| Need creative ideas for personalizing your photo | | | | album turned out great, and received lots of |
| albums? If you want the look of a scrapbook | | | | compliments! It is the perfect combination of |
| without all of the time and expense, try | | | | photo album and scrapbook. Here are some more |
| embellishing your photo albums with one of these | | | | tips to get you started:* When going through |
| easy tips.My husband and I recently returned | | | | your mementos, just cut out the most important |
| from celebrating our tenth anniversary in Hawaii. | | | | things you want to keep, like parts of a tour |
| We took lots of pictures and I wanted to throw | | | | brochure. We went on a sunset dinner cruise and |
| something together quickly and easily to show all | | | | I cut out of the brochure the name of the cruise |
| of our pictures to friends and relatives. I didn't | | | | ship and the menu we were served. I also saved |
| have time to create a scrapbook for our trip.I | | | | brochures that described tours we took. These |
| went through all of our trip mementos and | | | | descriptions go along great with the photos you |
| trimmed down the information I wanted to keep, | | | | take of the places you visit.* Ticket stubs fit into |
| just like I would do when preparing a scrapbook. | | | | the photo sleeves well and are a great photo |
| Instead of going ahead and creating a scrapbook, | | | | accent.* I used scrapbook stickers to label the |
| I decided to place our vacation memories in a | | | | front of my photo album (see photo). I bought a |
| photo album.After collecting all my photos and | | | | photo album from Target that already had a palm |
| mementos, I arranged all the photos in | | | | tree on the front! I just added the name of the |
| chronological order. I then tucked the mementos | | | | album and the date.There are many ways you |
| in between the pictures, placing them with the | | | | can embellish your photo album. Anything you can |
| photos I wanted to display them with.My | | | | tuck into a photo sleeve will really accentuate |
| mother-in-law had given me some cute Hawaiian | | | | your pictures.These albums aren't just for |
| scrapbooking embellishments for Christmas last | | | | vacations. They would also be great for |
| year, in anticipation for our trip, so I arranged | | | | preserving holiday, baby, or school memories. Use |
| them in the first photo sleeve in the photo album | | | | your imagination and you can create a photo |
| (see photo). I then placed the photos in the photo | | | | keepsake in only a couple of hours!Photos of |
| album, arranging the mementos in their own | | | | example photo album: |
| photo sleeves alongside the photos.The photo | | | | Paxton is a freelance writer and mom of four. |