbooking albums, choose a mini photo album and design it with your scrapbooking tools. This project includes designer scrapbooking paper, fibers, wire, and a mini envelope template.
This mini accordion album is made with two strips of scrapbooking paper attached together to form one long, wide piece of scrapbook paper. It is then folded into six photo pages, perfect for small snapshots. You can alter photo pages with mini envelopes and journaling tags from your scrapbooking tools.
Mini envelopes create a perfect place for your journaling and make the most of these little pages in your scrapbooking albums. The mini envelope template creates mini envelopes from any color of scrapbooking paper.
Show your creativeness with these mini scrapbooking albums.
Always be leery when selecting scrapbooking albums. Although the label says, “acid free,” humidity, light, and body oils can change in things that were originally acid free. So this label doesn’t guarantee that scrapbooking albums will meet preservation quality standards over time.
If an album has a petroleum smell, it may destroy the contents of the scrapbooking album. Vinyl binders are a perfect example of what not to buy.
Look for scrapbooking albums with slipcovers. They will help to make it last by protecting it from moisture, light, and heat.
Make sure that the album that you’re thinking of buying has been made with good craftsmanship. Cotton or canvas fabrics used on the cover may not be your best choice.
Match the scrapbooking album with the purpose that it to be used for. This helps your decisions about the direction of your work.
Hopefully, these tips will assist you in choosing the right scrapbooking albums for your upcoming projects.
When I look at the baby scrapbooking albums I have on my bookshelf, I’m glad that I took the time to put them together. I’m not the most artistic person, so scrapbooking seemed like a daunting task at first. Thankfully, I got some guidance from a good friend of mine who loves crafts.
She told me that scrapbooking is firstly about organization and then all about fun. She had me gather up my pictures and pick out my favorite ones. Then she had me organize them sequentially; baby’s first tooth, baby’s first step, baby’s first haircut, and so forth. Once I had all the photos selected cutting and gluing ribbons, stenciling, and labeling was actually an enjoyable way to preserve mommy memories.
Specialty scrapbooking albums are those that are not the standard size of 81/2″X11″ or 12″X12″. Some of these albums can be bound, are expandable, or are larger or smaller albums than the sizes listed above. Specialty scrapbooking albums can be either inexpensive or really pricey, but they all have the same characteristics of not being standardized in terms of size, price, shape, or cover design.
Depending upon the manufacturer of each individual specialty album, each one can be quite unique and diverse. Many of these albums can focus on specific themes: weddings, babies, birthdays, vacations, school events, holidays, anniversaries, etc. The albums allow you to put lots of photos within their covers, and they make great gifts.
You can purchase albums that are already designed and bound, or make your own from scratch using leather, wood, cloth, or other materials.
Whatever your choice of scrapbooking albums, be certain that they will help to preserve those special memories for years to come.
I like designing scrapbooking albums that are 6″X6″ or brag books, however not everyone wants to create small albums. So as a solution to this problem, I sometimes point out to others that a few variations to a page can create a page that can be used in any size scrapbook. We all want to show scrapbooks, but we usually only appeal to whomever uses the size we’re showing.
To re-create this technique, start with a basic 6″X6″ page which may feature one, picture, one accent, one stamp set, and simple layering. To turn that page into an 81/2″X11″ page, take the original page and place it in the center of the 81/2″X11″ scrapbooking paper. Now you’ve created an automatic focal point! Add a few other accents such as a title and stamped images or scrapbooking stickers in the background. To adapt your finished larger page into a 12″X12″ piece of scrapbooking paper, copy the design from your 81/2″X11″ page to the 12″X12″ page. Add more photos to the page, and incorporate journaling to your scrapbooking albums.
Have fun creating all of the scrapbooking albums you wish in any size using this simple idea.
When you pick up an old book and see how the sections are sewn together and how the edges of the paper are sometimes uneven, there’s something charming about this type of binding. It makes you feel as though you are leafing through a volume in an impressive library you might encounter in a popular novel. Don’t you find yourself inspired to create scrapbooking albums as equally as charming?
You can create small scrapbooking albums with a similar appeal. Instead of using a store-bought alum, try creating your own album with a unique binding and great look!
Punch holes in your album pages, then set jumbo eyelets in coordinating locations for the front and back covers using a Crop-A-Dile. Bind the covers and pages together by running ribbon through the holes and typing off. A score line added to the front cover just below the eyelets and ribbon makes it easier to open and look through, and the cover stays pristine. The simple binding gives a wonderful book for wallet-sized photos or an album of your favorite moments. Pages can be added by untying the ribbon and then binding it back up.
You can even create the binding and finish these scrapbooking albums all in one sitting!
Here’s an idea for creating a page layout for your next project. This could be included among those in your scrapbooking albums. To keep your photos from being overwhelmed by patterned paper, mat or frame your photos with a solid color. You also may want to start with one 4″X6″ photo and several wallet size photos. They fit well on a one-page layout and leave room for layering patterned papers and embellishments. There is also room for lots of journaling.
Here are a few more tips on journaling. Jot down a few notes about each pile of photos that you’ve gathered so as to spark your memory later. A few words on the back of each picture will help with the journaling, like the date that the photo was taken, who’s in the picture, what’s happening in the photo, and you may wish to number the photos.
When you sit down to journal, organize the pictures and thoughts into a creative presentation that ties into your scrapbook page. These ideas will also help you to establish a great title for your page. More on this subject later.
When giving gift advice, many people maintain that it’s the thought that counts. And this is absolutely true. A gift given from the heart will always mean more in the long run to the recipient. But with no gift is this truer than with the anniversary gift. For many people, anniversary gifts are notoriously hard to pick out. They are meant to express how much your spouse or loved one means to you, and that kind of gift can incite a lot of stress. This is true whether it’s your first anniversary or your fiftieth.
These gifts don’t have to be so stressful, though. The most important thing to remember is that the only real way to fail with an anniversary gift is to get something completely generic. The gift must express something unique about the person or you as a couple. This is the perfect time for a sentimental gift like wedding scrapbooking albums or other collection of photos. There’s nothing like remembering the time you’ve had together by reliving some of your best memories together through photos.