Things You'll Need:
- Scrapbook
- Scissors
- Photographs
- Acid-free two-sided tape
- Border stickers
- Marker
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Step 1
Choose a theme for your scrapbook. You want it to match its subject, or at least add a fun afterthought. If you are making a scrapbook about a baby, you might choose music as your theme if you want to suggest that your little guy is a reflection of his rocker parents. You also can use something fun and harmless that's a contrast to the subject, too.
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Step 2
Get border stickers that match in theme and color. There are many kinds of border stickers, and choosing the perfect one sets up your scrapbook for success.
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Step 3
Place the stickers at the edge of each page so that the outer area is aligned with the edge of the paper. Make sure the stickers are perfectly aligned, and that they intersect with one another at the four edges of the page. Cut off the ends of each border sticker until they are a perfect square set. Place them once again, then slowly take off the sticker backing. Hold them about a fourth of an inch above their proper place. Make sure each side is aligned perfectly, then firmly stick them in place. You should have a perfect, traditionally bordered page.
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Step 4
Get creative. Use the same border inside the page around your photographs. Place them just beyond the photographs where the inside of the border sticker touches the outer edge of the photograph. Cut, splice, and align the borders around each picture on the page.
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Step 5
Write on the border stickers. For added creativity in a scrapbook, write descriptions and quotes from the event on the borders themselves. Writing on the bottom side, or making a square quotation all along the border, is a fun idea.
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Step 6
Add border stickers around a particular person in a picture if you want to highlight it. Perhaps you are making a scrapbook of your son's Little League team. Putting a border sticker around your little guy in the team picture identifies him. Do this only if you have duplicate pictures. It's best used to effect when you put two identical pictures on the same page. Highlighting a person in one, while giving the full view beneath, is a great idea to help those who are looking at your scrapbook. You can see who is important to you, but nobody else gets left out or covered up from the photograph.
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Step 7
Place border stickers around stories and words. Border stickers can even be used around descriptions. Writing an introduction or subscription on your book is a beautiful way of adding sentiment and love to your scrapbook. Write a dedication, then frame it with border stickers.
