Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 5:56 pm Post subject: Some ideas please ?
I haven't done scrap booking yet and today my son's teacher sent home a huge folder of all the work he has done since September and I want to do it in a scrapbook, can anyone give me some ideas of how and what I should use and any ideas on how to do it ? _________________ Dee
i seen a photo album once that had been quilted and ribbons tied on it so they can keep it shut, it was very pretty, and it was filled with the things their kids had done over the years. there were several of them one color for each year. _________________ but i am always a good boy...really....
Scrapbooking is fun, I guarantee you one you start scrapbooking that you'll be hooked! (Just like me lol) I'd go for one of those oversized scrapbooks to start with. Since it's material from school, some of the things might be larger in size than 8 1/2 by 11 inches. Since it's not photographs you're working with, you have a lot more choices with what to use for backgrounds and papers and little additions that make a page so pretty. I get lots of papers and ornaments from the local dollar store. Also, you can get pretty school themed wrapping paper at the dollar store to use for backgrounds for his papers to lie on.
You don't say what grade your son's in, but if he's little, you can grab some stencil templates off the internet and do alphabet themes, or print off gifs, etc, to cut out and use in backgrounds for decorations. Alphabets, or page theme ideas (worded) can be cut out of craft paper, or construction paper, and added. I try and coordinate the color of the page and theme with the colors that are predominant on the object being highlighted. (Or, use another color that is on the page you are highlighting, to bring that obscure color out. This is a project you can have a lot of fun with. Think of a theme for each of the pages you are going to highlight, and then build your page around it. Most of all, have fun with it, you're making memories!
Scrapbooking is fun, I guarantee you one you start scrapbooking that you'll be hooked! (Just like me lol) I'd go for one of those oversized scrapbooks to start with. Since it's material from school, some of the things might be larger in size than 8 1/2 by 11 inches. Since it's not photographs you're working with, you have a lot more choices with what to use for backgrounds and papers and little additions that make a page so pretty. I get lots of papers and ornaments from the local dollar store. Also, you can get pretty school themed wrapping paper at the dollar store to use for backgrounds for his papers to lie on.
You don't say what grade your son's in, but if he's little, you can grab some stencil templates off the internet and do alphabet themes, or print off gifs, etc, to cut out and use in backgrounds for decorations. Alphabets, or page theme ideas (worded) can be cut out of craft paper, or construction paper, and added. I try and coordinate the color of the page and theme with the colors that are predominant on the object being highlighted. (Or, use another color that is on the page you are highlighting, to bring that obscure color out. This is a project you can have a lot of fun with. Think of a theme for each of the pages you are going to highlight, and then build your page around it. Most of all, have fun with it, you're making memories!
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Those are great ideas I never though of doing this, I tried getting stuff to go in the scrapbook to make it more fancy rather than just his pictures and there was nothing near me available to buy. Thanks for that, his collection id getting rather big, he is only 4 but he does some amount of art _________________ Dee
Awww, a four year old...the same age as my grandson! Aren't they fun at that age?! They sure do produce a lot of artwork at that age, I know, my refridgerator is almost completely hidden with his pictures lol.
Another nice background for kids artwork is using colored tissue paper (like for lining a present.) You can tear it up into larger jagged edged pieces and meld a lot of colors (collage style) and glue them onto the page, then set the artwork over top and glue down. Or, crumple some of it, then uncrumple it, and glue it down flat, and put the picture on top.
Another nice thing to do is to have a page background, then put a solid color paper (just about an inch or so) underneath the picture so it looks like it was framed. So it would look like: background paper, framing paper (under) then print on top. I do a lot of scrapbooking in my family. My grandson has made many visits to the zoo, so I made a special little scrapbook (5x7") just for all his zoo pictures. Besides the pictures, I have in there the tickets from the zoo train ride, the printed handouts he got about the zoo. I used old cards with animal themes and cut them out out, and I found animal print tissue paper for on the backgrounds (I LOVE the zebra paper!). For the most part, I don't buy stuff from the craft store. The only time I buy archival acid free papers is when I'm doing a wedding album or albums that I intend to be passed down with the family.
Awww, a four year old...the same age as my grandson! Aren't they fun at that age?! They sure do produce a lot of artwork at that age, I know, my refridgerator is almost completely hidden with his pictures lol.
Another nice background for kids artwork is using colored tissue paper (like for lining a present.) You can tear it up into larger jagged edged pieces and meld a lot of colors (collage style) and glue them onto the page, then set the artwork over top and glue down. Or, crumple some of it, then uncrumple it, and glue it down flat, and put the picture on top.
Another nice thing to do is to have a page background, then put a solid color paper (just about an inch or so) underneath the picture so it looks like it was framed. So it would look like: background paper, framing paper (under) then print on top. I do a lot of scrapbooking in my family. My grandson has made many visits to the zoo, so I made a special little scrapbook (5x7") just for all his zoo pictures. Besides the pictures, I have in there the tickets from the zoo train ride, the printed handouts he got about the zoo. I used old cards with animal themes and cut them out out, and I found animal print tissue paper for on the backgrounds (I LOVE the zebra paper!). For the most part, I don't buy stuff from the craft store. The only time I buy archival acid free papers is when I'm doing a wedding album or albums that I intend to be passed down with the family.
Our tinnnnnnnny craft store has hardly anything useful in it but you have given me some really good ideas, i have loads of that tissue paper and different cards from places we have visited _________________ Dee
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