Ever come across an old family album, maybe when you visited your grandparents, and wondered who all those people in the photos actually were? It might be that nobody remembers them anymore, and more precious links in your family chain are broken forever. It can be very frustrating to come across some great old photographs or albums, and no one has taken the trouble to label the pictures or give you any idea of the who, what or where. Frequently, there’s simply nothing at all to help you identify who you’re looking at, and what made this photograph important enough to be taken.

You can prevent this with your own scrapbook photo albums by simply taking the time to do a little journaling. These days, you don’t just stick a photo in an album and label it – the process has become an art form: scrapbooking. The basics of how to do scrapbook photo albums as opposed to merely taping your photos onto a blank album page is what this article is all about.

You see, a scrapbook photo albums is much more than just some random snapshots in a plastic sleeve. They are vibrant chronicles of your family’s history, intended to be passed down to the generations that come after. So you need to add some words to the process – what scrapbookers call journaling.

You don’t have be an artistic person to start scrapbooking. You just need to have a desire to be the one that keeps your family and friends memories! Sometimes you don’t want to write a lot about what’s going on in the picture, and other times you feel the need of express as much as possible about that picture! Just listen to your self, and keep going! Don’t get lost because of that! There are several types of journaling: the ones that want to write long stories, the ones that use bullets form, or you can make captions under your pictures, the last one works great!

Finally let me tell you that, scrapbook photo albums in general is a long term project, like an investment in memories, and happy moments, so the main thing you can do is to plan! Remember always do it, one step at a time.