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Most people are familiar with the large size albums that most scrapbookers make. These pages are a great way to preserve memories from your child's life or from a special event like a wedding. However, sometimes you may want to share an experience through scrapbooking that won't take up an entire large album. Enter mini albums!
Mini albums are the best way to use your scrapbooking supplies and your creativity on a smaller scale. Instead of making a large album a page at a time, you'll create a mini album out of large tags, medium sized pieces of scrapbooking paper or a variety of other items. You can use ribbons, circle clips, decorative staples, cord or other fasteners to keep the pages together.
Here are just a few of the unique ways you can use mini albums to tell your story and share memories with others.
Grandma's Brag Book - Give your mom, mother-in-law or yourself a fun way to show off the latest pictures of the kids. These albums can showcase class pictures and casual shots. Make your pages out of a heavy duty cardstock since they'll be kept inside of a purse. You can also make a sleeve envelope out of cardstock to store the album. These mini albums are so easy to make, you could create a new one each month so Grandma will always have something new to brag about.
Holiday mini albums - When you make a large scrapbook chronologically, all of your Christmas, Thanksgiving and Halloween memories are spread apart across the years. You can collect everything together with a holiday mini album. Collect pictures from holiday get togethers from several different years and place them in a themed mini-album. Christmas, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Easter and even birthdays and anniversaries make great mini album topics.
All about you - Scrapbookers often spend their time documenting the life of their children and family members but forget all about themselves! You can use a mini album to record your thoughts, feelings and attitudes at any given time in your life. Many people use a simple format of "my 10 favorite things" to make a simple and unique mini album. You can also devote one page of your mini album to a fact about yourself. Use pictures of you and your favorite things and make sure include lots of journaling.
Family mini albums - If you have a large family, you probably have a lot of pictures of family get togethers that the other family members have never seen. Combine your love of scrapbooking with this great gift idea. Ask the rest of your family members for photos from a specific event, like a particular Christmas or a family reunion. Scan all the pictures and then return them to their owners. Then create several mini albums of that event and give them out for Christmas!
This just scratches the surface of what you can create with mini albums. You can tell a story within the pages of your mini album (like your child losing his or her first tooth) or just group a collection of your favorite shots. You're only limited by your creativity!
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