Scrapbooking, master class on the design of the album.

Scrapbooking is an accessible hobby for composing collages from photographs, which is already popular in many countries of the world. This is an excuse to disassemble the archives of digital photographs, scan and tidy up the old pictures of the family. And then to create from them something new: albums and mini-album, cards and gifts of various forms that will please relatives and friends especially, because in them - personal attitude, imagination, care and love.

What is required for scrapbooking? Your wish, free evening and some photos! Find your favorite pictures, prepare paper and glue (you can even just a stapler!) And sit down to create. And the emotions that you cause the best photos, will necessarily pass to your work, and each time they will feel the readers of your album! This memory, larger than just an envelope with pictures, is a memory of the soul and heart.

Patterns on paper, ornaments, signatures that you write - it's all easy, but all together - it means a lot to the recipient of a scrap-gift.

You need so little to start - and with each new your scrapbook you will enjoy the hobby, and birthdays and holidays will be another reason to sit and marshal. The house will get a smart look (after all, you can draw up walls and shelves, and even handles at the door), and guests from the threshold will ask: "Is there something new? Show!" You will finally find the use of all booklets, envelopes, checks, tickets, which were so pitiful to throw.

Digital photos on the computer are excellent, but when you choose from a hundred or a dozen and attach feelings to them, these ten will be treated with great attention and they will leave an impression for a long time.

It is especially important to preserve the memory of the most important events: a wedding, the birth of a child. Here, without scrapbooking album can not do! Everything that is expensive deserves the best design. And even the simplest things - a walk in the autumn park, a party in a cafe, a dinner at the dacha - time will pass, and "decorated memories" - will remain.

Scrapbooking master class - marine history.

You will need:
• Photo album
• colored paper, cardboard
• scissors or cutter
• glue for photos or PVA, double-sided scotch tape
• colored pencils, paints, markers
• stamps, glitter
• ribbons, beads, buttons, laces, bows, flowers, rhinestones and other decorative materials

All materials with which the photos will come in contact should not contain acid and lignin - from them pictures can turn yellow and lose brightness.

The size of the album can be chosen any, but more often use 30.5x30.5 cm or 23x35 cm.

1. Choose the best and interesting photos. Usually 2-4 pictures are placed on one sheet. One photo should become the center of the composition. It is not necessary to glue the whole photo - you can crop it by cutting unnecessary details, but do not get carried away by it.

2. We select the background paper, which should harmonize in color with the pictures. As an additional background, we use paper of a different color, usually contrast. For the marine theme, pictures with the image of sea waves, sand or pebbles are suitable.

3. We spread the pictures on the page, without gluing anything. The photo can be placed vertically or horizontally, overlapping, positioned at an angle until you like the result.

4. Apply glue to the corners of the photo and paste it onto the paper to make a mat. Prepare notes, and then paste the photo on the background. Collage can be titled, placing the title in any part of the page.