Online Scrapbooking: Free Tips & Tricks

Personal Memory Books

Collect photos, newspaper clippings, menus, recipes, souvenirs, poems, journaling, artwork and more to commemorate a period of time or a significant event for the simple purpose of chronicling memories. You might create a book like this to give you the option of getting rid of boxes full of memorabilia in favor of a streamlined bound book. Or you might create a book like this in addition to saving the physical memorabilia.

A Gift to Honor Loved Ones

Create a scrapbook of photos, journal entries, stories, poems and commissioned artwork to celebrate a loved one’s significant birthday, anniversary or achievement. You can either create a scrapbook like this alone or in collaboration with one or more people by inviting others to participate in the creation of your online scrapbook project.

Class Yearbooks

Invite students, parents, teachers, coaches and school administrators to collaborate on the creation of an online yearbook using images, journal entries, memories, poems and design elements to create a yearbook that’s more personal and truly reflective of the unique experiences of your school year. Affordable, secure on-demand printing allows anyone with password privileges to order a copy.

Wedding Scrapbooks

Collect photographs, poems, vows, menus, programs, printed invitations and scans of relevant design elements to create a truly unique memory album that reflects every visual and meaningful element of your big day. Unlike rigid albums created by a professional photographer, an online wedding scrapbook can be completely customized. Order a copy for yourself, members of your wedding party, parents and grandparents so they can cherish the memory for a lifetime.

Sports Team Yearbooks

Celebrate the unique camaraderie that develops in tandem with team sports. These memories will help to define character for a lifetime, and photographs, newspaper clippings, quotes, stories, signatures and design elements collected in the form of a digital scrapbook will help keep those memories alive. Create a password protected sports team yearbook online collaboratively with team members, coaches, aids and parents.

Self-Publishing

If you’ve written a book, consider self-publishing it as a professionally designed and printed publication. Upload text, photos and artwork into a custom book that can be gifted, sold and archived for safekeeping.

Wedding Anniversary Gift

Gather photographs, stories and poems to commemorate a happy marriage. Invite friends, family members and children to submit pictures and memories to create a robust scrapbook project that honors the happy couple through the years.

Business Anniversary Celebration

Celebrate a significant business milestone with a bound book of memories. Whether your business has hit the 1-year milestone or reached 100 years of serving the community, create a memory book that celebrates that evolution. Invite community members, clients, customers, friends and family members to share photos, memories, letters and images associated with the growth of the business.

A Year in Art

Kids are prolific in their creation of art. An online scrapbook is the perfect way to organize and save masterpieces in a way that doesn’t require building an addition to your home. Simply scan favorites over the course of a year and store them in a folder on your desktop. At year’s end, simply use automatic publishing software to create a custom book that displays your child’s artwork chronologically. You can then have it printed and bound, and be free to recycle all or most of the original artwork.

Recipe Book

Create your own cookbook of favorite recipes. Gather everything from family secrets to signature recipes of celebrated chefs in a custom cookbook you can create alone or in collaboration with a group of friends or family members. Include pictures, tips and tricks to create a truly personal recipe book that can be gifted or sold as a fundraiser item.

Exercise Tracker

If you have a diet and exercise goal, a scrapbook can be a powerful motivation tool. Define your goal, then track your progress with images and journal entries. Invite a friend to participate or go it alone. When you’ve reached your goal, your diet and exercise scrapbook project will be tangible evidence of your success.

Fashion Tracker

For the budding fashionista it can be fun to track outfits everyday for a year. A daily photograph can be a fun way to showcase a powerful form of personal expression. Include magazine clippings, quotes, journal entries and sketches to create a time capsule of a year in style that can be treasured for a lifetime.

Blog Book

Archive entries from your blog by using online scrapbooking software to create a printed and bound version of your favorite posts. Whether it’s a photo blog with journal entries or a recipe blog with personal commentary, it can be nice to transform the ephemeral nature of digital content into a printed and bound book to as tangible evidence of a successful blog. Share this print version with elderly family members or simply save it in the family archives to make sure all your work doesn’t disappear into cyberspace.

Mini Scrapbook Cards

Photo cards are a great way to share memories with family and friends. We like to think of them as mini scrapbooks that are a little window into your life. Use a custom photo card to showcase one fabulous photograph, or create a collage that chronicles anything from the significant moments in your year to the highlights of a big vacation.