Now, in the age of modern technology, the fashion for "grandmother" photo albums is a thing of the past. But how nice it is, flipping through an album with your own children made in childhood, to remember the pleasant moments of life and again to feel all the precious moments. With the advent of digital photos, the need to print pictures has disappeared. After all, why store a lot of photos in a drawer? But if you want to keep the story of your family, children, it’s worth choosing the best of all the pictures and arranging the album yourself, commenting on significant events with inscriptions.
Original cover art
Starting this creative work, pay attention to the design of the cover. Relive the boring oilcloth or fabric using various decorative elements. The modern type of needlework - scrapbooking - will help with this. Stickers, rhinestones, buttons, ribbons, trimmings of beautiful fabric and various interesting trinkets are suitable for decoration. Such a self-made album will not only be a “repository” of photographs, but also an expression of your unique creative “I”.
Scrapbook albums are unique works of art, because in addition to pictures, poems, memorabilia, and notes about events are usually used in their design.
Choosing an album for photos
Photo albums come in three forms:
- with plastic windows for pictures;
- with cardboard sheets on which you can stick photos of different sizes;
- with magnetized sheets.
The first view is the most convenient and practical, but excludes the possibility of arranging a memorable album by making inscriptions under the pictures. If you prefer the second view, this will allow you to fully use your imagination, sticking pictures of different sizes in different locations and commenting on events. Magnetic sheets will also help show creativity by creating an album. With your own hands, you can arrange the original thing without applying glue and corners. But over time, the magnetic sheet is scratched, while the photos come off. Therefore, if you want to make a beautiful and truly valuable thing for a long time, you should take a regular album with cardboard sheets as the basis for work.
Commemorative Albums
Of course, the main family photo albums tell about several years of life, showing the most interesting pictures in chronological order. But in the life of each person significant events happen that are usually captured by taking photographs. Devote each of them a separate album: “Wedding”, “Our Baby” (from birth to 1-2-3 years old), “School years”, “Studentship”, etc.
A wedding album will be especially unique and important . Making it with your own hands, you can put the warmth of feelings and the severity of emotions into the creation of the first joint memorabilia. Think in advance about the location and order of pictures: it will be interesting to recreate a love story from the beginning of dating to a wedding celebration and wedding.
Do not put off work in a long box. The sharper the emotions from the experience, the more interesting it will be a photo album that will help convey your feelings.
The second most important event in the life of every person is the birth of a child. Your baby, when he grows up, will be very grateful to you for unique photos. Make a children's album with your own hands, starting, which is now very fashionable, with pictures taken before the baby’s birth.
Create, create amazing albums, preserving the memory for many years!