Create a unique do-it-yourself photo album
Although today the main way of viewing photos is a gadget, many people want, as before, to hold a photo album in their hands. With your own hands, you can make an amazing and original item for viewing and storing photos. The homemaster.techinfus.com/en/ editors also miss the old way of viewing photos, so they offer to make not just a photo album, but a full-fledged creative work that will carefully preserve your memorable moments!
It's smarter than just flipping through pictures in your smartphone.
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How to create do-it-yourself photo albums
The process of working on such a project is fascinating. This is not a half-hour lesson: it can take more than one day to create an album.
It is difficult to make such a miracle, but it is possible
Any project starts with an idea. The theme and style are selected.
What style do you need an album
You can make more than one book, but several, devoting each to some topic, breaking them down by year, distributing them according to memorable trips or even according to the seasons.
After considering the topic, the material is selected. This can be textiles, heavy or thin cardboard, scrap paper and accessories for scrapbooking, accompanying tools, decor items, adhesives.
After creating a base, which can be on rings, on a rope, in the form of a book or a clamshell, a separate design for each page is thought out. Only after such a layout is everything set in place. This creates a real masterpiece.
Master class: make a beautiful photo album
To help those who have not come across the creation of such products for storing photos, an understandable master class is given.
What is needed in the work
We will prepare fabric for the cover, synthetic winterizer for the lining, 7 sheets of beer cardboard (2 of them will go to the cover), the spine of the album (for books), cardboard corners, a hole punch for creating corners for photos, decor, glue stick and PVA, scissors, simple pencil and ruler, sewing machine.
Everything for making photo albums can be purchased at any craft and scrapbooking store.
Process of creation
Let's plunge into the master class and try to repeat everything on our own.
| Illustration | Action Description |
|---|---|
 | We will prepare everything you need. Let's start by creating the inner sheets. To do this, fold the corner and attach 1 sheet of cardboard to it. No need to fit tightly, for a good fold you need to step back a little from the edge. Mark this place with a pencil and draw a line there. Do the same on the back of the corner. |
 | Before reaching the marked line, apply PVA glue, smear it and glue 1 sheet of cardboard to it. Let's do the same on the other side of the corner. We collect 4 other sheets this way, gluing the corners together. |
 | Let's prepare the cover. First, let's see how it will look assembled by attaching it to the spine with paper clips. Then let's try how we will glue it all together. |
 | First we glue the spine and two sheets of the cover. |
 | Outside, coat the cover with glue stick. |
 | We take a sheet of padding polyester and glue it to the cover. Then we cut off the extra edges of the filler. |
 | Iron the fabric onto the cover and place it right side out. The edges of the fabric should protrude a little, as we will glue them. Apply glue around the edges and fold the fabric inward. |
 | Everything that needs to be sewn, we first stick it on the cover with PVA, and then sew everything on a typewriter with a beautiful decorative seam. We make several substrates for placing a photo from watercolor paper with a density of 220. |
 | We decorate each substrate according to the theme. |
 | We make the required number of corners for inserting a photo with a special hole punch. |
 | We glue each corner to the place reserved for it in the album composition. |
 | We decorate the cover to the end and glue all the inserts with the pages in place. |
Video: full version of the author's master class
Stamping and cropping
For decor, you can try stamping and cropping. The stamps are available in the form of embossed silicone plates. To make the system work, you need to buy ink in a convenient format: apply paint with a sponge on the drawing and press the object against the paper.
There are many stamps on any topic
Cropping refers to actions with a photograph using scissors or trimmers. The bottom line is simple: I don't like the photo, cut off the excess, reshaping it in a new way.
Decoupage and other decoration
Decoupage is known to many. The use of napkins and PVA glue transforms the item into a beautifully decorated wonder. You can do the same with an album.
We tear off the desired piece of the napkin with our hands, apply it to the place to be decorated and gently disperse the PVA glue along the cut with a brush.
As soon as the napkin dries, it will merge with the background, decorating it
Albums are also decorated with lace, ribbons, feathers, objects in the form of beads, thematic images, metal and wooden patterns.
For such products, the choice is very large. It is not difficult to find a thematically suitable decor.
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Journaling
The magazine will appeal to people who like to design everything in a creative modern style. As the name suggests, you need magazines and newspapers to decorate. Cuttings can be any, they are made out in the same way as in decoupage. But the possibilities of journaling do not end there. You may not use ready-made printed products at all, looking for the necessary phrases in it - you can type the text on a typewriter, on a computer, or write it by hand.
An example of talented journalism
We design photo albums in different styles
Not only houses and apartments can be decorated in some style.Photo albums look original in minimalism, shabby chic style, vintage design and American. The most difficult thing is to choose decor elements, and it will be easier to think over the composition with them.
Minimalism
Of course, this is not the minimalism that we see in the interior, but the common thing is the minimum amount of decor. These are laconic pages, which are most often obtained by beginners who are afraid to overdo it with decoration.
You don't have to "litter" the composition, leaving simple geometric shapes and a small number of additions on the pages.
Shabby chic
The chic design is suitable for diverse thematic albums. The basis is made by artificial aging, craquelure on the pages. Mandatory elements will be lace, white acrylic tinting, abrasions.
Beautiful and delightful
The basis will be made up of pastel colors, therefore scrap paper is selected in such shades.
It is permissible to take paper with polka dots, stripes, pick up dried flowers, ribbons, pieces of music pages
The paper is additionally crumpled and torn to obtain the desired effect.
Vintage
Vintage is suitable for wedding photo books. It is, as in shabby chic, aged pages and decor associated with tenderness.
Vintage itself has long become antiquity, therefore the decor theme should correspond to the era
You can even include in the work an old watch dial, some gears, old photos, newspaper clippings from that period of time. Lace, journaling, stamping are welcome guests here.
American style
The most popular style in the design of the scrapbooking technique. Typical features include the placement of three to six photos, with the emphasis on one. The whole composition will be located around it. Accordingly, this photo is larger than the others and is placed in the center.
Decorate the album in the American style with stickers, stationery, brads, flowers. An additional element of decor can be movie tickets, tags, dried flower arrangements, newspaper clippings.
Ideas for creating photo albums on different topics
Thematic albums are the most popular. There is nothing better than picking up a volume of wedding photographs that are placed in a suitable storage location, symbolizing the wedding in itself? The same bright and pleasant emotions are evoked by photos in the children's colorful album. For the heroes of the day, specially designed books are created, which, with each of their pages, return a person to the celebration and give him a good mood.
Travel album
Travelers are often eager to share their impressions, showing in the photo where they were, how everything looked. Just flipping through the images on a smartphone, you will not feel either the sea breeze or the mountain wind, but looking at the photos in a suitably designed album, emotions and impressions become real and strong.
Each page is designed to match the place on the photo
Any photo comes to life thanks to the design
The cover seems to urge you to open it quickly and see the journey with your own eyes.
Wedding
Favorite topic of many needlewomen. All the best and the most romantic is often associated with the wedding day. Why not immortalize it in a special book.
The cover evokes surprisingly gentle and romantic feelings
The plot is one, but there are many ways to design. It is good to use different laces, white, pink, blue tones, flowers, which will add a romantic flair.
For each photo, a suitable place is selected and its design is thought over
Child
Children's themes are rich in choice: it can be something bright and colorful, perhaps delicate, in pastel colors.
For children's photo books, they use catchy decor, small toys, suitable decorative elements such as buttons, templates, stamps with your favorite characters, stickers and stickers.
The name of the child is placed on the cover, which is usually very popular with the young owner
Anniversary
Albums for heroes of the day are a wide field for flight of imagination and a great gift. Anniversary can be related to date of life, date of wedding, date of retirement. And this can become that very creative theme for the photo from the celebration.
The "culprit" of the celebration is indicated on the cover
The anniversary date of the school graduation can also be the topic of the photobook
Work hard on your personal photo book, because this is the creation of a whole world that comes to life not only thanks to the plots in the images, but also to the skillful design! What do you think about creating such a photo album?
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