How-Tos
Scrapbooking Made Easy
How to Organize your Photos
Let’s face it: we live in a digital world. Sharing photos is as easy as posting them on sites like Snapfish, Flickr and Facebook. But, there’s still something to be said for good, old-fashioned pictures in a photo album – and the art of scrapbooking. Thanks to digital cameras, snapping and choosing photos is a breeze. Unfortunately, many of these photos wind up stored on a computer. Even those lucky – or important – enough to be printed, sometimes end up piling up in boxes at the back of a closet, forgotten. Well, now is the time to gather and sort through all of your memories, and think about putting them together in a scrapbook. Scrapbooking is an art form that’s easy to approach. Crafting stores have a variety of colored/decorative papers, stamps, stickers and other embellishments that make it easy to bring your scrapbook to life. And, adhesive products, like double-stick Duck® brand Easy Stick® adhesive rollers, allow you to quickly – and cleanly – assemble photos and memorabilia on the pages. To get started, it’s important to consider for whom you are making the scrapbook and what you’d like to focus the theme on. Here are a few themes to consider:
Anniversaries/Birthdays
Create a book that can be updated annually with each new anniversary or birthday. Add in special notes of how you celebrated each occasion.
Families/Pets
Use the pages to showcase your family’s heritage, favorite memories and goofiest moments. Include pictures of your pets, too, especially if you have shots of funny faces, favorite hang-outs or even with their favorite toy.
Holidays
Dedicate each page or spread for a different holiday throughout the year. Don’t forget to journal your favorite memory from each celebration.
Step 4
Honor a member of the Armed Forces with a book dedicated to his or her service to our country. Include important announcements, news clippings and honors, in addition to photographs.
Step 5
Mark baby’s first months or year. Consider adding in baby’s hospital tags, lock of hair from his/her first haircut and other mementos from each milestone.
Step 6
Scrapbooks can also be used to reminisce a school year, graduation, first year in college, new home or even be created in memory of someone who has passed on. Try to incorporate special reminders of the milestone, like a piece of artwork from school, a graduation program or obituary.
Step 7
From the beach to iconic places to amusement parks, pair your pictures with ticket stubs, maps, brochures and more. You can dedicate your entire book to one vacation or include several vacations to create a travel log.
Step 8
While the majority of this book should focus on the “big day,” don’t forget about other wedding traditions, like engagement photos and parties, bridal showers and other pre-wedding festivities, the rehearsal and even the honeymoon. You can include special keepsakes, like the save-the-date and invitation, program, customized napkins, the menu, etc.
Average Rating:
(Based on 9 Comments )
I luv scrappbooking! and using duct tape is even awesomer......I have made so many things out of duct tape: purse, wallet, dress, top hat, and I'm working on my boots! yayyyh
duck_tape_chick Date Added: 03/26/2010 08:45:00 p
Great ideas
TheOldCat Date Added: 04/19/2010 03:16:00 p
Beautiful for scrap booking--if cutting pieces out become too tedious...place the tape on the clean & dried plastic cutting board and go exacto on it!
juswakiforduckbrand Date Added: 03/05/2011 11:27:00 p
I love scrapbooking, I never thought of using duct tape though!
DuckTapeLuva Date Added: 07/21/2011 06:03:00 p
cool
soda Date Added: 09/19/2011 12:00:00 p
oooo I absoutly love scrapebooking cause it gives me and my friends something to do when were bored just sitting around the house.
keke Date Added: 10/04/2011 06:48:00 p
I am in to scrapbooking but that just goes a littile overborad
Dingo Date Added: 11/24/2011 12:01:00 p
How creative! I would never had thought that scapbooking would go this far,so exited that it has now! Doing crafts is one of my favorite hobbies ever, and duct tape is one of my favorite things to make stuff out of! This is so creative i am going to start making a scapbook NOW!!
Madey21 Date Added: 01/23/2012 07:31:00 p
This is such a cute idea and i love the many uses i should use it for my camp scrapbook someday!
ldl519 Date Added: 06/20/2012 04:38:00 p
This is a good one.
jade1209 Date Added: 01/05/2013 08:42:00 p
If you buy a pair of cheap scissors made for medical tape, I find they work much better than conventional scissors.
anotherme Date Added: 04/07/2013 08:57:43 p