Album for photos with own hands

How nice to flip through old albums with photos, from dense colored paper, where under each photo there is a hand-written signature! Modern beautiful albums for photos are characterized by greater mobility of placing photographs, and do not leave room for several handwritten lines under them. Transparent "pockets" for photos, of course, leave an excellent opportunity to remove the photo in time, but do not create a pleasant aesthetic effect, and look like transparent plastic cases for temporary storage.

How to make a photo album by yourself?

Find in the store beautiful albums in which you can leave a signature, it is difficult: recently they are released very rarely and mostly exclusively for wedding celebrations. Even albums for children's photos do not provide a place for recording. You can correct the mistake if you order handmade photo albums or albums for handmade photographs, but it will be very expensive to cost such an order, and it will take time to find a master in your city. If there is time and desire, you can create an album for photos with your own hands.

Basic rules and stages of creating original albums for photos:

1. Album for photographs is made on the basis of ordinary albums for drawing with thick paper in the size of 30 * 30 cm or 21 * 27 cm.
2. In the design of the pages you can use any paper: textured, colored, thematic (with the already applied pattern). The main thing - not glossy, because it can not be written.
3. Expensive memory things, miniature souvenirs from trips, tickets from theaters, advertising booklets, invitations - everything can be used in the design of the album, so do not throw out what you think is "garbage dumped".
4. From a typical method of fastening the "clip" will have to be abandoned, so that part of the pages where the attachment is located, is immediately cut off.
5. Then each sheet is pasted with colored paper. It is necessary to ensure that colored sheets are well stretched and not collected by waves.
6. A space for photos is marked. The options for fixing the photo can be different: you can make slits in the upper color layer for the corners of the photo, or you can simply paste the photos. In the first case, the upper, colored layer must be very dense, otherwise the paper will quickly break.
7. Before continuing to decorate the album, you need to make holes in each sheet (already triple: from two sheets of colored paper and one layer of the main sheet). It is best to make holes with a hole punch: they will turn out neat. After that, each sheet should be bent, retreating a few centimeters from the punched holes: so when viewing the album, there will be no problems with turning over the sheets.

Decorating an album for photos with decorative elements

The first rule: three-dimensional details are used only in the design of the cover.

The second rule: patterns and drawings should not be only on the side of the sheet of the album where there is no photo. Even if the photo is pasted, the pattern must go beyond the photo.

The third rule: the use of muted colors and tones in drawings and patterns. Too bright colors will interrupt photos. This rule does not apply to the main color of the album page: it can be both bright red, and gentle light color.

You can cover the cover of the photo album with a cloth and attach flowers to it, you can paint it in a bright color and paste a thematic picture. For example, an album about travel can hide behind the cover with the image of the Eiffel Tower, and a children's album - behind a picture of a stork carrying a bundle in its beak.

The last stage is the fastening of sheets. The sheets can be joined using tape or ordinary threads, which are then decorated. Signatures to the photos in the album are best applied to the binding of the sheets, otherwise the place of attachment of the album will prevent filling the sheets with a beautiful handwriting.

It's not so difficult to make an album with photos yourself. The main thing is to get down to business with imagination!