Scrapbook pages are generally focused around your family events. Whether it's a birthday, graduation, or wedding, it's important to get the feel for the event down on the page. Here are some ideas to spark your imagination! | |||||
This summer was my son's first trip to the beach. I took some sand home, and found a beach/sand-themed printed paper. I laid some of the sand in a thin layer onto the sand design (and also onto the die cut letters I used for the title). I then used the Xyron machine to laminate the page, creating a unique keepsake of my son's first day at the beach! Lucille Lovett - Whittier, CA | |||||
With graduation around the corner we are getting doubles of the snapshots of my children's friends. For each graduation we are invited to, we take a picture of that person and use our scrapbooking supplies to make it into a very special, individualized and inexpensive graduation card. It is also fun, using the same idea, to make birthday cards for a friend with a funny picture you have of them. Other ways to use your scrapbook supplies to dress up other projects include: have the children use paper edgers to cut fancy edges on their report cover page, use the gel pens and stickers to decorate your own handmade greeting cards, and use sticker , pens, and fancy edged scissors to create crafty recipe cards. | |||||
For my mother's 50th birthday my sisters and sister-in-laws divided up old pictures of us kids and created a memory book. My mother doesn't have a lot of time, and it was neat to see the different ideas and page layouts that we created. It saved time on a huge project and allowed us all to work together on something meaningful and fun! Sonya Bria - Aurora, IL | |||||
Last year for my in-laws 35th wedding anniversary, I sent letters to all of their friends and family requesting pictures 'from the past' of my in-laws with their friends. I also sent acid free paper and requested letters from each guest telling what my in-laws meant to them over the years. Then I assembled everything into an album, putting the letter on the left side and pictures on the right side of the book. We also added their wedding invitation, pictures from their wedding and a picture of each of the 4 houses they've lived in. Then I saved some pages in the back for pictures of the party and also put out special pens for all of the guests to write notes to them on several pages. My in-laws absolutely LOVED IT! | |||||
Friends and relatives love photos, but the idea of putting together a full album for all the grandparents (or aunts and uncles, friends, etc) is overwhelming. The perfect gift for that someone special is to put together a few pages of an album you can add to each year. Not only is this a most precious gift to the recipient, but it allows you to know what you will get the person for years to come! (Just think how easy shopping will be). Each year you can gift wrap a few more pages with current pictures of that particular year. Eventually, your loved one will have years of memories in one album. One idea for a page or two in this special album is to have each member of your family write something special in the album. Write a story, a poem, a special note to the person getting the album...even draw a picture. If kids are involved, be sure to have them write something (even if they can only "scribble") Every one will enjoy looking back to see how their writing developed over the years. Carrie and John - Cut'N'Fun | |||||
My siblings and I are working on a "memory book" for our parent's 50th wedding anniversary. We have asked family and friends to provide photos and memories of Mom and Dad's lives, both before and after their marriage in 1948, to include in the book. We will have a photographer at the party and will leave extra photo pocket pages in the back of the album for those pictures. We will also have disposable cameras on the tables for guests to use, and will add those photos to the book as well. Also, our parents wanted a guest book at the party. Instead of a plain old guest book we will pass around a binder with scrapbook pages in it and have guests sign (and hopefully write a note) on the scrapbook pages. At the end of the party, we will add the pages to the memory book. No loose guest book floating around to get misplaced later. And, we can intersperse the "guest book" pages among the photo and scrapbook pages. Sherry Kulczewski - Monte Rio, CA | |||||
Instead of using the printed Family Tree page for my son's scrapbook, that only allows for the names, I decided to make my own. I found clipart of a tree and enlarged it so that it takes up virtually the full 12x12 page. This was necessary to fit all pictures. Then I gathered pictures of all four sets of his great-grandparents and two sets of the grandparents. I used pictures of everyone photographed as couples. I used our wedding picture for our picture and used his baby picture taken at one month. I placed all 8 wallet size pictures on the tree. It’s hard to fit them all, & wrote their full names under the pictures. I am not finished yet, but I plan to decorate it with grass & flower stickers, and maybe some birds. I had to purchase a larger sheet of green paper for the tree, because it turned out to be bigger than 8x10. Not as easy as using the printed Family Tree page, but more special, I think! Amanda Drenning - Columbia, SC | |||||
When doing a wedding album, make a copy of your pianist's music and use that as the background on some of your pages rather than pattern paper. Sondra Vissering - Flanagan, IL | |||||
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