With so many of our armed forces stationed in different countries across the globe, military scrapbooking has taken on a new meaning. No longer is it archiving memories of old relatives and grandparents who served in the Vietnam or Korean War. It is about our young men and women who live far away from their families in war torn lands like Afghanistan and Iraq.
Many military families find solace in thinking about their lost sons and daughters, wives or husbands by immersing themselves in military scrapbooking as an heirloom to pass down to their kids. Military scrapbooking can include letters or emails your navy seal sent to you days before he was missing in action, his badge or special photos provided to you by the government when they broke the news. Newspaper articles about another young life lost or pictures of when they were babies can all make beautiful military scrapbooking accents.
Next, mount your pictures on some solid colored scrapbooking paper or cardstock to frame the photo and make it stand out on the page. Dad would love to know what his children wore and got on Christmas even if he is thousands of miles away.
Finally, place your mounted photos on your patterned scrapbooking paper, and embellish with stickers, journaling or dye cuts. Hand made cards and notes, report cards from school or certificates from swim or piano lessons can also be made in to scrapbooking pages for military family members.
Fortunately, with the number of pictures you probably need to put into your photo albums, your choices of patterned paper will be plentiful. Happy scrapbooking!Digital scrapbooking has made significant strides and now it is easy, perhaps even easier than actual scrapbooking once you get the hang of it, to make a digital military scrapbooking layout. You can save the page where you left off with no packing up to do. You can just crop the pictures instead cutting with scissors - and still not making a straight line and you can 'adhere' as many embellishments as you like without a drop of glue on your fingers. So, sort your pictures and send a scrapbooking page or card to someone who is serving our country. You have no idea how it will make his or her day!
Many military families find solace in thinking about their lost sons and daughters, wives or husbands by immersing themselves in military scrapbooking as an heirloom to pass down to their kids. Military scrapbooking can include letters or emails your navy seal sent to you days before he was missing in action, his badge or special photos provided to you by the government when they broke the news. Newspaper articles about another young life lost or pictures of when they were babies can all make beautiful military scrapbooking accents.
Next, mount your pictures on some solid colored scrapbooking paper or cardstock to frame the photo and make it stand out on the page. Dad would love to know what his children wore and got on Christmas even if he is thousands of miles away.
Finally, place your mounted photos on your patterned scrapbooking paper, and embellish with stickers, journaling or dye cuts. Hand made cards and notes, report cards from school or certificates from swim or piano lessons can also be made in to scrapbooking pages for military family members.
Fortunately, with the number of pictures you probably need to put into your photo albums, your choices of patterned paper will be plentiful. Happy scrapbooking!Digital scrapbooking has made significant strides and now it is easy, perhaps even easier than actual scrapbooking once you get the hang of it, to make a digital military scrapbooking layout. You can save the page where you left off with no packing up to do. You can just crop the pictures instead cutting with scissors - and still not making a straight line and you can 'adhere' as many embellishments as you like without a drop of glue on your fingers. So, sort your pictures and send a scrapbooking page or card to someone who is serving our country. You have no idea how it will make his or her day!
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