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 designing a photo album is a 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, 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 puncher;
- 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 instruction 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. You can use lace to decorate a wedding photo album, and decorate a children’s photo album with cutouts 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 consider options for designing a photo album on specific example- “My grandfather is a sailor”:
- we cut out the backing from colored paper or aqua-colored fabric, and 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 kind of 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.
Note!
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
Note!
Note!
Time flies so quickly with your baby! Here's yesterday's baby, who couldn't even hold his head up, is already taking his first steps. A children's album will help leave this in the memory of every family member.
The first few months of a child’s life are full of different events: first words, smiles, hesitant steps. There are also often situations when a camera is simply necessary. After all, I really want to relive these moments in a few years!
In the first few months you will be busy with your baby, but when he is 6 months old, you can already take some time and start making his first photo album. In addition, by this age there are already many photographs.
Children's stores offer a variety of photo albums of various sizes and thicknesses with blank cardboard sheets or sheets with magnetic film, which will allow you to make your baby's album unique and unlike any other.
What items can be pasted into a children's album?
. Tags from the maternity hospitalGreeting Cards
Photo ultrasound
Names and surnames of doctors and midwives
Baby's first hair (cut lock)
Labels from baby's first clothes, fruit puree or mixture
1. The album can contain information about the baby’s horoscope, as well as a description of the animal in the year in which he was born
2. You can trace the newborn’s leg and arm and paste this sheet into the album
3. Any information related to the baby will be interesting - write the date and time of birth, weight and height, weather on the baby’s birthday, etc.
4. Maintain a consistent design style for your children's album.
5. If you know how to draw, you can dress each photo in a unique picture
6. If you have problems with drawing, borrow drawings from good quality magazines and newspapers.
7. Try to place at least a few portrait photographs in the album - they are more expressive
8. It will be interesting if, along with photographs of the baby, you paste photographs of the first feeding, first clothes, favorite toy, etc.
9. Try to experiment - place photos in places other than chronological order, but with the same objects and people. For example, on one of the pages place a photo of the baby with his grandmother at 1 month, at 6 months and at one year. There you will clearly see the growth and weight gain of the child.
Poems for the design of the baby's first album
This album brings togetherFirst (name) days and months:
How he was born, how he grew up,
What toys did our baby play with?
Words and smiles - like every hour
Little (name) made us happy.
I'm in the hospital, I'm not sick:
I was born, I am happy!
I'm so glad that mom is happy
Do not need anything else.
I don't understand your faces
After all, I was just born.
But I know a delicious color
There is no better color in the world.
This color is the most reliable:
This is the color of mom's robe!
The first photo is mine,
Guess where I am?
Looked closely once, twice,
I covered my face with my hand.
When I saw you, baby,
In just one moment, the whole world turned upside down.
You seemed to smile too,
Shyly, he brought his fists to his lips.
Even if the sprout is still very small,
But already dear and beloved to me.
A unique moment will soon come,
When I can hold you in my arms.
And, peering into screen monitor,
Guessing your contours,
I dream of being just like your dad
And know that we are looking forward to seeing you! Grow!
A poem about mom's belly
Why at mom's
Has your belly suddenly grown?
Maybe my mom
Does he eat and drink a lot?
Maybe she swallowed it
Inflatable ball?
Or he's just joking
So is she with me?
But this morning
I found out the truth -
I have her in my ear
Dad told me.
He revealed today
It's a big secret to me.
Can I tell you secrets?
I'm already five years old!
And now I know
What is the belly for?
It's inside mom's
My brother lives.
There's probably a lot
It's boring to be alone.
Let him come out soon
I will be glad to see him.
Rhyme about the tag
(Name) was born at this moment
They gave him the first document.
Baby was born today
And she couldn’t be cuter!
The sun looks out the window,
Sending her regards.
Let this ray of goodness
It shines for many years!
The girl will be healthy
And always happy
The daughter has appeared!
Everyone around is moved:
Well, how sweet
What a beauty!
May she give you joy
For loving parents,
Growing up happy
And the most amazing!
Happy parents!
In honor of an important event
We want it immediately, this very hour,
Congratulations on your heiress!
Let it grow for sure
Healthy, wonderful,
Beautiful and sociable
To your delight, parents!
The eyes shine clearly and the clear voice is heard,
The greatest happiness is the birth of a child!
Adorable little girl! The only mystery is - where from?
Or maybe there was such a miracle in cabbage?
We all know this for sure
There is no mystery here:
A thousand sons a day
Is born...
The only interesting thing is this:
If we go around the light,
Better than your son
We can't find anyone!
A baby is born!
A little boy is born!
A cheerful and playful boy was born!
Let the centimeters and grams grow quickly,
There is no more joy for dad and mom!
Let the stork rest a little now...
And again he will bring you someone!
Your son is still in diapers,
But day after day, year after year
Wonderful, joyful child
Let him grow up without worries.
May life give him happiness,
Health, mind and long life,
So that you have wonderful parents
He has grown into a wonderful man!
Extract
Our expectations are long
The precious hour has struck.
With a loud sweet voice
You made us all happy!
The child is lying
I like to lie on my back
Put your foot in your mouth.
Baba, look.
Well, repeat it!
I'm lying on my tummy, looking in all directions,
I won't say a word to you -
I can't talk
just puff out your cheeks!
Placed on tummy
you need to hold your head
I'm tired... unhappy...
It's better to just lie down!
Watching the pen
I'm lying in a crib
and I watch the pen -
Whose fingers are these?
soft like bunnies?
I barely understood, friends,
this is my little hand!!!
We are sitting
I'm already big!
I'm sitting by myself!
And like a girl from a fairy tale
I'm looking far away
I sat down well
and learning to pose.
Run here quickly
Take my picture!"
Look quickly, parents,
Look, grandma and grandpa;
You haven't seen this yet:
I learned to sit!
First steps
Stomp with one foot, stomp with another,
I'm already big
And they walk on their own
Feet straight to mom.
About legs
What kind of legs? What kind of legs?
You, our baby!
Neither dog nor cat
We won't give you your legs.
These legs, these legs
They will run along the path
First steps
Our girl is gone!
The room has become small
Training every hour
Our legs are getting stronger!
I'm not going yet.
I'm lying. I’m still sitting.
And I can still stand.
And one day I will run.
I can train.
If for hold your hand,
Then I go step by step.
I'm big already - that's it!
Learning to walk
Stomp with one foot, stomp with another,
I'm already big
And they walk on their own
Feet straight to mom!
And these are my first steps
In a huge interesting world
Parents call that world “apartment”
I'll run, try to catch up!
I crawled to the kitchen.
I want to play here.
Please, I don't need you
Close all the cabinets.
There are so many interesting things there:
Pots, lids, bowls.
Well, let me play
A little bit for your Dasha.
Leg, arm, leg again
How difficult it is to control your body
But you won't turn back time
Look, mom, I'm growing
And now I’m already crawling!
I don't sit still
Although I’m not going yet!
If something is far away
Not easy to reach
I get on my knees
And I'm crawling there!
13 August 2010, 15:26
Baby eats
Porridge was cooked on the stove,
Where is our big spoon?
I chew everything at home,
Everything that is even unfamiliar
Everything that is tasty and tasteless -
If only I wasn't sad.
From an egg, like from a diaper
A little chicken got out
Look how he looks!
Feed me semolina porridge!
One - chamomile, two - chamomile!
Mom's cup is covered in flowers.
And there is a flower on the teapot,
Oh, and our delicious tea.
What's for breakfast? Porridge again!
Oh, (Name) doesn’t like her.
You fill your mouth full
But everything doesn’t go to the stomach.
What to do? How to be?
You can't live without her:
Gives agility and strength.
So, go to your mouth!
This spoon gives me strength
This one to be beautiful
This one, to be smart...
What else should I not forget?
A spoon so it doesn't hurt,
To be able to do everything.
I think I said everything.
And there was not enough porridge.
If you crush it with a spoon,
I ate everything, one might say.
I eat lunch myself.
I open my mouth - and AM!
So that there is strength
They cooked some soup for me.
What's for lunch today? -
Milk soup and omelet.
How big Nikita: himself
Holds a spoon: YUM-YUM-YUM!
Smeared with chocolate
Round cheeks.
And it's so delicious to kiss them
With my beloved daughter!!!
Chocolate, chocolate -
I'm incredibly happy to see you!
While mommy doesn't see,
I eat 5 pieces in a row!!!
Our favorite little one
I tried watermelon today
Ears, nose and cheeks
Everything in watermelon juice
If the day is very hot,
There is ice cream in the park.
Here's a glass, here's a horn.
Choose any, my friend!
What is juice?
Uh! And it's delicious!
Let's knock over the cup!
It won't be sad with me!
The cup flew to the floor.
Don't be angry mommy.
You can't swear at me
I'm your sweetheart!
A chef walks around in a cap
With a ladle in hand
He's preparing lunch for us
Porridge, cabbage soup and vinaigrette.
This is the kind of watermelon we have -
Tastes wonderful!
Even the nose and cheeks
Everything is in watermelon juice...
As if smeared with honey
Round cheeks
And it's so delicious to kiss them
With my beloved daughter!
If you were found in cabbage,
You have no reason to be sad
Because then you
Food provided.
You've already grown up, son,
try carrot juice
try, try, don't be shy,
get some vitamins!!!
In a barn where there is no light,
I entered bravely!
Crow from the yard
drove away bravely!..
But suddenly I dreamed at night,
what am I
completely alone.
And I cried.
I became so scared.
I'm cheerful and happy.
These guests are drinking tea,
eat marmalade.
But they don’t give me marmalade...
I don’t want to cry, but I have to!
Tired of being a baby.
Rattles rattle idlely,
They play with me like a toy.
They kiss, pinch and tickle,
I’m lying there angry, and everyone is laughing.
What kind of attacks and manners,
You need to have nerves of steel.
I don't want to endure it anymore
Well, everyone, hold on, I shout:
A-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a…………
I was seriously offended
Streams of tears running down my cheeks.
What if I spend them all?
How will I pay then?
Your first laugh, wow!
Faster videos and photos!
Well.., we were late, as always -
Already sobbing to the point of hiccups.
"Amazing Child"
Everyone is talking about me.
Because I'm from the cradle
I smile at everyone.
I'm a laugher, I'm a merry fellow.
Everything in this life is okay for me.
I open my mouth wider and wider,
I live without hassle and worries.
And today I'm just
Smiled for the hundredth time
Fidget baby
Light head,
He pours out, sings,
Just like the nightingale!
It doesn’t matter that there is no skill,
Much joy from singing!
I sat and was sad,
Mom turned on the music -
Immediately hands, head
They started dancing for me!
Everyone is laughing!
Sleigh down the hill, ski down the hill,
I'm climbing up the mountain - closer to the sun!
And without skis and without sleigh
I'll go down the hill faster than everyone else.
Funny! Funny!
I keep my balance.
But I couldn’t resist below,
My head hit a snowdrift.
One leg, two legs,
From the snowdrift, like horns.
What fun! What fun!
Everyone is rolling around laughing.
So beautiful in winter!
I don't want to go home.
Fun, laughter and closeness
It's icy on the hill.
The mittens have long been wet,
But we don't freeze.
And we're in the snow,
And we're in the snow,
And we play snowballs!
We sit on the sleigh
And we quickly rush downhill.
Snow, snow, white snow -
We are racing faster than anyone else!
We'll go for a walk now
But let's not freeze.
To make us warmer,
Let's wrap ourselves in a blanket!
The ribbon is bright!
The blanket is hot!
Just eyes and nose!
For a walk! Out in the cold!
When I walk down the street with my mother,
I hold mommy's hand tightly.
Why should she go and be afraid,
How can she get lost?!
Don't let your parents get angry
That the builders will get dirty,
Because he who builds
He's worth something!
And it doesn't matter what for now
This house is made of sand!
And we went to the beach.
And I swam in the river.
And I ran on the sand
And I wasn’t afraid of the sun!
The swing is flying up,
I'm holding on tight there.
Rock it dad
Higher to the skies.
Football player
I hit the ball with a running start,
The ball lies, and I fly.
Goal disallowed - in goal
Turned out to be only bots
Eh, the days are good
I'm shopping with all my heart!!!
I'll splash in the water
And try to pull it away!!!
Summer, summer has come to us!
It became dry and warm.
Straight along the path
The feet walk barefoot.
There is noise and din on the site
Cheerful chatter!
And what is there just not -
Motorcycle, bicycle!
Get on your rollers and skate!
Go play badminton.
Whatever you want to do.
You can do anything! But don't be bored!
The gentle sun shines from above,
Illuminates the earth, grass and flowers.
And the sun came into our yard on time
And the sand in the yard turned golden.
A little girl went out for a walk:
There's a lot of sand, you can play!
Curly curls and flushed cheeks,
There is an embroidered flower on the elegant dress.
Golden curls, golden sand,
Golden sun, golden day!
Instructions
Buy a photo album from the store. It would be better if it was a neutral-colored album with blank pages. This will allow you to design it in full accordance with your taste, nothing will limit your actions. Start your design with the cover. It can be decorated with magazine clippings, embroidery, or simply painted. Another option is to cover the cover with fabric. The diaper in which your baby was wrapped upon discharge from the hospital is very suitable for this.
The birth of a child is preceded by a wonderful time in the life of a young couple - and anxious anticipation of the birth of a new member of their family. Dedicate the first pages of the album to this time. Paste photos of the mother, the first ultrasound pictures of the baby. Take the time to write down your impressions of this time while your memories are still fresh. Describe how you felt, how you interacted with your child, how dad stroked the tummy and put his hand on it when the baby moved.
Paste the very first photo of your baby into the album. Let it be a photo taken with a mobile phone in the maternity hospital. But this is the first photograph of a new person, and it has the right to take its place of honor. On this page, tell us about the emotions you experienced when you saw your child for the first time. Indicate date, time, weight and height. Then describe how you chose the name and what it means.
Discharge from the maternity hospital is one of the most touching and important moments. Mark it in your baby's album. Tell us about this day - how happy the relatives were, what flowers dad gave mom when they met. Take a large photo of the baby, paste it into the album, and next to it - children's photographs of the parents. You can write down your guesses as to what features the baby is like his mother and in what ways he is like his father.
There is a very popular technique among young mothers filling out their baby’s album. Take a photo of your child next to a large toy. And take such photos regularly. As the child grows, you will be able to watch how he will first catch up with the toy in size, and then outgrow it. This series of photos will look quite funny.
The main thing in maintaining such an album is filling it out regularly. Try not to neglect it, make notes constantly. Glue strands of hair into it, decorate the album with prints of your child’s hands and feet. Dilute the photos with your memories, favorite poems and fairy tales that you read to your baby. In the future, you will open such an album more than once and flip through it with pleasure, remembering all the pleasant moments of the first days of your child’s life.
Once you try this activity, it is impossible to stop, because the desire to create beauty is indomitable. Even a beginner can make an album for newborns using scrapbooking technology. To work, a talented craftsman will only need a basic set of knowledge, a boundless flight of imagination, materials and tools, as well as a sunny mood.
Decorating tradition
The name of the original technique was given English words scrap and book, which translated means “clipping” and “book”. From the title, even a beginner understands that the book should contain clippings from newspapers or magazines that emphasize the topic. The tradition of beautifully decorating an album with your own hands was born in the 15th century. In Europe, it was considered fashionable to collect books with records of poems, quotes, drawings, and sketches. The advent of printing made it possible to make scrap, supplementing albums with lithographs, images, and engravings. Fans of this unusual hobby decorated their products with personal items, labels, travel tickets, and invitations to attend social events. The more varied the scrap, the more luxurious and interesting the book looked. As children, we all loved to leaf through old grandmother’s albums, full of secrets, personal memories, and our imagination painted us pictures from the past.
Today, scrapbooking masters are actively searching for new creative forms for their masterpieces, decorating chocolate bowls, tea houses, and miniature birdhouses in unusual ways. But a scrapbooking album for newborns is a valuable gift for parents and a memory for a child, an unchanging classic of touching design.
Children's album design
Album content
With the advent of a baby, we become more sentimental, look at the world in a new way, and appreciate every moment of life. By creating an album for a newborn with our own hands, we are writing history, because even after many years these events will not lose their value.
Description of errors in work
What does the baby album contain?
- Photo before the baby was born. Touching pictures of mommy tenderly stroking her belly, listening to the kicks and movements in anticipation of a miracle. Let such photographs decorate the first pages.
- Photo of a young mother and baby immediately after birth, when there is happiness in the eyes, a glimpse of jubilation and something elusively new.
- Touching photographs of a baby sleeping serenely in his crib. You can capture the moment a newborn wakes up with a sleepy face and a cautious smile.
- Category “We eat!” The most fun section: dirty baby and mother, joyful laughter and happiness in the eyes.
- First walks. Young children are introduced to the big world around them for the first time. Bright moments in the photo will remind you of a happy time for many years.
- First baths. It is during bathing, according to psychologists, that complete agreement occurs and the baby learns to trust its parents. Photos of a baby in a fluffy towel after bathing are one of the most touching and sweetest.
Baby album pages
When creating an album using scrapbooking technology for newborns, ideas for filling and decorating can be very different. A smile, first steps, games and getting to know the outside world - all this is so significant during the development of the baby for parents. Each photograph requires a special treatment, the decor must be thematic, and the journaling must hit the bull’s eye, complementing and revealing the deep meaning of the memorable image. Many years will pass, the events will fade and be forgotten. But as soon as you pick up the album, the unforgettable moments that its pages so carefully preserve will flash through your memory in a bright series.
What do you need for work?
If you decide to create an album for a newborn using the scrapbooking technique with your own hands, then you should get acquainted with the basic rules of design. Popular materials and tools:
- Rings and brads. The function of the rings is to securely fasten the album pages. Brads are shaped like a nail, but with two flat legs. If you decorate the hat with a bead or flower, it will turn into a trendy decor.
Fastening materials
- Stamping. Ready-made stamps with an applied pattern or inscription will give the product an aesthetic and noble appearance. Stamps can be acrylic or rubber.
Stamps for decoration
Stamps should be stored in special packaging containers with a tightly closed lid. To wash the stamp, use a regular soap solution, after which the stamp is wiped dry.
High-quality care of stamps will allow them to serve the scrapbooking business faithfully for a long time.
- Ink. They are applied to the stamp and are responsible for the bright colors in the composition. When choosing, you should know that they can be alcoholic, chalky, or based on water-soluble dye. It is important to make sure what surfaces they are intended for.
Various inks
- Figured hole punch. Such tools are needed for punching shaped holes, creating carved borders and rounded corners. If you don’t have such equipment at hand, you can use thin nail scissors the old-fashioned way.
Tools for punching shaped holes
- Stationery set. While a craftsman can do without specialized tools, he is unlikely to do so without standard office supplies. Several scissors, glue, a pencil and a ruler are essential tools, without which work is almost impossible.
Useful tools for beginners part 1
Useful tools for beginners part 2
Useful tools for beginners part 3
Useful tools for beginners part 4
In addition to equipment for scrapbooking, there is all kinds of decor. The industry suggests using metal pendants, cardboard cut-outs, ready-made paper or fabric flowers, cardboard chipboards, and plaster frames. Glitters, paints, structural pastes, patina, pastels will help create unusual effects on paper. When listing the decor for a newborn’s album, one cannot fail to mention lace and ribbons. An ideal addition to the photographs will be the first cut strand of hair, the imprint of a tiny hand and foot. It is the decor that will help you create an exclusive product, and your heart will tell you the theme of the album!
We create with our own hands
There are many master classes on creating albums for newborns. Anyone who takes the first steps in a creative direction must learn to express themselves and develop their own individual style, which is easily “readable” in each product. Children's themes are the most fertile.
Such an album can be filled with all the important moments of the first year of life.
When creating cute things, your imagination does not need to be limited by choosing touching decor or the semantic content of the composition. A master class on creating an album is needed to understand the basic principles of work, and you just need to choose the most suitable one for yourself. beautiful way registration
A series of master classes on creating an album for a baby:
Making a children's album part 1
Making a children's album part 2
Making a children's album part 3
Making a children's album part 4
Making a children's album part 5
Album for a boy
As you know, blue is considered a classic “boy” color. In Soviet times, those around him could only understand his gender by the color of the bows on the envelope. Since then, little has changed, so when decorating an album for a newborn boy, it is the soft blue color that is at the peak of popularity.
Album for a boy of the first year of life
Beginning artists mistakenly believe that it is more difficult to design an album for a boy, because flowers, butterflies and other “cutes” have no place here. The scrapbooking industry is replete with a variety of decor, and right choice your imagination will tell you.
A few design rules:
- Cover the cardboard for the cover with fabric, wrapping it inside and gluing the edges securely.
The cover is the “face” of the album, so the choice color range extremely important. Check, stripes of blue and white, bright check - all this is relevant for a boyish theme.
- From cardboard or fabric letters we attach the classic inscription “Our Baby”. You can title your album in a similar way, putting the baby’s name on the cover.
- Choosing decor. A win-win decoration option is a picture or appliqué of a baby looking out of a blue stroller. You can complement the cover with miniature knitted booties, bright satin ribbons and matching lace, and a scattering of blue, light blue or turquoise buttons. You can choose from ready-made chipboards, cuttings or metal pendants in a children's theme that will decorate the composition in an original way.
- In order to decorate the pages of the album, we first cover them with scrap paper. The edges of the pages can be processed with a figured hole punch, giving them a delicate openwork.
- As decoration for the pages, you can use ready-made pictures or stickers depicting cars, trains, and cartoon characters. To emphasize the baby theme, you can use stamps depicting pacifiers, onesies, bottles and other baby accessories.
Interesting album option for my son
The choice of decor for the cover and pages is a matter of taste and desire of the artist. When creating your masterpiece, you should not think about strict principles and rules; it is important to be guided by tender feelings for your child.
Album for baby
When creating an album for a newborn girl, a bright pink color scheme, delicate shades of lilac, creamy peach or purple come to mind. You can use mono colors, but it is more interesting to organically combine all the shades with each other.
Scrapbook for a baby in the form of a dress
To work on an album using the scrapbooking technique for newborns you will need:
- prepared binding;
- white office paper;
- pastel and scrap paper;
- glue, tape, several scissors;
- hole punchers.
For decoration we use cardboard cut-outs of flowers and butterflies, satin ribbons and lace. Work algorithm:
- To begin, we cut out the backgrounds for the pictures from white paper, and trim the edges of each with a border hole punch.
- Cut out squares and rectangles from colored paper. The quantity must match the number of photos. We carefully tint the edges of the squares with an ink pad, and process the rectangles with a border hole punch.
- We cut out squares from scrap paper and cut the corners with a figured hole punch.
- We cut out the pages of the album from beer cardboard or textured white wallpaper. To prevent the pages from curling, iron each sheet through a thin fabric.
- On a white background we randomly glue all the individual elements and stitch them with a sewing machine. The backing should be on top, on it we will place photographs of the little princess.
- We decorate the pages with bows made of satin ribbons, cut-outs of butterflies and flowers, or chipboards painted to match.
- For the cover, choose a soft pink or lilac fabric and cut out two identical squares. Separately, we will cut out two squares from padding polyester so that the cover is pleasantly soft. Let's put the padding polyester on cardboard sheets, cover it with fabric and glue it on the inside.
- To decorate an album for a girl, you can use a pre-embroidered picture of an angel. A princess girl, Cinderella or Snow White will decorate the album fabulously. We will sew the picture with a machine.
- Separately sew satin or lace ribbon ties. We will make several roses with pearls inside from lace ribbons, decorate the cover with rhinestones and a metal pendant in the shape of a stroller, pacifier or bottle.
- Separately, you can prepare an envelope using the scrapbooking technique for a disk on which an extract from the maternity hospital and other memorable events from the child’s life are recorded.
An interesting version of an album for a girl
The fountain of ideas for creating an album for a newborn is inexhaustible. It all depends on imagination, the wishes of the parents and the master himself. A baby diary made using scrapbooking technique or an album with photographs of the baby with an original design will be the best gift for happy parents.
Taking photographs is a unique activity that is not only popular these days, but also helps a person to open up and show himself. Modern technologies make it possible not only to take high-quality photographs, but also to invent and improve modern technologies, but also share them instantly.
Every day, every second person shares their personal or other people’s photos on social networks, by mail. However, it is much more pleasant to sit back and look through the album. Especially if it is decorated with clippings, quotes and interesting thoughts. Undoubtedly, you won’t find a second one like it.
Quite a few articles have been written about how to make a photo album with your own hands, and a lot of videos with master classes have been filmed. It is quite difficult to make a choice. However, there is basic knowledge and invaluable tips that are worth learning when getting started.
Choosing the theme of the future album
Of course, the idea of creating a unique photo album with your own hands does not just arise. Perhaps a person is driven by the thought of making money on such things. However, most often the decision comes suddenly, after a significant event in the desire to preserve every bright moment.
Creating an ordinary classical album will not be difficult. It is enough to have a few hours of free time and a rich imagination. You can decorate an ordinary photo album, or you can create your own album from scratch.
The most frequently requested photo albums are:
- Wedding theme. A wedding is a wonderful moment for a new beginning. family life. The mass of events on this day exhausts the newlyweds, depriving them of the opportunity to enjoy this day and simply contemplate each other. Having a professional photographer at a wedding is no longer a new thing. Beautiful photographs that convey every emotion of this day simply must be framed accordingly.
- Photo album for the birth of a baby. The appearance of a child in the family important stage. And every parent strives to remember everything and display it in a photo. However, even the most attentive mother is not able to remember every important moment, because there are so many of them. A photo album with quotes will help you remember the most important things even after many years.
- Album with a school, educational plot. First day of kindergarten, first grade, prom, Institute of stages of growing up, which are accompanied by wonderful memories.
- Capturing a bright moment in life. This is not only a vacation or a trip. You can also create an album as a gift, for example, for an anniversary, or for a memorable date. Thematic albums for loved ones are popular.
The reason for creating a photo album can be anything. The main thing is creative inclinations and the availability of tools.
Tools and materials needed to create a photo album
An original handmade album is quite an expensive thing. Its cost will include not only the price of the materials used, but also the dignity of handmade work. But this does not make such a photo album inaccessible. On the contrary, everyone can make it with their own hands, using their talent and imagination.
In order to make a photo album yourself at home you need to have:
Required tool:
- miniature scissors;
- simple hole punch;
- knife-cutter;
- pencils;
- paints;
- markers;
- glue stick;
- curly scissors;
- figured hole punch;
- Double-sided tape.
Necessary materials:
- paper. It should be quite dense. You will also need paper for supporting photographs; its density should be lower than the density of the main sheet;
- thick cardboard (2 sheets). It is needed to create the cover. You can use old unnecessary cardboard boxes;
- the material with which the cover will be wrapped. To do this, you can use completely different materials. Old pieces of fabric, jeans, decorative colored paper; to create a soft cover you will need thin paralon;
- decorative material (depending on the overall idea: fur, leather, wood, iron, beads, buttons, ribbons and other decor). You can make small decorative details yourself: knit, sew, mold, dry.
You can find interesting details for your creation both at home and in a scrap booking store.
Making an album cover
When all materials and tools are prepared, you can begin to work. When making a photo album with your own hands, you often start with the cover.
There are two options for creating a cover:
- Use a ready-made one: buy a new one, or remove it from an old album. This method is the easiest. All that is required from the master is to decorate it beautifully using decorative material. You can cover such a cover with any fabric (depending on the idea), use colored paper, and various decor. Often this option does not require gluing the inside.
- Create a new one. This option is already more complex. Because it requires certain knowledge. In order to make a cover, you need to decide what shape the future album will be, how many photos to fit on 1 page. Having decided, we need to cut out a page from cardboard to the size we need. It’s worth doing the same with the second sheet of cardboard. Next, you need to draw 2 lines on each sheet (2.5 and 3.5 cm from the left edge of the sheet). After this, cut with scissors along 2 lines.
To decorate the top of the cover with colored paper you need:
- take a sheet of colored paper, 4 cm larger than a cardboard sheet on all sides;
- place the album sheet in the middle and circle it with a pencil;
- coat a sheet of colored paper or both parts of the cover sheet well with glue;
- place the cut sheet of cover in a drawn square on a colored sheet of paper so that its edges clearly coincide with the drawn lines;
- Wrap the remaining edges of the colored paper over the cover, gluing them tightly. It is important to try to do this carefully so that the waters come out as smooth and beautiful as possible;
- The same must be done with the finishing of the inside of the cover. You can cover unsuccessfully glued corners with colored paper.
When making your first albums, you should pay attention to ready-made covers. Creating new ones from scratch can be a bit challenging.
To work less on the cover design, you can use designer cardboard rather than ordinary cardboard.
Useful page design tips: how to fill out the page correctly
It will be easier to fill out the pages of the album if it is disassembled. Having completed each sheet, you can begin assembling the album.
Album design is a whole science. Therefore, when filling out the page, you should adhere to certain rules:
- Initially, you should determine the semantic center of the page.
- Choose suitable colors that will complement the photo without straying from the overall color scheme.
- Choose decor for the pages that will match in color and meaning.
- Choose captions for photographs that will definitely correspond to the overall meaning. These can be quotes from famous people, aphorisms, or your own thoughts. You need to write down words in the album based on the harmony of color.
- Large and small details should be placed on the page based on balanced proportions.
- Each page of the album should have a bright accent. However, you should make sure that the page is not reloaded. It's hard to watch an album like this.
- Each page should visually resemble a triangle “photo - title - signature”.
It's good if there is an odd number of details on the page.
In order for the page to be balanced, you should try to follow the rule: a large item - several small ones. For example, in the upper corner you can place a large volumetric part, and in the opposite corner below there are several small ones.
Family Album Ideas
Creating a family album is quite a fun activity that can be a great project for the whole family.
A family album is not only a collection of family photographs in one book. With this album it is important to convey the history of the family, its spirit, collecting all the memorable moments in one photo album.
A family album can consist of named pages:
- Little dad with grandpa or little mom with grandma and vice versa. This interesting idea, which will help determine the similarities between all generations.
- The birth of a new family or wedding. Here you can also host not only the wedding of mom and dad, but also grandparents. Scanned documents, their clippings, newspaper clippings made in vintage style look original.
- The birth of a baby in a family. How to design this page is up to each mother to decide individually. After all, everyone has their own ideas about the importance of this or that moment in a child’s life. However, experience shows that a couple of pages are not enough for this event. Sometimes one album is not enough. The creation of mini photo albums made in the style of diaries looks original. This can be a whole series from birth to the right moment. Such an album is filled not only with photographs, but also with important notes.
- First year of life.
- First time in first grade and beyond.
The pages that are intended for the baby can be supplemented with envelopes that will help preserve the child’s first curl, a tag from the maternity hospital, or the child’s first lost tooth.
A mother can add her own thoughts and memories to a children's album. Appeals to your child, which he will be happy to read when he grows up. Here you can also write down all memorable dates: the first sound, laughter, the first word, the first step, the first tooth. Such records will be an excellent addition to the corresponding photographs.
Another great family album idea is to create a family tree.
When choosing a style for creating a family album (any other one too), it is important to maintain this style in the smallest detail. So old photographs, children's pictures will go perfectly with retro and vintage style. The decor for such an album can be found in grandma's things.
Original ideas for decorating a photo album with your own hands
Before you start work, you need to sketch it. On a regular sheet of paper, outline everything, down to the smallest detail. This way you can not only visually evaluate the final result, but also not forget anything. It is worth doing this with each sheet. Their number, by the way, must be calculated in advance at the rate of 1-2 photographs per sheet.
A photo album page must have 5 elements:
- photo title;
- caption for each photo: when and under what circumstances the photo was taken. Perhaps there is something important in the photo that you would not like to forget over time;
- page background;
- decorations;
- additions.
Blank pages of the album should be marked with a simple pencil, so after completing the design, it will not be difficult to erase the extra lines.
You need to fill out the page from top to bottom. The likelihood that paints and colored work will smudge will decrease to 0. First, it’s worth doing the work with a felt-tip pen and paints so that they have time to dry before gluing the photo.
Inscriptions and quotes are written in the album using ink, felt-tip pen or helium pen. The color of ink, font size and inclination of letters should also be thought out in advance. You can use newspaper clippings to beautifully lay out the necessary words. Only after this the album is decorated with flat decorations. They are glued and sewn. It is recommended to attach voluminous parts of the decor at the very end. This is done with glue, thread and needle, and nails.
It is better to glue the album parts using a special glue gun.
Regarding the decoration of the album cover, the cover design looks beautiful using small photographs collected in mini collages. These collages can be given a completely different form from the banal geometric shapes, to more artistic ones.
You can attach album pages in a variety of convenient ways:
- using massive rings. Then each sheet of the album needs to be processed with a hole punch, making in the right place hole;
- Using the same hole punch, make holes on each page and fasten them together with beautiful ribbons. In this case, you can use different weaving techniques: from the simplest, all in to more complex;
- album pages can be stitched;
- You can glue the album.
Today, in the world of digital technology, it is much easier to save your life in photographs. There is no need to sit for hours waiting for results. Just a second and the perfect shot is ready. Most people store their photos on gadgets and on the Internet. It’s much more pleasant to look at photos and touch them with your fingers. It’s even nicer if it’s an album with a unique decor, where there’s something to remember and touch. This album is captivating, and every detail evokes its own emotions.
If you have a great desire, but no imagination, you can use ready-made ideas, of which there are quite a lot on the Internet. Quite a few articles have been written about how to make a photo album with your own hands, and a lot of master classes with detailed instructions have been filmed.
