My family album

August 22nd, 2007 by coral | Posted in Scrapbooking |

I’ve spend much of the summer working on the house. When I got to a point where I needed help and Paul wasn’t around, or just hurt too much I would work on the many scrapbook projects I always have going. I began by finally starting the Zuniga family album, which is the collection of all the photos of our kids. Any time Paul and I got together with any of the kids and I took pictures they went in this album. This was a fun album to do mostly because Daniel was still here and he got to see what I was doing and got to remember the activities. I worked really hard and in about 2 weeks time I had finished 32 pages of the album. I still had a few pages left to do from this summer with Daniel but as far as I was concerned it was done for now. The problem was there are 4 kids who are growing up and headed towards their own lives, and I had 1 album that included all of them. Solution, Copy Max inside Office Max was able to photocopy in full color photo quality 11×18. The pages were 11.5×11.5 and could easily be trimmed that extra half inch. I had 3 copies of each page made and put the copies into albums just like the original. Now I have 4 copies for 4 children.

 As you can see from these pictures, you can go from simple such as cutting the photos to look like presents and adding fabric ribbon bows, or cutting a simple tree shape and adding photo ornaments, and they can be much more complicated with grassy hills and flowers. You can also take pattern paper with words and and cut strips like I did in the cookie page.