Scrapbooking: an album with your own hands. Master Class

Now it's fashionable to create various handmade things. Try and you make a scrapbooking album with your own hands. It will not only collect photos, it will become an exclusive thing and decoration of your house. If you make such a gift to a child or a newly-married couple, he will always remind not only about the most pleasant events in the owner's life, but also about you, his creator.

Basic principles of work

To make a scrapbooking album with your own hands, you can use ready-made sets for creativity, which are sold in specialized and online stores. The kit usually has everything you need for decor: beautiful paper, stickers, three-dimensional decorations. Most often, the kits are made in a certain style and are devoted to a topic: a gift for a newborn, a newly-married couple, a romance, a journey.

To pick up all necessary elements is simple and independent. But to make out photos, pages and a cover is better in uniform style.

Necessary materials

To create a beautiful scrapbooking album with your own hands, you will need the following:

• Thick cardboard for the manufacture of the base (covers and pages).
• A flap of fabric to decorate the workpiece.
• Synthepone, if you want to make the front and back of the cover soft and bulky.
• Scrapbooking paper.
• Scissors.
• Pencil.
• Ruler.
• Glue.
• Figured puncher (for decorating the edge or creating small blanks-templates for the application).
• Cuttings from magazines or other pictures.
• Cloth, lace, satin ribbons.
• Flat or 3D stickers.
• Different decor (bows, flowers, beads).

Of course, the list depends on your desire, capabilities and theme. Usually use all of the above, but it is worth remembering that the photos should still be the main ones. Then you will get the album-scrapbooking yourself, and not just a collage in this technique. It is not necessary to glue all the elements on one page, it is better to limit their variety. See that the design looked harmonious, choose one central element, and the rest let only complement it.

How to make a cover

To make an album-scrapbooking with your own hands, you first need to perform a framework - the skeleton of the cover and pages. Determine what size the product will be, and prepare a sheet of cardboard of the appropriate format for the front, back sides and the required number of pages.

The sequence of performing a beautiful cover is this:

1. Take one cardboard blank and cut a piece of sintepon by its dimensions. Glue it to the base.
2. Cut out from a suitable fabric, for example, linen or any other, detail taking into account allowances for gluing (1.5-2 cm on each side).
3. Apply glue to the free surface of the sintepon and apply even cloth. The allowances are bent and glued to the cardboard.
4. To prevent bends 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 the same way or you can make another window for the photo. To do this, in the base of cardboard and sintepone, cut the desired shape and size. The rest is done using the same technology as for the reverse side (the window in the fabric must not be cut beforehand). After bonding the fabric and sintepon, the material is cut and bent.
6. Insert a slightly larger photo into the window, gluing it on 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 an album design, pages and various options for its design will help you choose the right solution.

You can also do the cover art in a different way. In order not to use the ring mechanism, it is necessary to do also the end part of the cover, or at the same time from the front and back or glue to the binding (pile of pages). Choose a convenient method for you.

Pages and binding

So, you make a scrapbooking album with your own hands. The master class from the previous section showed how to make a cover, but this is not enough. It is also necessary to fix the pages. If the cover is supposed to be on rings, you can install the sheets in the same way. Another option is to make a binding. The technology is as follows:

1. In addition to the page blanks, cut from the paper strip lengths with the height of the album and a width of 1.5-2cm. In the middle of each part, draw a 2 to 4 mm strip with a needle or other similar object. Cut the corners of the rectangle at an angle of 45 degrees.
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 the glued sheets of a piece of bandage with allowances on the sides of 1,5-2cm and two pieces of tape along the width of the binding.
4. Glue the braid on the top and bottom edge. This will give the binding a strength and a neat appearance.
5. Cut out a piece of decorative cardboard with a margin, like a bandage. Glue it over the bandage, and the protruding edges - on the cover.

The design is ready. Proceed to the creative process.

Album for the newborn by own hands: scrapbooking

To create a gift or a souvenir for any holiday this technology allows quite quickly and without special expenses. Everyone will be pleased to engage in creativity, so the design of postcards, folders and other things will help to have a good time and become a new hobby.

If you are looking for information on how to make a self-scrapbook album, then you already have a certain idea or need. If you decide to create a memorable gift for your future baby, then you are not mistaken with the 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 photos.

In the album for the newborn, do not forget to provide a page where parents will record 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 individual pages to these things.

You can make an album in a certain color range, if you know the sex of the baby in advance. If not, then use neutral shades (white, green, yellow) and children's pictures. Suitable bears, rabbits, pyramids, a cot, a stroller, balloons. Lace and soft, soft to the touch materials like fleece will look good. Very decorative and festive look satin ribbons.

Wedding album with own hands (scrapbooking): master class

This memorable relic can be made by a married couple herself, but at the same time an effectively prepared piece can be presented as a gift to the newlyweds.

When preparing, try to follow such advice:

• Decide on the format and size. Do not make it too big, but the small one will not do. Focus on a normal A4 album or a little more.
• Given the standard size of the photos, you can select the square format of the album pages so that there is room for signatures and decor.
• Be sure to plan how much it is appropriate to make pages, and try to use on them a uniform design (the same arrangement of the inscriptions, headings). Focus on how to make out classic books.
• Choose a restrained color scheme of pastel tones. Usually use white, cream, golden, gentle pink. They symbolize romance, and the photos on their background will look like the main objects.
• In the sequence of pages, it's best to follow the chronology of the event (at first place the photo of the official ceremony from the registry office, then the pictures in the nature and in the restaurant, after the photo from the second day).

If you decide to make a wedding album for photos with your own hands, scrapbooking is the most suitable design technology. Buy a special paper, as well as a punch with a cliché in the form of hearts and (preferably) to perform a figured lace edge. This will help create a romantic memorable product that will become a family asset. It will be nice to see the newlyweds themselves, to show their relatives and friends.

Gift for a child

Do you want to create a kid's own album for your child's memory? Scrapbooking souvenirs will always tell the kid about the happy moments in life. Beautifully designed, it will store your love for the baby. The grown-up "big man" will appreciate the efforts of his mother.

Such an album makes sense to make 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 up to a year," "Life in the garden," "class 1," 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, keep the curl.

Original photographs combined with gentle design of cloth, children's pictures and other decor will look great.

Family album

This product can be made in any style that corresponds to your ideas of beauty and harmony. You make it a memory for yourself. Design choose on rings, if you want to add pages. In this case, individual sheets can be decorated in different ways. It is worthwhile to provide separate children's pages dedicated to family holidays and travel.

As you can see, it's not so difficult to master a new technique of artistic skill - scrapbooking. The album will be performed not only as an accessory for storing memorable pictures, but will become a real work of art.