VIDEO: Make your own photo book

Make a photo book

Despite digital photos and techniques, a classic photo book is increasingly gaining its old place in the living room cupboard back - a book full of memories can be viewed with family and friends at will and put back again will. Here are tips for making the photo book yourself:

• Get an overview of how many photos should find a place in your book. In the craft store z. B. you can find various blank books to use for a photo book.
• A ring binder with a sturdy cardboard cover is particularly suitable. Individual paper pages can be torn out to adapt the photo book to the number of photos. This is also recommended because the book, including photos, could possibly be too thick.
• For a few photos you can also use a leporello, which is also great for giving away.
• You can stick printed paper on the individual paper sides, on which you will later put the photos. Or you can opt for plain white pages that you spice up with small handicrafts.


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• You can place the individual photos on the individual pages using double-sided scotch tape. You can stick the photos in the book alternately in portrait or landscape format or even at an angle.

Make small decorations yourself

To design the pages of the photo book creatively, there are handicrafts, stickers or colored papers that you can use:

• You can give the individual photos a frame of colored paper by cutting thin paper only 1 to 2 cm larger than the actual photo. Glue the photo onto the paper and then both onto the book.
• You can also buy stickers with slogans and motifs in retail stores that you can stick around the photos.
• You can also get suggestions from scrapbooking and put the photos in the limelight with special details.
• If you like, you can label the photos and write 1 to 2 concise sentences about them. You can also plan a free page in your photo book on which you tell the story of the photos.
• You can make small figures yourself, which thematically match and underline the scenes depicted in your photos. For example, you can make a duck and glue it to a photo of your child in the bathtub.

The cover of the photo book can also be made from colored cardboard and scrapbooking elements. Handcraft A photo book and give it to your partner or parents as a personal souvenir.