Scrapbooking albums for girls: ideas and production

Like several centuries ago, modern girls and girls like to keep diaries, albums, where they record the most important events for themselves and the secrets of the heart. You can buy a finished edition, or you can make it yourself in the popular handmade technique - scrapbooking. Where did this kind of needlework come from, what tools are needed, as well as ideas for creating albums for the tiniest and youngest princesses - in our material.

The term itself, translated from English, literally means "book with clippings." The essence of this unusual work is to create a vivid and fascinating life story of a person or a whole family, which can be transmitted from generation to generation in the form of a photo album.

The idea arose back in the 17th century, when special notebooks became popular, in which personal information, letters, autographs, clippings with important events were entered.

By the beginning of the 19th century, the term “scrapbook” became popular and gained many fans around the world. Among the most famous are US President Thomas Jefferson and Mark Twain. The writer was not just keen on paper art - he patented a scrapbook with self-adhesive pages.

With the active development of photography, home-made albums with embossed covers, inscriptions and wishes have become even more popular. But scrapbooking gained worldwide recognition and global interest in 1980, when Marilyn Christensen spoke at the World Conference on Archival Studies and presented her own vision of preserving family history.

In domestic spaces, the technology of creating family handmade albums has gained popularity relatively recently - since 2006. Thanks to the Internet and numerous like-minded forums, the army of scrapbooking fans is growing every year, and the skill of needlewomen is improving.

If you are a beginner and just taking the first steps in the art of decorating family history, try not to start with the whole album, but with the design of individual pages or the cover.

Necessary materials.

• Special scrap paper.
• The basis for the album: on bolts, rings, acrylic blanks. You can purchase whole sets for beginners, where everything you need is selected at first.
• Decor: flowers, ribbons, buttons, brads (decorative carnations on two legs), eyelets, carvings, rubbing.
• Paints and varnishes.
• Materials for gluing: adhesive tape, glue.

Scrapbooking also requires special tools. As in any man-made business, good products are not cheap, however, they greatly facilitate the creative process. The following devices will come in handy.

• Punchers. In the scrap industry, there are several types of interesting varieties: curly, designed to create patterns of all sizes; border - for decoration of openwork edge; angle composters - for corner design; multifunctional - combine all of the above.
• Breadboard knife - will facilitate the cutting of small parts.
• Resettable rug - protects the surface of the desktop from scratches and other damage. For convenience, centimeter markings are applied to the mat.
• Roller cutter - needed to cut a large amount of paper, allows you to create perfectly even edges, unlike scissors. It is a platform with a cutting mechanism and marking.
• Eyelet installer.
• Curly scissors - to create openwork edges.
• Hand printer creating the effect of embossing on a colored self-adhesive tape.
• Materials for stamping: stamps themselves (silicone, rubber), ink for them (chalky, quick and long-drying) and accessories (acrylic block for gluing the stamp, stencil and applicator).

The period of infancy flies so fast that you just need to capture every moment! With gentle nostalgia, mothers review photos of their tiny babies and hardly believe that their girl was once like that. To show your daughter as many golden moments as possible from her early childhood, create a children's album with your own hands, following the following recommendations.

• Decide on the style, design technique and content of the future album.
• Prepare photographs and all materials for the basis of the album, its decor.
• Count the number of pages needed according to the chronology of your first year of life.
• Think about the text layout for each page.
• Design a design for each album sheet. First, just create a layout by attaching photos and related decorative elements. If everything suits you, then you can stick it.
• Think about how the pages will be attached - binding, rings.
• Assemble the cover and the rest of the sheets.

A separate point is to make the design of the cover - the “face” of your future creation. We offer one of the options for creating a cover. To do this, you will need:

• glue;
• rings;
• canvas material;
• thick cardboard;
• eyelets;
• synthetic winterizer.

Cover recommended a few millimeters more than the pages themselves. From a synthetic winterizer, cut a rectangle to the size of the cover, stick it on cardboard. Cut the canvas with a margin of 1 cm - for easy fixation on the workpiece with synthetic winterizer - and glue it.To mask the edges of the fabric, cardboard is glued to the inside. In this way, the back is made.

For the front part, a square is cut out in the center of the cardboard sheet (or any other figure at your discretion) - a photo of the baby or an inscription will be placed there. Then the procedure is repeated with gluing sintepon, canvas. When the layers dry, you need to cut a hole and fasten the edges. Attach a photograph and seal the front side with cardboard on the inside.

Make holes for the eyelets, retreating 1.5-2 cm from the edges, insert the fixing rings. The cover is assembled, now you can embed pages!

We offer some original cover ideas.

Internal pages can be styled in this way.

You might want to move away from the standards and create a mini album with sheets in the form of BABY letters.

The album for a young girl should be designed in accordance with her preferences. The generally accepted pink-lace extravaganza will no longer work, as was the case for the newborn babies.

In adolescence, girls trust their diaries and albums with many secrets and secrets, so the internal content should be filled with a large number of envelopes, corners, pockets. Someone loves to pose and take pictures, and someone prefers to act as a photographer - this should also be reflected in the content of the album.

See the video below for a master class on decorating the album cover using scrapbooking techniques.