How to make children's and wedding albums with photos using scrapbooking technique

1. HOW TO DESIGN AN ALBUM USING SCRAPBOOKING TECHNIQUE

Scrapbooking is a fun technique for original design. different materials and drawings of book covers, postcards , family albums, notepads, photo frames . In the previous publication we told you about how you can do it yourself beautifully decorate cards - wedding invitations, New Year's invitations, congratulatory invitations (from March 8, Happy Valentine's Day , Happy birthday).

In this article you will find interesting master classes, ideas, tips, step by step photos and video lessons for beginners, with which you can make beautifully designed children's, family, and wedding albums in scrapbooking style at home . A useful ideas will help you decorate an album for a newborn in an original way using scrapbooking technique.

For decorating children's and wedding albums You can use not only professional scrap materials with decorations, but also a variety of improvised materials - buttons, badges, accessories, remnants of various fabrics, threads, braid, zippers from old clothes, lace, feathers, small details from children's construction sets, homemade flowers from ribbons, newspaper clippings and postcards, small soft toys , hair clips, dried plants and flowers, various fasteners and belt buckles, carved figures made from plastic bottles and other waste materials.

■ Popular decorations for scrapbooks (pictured):


■ Stamping. Rubber and acrylic stamps, popular inks for stamping in scrapbooking (pictured):


■ Popular scrapbooking tools (pictured):


Ideas for decorating a wedding album using scrapbooking technique:

Wedding for any family - this is a very important and bright event, a serious stage in relationships loving people. And of course I want to save it for the home new family these joyful moments, touching minutes of a solemn event, beautiful decorated wedding glasses and dishes for festive table, chic wedding cake , loving glances of newlyweds who look irresistible in luxurious wedding dresses . One popular way to do this is to fill a voluminous wedding album best photos related to the preparation and holding a wedding.

photo album cover decoration.

the cover of the wedding album can be decorated with kanzashi flowers , the petals of which are folded from white satin ribbons (for example, from those that decorated the car for the bride and groom). You can cut out graceful hearts from felt. You can play with the prints of the newlyweds’ joined hands in an original way - place them on the cover, decorate them colorfully, paint them with gold paint wedding rings;

"secrets" between the pages.

Between some of the pages of the album you can place various cute little memorabilia, reminiscent of bright wedding moments. For example, a fragment of a cushion from wedding rings, lace, bows and other bride’s accessories ,several dried flowers from a wedding bouquet;

Thematic design of the pages of the wedding album.

You can divide the pages of the album into sections, which are preceded by beautifully designed inserts, decorated in scrapbooking style: in the registry office, the bride and groom next to the wedding procession, wedding bouquets in the hands of girlfriends, newlyweds dancing, guests from the bride and groom, a feast, kisses, a wedding cake, fastening the lovers' lock to the railing of the bridge;

wedding gifts and congratulations.

Dedicate several pages to photographs of gifts from friends, relatives and guests. Use scanned texts from greeting cards with wishes and poems to decorate these pages of your wedding album;

individual fragments in the photo.

Photos in good resolution of various details of costumes, wedding accessories, and jewelry look interesting;

photo different options filming

You can add not only staged photos from professional photographers to your photo album , but also amateur versions of guests, as well as reportage photographs;

design of internal pages wedding photo album.

It is advisable to design all pages in the same style. For example, pages made in vintage style or decorated in an antique style look very beautiful.

How to design a newborn baby’s album using scrapbooking technique:

The birth of a baby is a wonderful and very joyful event for the whole family of a newborn baby. And to creating and filling a photo album about life little man we can start even before he is born! :)

♦ the base of the photo album cover can be decorated with velvet fabric. From felt we cut out cartoon figures, a sun, a stork and carefully glue them using glue gun to the cover. Then we decorate the composition in scrapbooking style - carefully sew on small soft toys and graceful satin ribbon bows ;

♦ ultrasound images can be placed on the first pages of the newborn’s album , which show the first photos of a boy or girl in their mother’s tummy;

♦ then you can post a series of photographs with the baby’s leg, which rests against the mother’s tummy from the inside;

♦ men often like to draw various funny faces, big hearts, and bright colors on the belly of their beloved pregnant wife. Why not include photos of these daddy arts in your newborn photo album? :)

♦ first photos of a newborn baby.

On several pages you can place photos of the baby’s first smile, individual photos of tiny fists and feet, weighing the baby, and the first feeding. Between these pages you can place a tag from the baby’s hand;

♦ at the exit from the maternity hospital.

Let's dedicate a series of photographs in which the newborn is held in the arms of the father, mother, and grandparents. Photo with a baby in an envelope , V stroller , in a car seat before leaving home;

♦ sections of a newborn’s photo album by month.

We will allocate a separate section in the album for each month of the baby’s life. Here we will post photos with all the baby’s achievements . Since we are creating a scrapbooking album, we decorate individual tab pages with decorative elements and memorable accessories. These could be buttons from the first slip, a strap from a romper, knitted booties, a cap with lace, a tiny handprint (from polymer clay, for example), a bunch of cut hairs;

♦ on the last day of each month, take a photo of your baby with the same soft toy in little hands. A child grows very rapidly in the first years of life and the toy will become smaller and smaller with each subsequent photograph :)

How to design using scrapbooking technique children's album:

We have already made a photo album of the newborn baby. Now we will dedicate one voluminous children's album to each year of the baby's life. . On the cover of each scrapbooking album, you can place a beautiful stylized figure made of fabric and accessories. Around the number you can make a decoration of ruffles and lace with plump angels on the sides.

The pages of a children's scrap photo album can be divided by topic:

Our little angel is sleeping.
Here we post photos of a sleeping baby with a favorite soft toy in his arms, a crib, accessories above the crib;

our little angel is waking up.
Touching photos of a baby’s sleepy face, how we yawn, get dressed, smile with a toothless mouth;

our little angel is eating.
Funny photos of a baby pug stained with porridge, with a mug in her hands, in a high chair;

our little angel is walking.
Here is a photo of a baby in overalls, bright hats, and booties on his feet. Here he is in a stroller, and here he is sitting on the soft grass. You can take a photo of footprints and fingerprints in the sand, a spatula in the handle;

our little angel is bathing.
Photos of a baby in a bath, a washcloth, floating toys, an inflatable swimming ring, wrapped in a fluffy towel after bathing;

our little angel is playing.
Here we post photos of a baby playing with a mobile phone in the crib, with a rattle, with an educational book or rug. Don’t forget to design thematic pages in scrapbooking style. For example, to design this section, you can use pictures of toys cut out from packaging;

our little angel is crawling.
Photos of the baby’s exploits in a fenced-in space, on a spread blanket. Don’t forget to take pictures of the changes taking place in your child’s room;

the first steps of an angel.
Photos showing the baby walking with support, without support, holding on to the furniture around him so as not to fall on the floor.

2. SCRAPBOOKING FOR BEGINNERS. WE DESIGN A CHILDREN'S ALBUM WITH YOUR OWN HANDS

How to make a children's mini photo album with your own hands using stamps, printouts with letters, and watercolor supplies:

3. IDEAS AND MASTER CLASSES ON SCRAPBOOKING. LEARNING TO MAKE PHOTO ALBUMS

Master class No. 1:

HOW TO MAKE A BEAUTIFUL ALBUM FOR A NEWBORN IN SCRAPBOOKING STYLE WITH YOUR OWN HANDS. STEP-BY-STEP PHOTO.

Master class No. 2:

LEARNING TO DO.

Master class No. 3:

A VERY SIMPLE WAY TO MAKE A SCRAPBOOKING ALBUM AT HOME.

Master class No. 4:

ORIGINAL.

Master class No. 5:

HOW TO QUICKLY MAKE A STYLISH GIFT MINI ALBUM FOR A BIRTHDAY. PHOTO AND DESCRIPTION.

Idea #1:

MEN'S ALBUM. WE ARE PREPARING FOR THE NEW YEAR, CHRISTMAS, FEBRUARY 23 OR FOR ST. VALENTINE'S DAY. PLEASE YOUR MAN BY MAKE A GIFT PHOTO ALBUM FOR HIM WITH YOUR OWN HANDS.

Idea #2:

IN modern world Most often, people take electronic photographs: selfies on phones, photographs on point-and-shoot cameras and professional cameras. They share them by sending them to each other or posting them on social networks.

But just a decade ago, photographs had to be printed from film in a studio and pasted into a photo album. But paper photo albums have not faded into the background, and their popularity is growing year after year.

And the point is not only in their popularity, but also in the fact that the design of a photo album is creative process, and its production unites all members of the family. Such an album will not only be a wonderful decoration for your living room, but also an excellent gift.

How to make a photo album?

Making a photo album is not so difficult if you stock up on the necessary tools and materials, and, of course, an original idea. Here are examples of story topics:

• birth of a child;
• wedding or anniversary;
• vacation;
• graduation, etc.

There are many such reasons. So, having decided on the event that you want to display in your photo album, it’s time to think about the tools.

How to make a photo album with your own hands?

You will need:

• nail scissors;
• hole punch;
• stapler;
• stationery knife;
• glue;
• felt-tip pens and pencils;
• double-sided tape;
• paints.

Here are the main tools that are most often used when making a photo album. But this is not all that you may need - it all depends on your imagination.

In addition, you will need the following materials:

• paper;
• cardboard;
• self-adhesive;
• cover: it can be decorated with fabric, leather, fur, rhinestones, etc.

Step-by-step instructions for making a photo album

• We start production from the base. For this we need any pages in the cover. It could even be an ordinary student notebook or notepad;
• Let's decide on the number of photos. On average, there are 2-3 photos per page for a photo album. Based on this, we calculate the number of pages we need;
• We make a backing for each page from paper;
• glue the backing onto the sheets of cardboard;
• punch holes for fastening in the resulting squares;
• We decorate the cover of the photo album with prepared material (for beginners it is better to use a ready-made binding, having previously laid foam rubber or other soft fabric under it to give the cover softness and volume);
• we make holes in the binding, and then using lace or wire we attach the pages to the cover; the base is almost ready.

Photo album design ideas

Selecting photographs and making the basis of a photo album is not all. As a result, all the components of the photo album should merge together.

To do this you need:

• according to the meaning, select the center of the composition on the sheet;
• choose a palette of colors that should be combined with each other;
• choose decorative elements, and try not to “overdo” them (this could be paper, cloth, plastic, metal, etc. To decorate a wedding photo album, you can use lace, and children's photo album decorate with clippings from children's fairy tales, small toys);
• choose a place for photos and captions.

Photo album options as a gift

There are plenty of topics for creating a photo album in every family: “Farewell, school!”, “Our firstborn”, “The whole family is together”, “Crimea-2012”...

Let's look at the design options for a photo album using a specific example - “My grandfather is a sailor”:

• cut out the backing from colored paper or fabric sea ​​wave, we also make the edges wavy;
• make a title at the top, for example, “Remember, captain!”;
• We decorate the name with fish cut out of colored paper or other material;
• place an old photograph in the center of the composition;
• glue an anchor in the lower left corner;
• opposite with glue is a sticker with a signature, indicating the fleet and years of service, for example: “Pacific Fleet, 1960-1963.”

The page is ready!

If this is your first experience of such work, we recommend making a photo album with no more than 20 pages.

Family photo album

Probably everyone remembers family gatherings, parents’ friends coming to visit, and many hours of looking through family photo albums, accompanied by constant exclamations a la “How cute!”, “Where are you?”, “How big Andryushka is.”

This trend has not lost its popularity even now. How to make a photo album that you wouldn’t be embarrassed to show to guests?

Let's look at a specific example that is gaining more and more popularity - mini-albums united by one storyline: a walk, some event, etc.

• take a sketchbook as a base;
• cuts off half or even three quarters of it;
• we make a book that will open like an accordion;
• On one page we place only one photograph, on the second page we place a signature, decoration, quote or something else.

Pay attention!

On the Internet and bookstores you will find a lot of tips and guides on how to design paper photo albums, and even training sessions are held.

But it’s best to use your imagination and make a unique photo album with your own hands!

DIY photo album photo

Pay attention!

Pay attention!

Photography is a unique thing. This is not just a picture, this is a whole segment of life. When you look at a photograph, your memory brings up a whole heap of memories from the depths.

You can spend more than one pleasant evening looking at a photo album. You can never expect such warmth and impressions from electronic versions of photo collections. In addition, if the gadget breaks down, pictures can be lost forever. Isn’t this a good reason to continue the traditions of our ancestors and make a photo album with our own hands?

Why your own if you can buy it? ready-made options? There are a lot of arguments:

1.​ Because it will be unique.

2.​ It can be done in different styles and subject matter.

3.​ A piece of your soul will fall into it.

4.​ And simply because it is an interesting activity.

Interested? Let's look at creating a photo album with your own hands step by step.

1. Scrapbooking Basics

Like any business, scrapbooking requires advance planning. The problem is that it is not enough for a photo album to have an aesthetic appearance; it needs to carry a certain semantic load. To fulfill all the conditions, you need to find the best way implementation of the idea. And here it is better to stick to already proven techniques and stylistic ideas for designing photo albums.

DIY photo album

It should be noted that scrapbooking is not a cheap hobby, so before you go purchasing supplies, you need to think about the following for your future masterpiece:

• plot;
• composition;
• design style;
• implementation technique.

1.1. Plot

It is the plot that will give you the idea of ​​how to make a photo album with your own hands. The design of the product will directly depend on the theme. A photo album can be a family album or a gift album.

The design of a photo album directly depends on the topic

1.2. Composition

For a do-it-yourself photo album, page design ideas must be correctly positioned. The photos themselves and the design elements should appear in visual unity. Here it is important to determine the semantic center of the composition and, in relation to it, select accents or decorations for the page. The subject of the image will help you choose a title and perhaps even make brief description picture.

All pages of the photo album must be made in the same style

1.3. Stylistic orientation

“By creating a photo album with your own hands, you are free to choose any style of its design”

Admirers of lush decor should focus on the American vision of a photo book. Connoisseurs of antiquity and those who like to immerse themselves in bygone days will certainly choose shabby chic or vintage. Adherents of minimalism can take a closer look at the European style and one of the most popular ideas for designing photo albums – “clean and simple”.

Design of a photo album in the “clean and simple” style.

When creating a photo album with your own hands, you are free to choose any design style. Other design options can be used, the main thing is that they can present the theme of the album from the best side.

1.4. Performance technique

There are many options on how to make a photo album with your own hands. The following help to implement your ideas:

• stamping;
• decoupage;
• journaling;
• cropping;
• distress.

There are about a hundred more entertaining techniques that allow you to create magnificent copies of photo albums.

Decoupage technique in photo album decor

The presented methods are distinguished by relative ease of implementation. Thus, stamping involves the use of applicators and all kinds of impressions. In decoupage, plot drawings and ornaments are used. In cropping, they work with the photo itself. It is cut so that only key points. Journaling is characterized by adding original descriptions to photographs. Distress is based on the aging of the paper.

Many different types of impressions are used in stamping

2. DIY photo album: step by step

2.1. Stage I

Essentially this is preparation for work. At this stage, we focus on selecting tools and purchasing materials. What will you need?

Materials:

• thick (500 gsm; m) cardboard;
• scrap paper;
• notebook;
• padding polyester;
• adhesive fabric;
• tapes.

Tools:

• awl;
• ruler;
• needle;
• breadboard knife;
• pencil.

2.2. Stage II

We sit down to plan the implementation of our own photo album design ideas. The result will not disappoint if you clearly formulate what you want to see in the end. This is where a notebook comes into play. It is desirable that it be similar in size to the future original. It will become a kind of template for work. On its pages you can experiment with the arrangement of photographs and decorative elements. The most successful options are recorded.

Sketch of the location of pictures and decorative elements

Let's start creating a photo album with our own hands by assembling the spines for the pages. To do this, you can use less thick photo cardboard. Strips are cut from it corresponding to the height of the sheets. The width of the stripes may vary. On average, the figure rarely exceeds 3 cm.

Stripes corresponding to sheet heights

Using a ruler, find the center of the narrow part. We set aside 2 mm on both sides of it if the landscape pages have convex decorations and 1 mm in other cases. We proceed in the same way from the opposite side. We connect the outlines with a ruler and draw a strip not with a pencil, but not with a writing pen. This photo album design idea will help you bend the sheet strictly along the given lines. We cut off the corners of the workpiece. Now you can put sheets in them and fix them with glue. The outer sheets should not have “partners”. The free part of the spine will be needed for another.

Fix the leaves with glue

2.3. Stage IV

Page finishing. Their decor begins with covering them with scrap paper. Select the right colors and create a general background against which the rest of the composition elements will later be located. The decor for a photo album assembled with your own hands can be:

• applications;
• vinyl stickers;
• newspaper clippings;
• beautiful cords;
• ribbons;
• lace;
• beads.

Decorative materials for photo album design

In general, everything that your fantasy draws. If there are an abundance of volumetric parts, they should be evenly placed on the pages, then the sheets will not be deformed, and the product as a whole will not lose its shape. This is another reason to work on a photo album with your own hands step by step.

Place the decor evenly on the pages

2.4. Stage V

We make the binding and attach the cover. We collect the sheets of paper pasted into the spines into a book and glue the first ones with a piece of bandage, gauze or adhesive fabric, so that there is one and a half centimeters of free material left at the edges of the binding.

Cover the spine with gauze

From cotton braid with processed edges, we cut out two strips, the same length as the width of the binding. We bend the remaining gauze and glue it exactly along the edge. This idea for decorating a photo album will help hide flaws in the assembly of the end part of the binding and will serve as an additional fixation for the sheets, preventing them from coming off.

Glue two strips along the edge

While the cheesecloth is drying, work directly on the spine for the binding. If the paper for work is not too thick, then the part can be assembled. You will have to cut out two components: one strictly according to the size of the binding, the second with a width allowance of 3 cm. We lay the smaller strip on top of the larger one so that there are even allowances on both sides. Mark the boundaries and glue the parts.

Spine for binding

It would seem that's it? But at this stage there are some secrets. Design ideas from scrapbooking professionals will help you make a high-quality photo album with your own hands. What do they advise? A thick spine will prevent the album from opening. Is it possible to avoid problems? Yes, if you draw longitudinal lines along the inside of the spine with a sharp object (the same non-writing pen) with a step distance of 1 cm. This technique will allow the part to bend smoothly.

But the nuances of the topic “how to make a photo album with your own hands” do not end there.

The spine is fixed under the cover

The spine must not be glued to the binding. It is fixed on the cover. The structure is allowed to dry, after which the sheets collected on gauze are placed in it. We fix the free ends of the fabric and the part of the sheet spine that was prudently left when assembling the photo album with our own hands to the inside of the cover. It’s better to make it a transparent “Moment”. It holds more firmly and marks are removed more easily. The drips are simply erased with an eraser.

Inside cover

The creation of the photo album is complete. All that remains is to decorate the cover and fill it with content.

3. Thematic ideas for designing a photo album

Pleasant memories require beautiful cutting. Selfie, which has become fashionable, allows you to make photo albums with your own hands for almost every occasion, but still more often they are created for more global reasons.

3.1. Family Chronicle

It can look like a full-fledged photo book. Its contents will be not only interesting and memorable photographs, but also newspaper clippings, postcards dear to the heart, things closely related to family history. On title page It’s a good idea to write a motto that reflects the credo of the family.

DIY family photo album

How to make a photo album about your family with your own hands? For example, in genealogical chronology. Rummage in family archive. There will probably be many photographs of your ancestors that you remember and will be able to tell something to your descendants. These photos will appear on the first pages of the chronicle. The story should continue right up to the present day. In the future, your creativity can lay the basis for a whole galaxy of similar photo albums.

Make a series of family photo albums

If a family leads an active lifestyle and does not forget to record everything that happens in it on camera, then it will be difficult to fit everything into one album. In this case, you should divide all the photos into thematic groups and try to assemble a photo album with your own hands for each occasion.

If you love to travel, take a selection of photos from your most memorable trips. Additional decor for such albums can be postcards depicting excursion places of countries or trophies obtained, such as a dried leaf. exotic plant. The epic of sea ​​holidays perfectly decorates sand, pebbles, shells from beaches, seagull feathers, sprigs of algae.

DIY photo album about travel

Don't be lazy to describe what is shown on the pages. It will be interesting for your descendants to read about your adventures.

Start working on a photo album with your own hands, and design ideas will appear in your head. All relatives can be involved in the case. Give them a page and ask them to decorate it as they wish. You can ask them to compose a poem or write down a life story, or make a drawing with their own hands. In a family photo album, any illustration will be significant.

Make a photo album for the whole family

3.2. DIY children's photo album

“Don’t think that the time it takes to create a child’s photo album with your own hands will be limited to one day - it will be a long process”

The arrival of a child is probably the most important event in the life of every family, eclipsing even a wedding, so the desire to immortalize every minute of a child’s life is quite natural. How to make a child’s photo album with your own hands so that what is reflected in it evokes affection even years later? Pay attention to details and wisely plan the sequence of filling with photographs. From the heap of photographs, try to select symbolic images that tell about new milestone in a child's life.

DIY children's photo album

You can start the story from afar. Let a photo appear on the first page last days pregnancy. An excellent addition to them would be ultrasound printouts. The logical continuation will be shots from the discharge photo shoot in the celebration hall of the maternity hospital. Next will be pictures with relatives. Later they will paste into the photo album with their own hands: the first smile, the first tooth, the first independent breakfast, the first steps. For every mother, these events are simply etched in her memory, and a desire is born to share her happiness with the whole world.

Ultrasound printouts would be a great addition.

There are a lot of ideas for designing baby photo albums. They can be made into a repository of children's heirlooms by gluing inside a strand of the first hair, ribbons from a cap, or a piece of a bow that was used to tie a blanket. Over time, it will be possible to add children's drawings, crafts and greeting cards brought from the garden and school. Then they will be replaced by artifacts of achievements in the form of certificates and awards.

An example of the design of pages for a children's photo album

Don’t think that the time it takes to create a child’s photo album with your own hands will be limited to one day - it will be a long process. Its contents will be replenished as the object grows.

And one more thing. Children often delight us with pearls. Don't be lazy to record them in the same album. This will be a great reason for fun years later and will decorate the pages well if it appears on them in color.

3.3. Wedding photo album

The wedding day is special for both newlyweds. Naturally, you want to save every moment of it in your memory. A huge number of photographs from the celebration will require systematic storage in a decent design. So how can you make a photo album with your own hands as unusual as the event itself?

DIY wedding photo album

It's not trivial to decorate it. The bride's accessories, lace, ribbons, and elements of wedding paraphernalia will help with this. The photo can be decorated with dried flower buds from a young wedding bouquet. Over the years, such little things will become incredibly valuable and touching. Here are some more photo album design ideas.

1.​ Recreate the historical accuracy of the wedding celebration by grouping photos according to the chronology of its course.

Recreate the chronology of events on the pages of the album

2. Don’t be afraid to put so-called reportage and staged photographs in the album. They can be quite funny.

3.​ Try to give the design of the photo album a specific stylistic direction. It can be retro or something more modern.

Give the album a general stylistic direction

4. Create personal pages for portraits of heroes of the occasion and VIP guests.

5. When making a photo album with your own hands, supplement it with images of landscapes that served as the background for the wedding event.

Complete the album with landscape images

6.​ Multi-colored pages in the album will look original.

7.​ Bet on the originality of the photographs themselves. Let them be highlighted in sepia or decorated like a painting. Dilute color photos with black and white.

Dilute color photos with black and white.

8.​ In the wedding album, you can use several photos of the newlyweds taken on the eve of the wedding, as well as those telling about the ups and downs of the preparations for it.

9.​ Separate the official part and the party. This way you will have two albums with photos at once.

10.​ A photo collage of small-format photographs is also interesting.

Photo collage of small format photographs

Design ideas used when creating a photo album with your own hands can cause a certain imbalance in the perception of the compositions due to the overload of frames with characters. When placing close-up group photographs in a self-created photo album, try to place them on the spread so that the views of the guests captured in them are directed in one direction. Then you won't get the impression that they are looking at each other. Also, a spread that is literally “littered” is not perceived in the best way. small photos. Use a compositional approach to their arrangement, dilute the pictures with texts and decorative elements. Let your design talents make a splash!

Dilute your photos with text and decor

4. Conclusion

The proposed options for creating and filling photo albums are just the tip of the iceberg called scrapbooking. Knowing how to make a photo album with your own hands, you will ensure that it excites memories of days gone by and helps bring loved ones closer together.

5. Photo gallery – DIY photo album

A family album is an important element of every home. It is the center of attention when visiting friends and relatives, at family celebrations and in warm moments of memories. This is a secret of the past, a kind of relic, the life story of each of us. Today, most photos are stored on phones, tablets, and mobile phones. But it’s much more pleasant to turn through the pages of history and touch pictures than to view them on a monitor. A handmade photo album will be a successful alternative to electronic folders.

Photo album using scarpbooking technique

The scrapbook is a literal translation of the newfangled trend of creating photo albums. Such albums can contain everything: dried flowers, “tags” of a newborn, small meaningful things, cuts, lace, beads and, of course, photos. Design imagination knows no bounds, and modern materials make it possible to realize any ideas.

Masters work in several directions:

• modern. All current attributes, stencils, blanks, bright prints, rhinestones, etc. are appropriate. In this direction you can often find shabby chic;

• V retro And vintage albums use aged paper, cute trinkets, jewelry, clippings from old newspapers or magazines, lace, braid;

• romantic implies the use of everything delicate and airy: lace, fabric, ribbons, decorations, braid, poetry.

When creating an album on any topic, it is important to think through the basic design and create a color composition. Basic scrapbooking tips for beginners:

• decide on the style in which the album will be made;
• choose the background of the pages. It should be combined with the shades of colors used in the album;
• think over the semantic content of the album, if you need to select poems, quotes, make clippings.

How to make an album with your own hands, see the video below.

A love story: wedding album

A wedding photo album does not have to contain exclusively photographs of the celebration. You can start a story about your family with a story about how you met: photos together on vacation or dating moments.

When creating a wedding album with your own hands, you need:

• choose size. The 30*30 cm option is ideal for placing several photos on a page. The parameters 20*20 cm mean a standard photo on the page and a few small things. But the album 25*25 cm is the average option. You can place several pictures and diversify with additional inserts;
• Materials you will need: thick paper (cardstock), film with a pattern (overlay), cardboard figures (chipboard), foil, beads, garter, invitations, napkins, bows, buttons, lace, cards, tulle.

Watch the video below for the album creation process.

And naturally, yours family life will have a happily ever after, so you need to provide pages for future anniversaries.

How to make a cover in the video below.

Creating an album for a newborn

When creating a children's album, it is appropriate to use a variety of scarp paper, stencils, and baby things. The following may be useful for registration:

• a hand or foot print of a child. This can be done using regular gouache, or on a special base, which is then placed on the cover;

• pregnancy photos and ultrasound images;
• horoscope, name meaning - all this will be a good addition to the album;
• pictures of your favorite toys will decorate the pages;
• a lullaby for your baby is suitable for a photo of a sleeping child;
• first phrases, a memorable drawing, a page from a diary - everything that seems ordinary now can be of great value in 10-15 years;
• menu, favorite dish, an adored cartoon - mentions of these moments will be a good addition to the photographs.

How to create a children's scrapbooking album, see the video below.

A children's album made from envelopes will be creative and non-standard. Watch the master class in the video below.

Chronicle of generations in photographs

Family photo album – great gift for your wedding anniversary to your nearest and dearest. The story of their family, photos of children and everything significant events can be placed under one binding. This album will look good in a vintage or retro style.

For a family chronicle album you can use:

• lyrics of songs relevant at a certain time, poems and sayings, newspaper clippings;
• significant things or their photos;
• artificial flowers, various stamps, elements of old costume jewelry, iron butterflies, flowers, figured photo frames, suede and velvet.

See the video below for an example of the design.

An integral part of such albums is aged paper. It's not difficult to do:

• in order to give the edges a “frayed” look, you need to treat them with a distresser;
• coffee will turn a white sheet of paper yellowed with age. Brew 5 full teaspoons of coffee in 200 ml of boiling water. Let it brew for 10 minutes with the lid closed and strain. Lightly crush a sheet of paper, dip it in coffee and hold for no more than 5 minutes. Dry and iron;

• Black tea will give yellowness to the paper. Brew 5-10 tsp. in a glass of boiling water (depending on how much the leaf needs to be yellowed). Leave for 10 minutes and strain. Keep the leaf in tea leaves for about two minutes. Dry and iron. You can drop tea leaves onto the sheet several times.

It's a good idea to create a family tree. You can bring your idea to life by drawing it, cutting it out of cardboard, felt or fiberboard.

How to do family tree with your own hands, watch the video below.

DIY travel book

For travel lovers, a travel book will be relevant - a book of photographs, notes, plans, saved tickets and small souvenirs.

How to create a travel album, see the video below.

The travel book contains:

• a lot of entries. By hand and not necessarily with a ruler. These could be stories about your expectations from the trip, what you managed to achieve, a description of the highlights of the trip;
• You can devote a page to each topic: food, relaxation, sights, new acquaintances;
• special pockets for small souvenirs.

Review the full design of the travel album in the video below.

Stroller, heart or house: creating figured photo albums

Who said that a photo album must be rectangular? Figured albums look bright and unusual. You can download ready-made stencils from the Internet, or you can create them yourself. Unrivaled family album blogger Elena Stepanova made it in the shape of a house. The author made a multi-story house and placed the photographs as follows: as the family grows, the floor increases. The result was amazing.

Figured albums can be family, children's, or reflect the hobbies of household members.

Album pet interesting for children, because filling it with pictures of your pet is very entertaining.

How to design a figured album, see the video below.

Mini-album for beginners

This album will be a good start for those who are trying their hand at scrapbooking. It can be designed in the form of a book, box or accordion. The last option is the easiest to implement. All you need is 70*10 cm cardboard, decorative paper, double-sided tape, tape. The album is composed as follows:

• folds are made on the cardboard at a distance of 10 cm. This will be the binding;
• the cover will be two squares measuring 10.5*10.5 cm, covered with decorative paper, which are attached to the binding;
• sheets of decorative paper measuring 9.5*9.5 cm are glued to each page of the album;
• the album is decorated with a ribbon tie.

Children grow very quickly, so you want to capture every moment of their lives. We live in a world modern technologies, in connection with this, every modern baby has a huge number of a wide variety of photographs, from birth to the present day.

To prevent your photos from getting lost in multiple devices, it's a smart idea to print them out and collect them in one photo album. And to make it as personalized as possible, try assembling the album yourself.

Scrapbooking technique- a popular trend among modern masters. This technique allows you to display in your works all your knowledge, skills and abilities in the field of creativity. Scrapbooking involves the use various materials, for example, scrap paper, scissors, stamps, acrylic paint and many others. Together, these materials provide a finished composition, which may differ depending on the chosen theme, style, method of design and decoration.

A DIY children's photo album is an excellent practice for a beginner scrapbooker. Collecting the pages of your first album is not so difficult, and pasting photographs and designing a photo album will allow you to develop your composition skills and taste as a master. Creating a children's photo book does not require much effort and time, and the result can exceed all expectations and not only please, but also surprise all household members and guests.

The scrapbooking technique continues to conquer the hearts of craftswomen around the world. To make a photo album for children's photographs with your own hands, you you will need:

The list contains interchangeable items, for example, the grommet installer can be replaced with a regular hole punch, and the glue can be replaced with double-sided tape. Choose materials that are familiar and convenient for you to make the task easier.

How to make a children's photo album with your own hands

Keeping it simple step by step master class, you can make a beautiful album for children's photographs:

What materials to fill the photo album with?

The album can be filled not only with photographs, but also useful information about the child, which he will be interested to know about himself: when his first tooth fell out, when he took his first step, words or sounds, favorite activities in the first year or even month of life. It is the “first” events that are the most touching and wonderful.

The album can be designed throughout your life, so leave a few blank pages at the end of the photo book. When a child grows up, he will be able to continue the album or even pass it on by inheritance, pasting in photographs of his children. Then your homemade photo album will turn into a real family heirloom!

Making a children's photo album is a pleasure! Each page, designed with your own hands, is filled with a special energy that cannot be felt when flipping through the pages of a purchased photo album. Don’t be afraid to tinker and create something with your own hands, and then your works will become a decoration at home and the pride of your family and friends!