Now it’s fashionable to create various handmade items. Try it and you can make a scrapbooking album with your own hands. It will not only be collected photographs, it will become an exclusive thing and decoration of your home. If you make such a gift to a child or newlyweds, it will always remind not only of the most pleasant events in the life of the owner, but also about you, its creator.
Basic principles of work
To make a scrapbook album yourself , you can use ready-made sets for creativity, which are sold in specialized and online stores. The kit usually has everything you need for decoration: beautiful paper, stickers, volumetric decorations. Most often, sets are made in a certain style and are dedicated to some topic: a gift for a newborn, newlyweds, romance, travel.
Choose all the necessary elements is simple and independent. But design photos, pages and cover better in a single style.
Necessary materials
To create a beautiful scrapbooking album with your own hands, you need the following:
- Thick cardboard for the manufacture of the base (cover and pages).
- Flap fabric for decorating the workpiece.
- A synthetic winterizer, if you want to make the front and back of the cover soft and voluminous.
- Scrapbooking paper.
- Scissors.
- Pencil.
- Ruler.
- Glue.
- Figured hole punch (to decorate the edge or create small blanks-templates for the application).
- Clippings from magazines or other pictures.
- Fabric, lace, satin ribbons.
- Flat or 3D stickers.
- Various decor (bows, flowers, beads).
Of course, the list depends on your desire, capabilities and theme. Usually they use all of the above, but it is worth remembering that photographs should still be the main ones. Then you will get exactly the scrapbooking album with your own hands, and not just a collage in this technique. It is not necessary to stick all the elements on one page, it is better to limit their diversity. See that the design looks harmonious, choose one central element, and let the rest only complement it.
How to make a cover
To make a scrapbooking album yourself, you first need to complete the basis - the frame of the cover and pages. Decide what size the product will be, and prepare a sheet of cardboard of the appropriate format for the front, back and the desired number of pages.
The sequence of the beautiful cover is as follows:
- Take one cardboard blank and cut a piece of sintepon according to its size. Glue it on the base.
- Cut from a suitable fabric, such as canvas or any other, the part, taking into account the allowances for gluing (1.5-2 cm on each side).
- Apply glue to the free surface of the padding polyester and apply evenly a cloth. Bend the stocks and glue them to the cardboard.
- To prevent the bends from being visible, glue a sheet of beautiful paper or cardboard on top. The back cover is ready.
- The front part can be made in the same way or make another window for photography. To do this, in the basis of cardboard and synthetic winterizer, make a slot of the desired shape and size. The rest is done using the same technology as for the reverse side (the window in the fabric does not need to be pre-cut). After bonding the fabric and synthetic winterizer, the material is cut and bent.
- Insert a slightly larger photo into the window by gluing it to the allowances to the base. On the reverse side, as in the first case, a beautiful sheet of paper or cardboard is made.
- Make holes for the eyelets and install them in the front and back of the cover.
- Insert rings into the eyelets.
The cover is ready. This option is good if you want to make a children's album with your own hands. Scrapbooking master class on creating the design of the album, pages and various design options will help you choose the right solution.
You can do the cover in a different way. In order not to use the ring mechanism, you will also have to make the end part of the cover, or at the same time from the front and back, or stick to the binding (stack of pages). Choose a method convenient for you.
Pages and binding
So, you do the scrapbooking album yourself. The master class from the previous section showed how to make a cover, but this is not enough. You also need to pin pages. If your cover is supposed to be on rings, you can set the sheets in exactly the same way. Another option is to make a binding. The technology is as follows:
- In addition to page blanks, cut out strips of paper the length of the album and 1.5-2 cm wide. In the middle of each part, draw a 2-4 mm wide strip with a knitting needle or other similar object. Cut the corners of the rectangle at an angle of 45 degrees.
- Use paper strips to glue the album sheets together. The groove left in the middle will be between the sheets.
- Glue a piece of the bandage with allowances on the sides of 1.5-2 cm and two pieces of tape along the binding width on the end of the stack with glued sheets.
- Glue the tape on the top and bottom edge. This will give the binding strength and a neat appearance.
- Cut out with a margin, like a bandage, a piece of decorative cardboard. Glue it over the bandage, and the protruding edges on the cover.
The design is ready. Start the creative process.
DIY album for a newborn: scrapbooking
This technology allows you to create a gift or souvenir for any holiday quickly enough and at little cost. Everyone will be pleased to be engaged in creativity, so the design of postcards, folders and other things will help to have a good time and become a new hobby.
If you are looking for information on how to make a scrapbook album yourself, then you already have a certain idea or need. If you decide to create a memorable gift for your future baby, then you were not mistaken with the choice. By the way, you can make such a thing for the birth of a baby to your friends or relatives. The main thing is to correctly determine the purpose of the pages, distribute information and leave space for photos.
In the album for the newborn, do not forget to provide a page where parents will record the height and weight of the newborn. You can leave free fields for other important information, for example, the first day at home, the first step and a little tooth. It’s worth even devoting separate pages to these things.
You can issue an album in a certain color scheme, if you know the gender of the baby in advance. If not, then use neutral shades (white, green, yellow) and children's pictures. Bears, bunnies, pyramids, crib, stroller, balloons will do. Lace and soft, gentle to the touch materials such as fleece will look good. Satin ribbons look very decorative and festive.
DIY wedding album (scrapbooking): master class
A married couple can make this memorable relic by herself, but at the same time, a spectacularly crafted blank can be presented as a gift to the newlyweds.
When manufacturing, try to follow these tips:
- Decide on the format and size. Do not make it too big, but small will not do. Focus on a regular A4 album sheet or a little more.
- Given the standard size of photos, you can choose the square format of the album pages, so that there is room for signatures and decor.
- Be sure to plan how appropriate it is to make pages, and try to use a uniform layout on them (the same arrangement of labels, headings). Focus on how classic books are designed.
- Choose a discreet pastel color scheme. Usually used white, cream, golden, pale pink. They symbolize romance, and photos on their background will look like the main objects.
- In the sequence of pages, it is better to follow the chronology of the event (first place a photo of the official ceremony from the registry office, then photographs in nature and in the restaurant, after the photograph from the second day).
If you decide to make your own wedding photo album , scrapbooking is the most suitable design technology. Buy special paper, as well as a hole punch with a cliche in the form of hearts and (preferably) to make a curly lace edge. This will help create a romantic commemorative item that will become a family asset. It will be nice to see the newlyweds themselves, show relatives and friends.
Baby gift
Do you want to create a baby album with your own hands for your baby? A scrapbooking souvenir will always tell the kid about happy moments in life. Beautifully designed, it will keep your love for baby. The matured "big man" will appreciate the efforts of mom.
It makes sense to make such an album on rings in such a way that you can gradually add pages to it. It is also possible to produce separate "volumes", for example, "My baby up to a year", "Life in the kindergarten", "Grade 1", etc.
In this album, you are free to paste everything that seems appropriate and important to you: information about the first step, tooth, words. It is interesting to make an imprint of the palms, legs, save a curl.
Original photos in combination with delicate design fabric, children's pictures and other decor will look great.
Family album
This product can be made in any style that matches your idea of beauty and harmony. You make it as a keepsake for yourself. Design on the rings, if you want to add pages. In this case, individual sheets can be issued in different ways. It is worth providing separate children's pages dedicated to family holidays and travel.
As you can see, it’s not so difficult to master a new technique of artistic mastery - scrapbooking. Do-it-yourself album will be made not just as an accessory for storing memorable pictures, but will become a real work of art.