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Scrapbooks are excellent ways to preserve priceless memories and encourage a unique appreciation of family history. It can be a fun project or a lifelong hobby.
Tips to get you started:
* Select a scrapbook and its contributing elements based on their archival quality to keep your portraits safe (acid-free, lignin-free, non-yellowing guarantee)
* Sort everything chronologically by placing items in dated piles or files
* Make each page an original statement with high quality paper, colored markers, stickers, stencils, rubber stamps and decorative edge scissors or hole punches
* Consider having a theme for each page or each album
* Encourage children to build scrapbooks for grandparents, giving the gift of a new page each year that features their school portrait
If you like scrapbooking, check your local craft store or the Internet for books, tools and ideas that can spur creativity. Also remember that portraits aren’t just for framing. The variety of sizes available in your portrait package lend themselves to great craft projects like these:
Craft & Gift Ideas:
Key Chain: Laminate your wallet-sized portrait with heavy plastic and use a hole punch to string it onto a key chain.
Sun Catchers: Use colored glass, suction mounts and other simple materials to create a pretty floating window display for your child’s portrait
Growth Chart: Use fabric scraps and/or poster board, pre-cut mats and other materials to frame school portraits and hang vertically in a chart that shows your child’s growth and developing maturity.
Best Friends Necklace: Laminate wallet portraits of close friends; punch a hole near the top and string onto ribbon or cord.
Creative Frames: Buy plain, inexpensive ready-made frames and decorate with dried flowers, ribbon, buttons, medals and other sentimental objects.
Holiday Ornaments: Buy ready-made ornament frames or create your own.
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