Scrapbooks are structured in order to capture and preserve important events and situations. They are similar to photo albums in a way that both help in preserving significant moments and memories. Scrapbooks, however, provides more than mere pictures and snaps. It comprises of many other things along with snaps, unlike in a photo album.
Three-dimensional objects could be placed making the occasion meaningful and memorable. People often create scrapbooks for a few of the following reasons. Read further so that you get a few ideas about preserving memories of various instances in paper.
1. Welcoming the baby
Any regular baby album would comprise of perhaps the baby’s initial pictures. However a scrapbook would contain not simply the first pictures but also the appreciating milestones that the baby would go through in the first year. Every special experience of the baby could be documented within a scrapbook.
For an instance, you could make special mention or include your baby’s hair strands after having the first haircut. These could be bound and placed within a see-through plastic. Similarly you could include the nails which were cut first; both from fingers of feet and the hands. Parents could also include different copies of special certificates and documents like the baptismal or the birth certificate.
Putting the baby’s foot print, thumb print and hand print would again be a great idea. You could also paste your baby’s first ultrasound picture, vaccination chart or even the first medical certificate.
2. Wedding and marriage anniversaries
Scrapbooks designed for wedding might contain not just the pictures taken during the wedding but could also include wrappers of gifts from guests, wishes given by the guests for the newly married couple along with the cards on the gifts. This way you could preserve for both the newlyweds and the guests as well.
One good way is documenting not just the wedding but also the weeks and months spent in the preparation for the wedding. Pictures could capture events including bridal shower, bachelor’s party and all the pre-wedding practice.
The wedding invitation, dried flowers from the bride’s bouquet, garter piece and even mementos, if it could be pasted.
3. Graduation
Another event which is worthy of making a mention is the graduation ceremony. This manifests an ending and beginning of an old and a brand new chapter in your life. A scrapbook connecting to this could contain the event’s invitation, investiture given to graduates, few pieces of strings from tussles accompanying the pictures of all graduates.
Dried corsages could also be put on the scrapbook; it pasting the same on a flat surface is possible.
If possible, you could make a special mention of the messages from friends and teachers suggesting wishes for future. Such messages could be put on message board sections of scrapbook.
In case of merited awards, you could stick copies of merited certificates or even medals if possible. In case of any speech given by the graduate, it needs to be documented and included in the scrapbook.
Besides these occasions, there are several other instances you could essentially create a scrapbook for. Every idea you get for any occasion could be made memorable structuring it in a scrapbook.



