Albums for boys in scrapbooking technique

Children become adults so quickly that every parent wants to capture the happy moments of childhood. In modern photo books, there are plenty of testimonies of almost every day of a baby's life, but most often photos are stored in the memory of electronic devices.

It is much more pleasant to flip through the pages of a children's album, enjoying the story of your child's growing up. You can experience even stronger emotions by creating this photo album yourself. Filling it not only with photographs, but also observations, poems, funny and touching memories. To embody all this allows the design technique scrapbooking.

This technique allows you not only to realize your need for creativity, but also to create unique things in a single copy. Anyone can make a photo album for a newborn or an album for an older boy with their own hands, even if he does not have the necessary skills. It is enough to stock up on the necessary materials, tools, study master classes, where each action is described step by step and turn on your imagination.

The design of the pages and the cover of the mini-album for boys in the first year is different from that for girls, but not fundamentally. Most often, this difference lies in the choice of colors, themes and prints.

A kid, regardless of gender, is a very gentle and cute theme, therefore, appropriate plots for decoration are selected:

• Teddy bears;
• animals;
• toys;
• cars.

You need to start by defining topics and age limits. Even if you are creating an album for a newborn, it can be limited to the first year of life, or it can be increased to three.

The second and third years can be divided seasonally - summer, autumn, winter, spring, illustrated with appropriate images and descriptions.

After you have roughly figured out how many pages your album will include, what is its theme, you can think over the external design, select materials. If the baby is still quite tiny, it is better to use neutral children's stories, the older child already has his own hobbies and preferences that can be used. One of the most popular decorating styles is Teddy bears.

But this does not mean that you cannot use others: green, brown, beige, red. The choice depends only on your personal preference.

Experts recommend adhering to the following rules, which will be very useful for a novice master:

• think over the composition, use the preparation of preliminary diagrams, placing all future decorative elements on a piece of paper;
• use tracing paper, it will save your pages from being erased;
• use curly scissors and hole punches - they will add zest to the design;
• do not apply acrylic paints with a brush, it is better to use sponges;
• do not use voluminous decor inside the album;
• try to fill your work not only with photographs, be sure to add inscriptions, sign photos, you can include poems, wishes, observations;
• use your imagination, but do not be afraid to take other people's ideas, you can take them as a basis and rework them in your own way;
• Choose décor that matches each other and the overall style in color, size and mood.

In order to create a beautiful scrapbook album for a baby, you need to prepare the following tools:

• eyelet installer, figured hole punch;
• 4 eyelets in matching colors;
• double-sided tape, glue stick or glue gun;
• hole punch for the border;
• simple pencil;
• ruler;
• scissors - regular and curly;
• scrap paper of the required size in the selected topic;
• a little padding polyester;
• two rings made of metal in the desired color.

You will need the following materials and decor for the album:

• dense quality cardboard of the selected format;
• thick fabric in the selected color palette;
• pictures for registration;
• card or other version of the inscription-name ("Our happiness" "Beloved son" and others at will);
• napkins, ribbons to match the overall design;
• knitted flowers in the same range;
• metal brads;
• printed pages for an album on Whatman paper or other high-quality paper (you can create them yourself in any program on the Internet or take ready-made ones);
• metal pendants;
• lace, other decor at will;
• tracing paper or parchment.

We bring to your attention a step-by-step algorithm for making a scrapbook album in the style of Teddy bears. When choosing decor and materials for it, take fabric in blue and gray tones with stars, images with bears on the cover and for pages; select the entire decor in steel-gray and blue palettes, including rings.

Sequencing:

• pages are pre-printed, 2 for each sheet on both sides;

• think over the size of the album in advance and cut cardboard, tracing paper for it, form the pages;

• glue the pages two by two with scotch tape, pasting it in thin paths, slightly fixing the sheets and stitching them from the left edge;

• do these procedures with all the sheets, sew them together and thus, you are ready to fill the album;

• we proceed to the cover and cut out the base from hard cardboard according to the selected size;

• we form padding sheets of the same size;

• we glue adhesive tape around the perimeter and press the padding polyester pads, they will create the required volume;

• now it's time to cut the fabric, this is done taking into account a margin of 1-2 cm on each side;

• steam the fabrics thoroughly under the iron;

• then sew them together on a sewing machine, sew the seam with a lace strip;

• put the blanks on the fabric and coat with pencil glue from the corners, turn the fabric and fix it with glue;

• glue the prepared tape in the center of the cover on both sides - forming future ties;

• on the front cover we fix a picture with a bear, the name of the album, other decorative elements, fix them in the appropriate ways - firmware, glue;

• pendants and flowers are fixed on brads;

• we form two endpapers from special paper and glue;

• from the remaining paper, create pockets inside the cover and glue, apply the necessary decor to the pages;

• after everything is glued, the folded album is placed under a heavy press for half an hour;

• form holes on covers, insert eyelets;

• having marked the pages in the right places, punch them with a hole punch;

• all that remains is to assemble the product by threading the rings into the bottom cover, putting on the sheets from the last to the first and finishing everything with the top cover.

The second master class on making an album for a boy using the scrapbooking technique can be found in the next video.