Plots topics ideas examples of a photo album from colleagues. Scrapbooking family chronicle - do-it-yourself vintage family album

Family album - important element every house. He is the center of attention during the visit of friends and relatives, at family celebrations and in warm moments of memories. This is the secret of the past, a kind of relic, the history of the life of each of us. Today, most photos are stored on phones, tablets, mobiles. But it's much more pleasant to flip through the pages of history and touch the pictures than to view them on the monitor. A handmade photo album will be a good alternative to electronic folders.

Photo album in the technique of scrapbooking

The scrapbook is a literal translation of the newfangled trend in creating photo albums. Such albums can contain everything: dried flowers, “tags” of a newborn, small meaningful things, cuts, lace, beads and, of course, a photo. Designer fantasy knows no bounds, and modern materials make it possible to realize any ideas.

Masters work in several directions:

• modern. All relevant attributes, stencils, blanks, bright prints, rhinestones and more are appropriate. In this direction, you can often find shabby chic;

• v retro and vintage albums use aged paper, cute trinkets, jewelry, clippings from old newspapers or magazines, lace, braid;

• romantic implies the use of everything delicate and airy: lace, fabric, ribbons, jewelry, braid, poetry.

When creating an album on any subject, it is important to think over the basic design and make up a color composition. Basic scrapbooking tips for beginners:

• decide on the style in which the album will be performed;
• pick up the background of the pages. It should be combined with shades of colors used in the album;
• think over the semantic content of the album, if you need to pick up poems, quotes, make clippings.

How to make an album with your own hands, see the video below.

One Love Story: Wedding Album

A wedding photo album does not have to contain only pictures of the celebration. You can start a story about your family with a history of acquaintance: joint pictures on vacation or moments of dates.

When creating a wedding album with your own hands, you need to:

• choose size. Option 30*30 cm is ideal for several photos to fit on the page. Parameters 20 * 20 cm imply a standard photo on the page and a few little things. But the album 25 * 25 cm is the average option. You can mix several pictures and diversify with additional inserts;
• of the materials you will need: thick paper (cardstock), film with a pattern (overlay), cardboard figures (chipboard), foil, beads, garter, invitations, napkins, bows, buttons, lace, postcards, tulle.

Watch the video below for the album creation process.

And of course, your family life will be long and happy, so you need to provide pages for future anniversaries.

How to make a cover in the video below.

Create an album for a newborn

When creating a children's album, it is appropriate to use a variety of scrap paper, stencils, baby things. For registration, you may need:

• the imprint of a child's hand or foot. This can be done with ordinary gouache, or on a special basis, which is then placed on the cover;

• pregnancy photos and ultrasound pictures;
• horoscope, the meaning of the name - all this will be a good addition to the album;
• pictures of your favorite toys will decorate the pages;
• a lullaby for your baby is suitable for a photo of a sleeping baby;
• the first phrases, a memorable drawing, a page from a diary - everything that seems ordinary now can be of great value in 10-15 years;
• menu, favorite dish, favorite cartoon - mentioning these moments will be a good addition to the photos.

How to create a children's scrapbooking album, see the video below.

A children's album made of envelopes will be creative and non-standard. Watch the master class in the video below.

Chronicle of generations in photographs

A family photo album is a great wedding anniversary gift for your family and friends. The history of their family, photos of children and all significant events can be placed under one cover. Such an album will look good in a vintage or retro style.

For a family history album, you can use:

• lyrics that are relevant at a certain time, poems and sayings, newspaper clippings;
• significant things or their photos;
• artificial flowers, various stamps, elements of old jewelry, iron butterflies, flowers, curly photo frames, suede and velvet.

See the video below for an example of design.

An integral part of such albums is aged paper. It is not difficult to make it:

• in order to give the edges "shabby", you need to process them with a distresser;
• coffee will turn a white sheet of paper into yellowed from time to time. Brew 5 full teaspoons of coffee in 200 ml of boiling water. Let it brew for 10 minutes under a closed lid and strain. Lightly press a sheet of paper, dip it in coffee and hold for no more than 5 minutes. Dry and iron;

• black tea will give yellowness to paper. Brew 5-10 tsp. in a glass of boiling water (depending on how much you need to yellow the sheet). Leave for 10 minutes and strain. Keep the sheet in tea leaves for about two minutes. Dry and iron. You can drip several times on the sheet with tea leaves.

It's a good idea to create a family tree. You can realize the idea by drawing it, cutting it out of cardboard, felt or fiberboard.

How to make a family tree with your own hands, see the video below.

DIY travel book

For travel lovers, a travel book will be relevant - a book of photographs, notes, plans, saved tickets and small souvenirs.

How to make a travel album, see the video below.

Travelbook contains:

• many entries. By hand and not necessarily under the ruler. These can be stories about their expectations from the trip, about what they managed to realize, a description of the highlights of the trip;
• you can devote a page to each topic: food, recreation, sights, new acquaintances;
• special pockets for small souvenirs.

An overview of the full design of the travel album in the video below.

Stroller, heart or house: creating curly photo albums

Who said that a photo album has to be rectangular? Figured albums look bright and non-standard. You can download ready-made stencils from the Internet, or you can create them yourself. An unsurpassed family album in the form of a house was made by blogger Elena Stepanova. The author made a multi-storey building, and posted photos as follows: with the growth of the family, the floor increases. The result is amazing.

Figure albums can be family, children's, reflect the hobbies of the household.

The album of a pet is interesting for children, because filling it with pictures of a pet is very entertaining.

How to arrange a curly album, see the video below.

Beginner Mini Album

Such an album will be a good start for those who try their hand at scrapbooking. It can be issued in the form of a booklet, a box and an accordion. The last option is the easiest to implement. All you need is cardboard 70*10 cm, decorative paper, double-sided tape, tape. The album is composed as follows:

• folds are made on cardboard at a distance of 10 cm. This will be a binding;
• the cover will be two squares measuring 10.5 * 10.5 cm, pasted over with decorative paper, which are attached to the binding;
• sheets of decorative paper measuring 9.5 * 9.5 cm are glued to each page of the album;
• the album is decorated with a ribbon-string.

We all cherish our favorite memories, whether we like to be photographed or not. That is why it is not very pleasant if photos dear to the heart are stored in dusty boxes, in paper folders. The fact would be much nicer if the photos were stored in a practical and beautiful photo album. In this article, we will tell you how to make a photo album with your own hands.

Basic design rules

The end result depends on the original idea. Therefore, before starting work, it is advisable to consider in detail every detail on the product. In addition, we must not forget what the composition of the work and its plot are, especially if you present such a product to someone. So, let's talk about the main points of the design of the work.

Plot

The plot is called the element of the realization of the idea. As a rule, they think about this component first of all. Usually they create albums dedicated to family life, a wedding, a newborn baby. Also, a self-made album can be presented to a relative, work colleague or loved one.

Composition

Visual unity plays an important role here. Before you make a photo album with your own hands, you need to correctly place all the stickers and photos on the pages, because this component cannot be neglected either.

Compiling a competent composition, you must be guided by the following rules:

1. Determine where the center of the composition will be.
2. Place bright accents.
3. Make sure that the colors on the pages are in harmony with each other and there are places for the signature on them.
4. Balance proportions.
5. Pick up decor elements suitable for the photo.
6. A certain triangle must be observed: “title - photo - description”.

Style

Particular attention should be paid to the style of work. Before you design the pages and cover of the photo album, you should decide which style represents your family or loved one.

The main styles include:

• Minimalism. This style involves a minimum of jewelry.
• The absence of decorative elements is also characteristic of the European style. Its main feature is the variety of forms of photographs that are cut out in the form of one or another object (for example, a heart or a star).
• Vintage style will suit history buffs.
• Shabby chic style involves the presence of various cute ribbons and lace. A photo album in this style would be the perfect gift for a little girl.
• American style is full of many decorative elements.

Techniques

The technique for making a photo album with your own hands can also be different, and you can come up with your own.

The main techniques are:

• Stamping. As the name implies, this technique involves the use of different applicator stamps.
• Decoupage. Drawings, stickers, pictures, ornaments play a special role here.
• Cropping. The main attention is paid to the photos themselves: they are cropped in such a way that the key points of the image remain.
• Journaling. Usually this is the name of a photo supplemented with original signatures.
• Distressing. The key point of this technique is the aging of paper.

Step-by-step production of a gift photo album

In this section, we will talk in detail about how to make a photo album with your own hands step by step for beginners.

Work materials

To carry out the work you will need the following materials:

• Scrap paper.
• Thick cardboard (300 g/m²).
• Single sided adhesive.
• Decorative fabric.
• A little synthetic winterizer.
• Satin ribbon.
• Notebook.
• Needle.
• Awl.

Making a photo album with your own hands - a step-by-step master class for beginners

So, let's move on to the production of the album. In order for the gift to be a success, the following algorithm must be observed:

1. Album layout. To ensure that the end result only pleases the user, you need to accurately plan each landscape page. Before proceeding with the procedure, you need to correctly plan everything on the template - its role can be played by the usual school notebook in a cage of the appropriate size. There you can sketch out the approximate location of photographs and decorative elements.
2. Now you are ready to bind your photo album. To do this, you need to take the cardboard prepared in advance and cut out three strips from it, exactly 24 cm high. The width should increase in proportion. After that, it is necessary to fold the sheets in such a way that roots are formed, which gradually increase in size (it is better to draw them before the procedure). The end result is a book with a spine. Along the line of this spine, all the details must be glued. Next comes the firmware with a waxed cord. The basis of the photo album with your own hands is ready.
3. Now you should pay attention to the design of the pages. This procedure can be done using scrap paper. Additional parts can be glued with silicone glue or double-sided tape. The resulting backgrounds are glued onto the “bare” pages of the album.

Important! It should be borne in mind that the voluminous decor must be placed evenly over the sheet, at the same time, it should not deform the pages of the photo album.

Album's cover

The basis of the album is made, the pages are decorated, but what to do with the cover? The cover of the photo album is the face of the future gift, which means that it should look appropriate.

Important! The cover must be processed, observing the dimensions of the binding. Ideally suitable cardboard, 2-2.5 mm wide.

Consider the following course of action:

1. Prepare two blanks for cardboard covers with a spine.
2. Cut pieces of adhesive fabric that fit the blanks.
3. Position the spine between the blanks of the covers, while making an indent of 0.3 mm.
4. Fasten the parts with adhesive cloth.
5. Cut off the synthetic winterizer corresponding to the size of the workpiece, attach it from above.
6. Such a design must be attached to the fabric that was chosen as an element of decor.
7. Leave three centimeters of fabric on the sides. They will be attached to the workpiece with double-sided adhesive tape. Where there is none, fix the structure with glue.

The final stage

Making a photo album with your own hands is almost finished. It remains only to assemble:

1. First of all, you need to alternately fasten the double sheets of the finished cover. The first sheet must be attached to the cover.
2. When the design dries, go to its firmware: opening the album in the middle, you need to outline the places for the holes, then punch them with an awl and stitch them with a beautiful satin ribbon.
3. Fix the corners with special decorative corners. Don't forget about additional cover decor.

Now it is fashionable to create various things self made. Try it and you will make it. It will not just collect 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 you not only of the most pleasant events in the life of the owner, but also of you, its creator.

Basic principles of work

To do this, you can use ready-made kits for creativity, which are sold in specialized and online stores. The kit usually contains everything you need for decoration: beautiful paper, stickers, voluminous decorations. Most often, the sets are made in a certain style and are dedicated to some topic: a gift for a newborn, newlyweds, romance, travel.

Pick up all necessary elements easy and independent. But it is better to design photos, pages and cover in the same style.

Necessary materials

To create a beautiful DIY scrapbooking album, you will need the following:

• Thick cardboard for the manufacture of the base (covers and pages).
• A piece of fabric for decorating the workpiece.
• Sintepon, if you want to make the front and back of the cover soft and voluminous.
• Scissors.
• Pencil.
• Ruler.
• Glue.
• Figured hole punch (for decorating the edge or creating small template blanks for appliqué).
• Clippings from magazines or other pictures.
• satin ribbons.
• Flat or 3D stickers.
• Various decor (bows, flowers, beads).

Of course, the list depends on your desire, capabilities and design theme. Usually all of the above are used, but it is worth remembering that the photos should still be the main ones. Then you will get exactly a scrapbooking album with your own hands, and not just a collage using this technique. It is not necessary to stick all the elements on one page, it is better to limit their variety. See that the design looks harmonious, choose one central element, and let the rest just complement it.

How to make a cover

To make a scrapbooking album with your own hands, you first need to complete the base - the frame of the cover and pages. Decide what size the product will be, and prepare a sheet of cardboard of the appropriate size for the front, back and the desired number of pages.

Execution sequence beautiful cover like this:

1. Take one cardboard blank and cut a piece of synthetic winterizer according to its size. Glue it to the base.
2. Cut out a piece from a suitable fabric, such as canvas or any other, taking into account the gluing allowances (1.5-2 cm on each side).
3. Apply glue to the free surface of the synthetic winterizer and attach the fabric evenly. Bend the allowances and glue to the cardboard.
4. To prevent the folds from being visible, glue a sheet of beautiful paper or cardboard on top. The back cover is ready.
5. The front part can be made in the same way or make another window for a photo. To do this, in the base of cardboard and synthetic winterizer, make a cut of the desired shape and size. The rest is done using the same technology as for the reverse side (there is no need to pre-cut a window in the fabric). After gluing the fabric and synthetic winterizer, the material is cut and folded.
6. Insert a slightly larger photo into the window, gluing it along the allowances to the base. On the reverse side, as in the first case, a beautiful sheet of paper or cardboard is made.
7. Make holes for the eyelets and install them in the front and back of the cover.
8. Insert the 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 options its design 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 of the cover, either at the same time with the front and back, or glued to the binding (stack of pages). Choose the method convenient for you.

Pages and binding

So, you are making a scrapbooking album with your own hands. The tutorial from the previous section showed you how to make a cover, but that's not enough. You also need to pin the pages. If your cover is supposed to be on the rings, you can install the sheets in the same way. Another option is to make a binding. The technology is like this:

1. In addition to the blank pages, cut out strips of paper as long as the height of the album and 1.5-2 cm wide. In the middle of each part, draw a strip 2-4 mm wide with a knitting needle or other similar object. Cut the corners of the rectangle at a 45 degree angle.
2. Using paper strips, glue the album sheets together. The groove left in the middle will be between the sheets.
3. Glue on the end of the stack with glued sheets a piece of bandage with allowances on the sides of 1.5-2 cm and two pieces of tape along the width of the cover.
4. Glue the tape to the top and bottom edges. This will give the binding strength and a neat appearance.
5. Cut with a margin, like a bandage, a piece of decorative cardboard. Glue it over the bandage, and the protruding edges on the cover.

The structure is ready. Get started with the creative process.

DIY album for a newborn: scrapbooking

This technology allows you to create a gift or a souvenir for any holiday quite quickly and at no particular cost. Everyone will enjoy being creative, so decorating postcards, folders and other things will help you have a good time and become a new hobby.

If you are looking for information on how to make a scrapbooking album with your own hands, then you already have a certain idea or need. If you decide to create for your future baby, then you made the right 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 photographs.

In the album for the newborn, do not forget to provide a page where the parents will write down 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 the tooth. It is even worth devoting separate pages to these things.

You can make an album in a certain color scheme if you know the gender of the baby in advance. If not, then use neutral hues (white, green, yellow) and baby pictures. Suitable bears, bunnies, pyramids, crib, stroller, air balloons. Lace and soft, soft-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 on their own, but at the same time, a spectacularly designed blank can be presented as a gift to the newlyweds.

When making, try to follow these tips:

• Decide on the format and size. Don't make it too big, but a small one won't work either. Focus on the usual landscape sheet A4 or slightly larger.
• Given the standard size of photographs, you can choose the square format of the pages of the album, so that there is room for signatures and decor.
• Be sure to plan how many pages it is appropriate to make, and try to use a uniform design on them (the same arrangement of inscriptions, headings). Focus on how classic books are designed.
• Choose discreet pastel colors. Usually they use white, cream, golden, pale pink. They symbolize romance, and photographs against 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 pictures in nature and in a restaurant, after photos from the second day).

If you decide to make a wedding album for scrapbooking - the most suitable technology design. Buy special paper, as well as a hole puncher with heart-shaped clichés and (preferably) to make a curly lace edge. This will help create a romantic memento that will become a family treasure. It will be a pleasure to see the newlyweds themselves, to show relatives and friends.

Gift for a child

Do you want to create a children's album with your own hands as a keepsake for your baby? A scrapbooking souvenir will always tell the baby about happy moments in life. Beautifully designed, it will keep your love for the little one. The matured "big man" will appreciate the efforts of his mother.

It makes sense to make such an album on rings in such a way that you can gradually add pages to it. You can also make separate "volumes", for example, "My baby is under a year old", "Life in the kindergarten", "1st grade", etc.

In this album, you are free to paste everything that seems relevant and important to you: information about the first step, tooth, words. It is interesting to make an imprint of the palm, legs, to keep the curl.

Original photographs combined with delicate fabric decoration, children's pictures and other decor will look great.

Family album

This product can be made in any style that matches your ideas of beauty and harmony. You make it as a memento for yourself. Choose a design on the rings if you want to add pages. In this case, individual sheets can be designed in different ways. It is worth providing separate children's pages dedicated to family holidays and travel.

As you can see, it is not so difficult to master a new technique of artistic mastery - scrapbooking. The do-it-yourself album will be made not just as an accessory for storing memorable pictures, but will become a real work of art.

Photography is a unique thing. It's not just a picture, it's a whole segment of life. When looking at a picture, memory raises a whole heap of memories from the depths.

You can spend more than one pleasant evening looking at a photo album. You can never expect such warmth and impressions from electronic versions of photo collections. In addition, if the gadget breaks down, the pictures can be irretrievably lost. Isn't this a good reason to continue the traditions of our ancestors and make a photo album with your own hands?

Why own, if you can buy ready-made options? Lots of arguments:

1. Because it will be unique.

2. It can be made in various styles and themes.

3. A piece of your soul will fall into it.

4. And simply because it is an interesting activity.

Interested? Let's look at creating a photo album with your own hands step by step.

Scrapbooking Basics

Like any business, scrapbooking needs pre-planning. The problem is that it is not enough for a photo album to have an aesthetic appearance, it needs to carry a certain semantic load. To fulfill all the conditions, you need to find the best way to implement the idea. And here it is better to stick to already proven techniques and stylistic ideas for designing photo albums.

DIY photo album

It should be noted that scrapbooking is not a cheap hobby, so before you go to buy consumables, you need to think about for a future masterpiece:

• plot;
• composition;
• design style;
• implementation technique.

Plot

It is the plot that will give the idea of ​​\u200b\u200bhow to make a photo album with your own hands. The design of the product will directly depend on the subject. The photo album can be family and gift.

The design of the photo album directly depends on the subject

Composition

For a do-it-yourself photo album, page design ideas must be correctly positioned. The photos themselves and the design elements should appear in visual unity. Here it is important to determine the semantic center of the composition and, in relation to it, select accents or decorations for the page. The plot of the image will help you choose a title and maybe even make short description snapshot.

All pages of the photo album must be made in the same style.

Stylistic orientation

“Creating a photo album with your own hands, you are free to choose any style of its design”

Fans of opulent decor should focus on the American vision of a photo book. Connoisseurs of antiquity and lovers of immersing themselves in the days of the past will surely stop at shabby chic or vintage. Adherents of minimalism can take a closer look at the European style and one of the most popular ideas for designing photo albums - “clean and simple”.

Making a photo album in the style of "clean and simple".

Creating a photo album with your own hands, you are free to choose any style of its design. Other design options can be used, as long as they can present the theme of the album from the best side.

Technique

There are many options on how to make a photo album with your own hands. Implementation of ideas helps to carry out:

• stamping;
• decoupage;
• journaling;
• cropping;
• distressing.

There are about a hundred more entertaining techniques that allow you to create magnificent copies of photo albums.

Decoupage technique in photo album decor

The presented methods are distinguished by the relative ease of implementation. So stamping provides for the use of applicators and all kinds of prints. In decoupage, plot drawings and ornaments are used. In cropping, they work with the photo itself. It is cut so that only key moments are preserved. Journaling is characterized by supplementing images with original descriptions. Distressing is based on the aging of paper.

Stamping uses a wide variety of imprints.

DIY photo album: step by step

Stage I

In fact, it is preparation for work. At this stage, we focus on the selection of tools and the purchase of materials. What will be required?

Materials:

• thick (500 g / sq; m) cardboard;
• scrap paper;
• notebook;
• synthetic winterizer;
• adhesive fabric;
• ribbons.

Tools:

• awl;
• ruler;
• needle;
• mock-up knife;
• pencil.

Stage II

We sit down to plan the implementation of the ideas of designing a photo album with our own hands. The result will not disappoint if you clearly articulate what you want to see in the end. This is where the notebook comes into play. It is desirable that it be similar in size to the future original. It will become a kind of template for work. On its pages, you can experiment with the arrangement of pictures and decor elements. The most successful options are fixed.

Sketch of the location of pictures and decor elements

Let's start creating a photo album with our own hands by assembling the spines for the pages. To do this, you can use a less thick photo cardboard. Strips corresponding to the height of the sheets are cut from it. Band width may vary. On average, the indicator rarely exceeds 3 cm.

Stripes corresponding to sheets of height

Using a ruler, find the center of the narrow part. We set aside 2 mm on both sides of it if the landscape pages have convex decorations and 1 mm each in other cases. In the same way, we act on the opposite side. We connect the outlines with a ruler and draw a strip not with a pencil, but with a writing pen. This photo album design idea will help you bend the sheet strictly along the given lines. We cut off the corners of the workpiece. Now you can lay sheets in them and fix them with glue. The extreme sheets should not have "partners". The free part of the spine will be required for another.

Fix the leaves with glue

Stage IV

Page finishing. Their decor begins with pasting with scrap paper. Pick the right colors and create a general background, on which the rest of the composition will be located later. The decor for a self-assembled photo album can be:

• applications;
• vinyl stickers;
• newspaper clippings;
• beautiful cords;
• tapes;
• lace;
• beads.

Decorative materials for photo album design

In general, everything that draws your imagination. In the case of an abundance of volumetric details, they should be evenly placed on the pages, then the sheets do not deform, and the product as a whole does not lose its shape. This is another reason to work on a photo album with your own hands step by step.

Arrange the decor evenly on the pages

Stage V

We make binding and fasten the cover. We collect the sheets glued into the roots into a book and glue the first with a piece of bandage, gauze or adhesive fabric, so that one and a half centimeters of free matter remains along the edges of the binding.

Glue the spine with gauze

From cotton tape with finished edges, cut out two strips of the same length as the width of the binding. We bend the rest of the gauze and glue them exactly along the edge. This photo album design idea will help to hide the flaws in the assembly of the end of the cover and will become an additional fixation for the sheets, preventing them from coming off.

Glue two strips around the edge

While the gauze dries, work directly on the spine for binding. If the paper for work is not too thick, then the part can be made as a team. You will have to cut out two components: one strictly according to the size of the binding, the second - with an allowance of 3 cm in width. We lay the smaller strip on top of the larger one so that uniform allowances remain on both sides. We mark the borders and glue the details.

Binding spine

It would seem that everything? But at this stage there are secrets. They will help you make a high-quality photo album with your own hands, design ideas from scrapbooking professionals. What do they advise? A large thickness of the spine will prevent the album from opening. Can problems be avoided? Yes, if you draw longitudinal lines with a step distance of 1 cm along the inside of the spine with a sharp object (the same non-writing pen). This technique will allow the part to bend smoothly.

But the nuances of the topic “how to make a photo album with your own hands” do not end there.

The spine is fixed under the cover

The spine must not be glued to the binding. It is fixed on the cover. The structures are allowed to dry, after which the sheets assembled on gauze are placed in it. We fix the free ends of the fabric and the part of the leaf spine, prudently left when assembling the photo album with our own hands, to the inside of the cover. It is better to make it transparent "Moment". It holds stronger and traces are removed easier. Streaks are simply erased with an eraser.

Inside cover

The creation of the photo album is completed. It remains to decorate the cover and fill it with content.

Thematic photo album design ideas

Pleasant memories require a beautiful cut. The selfie that has become fashionable allows you to make photo albums with your own hands for almost every occasion, but still more often they are created for more global reasons.

family chronicle

She can get the look of a full-fledged photobook. Its content will be not only interesting and memorable pictures, but also newspaper clippings, postcards dear to the heart, things closely related to family history. On the title page it is good to write a motto reflecting the creed of the clan.

DIY family photo album

How to make a photo album about the family with your own hands? For example, in genealogical chronology. Dig into the family archive. There will surely be many pictures of ancestors that you remember and will be able to tell something to your descendants. These photos will form the first pages of the chronicle. History should continue up to the present day. In the future, your creativity can lay the foundation for a whole galaxy of similar photo albums.

Make a series of family photo albums

If the family leads an active lifestyle and does not forget to record everything that happens in it on camera, then it will be difficult to fit everything into one album. In this case, it is worth breaking all the photos into thematic groups and trying to assemble a photo album with your own hands for each case.

Love to travel - make a selection of pictures of the most memorable trips. An additional decor for such albums can be postcards depicting sightseeing places of countries or trophies obtained, like a dried leaf of an exotic plant. The epic of a sea holiday is perfectly decorated with sand, pebbles, shells from the beaches, gull feathers, twigs of algae.

DIY photo album about travel

Do not be lazy to describe what is depicted on the pages. It will be interesting to read about your adventures to posterity.

Start working on a photo album with your own hands, and design ideas will arise in your head. All relatives can be involved in the case. Give them a page and ask them to decorate it however you like. You can ask to compose a poem or write down a story from life, make a drawing with your own hands. In a family photo album, any illustration will be significant.

Make a photo album for the whole family

“Do not think that the term for making a child’s photo album with your own hands will be limited to one day - it will be a long process”

The appearance of a child is probably the most important event in the life of every family, overshadowing even the wedding, so the desire to perpetuate every minute of a child's life is quite natural. How to make a photo album of a child with your own hands so that what is reflected in it causes tenderness even years later? Pay attention to details and correctly plan the sequence of filling with photos. From a pile of pictures, try to select symbolic images that tell about a new milestone in a child's life.

DIY children's photo album

You can start the story from afar. Let a photo of the last days of pregnancy appear on the first page. An excellent addition to them will be printouts of ultrasound. The logical continuation will be shots from the discharge photo session in the celebration hall of the maternity hospital. Followed by pictures with relatives. Only later will they be pasted into the photo album with their own hands: the first smile, the first tooth, the first independent breakfast, the first steps. For every mother, these events simply stick in her memory, and a desire is born to share her happiness with the whole world.

Ultrasound printouts are a great addition.

Ideas for designing photo albums for kids are a lot. They can be made a repository of children's relics by gluing inside a strand of the first hair, ribbons from a bonnet, a piece of a bow with which a blanket was tied. Over time, it will be possible to add children's drawings and crafts brought from the garden and school and Greeting Cards. Then they will be replaced by artifacts of achievements in the form of diplomas and awards.

An example of the design of the pages of a children's photo album

Do not think that the time for making a child's photo album with your own hands will be limited to one day - it will be a long process. Replenishment of its contents will occur as the object grows.

One more thing. Children often delight us with pearls. Don't be lazy to record them in the same album. It will be a great occasion for fun years later and will decorate the pages well if it appears on them in color.

Wedding photoalbum

The wedding day is special for both newlyweds. Naturally, in the memory you want to save every moment of it. A huge number of pictures from the celebration will require system storage in a decent design. So how to make a DIY photo album as unusual as the event itself?

DIY wedding photo album

It is not trivial to decorate it. This will help the bride's accessories, lace, ribbons, elements of wedding paraphernalia. Photos can be decorated with dried flower buds from a young wedding bouquet. Over the years, such little things will become incredibly valuable and touching. Here are some more photo album design ideas.

1. Recreate the historical accuracy of the wedding celebration by grouping photos according to the chronology of its course.

Recreate the chronology of events on album pages

2. Do not be afraid to put so-called reportage and staged pictures in the album. They can be quite funny.

3. Try to give the design of the photo album a specific stylistic direction. It can be retro or something more modern.

Give the album a general stylistic direction

4. Select personal pages for the portraits of the heroes of the occasion and VIP guests.

5. When making a photo album with your own hands, supplement it with images of landscapes that served as the backdrop for the wedding event.

Complete the album with images of landscapes

6. Multi-colored pages in the album will look original.

7. Bet on the originality of the pictures themselves. Let them be highlighted in sepia or decorated to look like a painting. Dilute your color shots with black and white.

Dilute your color shots with black and white.

8. In the wedding album, you can use several photos of the newlyweds taken on the eve of the wedding, as well as telling about the ups and downs of preparing for it.

9. Separate the official part and the party. Thus, you will have two albums with photos at once.

10. A photo collage of small format pictures is also interesting.

Photo collage of small format photos

The design ideas used when creating a photo album with your own hands can cause some imbalance in the perception of compositions due to the congestion of frames by the actors. When placing close-up group shots in a self-made photo album, try to place them on a spread so that the eyes of the guests captured on them are directed in one direction. Then there will be no impression that they are looking at each other. Also, the U-turn is not perceived in the best way, literally “littered” with small photos. Use a compositional approach to their location, dilute the pictures with texts and decorative elements. Let your design talents make a splash!

Spice up your shots with text and decor

Conclusion

The proposed options for creating and filling photo albums are just the tip of the iceberg called scrapbooking. Knowing how to make a photo album, you will ensure that it excites memories of bygone days and helps to bring loved ones closer together.

Photo gallery - do-it-yourself photo album

Valeria Protasova

Reading time: 12 minutes

A A

Who among us does not like to be photographed and photograph loved ones and loved ones? Over time, we accumulate at home great amount photos that, of course, I want to save and pass on to future generations. Therefore, today we will discuss with you ideas for decorating a family photo album with your own hands. It would be nice to make this pleasant activity one of the most, doing all the creative work on the design of the family album together.

Scrapbooking family chronicle - do-it-yourself vintage family album

Scrapbooking is one of the techniques for creating and designing family or personal albums. Where, in addition to photographs, newspaper clippings, postcards, buttons, drawings and other memorabilia are added that carry a story about you and your loved ones. Thanks to this art, instead of an ordinary album, we will get a whole story about the life of your family. The cover of the photo album can also be given an original look. Decorate it with some memorabilia - for example, a ribbon to which you can attach an amulet, or yellow maple leaves. On the cover you can put a beautiful inscription symbolizing something important only for you and your family.

Making a family album in the form of a genealogical tree

Try to make your own family tree of your family and attach it to the title page of the photo album. It will not be difficult - list all the closest relatives that you remember and whose photos you can find in the family archive. First, add photographs of the most distant ancestors to the album, and finish the design with photographs of our days. Such a self-made photo album will be of interest to absolutely everyone - both the older generation and the younger. After all, considering it, you will have the feeling that you are reading a real saga about the history of your own family.

How to make a family album with children's pages - ideas for designing a children's family album

Of course, one of the most important events in every family is the birth of a child. We always want to decorate this chapter of our life somehow in a special way. After all, even the smallest detail matters. We have a great many photographs of growing children, because we want to capture every moment of the life of a little man. And it can be very difficult to choose some individual photos from them to put in an album. But still try to select the most characteristic photographs that most clearly reflect important points in your baby's life. At first, these can be your photos, where the baby is still in your tummy. Next - an extract from the hospital. A newborn baby gets acquainted with family members and closest people. First smile. First steps. Walks. Deep sleep. Breakfast. For any mother, all these moments are incredibly important and everyone will be remembered forever. Also in the photo album you can attach the first hairs of the baby, make decoration from the first booties, ribbons, from a lace baby scarf or bonnet. Do not forget to describe next to the photographs the events that are depicted in them. Over time, it will be possible to add your child's drawings and various school or sports trophies and certificates to the photo album.

Do-it-yourself wedding family album - lace, satin bows and dried flowers from the bride's bouquet.

A wedding is a very important and special day for every woman. I want to remember every moment of this have a nice day. And, of course, we have a huge number of photographs that require a decent design. You can unusually decorate a wedding album by putting satin bows and lace from the bride's accessories into it. You can also attach dried flowers from the bride's bouquet to the photos, if you have them. All these little things will become more and more valuable to you over the years, and when you open a wedding photo album made by yourself, you will return to that magical day every time.

The idea of ​​​​designing a family album about a vacation with trophies from long journeys

We all love to relax, and from each trip we bring a bunch of photos. Naturally, these photos are also worthy of their photo album. You can decorate such an album with postcards depicting the countries where you rested, trophies from travels - whether it be a piece of a shell or a dried exotic plant. You can also make an ornament from the sand from the beaches where you sunbathed and took pictures. Don't forget about the descriptions of what is shown in the photos. After all, many years later, your children will be very interested to read about the adventures of their parents on vacation, and see colorful illustrations for this exciting story.

How to make a family album as a gift to parents - a chronicle of the parental family

A handmade photo album is also a wonderful gift that you can present to your parents for an anniversary, or any holiday, or just like that. Collect the most the best photos parents from all family albums to transfer them to one. When adding photos, add some words from yourself for your mom and dad in the description. Tell them how much you love them and how much they are dear to you. You can decorate the photo album with clippings from old magazines and preserved old theater tickets that your parents attended. An album for parents can also be decorated with hand-made decor items - an album cover crocheted or knitted, figurines for decorating a luxurious antique style, made by yourself. The album can also contain homemade collages, appliqué and decorative elements in vintage style, with antique lace and velvet. The flight of fancy here is simply limitless!

DIY creative album - creating a family chronicle with photos, drawings, poems and stories of all family members

And, of course, every family should have a common album, looking at which is so warm and comfortable to spend time surrounded by loved ones. There are a great many ideas for creating such an album, and all members of the family will have to work on their implementation. Add your favorite photos to it in chronological order. Accompany them with poems of your own composition, let each of the family members write stories about some significant events. You can also collect children's drawings to put them in an album, small memorabilia. Bring all your creative impulses to life! In the photo album, in addition to photos, you can add everything that matters to your family. And then you get a real family illustrated chronicle, which can be left to posterity as a keepsake.






A handmade photo album will inspire new life into your memories captured on film. After all, what if not viewing family photos on winter evenings, so brings family members closer making you appreciate each other even more.