scrapbook wedding album – Theme Ideas For Your Scrapbook

April 16, 2010

Whether you’re new to scrapbooking or an old pro, coming up with ideas for a new album is not always easy. Here we’ll talk about different ideas and how organizing your photos will help determine the theme of your next scrapbook.

Here are some album ideas you can use; and looking these over may spark some other ideas of your own.

Travel Scrapbook: You can create an album from photos of you and your family while traveling. You may have enough photos from one specific trip to complete a small album, or you can combine several trips into one larger album. If you travel a lot, you might like to do an album called “On the Road in 2009″ for example.
School age children’s events: If you have kids in school, an album of their different activities is a good way to store and display those memories. You may want to have one album for each year with all your children, or you may want to have different albums for each child throughout the years.
Antique Album: An antique style album is great for old black and white photos you may have lying around in a box or the basement.
Seasonal album: Perhaps you have lots of pictures during the different seasons. You could create an album with all your fall pictures using earth tones and fall colors and themes.
Children’s artwork: Do you have tons of your child’s artwork plastered to your fridge or in a box somewhere? Get it out, sort it by year and create an album using the different pieces. You can use it for backgrounds, decorations or maybe even embellishments. Incorporate pictures of your child from a specific year with the artwork.

Now that your wheels are spinning with ideas for your next album, let’s talk about photo organization. Organizing your photos is a great way to get ideas for albums as well. As you sort through the boxes and packets of pictures you have, you’ll start to get ideas for an album.

There are, of course, many different ways you could organize your photos, so I’m just going to give you a few ideas to get you started.

Chronologically: If you have piles and piles of photos in boxes, or photos in old albums that aren’t acid and lignin free, take them out and start sorting them into stacks by the year. If your photos aren’t date stamped on the back or front, try to determine the year they were taken by the ages of the people in them, the style of clothing, the location or event where the photo was taken. You may find you have hundreds of photos for each year and will need to break it down further by season or event.
By event: As you’re sorting chronologically, you’ll probably come across photos from certain events that would make for a nice album or two such as: a trip, a wedding, birth of a new baby, a play or other theatrical event, a concert or a family outing.

Once you have your photos sorted and organized, store them in plastic baggies to keep the air out. This will help preserve them until you can get them into an acid and lignin free album. Be sure to mark each bag by year or event so when you go back to make the album you know which baggie to grab.

To add color and fun to your pages, learn more about the use of scrapbooking embellishments

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Seasoned scrapbookers know that scrapbooking is an expensive hobby. In addition to costly tools, embellishments, and paper, there are expensive albums into which you insert your family’s memories for safekeeping. Sometimes, we want to make event scrapbooks to share as gifts with family, friends, and coworkers, but the cost of these albums can be prohibitive. Fortunately, there is an alternative to traditional scrapbook albums that you purchase in the craft store. You can make your own album with your choice of acid free paper using spiral coil binding.

You can buy spiral coil in a variety of lengths and colors. No matter what the theme of your scrapbook, you can definitely find a coordinating color of coil since it is manufactured in over sixty colors. Some of the newer colors include spiral blue, dark purple, copper, tangerine, lilac, light teal, and charcoal.

In addition to spiral coil’s color options, you can also customize your scrapbook’s size through coil size selection. No longer must you choose standard sizes selected for you by the craft industry. You can choose to create books ranging in widths from a quarter of an inch up to two inches. Instead of settling for standard six, eight, eleven, or twelve inch lengths, you can go all the way up to three feet with spiral coil. Taking control of your binding allows you to experiment with different sizes and configurations so that you can create unique scrapbooks that are just perfect for the memories contained inside them.

You may think this type of binding equipment is expensive and is not a viable option for scrapbookers on a budget. That simply is not true. For crafters who make 8.5″ x 11″ scrapbooks, the GBC ProClick P50 is available for about $60. Compared to the price for one album, this equipment is a viable option-especially when it can be used to make album upon album. It will pay for itself in just a few projects.

If you are not an 8.5″ x 11″ scrapbooker, you will need to look for a machine that can bind scrapbooks of different lengths. The PC200 machine is more expensive (about $250), but it is much more customizable. This machine allows you to shift into creative overdrive since you can bind memory books ranging in length from one inch up to 21 inches long. In addition to its versatility, it uses plastic coils that are slightly less expensive than those used for the GBC ProClick machine.

Not only can spiral coil binding help you create scrapbooks and craft projects for you and your family to enjoy, it can also help you to make money. Think about putting together your own unique scrapbook kits to sell online or in local craft stores. Compared to what you can make-especially by offering products no one else has-the costs associated with binding equipment are minimal. There really is no limit to what sorts of projects you can put together using your imagination and the right equipment.

If you are interested in more information about Binding Machines, you might want to visit MyBinding.com. They offer a great price on binding equipment and they even offer Free Shipping on orders over $75.00. Plus, they carry a full line of Binding Supplies, in all brands and capabilities. Check it out today!

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