Scrapbooking Ideas
to Showcase your Memories
Looking for scrapbooking ideas to make use of all those photos you have taken over the years? Maybe you have keepsakes from special occasions tucked away in a drawer or box somewhere, such as...
- Your grandmother's handwritten recipes
- The old door key from your childhood home
- Your baby's name bracelet from hospital
- Lace or ribbon from baby clothes
- Your child's art work
A few simple scrapbooking ideas can turn your piles of photos and family keepsakes into beautiful albums and books that you will treasure forever. Leave a legacy for your children to enjoy and have fun letting your creative skills flourish.
- Shells from holiday beaches
- Foreign coins
- Postcards from far away places
- Used stamps from airmail letters
- Stamped pages from old passport
- Luggage labels showing your destination
- Headed notepaper from hotel stays
Keep your memories of special places and trips alive forever with travel scrapbooking ideas, whether it was an African Safari, a beach holiday or Skiing in the mountains.
- Menus from that expensive restaurant
- Wine labels from that special bottle you shared
- Slices of the cork from above
- CD cover of music that was playing
- Love letters
Recall those special times you shared with the love of your life.
- Fabric from a wedding dress
- Pressed flowers from your wedding bouquet
- Confetti shapes
- Order of service
- Christening invitations
- Birthday and Christmas cards
- Wrapping paper and gift tags
Don't forget those wedding scrapbook pages, along with Christenings, birthday parties and, of course, Christmas morning.
- Tickets or programs from the theatre or cinema
- Buttons from a favourite outfit
- Awards and certificates for a job well done
Whether you are new to this interesting, artistic hobby or are an old hand at creative layouts, you will find something of interest on this site. There are step-by-step instructions on all aspects of how to move from collecting memorabilia to planning scrapbooking sketches and then creating albums that glow with your personal touch.
