A gift made of scraps.
Perhaps the most rewarding type of scrapbook that you can make is the one that you intended to give as a gift. ‘Scrapbooks’ makes special gifts for almost every occasion because their hand-made touches show that you care about the person.
When someone receives your scrapbook as a gift, here she maybe inspired to create a scrapbook as well and in this way you can spread the’ scrap-booking bug’ to friends and family members.
There are many different types of scrapbooks you can make for the recipient. One of my favorite types of things makes a good gift for a graduate or someone moving away. Use pictures from throughout the years of the person growing up and end with the recent picture and some blank pages so the album could be continued.
Pages made as a continuation make great future gifts as well. This is also a good idea for couple celebrating their wedding or anniversary. Instead of just having a traditional wedding album, include pictures of both people from before they met and then create pages of their life together.
Gathering pictures for these albums might call for you to be a bit sneaky. Talk to friends and family members. Remember, never scrapbook using a persons original photographs without asking first. Instead make high quality color copies at your local photo copy center. If you use the machine correctly, you should be able to tell the difference between the originals and the copies.
Be careful to replace the photographs as exactly as you found them not only to prevent the recipient from finding out the surprise but also as a common courtesy. Even some people who do not do scrap booking have very precise systems for keeping their photographs in order. If you do not have access to photographs or want to give a gift for someone who likes to do the scrap booking on their own, try making a layout album for the person.
This is an empty album of sorts. You do all the page designing and let the person crop on at their own photographs. They can use the album as given or remove the pages in groups or singularly to add to an album they are currently creating, perhaps your best bet for another scrapbook or is not an album, however, but a box full of supplies or gift certificates to a local craft supply store.
You can still personalize this gift by choosing papers to coincide with specific events in a person’s life, for example by beach-themed paper for someone who recently bought a beach house or by letter stamps that spell out specific names. With a little---
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