How to create a children's scrapbook album?

Not only other people's children grow up quickly, often parents do not have time to look around, as their kids become very adults. Photos have become an indispensable attribute of the modern life of families, since birth, a child has a very large number of pictures, and each mother wants to take them so that after years she wants to plunge into this sweet atmosphere of happy days of growing up her baby or baby again and again.

In order for the photos not to be a dead archive in the memory of computers, there are various ways to assemble them into photo albums, for example, decorated using the scrapbooking technique.

Scrapbooking allows you to create unique items with your own hands, to be realized in creativity, to show imagination. With the help of simple tools and improvised materials, you can create real works of art. Such a composition will not only allow you to show your creativity, but also form such a useful object as a photo album.

You can choose any style, color scheme, themes and decor elements. The technique is not so complicated that it could not be mastered by a novice scrapbooking master, the album is the ideal beginning of a creative path.

Photobooks ordered in salons are quite expensive, with your own hand made album allows you to replace it completely, while there will still be a piece of your soul in it. The production and time of this item will not take much time and energy, but the result will please and impress the whole family. In order for everything to work out the way you want, you must first take care of the availability of the necessary materials and tools. You will need:

• cardboard of dense structure;
• patterned scrap paper;
• eyelets;
• corrugated cardboard;
• double sided tape;
• curly and ordinary scissors;
• pencil glue;
• Ruler and pencil;
• figured hole punch;
• acrylic paints;
• foam sponge or sponge;
• satin ribbons;
• decorative details - rhinestones, stones, half beads, glitter.

In this list there are items that perfectly replace each other, for example, glue and scotch tape, you should choose what you prefer, what is more convenient and familiar to deal with.

In order for all materials to truly turn into a magnificent work of art, masters recommend that you follow some rules.

• Do not spare the tracing paper. Placed between the pages of your album, it will serve as a protective layer and prevent mechanical damage to the pages. You can use parchment for these purposes.
• When applying acrylic paint, use a sponge or sponge; the best material is foam. It is difficult to achieve a uniform coating with a brush, the result will not be too neat. You can use the sponges with which you wash the dishes.
• Thinking over individual inserts, do not be afraid to design them differently. A variety of decor and curly hole punchers, scissors will help you with this.
• Avoid bulges inside the album. Volumetric details should be located on the cover, if you place something like that in the middle of the book, the pages will be pinched. Inside use only flat type elements.
• Do not be afraid to use non-standard decor features - printouts, magazine clippings, spectacular stickers, stickers. It is important that the form, texture, style and color are harmoniously combined, everything else depends only on your imagination.
• Photos are not the only way to fill an album. Enter any text, verses, inscriptions, wishes there. Over the years, your emotions will turn into vague memories and will be interesting not only to you, but also to the child.
• Try to create albums that span a period of several years at least. Pages can display months or specific years of a child’s life.
• Take a photo from the celebration of the first year and subsequent - These are real milestones in the life of the child, they are very important.
• Albums for babies are best shared by month, the calendar will be relevant, in which you can make any changes.

Making a scrapbook for children does not require any special skills; you can learn this technique from scratch. Therefore, if you decide to create such a gift as a gift for a toddler, an older child or a schoolboy, you should study the algorithm of actions. Regardless of the subject, style, age target category (first year of life or graduation), the size of the future album (you can create one spread or many spreads), the presence or absence of labels, step by step instructions are as follows.

1. Prepare the cardboard. You will need a white cardboard, determine the number of sheets yourself, based on the number of pages of the future album.
2. A two-centimeter indent should be made from the edge of each sheet. Then mark this line with a pencil - it will be a fold.
3. Make holes along the cardboard edges, indenting around 1 centimeter. To do this, use a hole punch or a special device for installing eyelets.
4. Make exactly the same holes in the two-centimeter cardboard inserts.
5. Then you need to make holes in the required number of sheets of tracing paper, which is pre-cut to the size of the cardboard sheets.
6. It is necessary to glue all the sheets and inserts that make up the album, in order: insert, tracing paper, sheet of cardboard.
7. Fasten the glued workpiece with clamps.
8. After the blank has been created, you can draw up the cover. Do the first and last pages separately, but always start with the first.To do this, paste cardboard with scrap paper of the required print, cut to the size of the cardboard sheet. Remember to make holes in both covers. The back of the cover is done according to the same algorithm.
9. Then you should begin to create a spine, for which you need cardboard corrugation. The width of the spine should be within 5 or 6 cm, in addition, you need to indent a centimeter from each edge.
10. The indentation is covered with double-sided tape, on which the front and back of the cover are glued.
11. After that, the album is assembled in parts, they start from the front cover and place cardboard pages in turn, ending with the back cover.
12. Pass the ribbon from the satin into one hole, stretch through the others and form a bow.
13. You can begin to design, which begins with the first cover. It is decorated with thematic inscriptions, objects, photographs, any elements of jewelry to taste and desire.
14. Then the internal filling is formed, for which they use children's photos, scrap paper, acrylic paints, flat decor and curly scissors. It is glued to the album.
15. It is better to complete the design with the necessary inscriptions on each page. They can be printed in beautiful type, printed out on scrap paper and glued.

First of all, decide on the age category, depending on this, the theme and the corresponding design style are selected. Very popular albums "The first year of life" which are a kind of chronicle of the beginning of the life of a newborn.

First of all, you need to determine the color scheme, for boys it is traditionally blue, for girls it is pink. But you do not have to adhere to these established forms. Looks impressive any shade in a gentle pastel palette - milk, cream, mint, turquoise, fawn, lemon, gray. For boys, as a rule, they use more brutal decor - cars, pirates, for girls more delicate - princesses, dolls, bears. Inside the album is formed by the months of the child’s life, this allows you to organize information.

In addition to the photo, Be sure to enter your personal emotions and impressions, subsequently it will be very interesting to re-read both you and the child. And from the photo you can see how your baby has changed over this period of time. Such an album ends, as a rule, a photo from the celebration of the first celebration.

You can not limit the album to the first year of life, but lead it from birth to three years.

After three years, the child, as a rule, is actively involved in social life - goes to kindergarten, enrolls in different sections, development schools, and so on. Albums for preschoolers most often reflect this particular part of a child’s life. Therefore, they contain photos from the nursery, the middle group, the older one, by which you can track the growing up of the baby. You can make a graduation type album when the child leaves the DOW.

Include in it the first poems told by the child, the first interesting phrases, words, interesting events, the first successes in any field: children's drawings, photo crafts.

A school album is a more adult story, most often it is created at the graduation of primary or secondary school. The design of a scrapbook for a first grader and for a teenager, as a rule, is radically different. But in any case, in the school period, the child is an independent person whose interests must be taken into account when creating the album. It is better not to include any controversial stories that make the child embarrassed. Most often, they contain photos from school life, a trip on vacation and, of course, the achievements of the child.

The spheres of interest of older children are completely different. Someone is fond of sports, someone - drawing or music, someone sings. Passion must be given a place in the album. Girls at a certain age really like princess style albums, boys like superheroes.

Creating a scrapbook for a child in any style requires inspiration and a beautiful idea. In order for the pages of your album to be varied and interesting, we suggest exploring the most beautiful scrapbook compositions.

• for babies;

• for preschoolers;

• For teens.

See how to make a children's scrapbook album in the next video.