Make a Tribute Album with Angie
Show them how special they are—create a tribute album!
A tribute album usually has a more focused theme than a family scrapook; it often highlights a single person or event. Tribute albums make great gifts or personal mementos. As you make your tribute album, keep in mind that there is no wrong way to go about it, so be prepared to have some fun with it! Your tribute album can be as exciting, chic, calm, or flashy as the person you make it for.
Checklist
Steps
The first thing you must do is decide what to focus on. Here are a few approaches that work well:
- Document the person’s life history. Be brief and focus on important events such as his or her birth and wedding, as well as other important milestones or achievements.
- Choose a poem that describes the person’s personality and use one line of the poem on each page.
- Focus on a specific event or time period in the person’s life. For example, use photos of the person’s military service, a wedding or a goal that the person has achieved.
- Describe how much you love and appreciate your relationship with the person, as Shannon Montez does in her Sisters Album.
- Next, decide what size album you’d like to make. I’d recommend you use a smaller album. This will prevent the project from becoming overwhelming or too time consuming. Look for albums in these smaller sizes: 4” x 6”, 6” x 6” or 8” x 8”.
- Pick a color scheme for the entire album so that the book will look unified.
- Decide how many pages you will include in the album, then pick your photos and supplies. This will prevent you from trying to include too many photos or purchasing more supplies than you need.
Tips
- Consider using an album kit. There are many album kits on the market that include an album, cardstock, patterned paper and all the embellishment you need to complete your project.
- Big and chunky embellishments like buttons and ribbon may be in order for this project. Try using glue dots to keep them safely fastened to your album’s pages. Try using heavy-duty glue, like super glue, to adhere embellishments to the front cover.
Sisters Album by Shannon Montez Supplies: album, cardstock, rub-on letters, nailheads, conchos and patterned papers by Scrapworks; letter stickers by Creative Imaginations; paint by Delta Technical Coatings; ink by Tsukineko; ribbon; transparency; computer font