Article | Is the Photo Album Dead?

September 6, 2013 by Francine Clouden

Dave Griffin at FStoppers, a photography site, is asking if the digital age means the end of the family photo album. With so many of us taking thousands of photos every day, he asks, can we find the time to sort, print and put them in albums?Is it the end of the line for albums? As a confirmed scrapbooker I reply with an emphatic NO. While it’s true that many no longer print photos to place in albums, so many of us are documenting our families’ stories on scrapbook pages, Project Life albums, and photo books. So what say you? Click here to go tell him what you think!

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Crafty Themed Mini Scrapbook Album

Niella used the Color Me Crafty collection from Doodlebug to create this adorable crafty themed mini album. The cover and each page are shaped like giant tickets and there’s a disc binding on the edges and fun dangling charm hanging on the spine. The cover has a cute stack of Polaroids accent and a layered scalloped border with button pattern paper.

Inside she used more crafty pattern papers, embellishments, stickers, cardstock, puffy words and more to designs wonderful pages that have lots of room for crafty photos and journaling.

There’s even a pocket to tuck in mementos and ephemera. I love the color scheme of this collection, it’s so bright and cheerful! This little album project is perfect for all your memories of going to scrapbooking classes, crops, conventions, retreats, hanging out crafting with friends or pics of your craft room.

Visit the Doodlebug blog to learn more about this project and watch a flip through video.

-Heather