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Heritage Scrapbooking: Finding Products

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Once you have taken the time to sort through and organize all of your heritage photos and memorabilia, you are then ready to put the items into a meaningful scrapbook. I have done some searching to find a nice selection of heritage paper and embellishments that would work well with your heritage albums. Karen Foster Designs has a nice assortment of patterned paper that would enhance your albums. I especially like the family group sheet and photo pedigree papers. These would make a nice introduction page to an album documenting the lives of the people listed on these pages. Karen … Continue reading →

Heritage Photos: Creating Albums

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Once you have your heritage pictures sorted, then you need to decide what types of albums you would like to create using your heritage items. Here are a few of my ideas for smaller theme albums that would be fun to create and give you more focus when putting the album together. Christmas through the Years. You could pull all of the Christmas photos you have and build an album focusing on your family’s Christmas traditions. It would be fun to include a page at the end of the album celebrating the things that your family does now. Focus on … Continue reading →

Organizing Heritage Photos and Memorabilia

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Many of us have piles of photos and memorabilia given to us that go back a few generations. These are very special photos and other items that should be persevered in a way that it is easy to access the desired photo or memorabilia and can serve as wonderful record of your family history. Thinking about the boxes you have filled with photos, birth and weeding certificates, report cards, postcards, drawings, etc., can be overwhelming. I would like to suggest some steps you can take to make organizing and putting items into scrapbooks a manageable task. Remember to set realistic … Continue reading →

What is a Brag Book?

A brag book is the wallet you unfold or the little photo album you carry around in your purse that plays host to a dozen or more of your favorite baby pictures. Brag books are popular with grandparents and parents alike, but the great thing about a brag book is that it can be as fun or complicated or as simple as you like. Scrap Booking the Brag Book In this case, I got the following idea from my mother. She loves to design picture frames that match the subject of the picture. In fact, she used one of my … Continue reading →