Easy Scrapbook Ideas
Scrapbooks have many purposes - they can hold your
family photos, post cards, letters, artwork and more. You can craft
one for yourself or for a gift. Here are some easy scrapbook projects
to inspire you.
Family scrapbooks.
Create a family scrapbook to tell the story of your
family. The first thing to do is to collect all the photos, letters
and other objects related to special and significant moments from your
family history. You can go back in time as much as you want or as much
as possible. After all the mere idea of creating a family scrapbook
is to make the connection from past generations to future ones.
The next thing to do is to organize the memorabilia
you've collected. It is likely that you will have a lot of photos,
letters, awards, ribbons, and certificates, even a lock of hair or
newspaper and magazine articles. Make copies of the documents that
are important, such as marriage certificates. Than place each object
in a clean scrapbook pocket and stick it to the pages. You can make
pictures of the bulky objects such as jewelry pieces or quilts that
cannot be placed inside the book.
Pet scrapbooks.
Pet lovers would enjoy the idea of creating a pet
scrapbook for their pet friends. All you need to do is to have photos
of your pet and a photo album. You can decorate the album cover using
colored papers, markers and fabrics. If you prefer an elegant pet scrapbook,
than get a classic hard cover photo album and stick your pet's best
photo on it.
After you are done with the design, organize the items
you'd like to go into the scrapbook. You can put pet photos, awards
and ribbons won in competition, as well as everything else that you
think might fit.
Summer scrapbook.
Craft a summer inspired scrapbook to capture the memories
from your summer holiday. Stick seashells and sand over the scrapbook
cover and decorate the pages with sea pictures. You can make a seashell,
fish, sea start template and have it painted as many times as you want
over the inner pages.
Than stick everything connected to your summer holiday
inside. Plane tickets, bus tickets, a piece of a map, festival program,
photos - the sky is the limit. If you've been to a vacation with your
best friend than let this book be a gift for him or her. You can bet
that this will be the best gift of all times to be treasured forever.
As you can see there are a number of possibilities
and you will not need a lot of time nor money to create a fabulous
scrapbook.
by Keith Londrie
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My
First Day Of School
This
two page spread has been designed with the Kindergartener in mind.
The pages have a lot of texture,places to journal and photo ready
areas. There are hand drawn embelishments, which have been colored
with chalks and markers. The school bus has real rubber tires! The
backpack is handmade from a demin material that is archival safe
and is embellished with ribbon and totes an apple for the teacher
in it's front pocket. The chalkboard is a great place to journal
with a chalk pencil, galaxy marker or a gel pen which gives it the
look of a real chalkboard. This might be a fun place to put the name
of your childs teacher. Or you could use it as a picture frame. When
our children started school for the first time, the camera came out.
We took pictures before the bus came, waiting for the bus, getting
on the bus and of course getting off of the bus.
If you like the lay-out for the first
day of school, but you don't have the time to make one yourself, you
can order this two page spread in our Pre-made
Scrapbook Pages Section.
