Custom made scrapbook pages and albums

Why choose The Scrapbooker?

I am a seasoned & experienced papercraft designer of 12 years with a life long passion for creative arts, originally specialising in hand crafted greetings cards, custom made invitations and media packs. Clients have included Directors of major hotel chains, specialist retail outlets, small businesses, friends and family.

Scrapbooking was a natural artistic progression from designing cards and invitations and led me into making scrapbook albums, mini books and brag books for friends, family, colleagues and loved ones. All albums are designed and crafted personally ensuring a high quality finish & attention to detail. They are always received with enormous pleasure & gratitude and are a constant delight to the receiver.

What sort of things can you put in them? 

Scrapbooks are incredibly personal items and are therefore incredibly flexible in content. Here are a few ideas of pages and albums that we could create for you but it is worth bearing in mind that everyone’s perspective of what’s important and meaningful in their lives may not be the same as the next.

WEDDINGS
Have your entire day’s story told for you in a beautiful album. Also, what about the photos taken by other guests using the disposable cameras left on the table or with their own photos? These pictures hold a wealth of stories and memories and would be a perfect partner to your traditional wedding album.

ANNIVERSARIES
For your own anniversary or for someone close to you. Photos of the couple throughout the years and of various extended family members and special occasions is a perfect way to archive their lives.

HOLIDAYS
Be it your annual holiday, your honeymoon or surprise birthday get-aways - a beautiful scrapbook album is the answer to preserve your memories and photos (even your memorabilia!) of your trip. Albums can be about just one trip or contain pages of holidays taken over the years. (This can be added to over the years).

BABY ALBUMS
These are a perfect way to start documenting your child’s life. A Baby album allows you to not only archive the photos but to add those all important stories of the birth, early days, first tooth, walking, eating, places they went and people they met and growth and development notes.

HERITAGE ALBUMS
Heritage albums are a way of connecting with and preserving your past  and can even include family trees. So get those fading old photos out of those albums and into a protective heritage album your children and your grand children will love to look at in years to come.

JUST BECAUSE.....Albums don’t have to be about any one particular occasion in life. It is the little things, experienced or said every day that can be so easily forgotten. It is these little moments in life that are the true stars of the show when it comes to scrapbooking. They also allow you the total freedom to document (or ‘scrap’) the ‘everyday’ in any order you choose. An album full of everyday, unrelated pages is diverse and wonderful to browse through, surprising you everytime you look at it. You can add to these albums as and when needed too!

A FEW IDEAS

• Funny conversations you have with your children (or overhear your children have with other kids) can make fantastic reading in later years. So get that notebook out and start jotting down their funny sayings, conversations and even their jokes!
• What amazes you/what you love or admire about your children, partner, family members, work colleagues - whoever is important to you.
• Daily routines - give your future generations an insight into what life was like now!
• Relationships - children, grandparents, friends, partners, cousins
• School life and graduations..... by event or by year..
• Your love of a particular pet- they are, after all, one of the family!
• Personal achievements or the achievements of a family member or friend. These could include sport, music, theatre, dance, art or even getting the job they always wanted or recovering from an illness - the list here is endless.
• ‘Just because’ - there are many pages in my albums that are there ‘just because ’ I love the photo or the quote or the saying. These pages can showcase your photographic skills or can be an excuse to highlight a quote that is particularly relevant to your life.
• Showcasing your work - a scrapbook album can be a great way for you to showcase all kinds of work - arts and crafts, textile & clothing, design work, inventions, essays, research - the list here is endless too!

What does it cost?

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(** a 'side' refers to one side of an 8.5" x 11" or 12" x 12" scrapbook page)