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My boys, especially my two younger ones, are really into drawing. They’re constantly drawing characters, mazes, creatures, and more. Plus they’re bringing art and projects home from school!
Because of this, we have lots and lots and lots of papers everywhere. And they often don’t want to throw any of them away.
So I decided instead of keeping all these free floating papers, I would photograph each of them and put them in a book!
Of course I turned to Mixbook, our favorite custom photo book company, to make a beautiful photo book filled with kid’s art.
Mixbook makes it so easy to upload photos, choose a layout or make your own, and drag and drop the photos.
From start to finish this book took me about twenty minutes to make. And I can’t tell you how great it felt to throw away all those drawings afterward.
Mixbook has several sizes of books, so you could make these into little booklets that you could keep on a shelf in their room.
If you make one every six months or once a year, you could create a whole compilation of all your child’s artwork in beautifully bound books!
To make this easy and efficient for you, here’s a quick step by step of how I do this.
you’re making a photo book of all their artwork. Help them feel excited about all their artwork being in a book so they aren’t surprised when their artwork is thrown away!
every time they do a drawing or bring artwork home from school. Or set aside time each week to go through the papers (keep them in a basket in the meantime). Lay it flat in good light and snap a picture. Crop it down to just the paper.
Try some variation — have them hold their artwork up and
take a picture of them with their drawing!
on your phone.
Suggested reading:(unless it’s something you want to frame, obviously).
When you’re ready to make a book,
all your photos will be ready to goin one place!
Mixbook has great deals on photobooks all the time — and they gave me a code MWHITE50 for 50% off your order!
They also have cards and prints and photo books, so make your child an artbook OR blow up one of your child’s best drawings for the wall, OR order birth announcements for your new baby, OR whatever the heck you want!
Childhood artwork often cycles from fridge frames to closet clutter faster than relatives can say, “Look how tall you’ve grown!” Instead of banishing my cherished drawings and paintings to the attic to collect dust, I compiled my proudest masterpieces into a beautiful photo book that doubles as a delightful coffee table tome and nostalgic keepsake.
With the help of my awesome mom (she kept every charcoal drawing and handmade bookmark), we scanned art pieces that my sister and I created over the years: favorite mermaid masterpieces, a Hawaiian sunset painting, a watercolor of cats sailing a boat (you know, as cats do), and more. I chose to create an 8×8 Premium Layflat Photo Book. This gave my art collection a slick portfolio feel, thanks to its extra-thick premium paper and seamless layflat binding. Who says kid art can’t be gallery quality?
Create your own childhood art book in three easy steps:
1. Scan + edit artwork: Scan your favorite art pieces. You can always pare down the collection later. If some don’t make the book cut, you’ll still have a digital copy of them. If you don’t have a scanner, don’t fret; many office supply stores offer scanning services. If art is too large to scan (like this Raggedy Ann crayon masterpiece), take a photo from a bird’s eye perspective. Upload into a photo editor and crop to desired size. Play with contrast and brightness to achieve the same vivid color in your art piece, like I did in the below sunset painting.
2. Select layout + caption: Display one painting or drawing per page to achieve a crisp portfolio aesthetic. Choose your favorite 1-photo layout, or just drag-and-drop your photo onto the page. Caption each photo and include age and year the artwork was completed. Use the same font throughout for uniformity (I opted for a kid-like scrawl).
3. Create cover + spine: Feature your favorite paintings in a collage layout on the cover (see above), and include a photo of the artist, too! Add the year(s) to the spine to label each album.
Give this page-turning walk down memory lane a go, and start creating your photo book! We’d love to see your childhood sketches, so tag your photo book with #Snapfish on Instagram to share.
We love seeing what you come up with! Please tag us @SnapfishUS and #snapfish on Facebook, Instagram & Pinterest . We love seeing what you create.
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