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With the advent of social networks and electronic file sharing, the need to print photos has almost disappeared. They don’t share their impressions of a trip or event, photos of relatives and friends at home on the couch with heavy family albums on their lap, but via the Internet, because it’s so simple: I posted pictures on the network and in a second all your “friends and subscribers” can already see them. However, the news feed is quickly leaving, the pictures on the screen are changing, merging and the individuality of the person is a little overwritten by a series of reposts.
What to do? Make your impressions in an album!
At the word "album" in my head immediately pop up Soviet everyday life and albums that occupied the guests, but now the design of photographs has acquired the features of art. Scrapbooking is popular among needlewomen. The first mention of it dates back to 1598, and in the Middle Ages it was fashionable to collect poems, letters, ringlets. Girls made out books with wishes, poems, portraits. “Write something to the album” was asked by poets, artists at creative evenings, family gatherings. “This is nothing more than the ancestor of modern scrapbooking. Scrapbooking resembles the design of a photo album, but, in addition to photos, it includes artifacts: buttons, railway tickets , greeting cards, gift bows, poems and letters, as well as much, much more that is in the house. Usually the album is dedicated to one topic. Professional scrapbooking is a very expensive and difficult task. Items and photos are processed so that Goa time remains unchanged, that is to say, for centuries. Tools for this kind of art is expensive and not always available in Russia. We invite you to take "unprofessional" scrapbooking, photo albums design, dedicated to those or other family events.

We will need:
• Ready-made magnetic album with a suitable cover;
• Artifacts that look flat or almost flat (so that the album closes well): movie tickets, restaurant menus, hotel booklets, buttons, printed texts of poems, letters, SMS (depending on who the album is made out for, of course);
• Selected and printed photos;
• Clippings from magazines and newspapers: pictures, headlines, photographs. If you want to arrange an album with humor, then they will be very useful to you: to assign to one of the heroes of photo cards the body of Marilyn Monroe or Arnold Schwarzenegger;
• Scissors, glue, colored paper, texture paper and anything else that might come in handy yet;
• The main thing that we need is, of course, taste and imagination.
Here is an example of materials we may need:

To get started, free up your workplace and create convenience for work. You need a large enough space to expand all the headlines, clippings, pictures and not to be confused. Decide on the theme of the album. Albums can talk about the trip, the birth of a child, the first year of marriage, a wedding, and so on. We lay out photographs, artifacts on the magnetic sheets of the finished album. Here's what the magnetic album page looks like:

Where necessary, you can use glue. You can also use shreds of fabric from your favorite clothes and diapers, handprints and footprints of both adults and a child, locks of hair of loved ones and children, pictures from torn children's books and so on and so forth. What else can I use?
Horoscope Clippings:

Poems, maybe even yours:

Festival programs:

Autumn leaves and pictures from magazines:

Strands of children's hair and ultrasound pictures:

After you have laid out everything, you can lower the film. Instead of a magnetic album, you can use a simple album with cardboard sheets, however, now there are few places where you can find such ones on free sale. Here, for example, is how the bride’s album is designed:

It is very good if the bride herself makes an album for wedding wishes. It can include a variety of puzzles for the groom, which he will solve at the foreclosure. Of course, you can combine such creativity with computer technology:

It is very important to consider the fragments you have before deciding on the production of the album and determine the number of pages, as well as what each of them will specifically tell. In the case of a child, for example, it can be:
1. Pregnancy of mother;
2. Photos from the hospital;
3. Extract from the hospital;
4. The first day at home;
5. The first bath, the first walk;
6. First steps and words;
7. Anniversary celebration.
And, most importantly, when making such a unique interior item, do not forget to include a good mood!

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