When I was in middle school and high school, my best friend and I liked to create “friendship books” every year. We’d essentially cut out clippings of our favorite movies, movie stars, and girly products, phrases, and sayings out of magazines and create a collage of all of our favorite things on the cover of the notebooks. We wrote special notes to each other in our friendship book and would decorate the pages inside with stickers and marker drawings. We’d make two of these books, write a long note inside, and then trade books each week.
I loved our friendship books so much, that it actually inspired me to make my own collage-style cover page for my school binders every year too. I’d tape my favorite sayings and photos from magazines to a blank piece of paper and slide the finished collage-paper underneath the binder’s clear plastic cover . It was a great way to personalize my school accessories and inject a bit of my personality into my everyday school supplies.
Your teen can make their own friendship books or binder cover pages too. The great part is, there’s no need to do it the old fashion way, the way I used to, in having to buy a dozen magazines and sit around for hours cutting, gluing, and taping. With digital scrapbooking, you can easily reduce the time, mess, and expense and create beautiful, inexpensive friendship books or personalized binder cover pages quickly!
1. List Her Favorite Things. Does she have a favorite candy or hobby (besides digital scrapbooking, of course)? Favorite Actress or Athlete? Have her name a few of her favorite stand-out stuff and decide to find photos or pictures of these particular things that she loves so much.
2. Surf the web. You don’t have to spend big bucks on magazines! Browse the web with your teen and find some special pictures and photos of the things she loves and save these specific images from various websites to your computer.
3. Create a Digital Scrapbooking Page. Format her New Document to fit the dimensions of your teens folder or binder, and begin adding the saved images to the Digital Scrapbooking page! She can make the page collage-style or she can combine the images with digital supplies and favorite quotes or inside jokes for a pretty digital scrapped notebook or binder cover.
4. Add Friend Photos. Besides pictures of her favorite things, remind her to include photos of her favorite people to the digitally scrapped page: best friends, pets, and family! Let her edit the digital photos and make them picture-perfect for her special project.
5. Press Print! Print the finished digital scrapbooking page to a notebook with glue or tape, or insert into a binder sleeve, and she’s has added a little bit of personality and design to her school supplies or friendship books! Ps. You may want to buy some special photo paper which can increase the quality of the page, especially if you decide to print at home, rather than printing with an online printing company. Learn more about saving and printing digitally scrapped projects at home or through an online printing company withinin Photoshop or saving and printing digitally scrapped projects at home or through an online printing company withinin Photoshop ELEMENTS.
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-Jennifer
