When your camera's memory card is full, it's time to do something fun with all those photos. If you'd love to make a scrapbook with them, but you're a little short on scrapbook ideas, I've come up with seven great scrapbook ideas to help inspire you. At first it may seem that sorting out pictures can be a daunting task, but with a little organization you can get them sorted and into scrapbooks with ease. Let talk about some ideas to get you started.
A Book for Each Child: Sorting out photos for each child to make their own scrapbook is a great idea. There can be other children in the photo of course, but theme each one around a single child. If you have a favorite you want to duplicate, go ahead and do that. Digital scrapbooking software makes that really easy to do! Add fun memories for each child - they'll cherish them as they grow older.
Family Vacations: Taking trips is a perfect time to take photos and you can sort them that way as well. If you visit a certain place often you can make a scrapbook exclusive to that destination. You can create a daily time line of each vacation day from beginning to end. If you have mementos of the trip you can add them to the scrapbook as well.
Christmas: Old and new photos can be added each year to a family Christmas scrapbook. It will be fun to look back on as your family grows. It can also include New Year's celebrations or you could make a separate book for that. You can also make a separate holiday scrapbook for other holidays such as Easter and Halloween.
School Years: As with the children's books you can make a record of your child's progress through school. Each year you can add to it and keep special drawings and papers in it. If an art piece is too large or three dimensional, digital scrapbooking software can really help you out here. Simply take pictures of the large items and then add them to your digital scrapbook layout. Or create a hybrid scrapbook where you combine printed digital pages with physical embellishments. For example, there are special pocket holders you can buy for items you would like to pull out and look at both sides.
Event Books: A theater lover or a sports fanatic can create a scrapbook from pictures, programs and tickets collected. It can be a great place to store all of these mementos to look back on in the future. This is also great is you have a family member who plays a certain sport every season or an adult on a team.
Pictures from Extended Family and Friends: You get Christmas cards with photos and school pictures from other children. Making a friends and family scrapbook is a great way to keep them safe and in one place. When you receive pictures such as these, and take them off the fridge, you can put them in a scrapbook rather than in a drawer. Better yet, scan them in and add them to a digital scrapbook and you'll reduce the clutter even more!
Extra Photos: Additional copies make great gifts to give away by making an extra album for loved ones. You can even create mini albums or brag books for gifts - they're fun to make and easy to assemble. Put together a school picture album for each set of grandparents that can be added to as the years go by.
Don't let your photos overwhelm you. Picture memories should not be cumbersome but cherished. Sort out your photos and try these scrapbook ideas or create your own. Let your imagination go and have fun making scrapbooks. - 30452
A Book for Each Child: Sorting out photos for each child to make their own scrapbook is a great idea. There can be other children in the photo of course, but theme each one around a single child. If you have a favorite you want to duplicate, go ahead and do that. Digital scrapbooking software makes that really easy to do! Add fun memories for each child - they'll cherish them as they grow older.
Family Vacations: Taking trips is a perfect time to take photos and you can sort them that way as well. If you visit a certain place often you can make a scrapbook exclusive to that destination. You can create a daily time line of each vacation day from beginning to end. If you have mementos of the trip you can add them to the scrapbook as well.
Christmas: Old and new photos can be added each year to a family Christmas scrapbook. It will be fun to look back on as your family grows. It can also include New Year's celebrations or you could make a separate book for that. You can also make a separate holiday scrapbook for other holidays such as Easter and Halloween.
School Years: As with the children's books you can make a record of your child's progress through school. Each year you can add to it and keep special drawings and papers in it. If an art piece is too large or three dimensional, digital scrapbooking software can really help you out here. Simply take pictures of the large items and then add them to your digital scrapbook layout. Or create a hybrid scrapbook where you combine printed digital pages with physical embellishments. For example, there are special pocket holders you can buy for items you would like to pull out and look at both sides.
Event Books: A theater lover or a sports fanatic can create a scrapbook from pictures, programs and tickets collected. It can be a great place to store all of these mementos to look back on in the future. This is also great is you have a family member who plays a certain sport every season or an adult on a team.
Pictures from Extended Family and Friends: You get Christmas cards with photos and school pictures from other children. Making a friends and family scrapbook is a great way to keep them safe and in one place. When you receive pictures such as these, and take them off the fridge, you can put them in a scrapbook rather than in a drawer. Better yet, scan them in and add them to a digital scrapbook and you'll reduce the clutter even more!
Extra Photos: Additional copies make great gifts to give away by making an extra album for loved ones. You can even create mini albums or brag books for gifts - they're fun to make and easy to assemble. Put together a school picture album for each set of grandparents that can be added to as the years go by.
Don't let your photos overwhelm you. Picture memories should not be cumbersome but cherished. Sort out your photos and try these scrapbook ideas or create your own. Let your imagination go and have fun making scrapbooks. - 30452
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