Digital technologies have firmly entered our life. We put photos on our computers and very rarely open those memorable folders. Before, everything was different … Heavy albums with yellowed family photographs, fond memories of childhood, as if time itself decided to look into your soul. Now it has become completely out of fashion to arrange photo albums. But it's not difficult at all to make a memorable album with your own hands, which will become not just a photo album, but a whole story of your life.
It is necessary
- - any album of your choice, with thick sheets;
- - multi-colored paper;
- - scissors;
- - glue;
- - paints or markers, depending on your skill;
- - any material that can be used to decorate the album.
Instructions
Step 1
Perhaps the album will be for children, or maybe it will connect several generations of your family, it will be dedicated to some important event in your life. Or maybe you want to make an original gift. Select the photos that you would like to place in it. Depending on the content, you need to choose a design. It is not necessary to place photos on the page with strict lines. It is perfectly acceptable to glue them at an angle or even corners on top of each other. A series of photos with a slight change in composition looks especially impressive in this version. Do not post several large portrait photos or many small ones on one page. Combine portrait photos with full-length or group photos.
Step 2
Bright colors, funny pictures cut from children's magazines or colored paper, various ready-made stickers are suitable for a children's album. If the album begins with the birth of a child, then you can attach a metric from the hospital, the baby's first booties. Between the photos it is good to make captions, drawings, stick funny pictures. For these purposes, bright felt-tip pens, and braid and ribbons, and shiny nail polishes, and dried flowers and leaves, and sparkles that can be fixed on glue are useful. The inscriptions are easy to cut from the pages of magazines, both ready-made and by letter. Creative people may want to decorate the pages with painted curly pasta, making mini-panels from them. For semolina or cereals, marine life stickers. If the baby has already grown up to help in making the album, instruct him to cut or just tear into pieces and wrinkle lumps of colored paper for decoration, then glue it. He will be proud of himself and happy that he took part in such an important and fun business!
Step 3
An album in which you want to combine several generations requires a thoughtful approach for each of its pages. So, for pages dedicated to older family members, restrained tones and colors will be appropriate. You can use handmade paper with flowers and leaves. Old newspaper clippings are also fine here, and for wedding photos, lace and white satin bows will look beautiful.
Step 4
Regardless of how you use the design of a family album, stick to the principle that photographs are the main ones in it. Do not overload it with decorative items and paints. Let there be a few additions on the page, but they will emphasize the photos and highlight them, and not get lost in the colorful variety of pictures, inscriptions, bows, stickers. And then, picking up the moments dear to your heart, you will plunge into pleasant memories of joy, sadness, love and happiness.
