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****Help with photo album****

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Skribble · 07/03/2006 22:58

Help I have been left in charge of making up a "This Is Your Life" type album for my FIL's birthday. We got a nice red album but it is rubbish.

It's one of those ones with the clear sheets you pull back and the backing page has diagonal stripes of sticky stuff. Trouble is the pictures don't stick to it and the clear plastic goes all wrinkly and doesn't stick well enough to hold all the pictures down. Result a cheap looking mess.

So what can I do, I know you can get albums with just card for pages, but how to stick the pictures in? I know you can get traditional picture corners but the pictures all all differt types from wedding pictures to hoilday snaps.

How do I bring them all together and make them look special without spending hours cutting up fancy sheets of papers etc, basicly I want a quick and smart way to mount them or am I going to have to get handy with the pritt stick Grin.

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JayzMummy · 08/03/2006 16:51

Skribble.... can you email me at my mn username at yahoo dot co dot uk....Ive lost your addy!!!

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Skribble · 08/03/2006 22:33

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SoupDragon · 09/03/2006 08:05

I think you're going to need a "traditional" album and photo corners /invisible mounts (which are small squares of double sided tape)

You could probably decorate each page with appropriate ready made embellishments from a craft shop? Weddingy things for the wedding pages etc etc.

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Skribble · 10/03/2006 22:35

Thanks, I am off to find an album. I am going to simply mount the photos on paper and put on to background pages. I have printed off a few historic maps and things to add to backgrounds. and a few clip art images to stick on. I have a week to do over 20 pages so I will to keep it basic. I got prit stick style photo glue so I a all set. Thanks.

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Skribble · 14/03/2006 01:30

\link{http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk?topicid=1700&threadid=154994&stamp=060314012554\Heres my first attempt at scrap booking}

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champs · 14/03/2006 17:52

great so far!! lots to do for thurs, but you can do it :)

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Skribble · 20/03/2006 23:45

Got it all done and was very pround of the result, I have a feeling there may be requests for more. Spent a fortune on papers and stuff but MIL paid for most of it. Jayzmummy I will be looking for a deal with you next time Grin.

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JayzMummy · 21/03/2006 10:32

It looks fab Skribble. Well done you Smile

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UCM · 21/03/2006 16:44

Thats fab, skribble.

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