The Zuniga Family » Scrapbooking

Wedding scrapbook

coral — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 01:55:45 +0000

It has come to my attention that some of the previous pictures I posted were not of the highest quality, so I re-took some of the pictures without the clear sheet protectors.

I have also added some pictures to the house post.

Wedding album

coral — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 00:35:38 +0000

As I was working on the family album when I needed a distraction or needed to think about another subject I would work on our Wedding album. This was a simple 8×8 lavender album. I started by trimming a large stack of different shades of purple paper from 12×12 to 8×8. I had also been collecting a few stickers and some special wedding paper since the wedding. I kept everything together in a special box. I put the pictures together in groups and page by page color blocked and planned the pages. Once I had things mostly planned out I set up shop on the living room floor with everything spread out and started to assemble the book. With all the prep work I had done, assembly was really easy and quick.

As you can see from the pictures the pages are very simple. Paper, a few stickers, and mostly the pictures.

My family album

coral — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 00:16:12 +0000

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.