Making a simple traditional scrapbook

Scrapbooking is a method for preserving personal and family history in the form of a book.  This "book" may contain photographs, artworks, clippings, decorations and even some tokens.

Here are some simple steps to follow in making your very first scrapbook.

1.  For what reason are you making a scrapbook.  Before you can begin to make a scrapbook, you first need to identify what you want your scrapbook to contain.

With the bunch of photos and memorabilia that you have, what would you want to make a story of?  is it an event, you family vacation, or your child's first experiences?

2.  Segregate everything you will use for your scrapbook.  Once you've decided on what you want for your scrapbook, separate all the photos and memorabilia you will use for your project.


3.  How do you want to preserve your memories.  Once you've decided on what you want to create, on the memory that you want to preserve in a scrapbook, you must then decide on how you will go about it.  you should choose a theme for it, depending on your topic, for example, you can choose your family vacation last summer.

Once you've chosen a theme, you can decide on the materials you will use.

4.   Choose your album type and size.  There are a variety of sizes available in the market nowadays.  when deciding on the type and size, take into consideration the number of photos, articles, and clippings.  Example, if you are making an album about your family vacation, you can also add maps or postcards.

Another consideration you must bear in mind is if you want your album to have a fixed number of pages or if you want to be able to add to it in the future.

 

5.  Plan your layout.  Once you're ready to begin with your project, plan how you want your photos will be presented by laying it out on your album, without sticking it permanently until you've found your perfect layout.

 

 6.  Begin creating each page.  With every page of your scrapbook, you need to plan your layout, with our example of your family vacation, you can do it by making pages per place that you visited, adding labels to each page.  you may trim pictures and choose to attach it depending on how you want to see them.

7.  Finish your scrapbook.  Of course this is all up to you.  You can choose to make an album for one vacation or you can add to it and name your scrapbook 2015 family vacations.  it would be easier to organize if you create a scrapbook like a storybook where each one is ended as another one begins.