Framing Your Photographs – you can create delightful borders for your photographs by placing them on a sheet of paper and then trimming around the edges using smooth or decorative-edged shears thus creating a frame. This will help your photographs to stand out from the background. If you do decide to use original photographs instead of Xeroxed copies mount them with archival photo corners, which are used in the place of adhesives.  This way you can remove or replace the photographs without damaging them.

Creating a Layout -- try out different patterns and keep changing them until you find an arrangement that you like.  Make sure you leave space for inscriptions, names, and titles etc. Once you find the layout that works for you begin mounting your photographs with archive safe adhesive, tape or photo corners. Rather than risking damage to your photographs remove the acid from book pages, newspaper clippings and the like by using an acid removal solution.

Personalizing Your Pages – by adding names, time periods, and locations you can add a personal touch to your scrapbook pages. This is referred to as journaling.

When writing descriptions of your photographs make sure you include:

·        Names of the people in the photograph i.e. Aunt Ruth, Uncle Mickey, Mom)

·        When the photograph was snapped i.e. 5 October, 1916

·        The location that the photograph was snapped in i.e. church, home, beach

·        The event that makes the photograph so special i.e. wedding, baptism, birth

Always use permanent, fade resistant, fast drying, and waterproof black ink.  You can use colored ink for incidental information.

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