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Is your child graduating this year?  The time seems to go by so fast. It often seems like only yesterday that our graduates started kindergarten.  Now they are graduating high school and will be off to college by fall.  It’s important to preserve and document those special final moments of high school in a graduation scrapbook.

Even though you have a school scrapbooking album for your child, you’ll still want a high school graduation scrapbook album.  High school memories can fill an entire album.  You can choose a small album, but remember if you want to accommodate senior portraits, you’ll want a larger scrapbook.

Senior pictures deserve a special place in any graduation album.  Your student’s senior pictures are usually dominate the summer before his senior year.  Choose your favorite pose and use that for the title page of your scrapbook album.

There are so many things you can include in a graduation scrapbook.  Save a copy of your child’s graduation announcement and showcase it on a page. Be sure to include cards and letters from friends and family, especially ones with graduation advice.  Write a letter to your child telling him your hopes and dreams for their future in any advice you wish you would have had when you graduated.

Highlight any special awards or honors that your child is receiving at the graduation ceremony.  Designed page layouts to highlight these accomplishments.  You may want to include the original certificates or make copies.

If your child is giving a speech at the graduation ceremony, take some photographs of the graduate preparing and practicing the speech.  Preserve his notes including any drafts and use them on a scrapbook page.

Did your local newspaper cover the graduation ceremony?  Make copies of these articles for the scrapbook.  Newspaper fades quickly.  So you want to make photocopies.  If you placed in a congratulations announcement in the paper, include this as well.

Graduation is full of photo opportunities. Think about the photos you want in your child’s graduation scrapbook, and make a list before the celebration starts.  Pictures of the ceremony are important, but so are photos of your child with his friends, family and teachers.

Don’t forget high school mementos, such as, the program from the graduation ceremony.  Save at least two copies to use on a graduation scrapbook page so you can show both the cover and the inside of the program.

Take lots of candid shots during graduation parties.  You may not be attending some of these parties.  So be sure to send along a camera with your graduate and plan to exchange photos with his friends, too.  You’ll have a lot more photos to choose from if you share them.

You may want to include a copy of your graduate’s final report card or grade transcripts.  A nice complement to this would be a copy of the acceptance letter to the college he plans to attend.

The final closing page to the graduation scrapbook could be a photograph of him leaving for college.  You might also choose to include a picture of his first day of kindergarten alongside a graduation picture.

It’s easy to create a graduation scrapbook that will soon become a family heirloom.  The most important part of designing a graduation scrapbook is to document and preserve your child’s high school memories.

When preparing for your vacation, you always remember to pack your camera, but do you ever think about how you will scrapbook your vacation photos before you leave on your trip?  Planning your vacation scrapbooking pages before you begin your trip makes it easier and quicker to design a beautiful vacation album when you get home.Here are a few tips to think about when planning a vacation scrapbooking album.

Your Vacation Scrapbook

Most of us plan in advance for our vacations. It’s never too early to start shopping for a vacation scrapbooking album.  You want one that will reflect the theme or location of your trip.  Consider a location-specific album like Disney or Hawaiian scrapbooks.  You may prefer a beach-themed album or a general vacation album.Planning ahead will give you lots of time to check your local craft store or scrapbooking store for specials and sales.You can even buy a plain, chipboard-covered album and design your own scrapbook cover.

Vacation Scrapbook Embellishments

While you are shopping for your album, look to see what coordinating products are available to match it.Advanced planning also allows you to take advantage of embellishments that are on sale.Select paper and page elements that will coordinate with the theme and location of your vacation pictures.For convenience, you should keep all your embellishments with the album you chose together in one spot.  They will be ready when you come home from your vacation.

Writing About Your Vacation

Remembering the details of your vacation is part of the journaling process on your scrapbooking page layouts.  Make it easier by keeping notes or writing in a journal during your trip.Document the places and dates that you visit and include your thoughts and feelings.Now when you get home, writing in your vacation scrapbook will be easy, quick and full of details.You can even rip out a few pages from your journal and put them right into your page layouts.

Planning Pictures of Your Trip

Pre-plan some of your vacation photographs.You will want a photograph that can be used as the title page of your vacation scrapbook.  If you’re going a cruise, a picture of the ship would work well for this.  If it’s Disney World, take a photo of the Disney World sign.  Remember that as you take photos of the places you visit you will want to be sure to include yourself in the shots too.  Before you go on the trip, make a list of what photos you don’t want to forget to take.Put the list in your camera bag so it is always available.

Mementos of Your Vacation

You’ll want to bring home mementos of your trip for your vacation scrapbook.  Pack small plastic bags to hold them so they won’t be damaged on the trip home.  Save tickets to parks and shows, menus or napkins, maps and brochures.You definitely will want to include these in your page layouts.

A little planning will make your vacation scrapbook album come together easily.Get your photographs printed as soon as you get home, and then begin working on your layouts while your memories are still fresh in your memory.  Following these scrapbooking tips, you’ll have everything you need when you arrive home to design a beautiful keepsake of your trip.

Since I'm only in middle school, and it's my first year I want to make it memorable. This 6th grade year, I have already collected candy wrappers from this Halloween, pictures from the first day, journal entire papers, and collected things I've found to represent memories. Can you think of anything else I could use? Or what I can use for the cover? Etc., (ribbon, pictures, quotes, number problems!)

cover the album with your jeans…get camera take pics of fav teacher, friends. test paper? Pic of a bus leaving school. Use glitter , stickles to doodle on the jeans. make an odd number of bows for the cover. number problems on back you can use inkpens on jeans…maybe bleach..unravvel jeans on 1 spot. get teachers to write something on white paper then decorate around the paper. lunch receipts, any thing with school colors. anything from events at school..cloth from clothes you wore…stickers enough?

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