A family album is an important element of every home. It is the center of attention when visiting friends and relatives, at family celebrations and in warm moments of memories. This is a secret of the past, a kind of relic, the life story of each of us. Today, most photos are stored on phones, tablets, and mobile phones. But it’s much more pleasant to turn through the pages of history and touch pictures than to view them on a monitor. A handmade photo album will be a successful alternative to electronic folders.

Photo album using scarpbooking technique

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

Masters work in several directions:

  • modern. All current attributes, stencils, blanks, bright prints, rhinestones, etc. 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 topic, it is important to think through the basic design and create a color composition. Basic scrapbooking tips for beginners:

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

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

A love story: wedding album

A wedding photo album does not have to contain exclusively photographs of the celebration. You can start a story about your family with a story about how you met: photos together on vacation or dating moments.

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

  • choose size. The 30*30 cm option is ideal for placing several photos on a page. The parameters 20*20 cm mean a standard photo on the page and a few small things. But the album 25*25 cm is the average option. You can place several pictures and diversify with additional inserts;
  • Materials you will need: thick paper (cardstock), film with a pattern (overlay), cardboard figures (chipboard), foil, beads, garter, invitations, napkins, bows, buttons, lace, cards, tulle.

Watch the video below for the album creation process.

And naturally, 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.

Creating an album for a newborn

When creating a children's album, it is appropriate to use a variety of scarp paper, stencils, and baby things. The following may be useful for registration:

  • a hand or foot print of a child. This can be done using regular gouache, or on a special base, which is then placed on the cover;

  • pregnancy photos and ultrasound images;
  • horoscope, name meaning - 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 child;
  • 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 from 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 an excellent wedding anniversary gift for your nearest and dearest. The history of their family, photos of children and all significant events can be placed under one binding. This album will look good in a vintage or retro style.

For a family chronicle album you can use:

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

See the video below for an example of the design.

An integral part of such albums is aged paper. It's not difficult to do:

  • in order to give the edges a “tattered” look, you need to treat them with a distresser;
  • coffee will turn a white sheet of paper yellowed with age. Brew 5 full teaspoons of coffee in 200 ml of boiling water. Let it brew for 10 minutes with the lid closed and strain. Lightly crush 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 the paper. Brew 5-10 tsp. in a glass of boiling water (depending on how much the leaf needs to be yellowed). Leave for 10 minutes and strain. Keep the leaf in tea leaves for about two minutes. Dry and iron. You can drop tea leaves onto the sheet several times.

It's a good idea to create a family tree. You can bring your idea to life 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 create a travel album, see the video below.

The travel book contains:

  • a lot of entries. By hand and not necessarily with a ruler. These could be stories about your expectations from the trip, what you managed to achieve, a description of the highlights of the trip;
  • You can devote a page to each topic: food, relaxation, sights, new acquaintances;
  • special pockets for small souvenirs.

Review the full design of the travel album in the video below.

Stroller, heart or house: creating figured photo albums

Who said that a photo album must be rectangular? Figured albums look bright and unusual. You can download ready-made stencils from the Internet, or you can create them yourself. An unsurpassed family album in the shape of a house was made by blogger Elena Stepanova. The author made a multi-story house and placed the photographs as follows: as the family grows, the floor increases. The result was amazing.

Figured albums can be family, children's, or reflect the hobbies of household members.

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

How to design a figured album, see the video below.

Mini-album for beginners

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

  • folds are made on the cardboard at a distance of 10 cm. This will be the binding;
  • the cover will be two squares measuring 10.5*10.5 cm, covered 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 tie.

A baby is one of those things whose value only increases over time. So rest assured that the hours you spend creating it will turn into evenings filled with pleasant memories with your family. To make creating a children's album easy and enjoyable, we offer you some useful tips.

Preparing the base and decorative materials

The ideal basis for a photo masterpiece is an ordinary album with plain pages made of thick cardboard, without “corners” and “windows”. Today they are quite difficult to find in stores, but every professional photographer can tell you “passwords and appearances”. An alternative version of the “base” is sheets of thick A4 paper, which are then connected using a hole punch in a folder.

For decorative finishing you will need colored paper of different colors and textures. It can be glossy and matte, “velvet” and with a metallic sheen, plain or patterned - the more choices there are, the easier it is to realize almost any creative idea. In addition, the following will be useful:

  • Ribbons

  • All kinds of stickers
  • Bright magazine pictures for collages
  • Dried flowers
  • Leaves
  • Beads
  • Buttons and any other materials that your imagination suggests.

You will also need sharp scissors, a paper knife and glue without acids that corrode photo paper.

Choosing photos

For every loving mother, all photographs of the baby are simply perfect, but, nevertheless, try to look at them critically. Put aside unclear and dim photographs, photos with “cut off” faces and bad angles, shots with the same poses and “entourage”. If the remaining material is clearly not enough, you can arrange a photo session - an experienced children’s photographer will certainly offer many interesting and original ideas.

Some ideas for choosing a topic

The classic design of a children's album is pictures arranged in chronological order with a short story about each of them. If you decide to stop at it, decide in advance for what period of time to calculate the baby’s first album - it can be dedicated to his summer adventures, or it can talk about the first year of his life. When preparing funny stories, be sure to write a draft of the text and let it sit for at least a couple of days - during this time you will almost certainly remember interesting little things and details that will complement the final version.

An interesting idea that a grown-up child will definitely appreciate is to start a “chronicle of events” with your photographs in the last months of pregnancy, photographs of the maternity hospital and ward, the obstetrician and your memories of preparation for this important event. To record the growth and development of a child, you can take a series of monthly photographs of him in the same position, and leave a handprint and foot print next to them.

Very impressive shots will be provided by professional photography of children with animals or during their favorite activities, and for children over three years old, you can choose to design a children’s album in a retro style.

Focus on details

A rule that any professional photographer or designer will confirm: the key to an ideal result is the impeccability of details. Therefore, pay attention to every detail of the album.

Start with the main background of the pages - in order for the photos to look harmonious, the color of the paper should be present in each of the photos. The main task of all decorative details is to emphasize the theme of the photographs. So, for example, for pictures from a vacation on the seaside, you can choose the appropriate surroundings - stickers in the form of fish and boats, interesting collages in a “marine” style, or come up with funny captions in the form of quotes from films about pirates. If professional photography of children was carried out at a picnic or at the dacha, the pictures will be perfectly complemented by stickers in the form of ladybugs, flowers, and the background can be a pattern in the form of suns or a frivolous cage.

You should not paste photographs directly onto the page - they will look much more impressive if you place them on a mat - a backing with protruding edges. For pictures of a standard size of 10x15 cm, it is enough to leave a frame 0.5-1 cm thick, and the bottom frame can be slightly wider. The color of the mat should be contrasting with the main background or match one of the colors if the paper is patterned.

Creating a “draft”

Before you take up the glue, lay out all the photographs, cards with signatures and decorative details on album sheets - make sure that they do not create a piling-up effect that is tiring for the eyes - the “air” around the photo looks much better than an abundance of inharmonious details. Make sure once again that the photos do not need cropping - cutting off unnecessary details and elements.

Let's move on to the last stage

Quickly and carefully stick on the main background, and then proceed to the largest elements - photographs and collages. For a small photo, it is enough to apply glue at four points in the corners, retreating about 1 cm from the edges; large photographs and portraits taken by a children's photographer are glued along the entire perimeter. The final touch of the work is gluing the lightest and most fragile decorative details - dried flowers, grass or “clouds” made of cotton wool.

Surely everyone has such an album of memories

Stores offer a variety of cards and albums for all occasions, but it is often very difficult to make a choice when you want to congratulate and surprise a loved one. You can choose an original postcard in handmade goods stores. Scrapbooking masters create amazing things from cardboard, paper, various stickers and details.

But prices for “handmade” products are often very high. What if you do your own scrapbooking? This type of creativity is one of the most popular. It requires virtually no initial skills (except for the ability to use scissors, glue and tape) and a significant investment. You can also make stencils, paper decorations and stamps for scrapbooking with your own hands.

Getting started

As mentioned above, scrapbooking requires a minimum of tools, but as you become more passionate about this type of creativity, you may need additional materials.


 All the necessary materials and tools that will be useful for a beginning needlewoman

Let's list them all:

  • Paper is the main element in scrapbooking. In this type of needlework, special durable cardboard is used as a base, and decorative paper with illustrations or ornaments. For those who are taking on this business for the first time, it will be convenient to use ready-made sets of several types of sheets that match each other in style and color.
  • The second thing you can’t do without is scissors. Scissors can be any kind, the main thing is that they are sharp - the paper must be cut evenly, the edges must remain smooth.
  • Double-sided tape is a very convenient thing for scrapbooking. When you need to glue voluminous or simply large parts, it is indispensable. The strength of the connection is superior to glue and does not leave dirty marks; it is a pleasure to work with.
  • In some cases, you cannot do without glue. For example, when you need to add small details.
  • Hole punches are a functional thing, and in some cases, a decoration tool. Sometimes you just need to connect several pages, this requires holes. And sometimes decorate the sheet with carved patterns.
  • Stamps. With them, making beautiful inscriptions is as easy as shelling pears.
  • Cutter or utility knife. Cutting a cardboard sheet in half or trimming a photograph with scissors is unlikely to work out neatly; here you will need a stationery knife, or even better, a cutter.
  • And finally, a variety of volumetric decorative elements. Without them, a handmade postcard or album will be no different from ordinary store-bought items. Scrapbooking supply stores are simply eye-opening. Buy a few individual decorative parts to get started. And if you decide to engage in this craft seriously, it is much more profitable to purchase goods in bulk.

 Volumetric decorative elements visually resemble a 3D picture

When you have decided on all the tools and elements, it’s time to choose a place to work. Good lighting of the workplace and sufficient free space are important for scrapbooking.

Necessary materials for work

It is better to remove everything unnecessary from the table so that nothing gets in the way of your hands and small details are not lost.

Which style to choose for decoration

Among the many design options in scrapbooking, there are several main styles:

  • Heritage and vintage. Postcards and albums “from the past” are created in these styles. Muted colors, scuffs, old photographs, newspaper clippings. It would be appropriate to use lace, stamps and beads. A gift in an antique style looks expensive and elegant.

 Worn elements give the album an antique look
  • If you like polka dot or striped designs, then the shabby chic style will not leave you indifferent. The combination of a simple background and layering of lace, beads, and pictures is romantic and daring.

 Delicate tones and ruffles speak of shabby chic style
  • The classic of modern scrapbooking is the American style. Album pages and postcards are designed in the form of a collage. As a rule, there are several photographs, decorated according to the theme with ribbons, paper figures, and inscriptions. Each sheet of the album is unique, in its own style and fully reflects the mood of the day when the photographs were taken. An interesting addition would be air or train tickets, tickets to an amusement park or zoo.

 Very bright and rich style in scrapbooking
  • European style is more minimalistic compared to American. Mini-albums are created in scrapbooking in this style. Not many decorative elements are used, but pencils and pens are used, complementing the composition with artistic sketches. The edges of the pages can be decorated using shaped hole punches and scissors.

 This album is suitable for drawing lovers
  • The increasingly popular steampunk style is considered a “masculine style.” Indeed, without flowers, lace and beads, with a truly brutal design, a “steampunk” postcard will appeal to the stronger sex. This artistic movement is interesting for its set of decorative elements: gears, old miniature mechanisms, drawings and maps. The design is done in gray-brown tones.

 In this design you can show all your artistic abilities

Several master classes of different styles:

American design style, with grunge style, vintage, shabby chic and steampunk.

Scrapbooking techniques

When creating products, various techniques are used in scrapbooking: rare ones, which are mastered by experienced craftsmen, and simple ones, accessible to everyone.

Scrapbooking techniques

For example, several well-known techniques that are used most often:

  • Artificial aging of paper. You can achieve the effect of old paper using improvised means: remove the top layer of the sheet with tape, use a scraper to create an uneven edge, use tea and coffee to color the paper in brown shades to give it a vintage look.
  • Embossing allows you to make paper parts convex and voluminous. The technique can be “wet” or “dry”, in which a special hair dryer is used.
  • Stamping. Stamps fit well into almost any scrapbooking style and add originality to scrap pages, emphasizing the “hand-made” design. You can make stamps yourself; for this you will need: a foam block, thick cardboard and metal parts, the shape of which will be the stamp. Fittings are placed on the foam block, the surface is heated with an embossing hairdryer, and cardboard is placed on top. The parts are pressed into a soft surface, leaving imprints (stamps) on the cardboard. The finished elements need to be cut out and can be used for matching cards and album pages.

Interesting decor using embossing, stamps and a cutting machine

Albums using scrapbooking techniques

Using the scrapbooking technique, you can create not only postcards, but also a variety of albums for all occasions, displaying your most significant and memorable events.

They can be large, almost grandiose, or small, neat, that fit in your hand.

Review of a travel album using scrapbooking technique

Mini album

A good start for beginners in scrapbooking is to create your own mini-album. It’s bold to take on large-scale work right away, but it’s better to start small.

Master class: mini - bound album part 1

Master class: mini - bound album part 2

First steps to make an album:

  • Take some sturdy scrap paper and divide it into 12 equal square or rectangular pieces. Cut the sheet evenly in rows, but be sure to leave one square (rectangle) with an unseparated side. It is these two uncut lines that will need to be glued together.
  • Fold the sheets like an accordion and collect all the future pages of the album together, and then glue them on the inside. Use ribbon as the spine of the book. The album layout is ready.

When you have a completed but empty book in your hands, it’s time to begin the creative stage of creating an album. Guided by the experience of the craftsmen, make a sketch of the product in a thin, empty notebook or on blank sheets of paper, which you then staple together. Sketch the location of the photographs, the principle of their division, inscriptions and design. Decide what decorative elements and in what quantities you will need. Let there be a little less detail, without going overboard - this overloads the work and spoils the overall picture of the album in assembled form.

Mini-album with accordion binding

Album with binding

The ring album looks great, but it looks solid, of course, with a binding.

Cut narrow strips of strong paper to glue the album sheets together. On each of them, mark a section 2-4 mm wide in the middle. A gap of this width will allow you to use volumetric elements when decorating.


 The most important part of the album is the binding.

Cut the extreme parts of the strips diagonally. Leaving a marked gap strip in the center, fold the sides over and glue them to the pages. Thus, you get two sheets connected to each other. Next, you will glue the sheets to them using the remaining strips. Do this work carefully, otherwise the album will end up uneven.

The internal content of the album is ready, it’s time to move directly to the binding. You will need gauze that is as long as the height of the album and as wide as its thickness plus a couple of centimeters. Attach ribbon along the horizontal edges of the binding.

The spine is made of a thick sheet of paper with a margin of 1-2 cm in width. Place it evenly on the base of the resulting book, and glue the cover to the album to its protruding stripes. Now the base of the album with binding is ready, then it’s just a matter of imagination.

Album from scratch part 1 - binding

Album from scratch part 2 - cover

Binding with hidden rings

A popular theme in scrapbooking is weddings. Any girl, after answering “Yes” to a marriage proposal, begins to think through all the details of the future event. A wedding requires a lot of attention, even in small things. If the bride has time, she can create a photo album for pictures of this important event entirely at her own discretion.


 Volumetric elements only add freshness to the album

Wedding album review

The cover is the first thing a person sees when picking up an album. The cover can reflect the idea of ​​the wedding - theme, color scheme or remind of the venue. You can use all sorts of ready-made solutions for wedding scrapbooking. Stencils, stamps, badges depicting the bride and groom, miniatures of wedding arches and retro cars - it is impossible to list everything that specialized stores of this craft have.

Master class on creating a wedding album

The design of the album pages is also an individual choice. An interesting solution would be to split the album into several parts. In one - professional photographs of the photographer, in the other - selfies with friends, in the third - reportage photographs of wedding guests. Then a section of pictures of gifts or photos of spouses as children.


 We fill the album with only fun and bright moments

Creating a wedding album will be a fun activity that will help you pass the “endless” wait for the celebration.

Nowadays it is fashionable to create various handmade things. Try to make it too. It will not just contain photographs, it will become an exclusive item and decoration of your home. If you give 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 operating principles

To do this, you can use ready-made creativity kits, 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 a certain theme: a gift for a newborn, newlyweds, romance, travel.

It’s easy to select all the necessary elements yourself. But it’s better to design photos, pages and covers in the same style.

Required materials

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

  • Thick cardboard for making the base (cover 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 templates for applique).
  • Magazine clippings 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 they use all of the above, but it is worth remembering that photographs should still be the main thing. Then you will end up with a DIY scrapbooking album, and not just a collage using this technique. You shouldn’t put all the elements on one page; it’s better to limit their variety. Make sure 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 and back sides and the required number of pages.

The sequence of creating a beautiful cover is as follows:

  1. Take one cardboard blank and cut a piece of padding polyester 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 allowances for gluing (1.5-2 cm on each side).
  3. Apply glue to the free surface of the padding polyester and lay the fabric flat. Fold the allowances and glue them 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 you can also make a window for a photograph. To do this, make a slot of the desired shape and size in the base of cardboard and padding polyester. 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 padding polyester, 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. Punch holes for the eyelets and install them into 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. A scrapbooking master class on creating an album design, pages and various design options will help you choose the right solution.

You can do the cover in another way. In order not to use the ring mechanism, you will also have to make the end part of the cover, either at the same time as the front and back, or glue it to the binding (stack of pages). Choose a method convenient for you.

Pages and binding

So, you are making 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. You also need to pin the pages. If your cover is supposed to be on rings, you can install the sheets in the same way. Another option is to make a binder. The technology is like this:

  1. In addition to the page blanks, cut out strips of paper the length of the album and 1.5-2 cm wide. In the middle of each piece, use a knitting needle or other similar object to draw a strip 2-4 mm wide. 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 a piece of bandage with 1.5-2 cm allowances on the sides and two pieces of braid along the width of the binding to the end part of the stack with glued sheets.
  4. Glue the tape to the top and bottom edges. This will give the binding strength and a neat appearance.
  5. Cut out a piece from decorative cardboard, just like the bandage. Glue it over the bandage, and the protruding edges onto 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 souvenir for any holiday quite quickly and without special costs. Everyone will enjoy being creative, so designing cards, 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 decided to create one for your future baby, you made the right choice. By the way, you can make such a thing for the birth of a baby for 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 newborn album, do not forget to include a page where parents write down the height and weight of the newborn. You can leave blank fields for other important information, for example, first day at home, first step and tooth. It’s even worth devoting separate pages to these things.

You can design the album in a certain color scheme if you know the gender of the baby in advance. If not, then use neutral shades (white, green, yellow) and children's pictures. Suitable items include bears, bunnies, pyramids, a crib, a stroller, and balloons. Lace and soft, gentle-to-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 heirloom themselves, but at the same time, an impressively designed piece can be presented as a gift to the newlyweds.

When making, try to follow these tips:

  • Decide on the format and size. You shouldn't make it too big, but a small one won't do either. Focus on a regular A4 landscape sheet or a little larger.
  • Given the standard size of photographs, you can choose a square format for album pages to leave room for signatures and decoration.
  • 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 a subdued pastel color scheme. Usually they use white, cream, golden, soft 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 photos in nature and in a restaurant, after which photos from the second day).

If you decide to make a wedding album, scrapbooking is the most suitable design technology. Buy special paper, as well as a hole punch with cliches in the shape of hearts and (preferably) for making a figured lace edge. This will help create a romantic keepsake that will become a family treasure. It will be a pleasure for the newlyweds to see it and show it to their relatives and friends.

Gift for a child

Do you want to create a baby album with your own hands as a souvenir for your baby? A scrapbooking souvenir will always tell your child about happy moments in life. Beautifully designed, it will cherish your love for your little one. The matured “big man” will appreciate his mother’s efforts.

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 up to one year old”, “Life in kindergarten”, “1st grade”, etc.

In this album you are free to paste everything that seems appropriate and important to you: information about the first step, tooth, words. It’s interesting to make a handprint, a foot print, or preserve a 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 keepsake for yourself. Choose a design on rings if you want to add pages. In this case, individual sheets can be designed differently. It is worth providing separate children's pages dedicated to family holidays and travel.

As you can see, it’s not so difficult to master a new artistic technique - scrapbooking. A DIY album will be made not just as an accessory for storing memorable photographs, but will become a real work of art.

I especially want to remember the first months of a baby’s life. After all, it is at this time that the child grows and changes “by leaps and bounds.” And a little later, it will be very interesting for parents to sort through old photographs and recordings that record the first smiles and steps of their child. A beautifully designed album for your baby will be an excellent option to save all this unique information in one place - do-it-yourself pages will allow you to save this valuable information.

Let's try to make a baby album with our own hands

Required materials and tools:
  • blank for a scrapbooking album (it is better to choose a blank with rings so that you can add new pages if necessary)
  • sheets for scrapbooking (plain and with prints. You need to think about the theme of the album in advance and choose the appropriate paper - you don’t have to limit yourself to pink for girls and blue for boys)
  • stamps and colored ink
  • paints
  • stickers
  • universal glue
  • sparkles, rhinestones, buttons, ribbons and any other elements for decoration
  • figured hole punch
  • scissors, curly and regular

It is difficult to describe a specific master class for designing a children's album, because... You need to start first of all from the amount of material and photographs that the parents have. At the same time, if you are planning to make such an album, then you can outline its plan in advance and take the necessary photographs as the baby grows.

You can simply print out photographs and paste them, you can make collages manually, or you can do them first using computer programs. Very beautiful albums are obtained if you decorate the pages with ribbons and special curly stamps - these scrapbooking ideas can be picked up on the relevant forums.

Step-by-step design of the first pages of the album:

1) We start designing the album with the cover. You can put a family photo on it, or just a portrait of the baby. In any case, it is important to remember that this is a cover for a children's album, so it is better to give preference to delicate watercolor colors. Cute drawings depicting storks or babies in cabbage will look great.

2) To fit in all the necessary information, you need to act step by step. The first pages of the album can be dedicated to the months of pregnancy. Photos of a rounded tummy and the first ultrasound photos will be posted here, accompanied by funny comments and captions. Those who wish can even paste “that same” striped pregnancy test here.

3) It is very useful to place a family tree on the following pages - it will be important for both parents and the grown-up child to feel that the little person is part of a big family.

4) The next page is the very first photo of the baby, straight from the maternity hospital. Here we also include complete information about how much the little man weighed, what his height was and his Apgar scores. The tag that is hung on newborns can also be glued on this spread. Feel free to add more of your personal memories of this event (who was there, how you felt, how it all started), because... then such important moments are erased from memory, and re-reading them will be very interesting.

5) Next we post information about choosing a name for the baby. How they chose the name, who they decided to name it after, what it means - we put all this on this spread. Here, if desired, you can add information about your zodiac sign and year of birth according to the Eastern calendar.

6) Photos of the maternity hospital are naturally followed by discharge photos. We place photographs of happy parents on the page, accompanied by short stories about how this significant event went. We also describe how the move home and the first days of life with a new family member went.

7) Everyone is very interested in who the baby looks like - mom or dad? To find out, place a large photo of the baby and each of the parents next to each other. And to make it more interesting, you can even take not adult shots, but photos of parents in infancy - that’s when the similarities are especially visible. And then, when the grown-up baby looks at his album, he will be very interested in the fact that mom and dad were also once very little “dolls.”

We analyze thematic pages in a children's album

In addition to the chronological design of pages, you can use collages dedicated to individual everyday sketches:

  • “I’m sleeping” - a photo of a sleeping baby in different poses and places, a crib, a night light.
  • “I eat” - a photo of a baby trying various foods (from a bottle, a spoon, or just with his hands from an adult’s plate); here you can also describe the schedule for introducing complementary foods or funny taste preferences.
  • “I’m walking” - photographs of walks, games in the sandbox, on playgrounds, sledding and snowball fights.
  • “I’m bathing” - photographs of a baby in a bath with foam, rubber ducks and other toys, funny shots in a bath towel.
  • “I play” - photographs of the baby with his favorite toys, the process of collecting the first pyramid, shots with mobiles and rattles.
  • “I’m crawling” - the baby’s first attempts to move around the apartment, parents preparing a safe space for the baby (sideboards, latches on doors and drawers, etc.).
  • “I’m walking” - the first hesitant steps by hand or along a support, the joyful faces of relatives who saw the baby’s new skill, the first shoes.

Video on the topic of the article

For greater clarity, we suggest watching the following videos, which demonstrate in detail how to make an album for a baby with your own hands.