| As your child graduates from high school, it's an ideal | | | | collage frames to accommodate a favorite senior |
| time to think about preserving and documenting those | | | | picture. |
| special final moments of high school in a graduation | | | | - The graduation announcement. Again, this is a great |
| scrapbook. A picture collage depicting those | | | | scanned piece to showcase on a page of its own |
| momentous occasions can make a critical component | | | | surrounded by embellishments such as high school |
| of memorabilia for you and your graduate to keep and | | | | graduation collage art. |
| treasure forever. | | | | - Newspaper articles from your local paper. Because |
| A picture collage can be a wonderful way to sum up | | | | news articles tend to fade and yellow over time, it's |
| the activities involved with your child's special day. High | | | | best to scan them or make photocopies to preserve |
| school graduation memories can easily fill an entire | | | | them in the album. |
| scrapbook, so you may want to create more than one | | | | - Cards and letters from family and friends. These can |
| picture collage featuring different collage art to | | | | be scanned in or presented in their original form, |
| commemorate the occasion. Creating a digital picture | | | | depending on the graduate's preference. The ones |
| collage is one of the easiest ways to inject life into | | | | offering graduation advice can hold particular |
| your child's graduation scrapbook while making it look | | | | sentimental value. You might even include your owns |
| sharp and professional. | | | | personal message to the graduate in this section. |
| Today it's simpler than ever for anyone to become a | | | | - Highlights of speeches or awards. If your child is |
| picture collage maker. All you need is a camera and | | | | presenting a speech at the graduation ceremony or |
| computer. The advantages of going digital are endless. | | | | receiving a special honor or award, be sure to design a |
| While traditional paper-and-glue scrapbooks are | | | | page to highlight that accomplishment. Once the |
| vulnerable to loss and damage, a digital photo collage | | | | graduation is over, include photos and the original or |
| can always be reprinted with the simple click of a | | | | scanned certificate in the album. |
| mouse. | | | | - Lots of pictures! Graduation presents infinite photo |
| With the advent of the Internet and computers, | | | | opportunities: friends, family, smiles, excitement, |
| traditional scrapbookers have begun to use a mixture | | | | goodbyes, hugs, tears. Think about the photos you'd |
| of both homemade and digital pages in their albums. | | | | like in your child's graduation scrapbook, and make a list |
| Some of the best graduation scrapbooks contain | | | | before the event begins so you'll be less likely to miss |
| elements of both traditional and digital scrapbooks, | | | | the ones you really want. Pictures of the ceremony |
| such as the tassle of the graduation cap as well as a | | | | are important, but so are photos of your child with her |
| digital picture collage. | | | | friends, family and teachers, and at graduation parties. |
| Digital scrapbooking provides you and the graduate | | | | You'll have excellent material for a picture collage. |
| with so many options. Digital photos can be | | | | - Mementos. Among these are the program from the |
| downloaded and simply dragged and dropped into | | | | graduation ceremony, a copy of your graduate's |
| premade layouts such as a graduation picture collage | | | | diploma, or a copy of the acceptance letter to the |
| complete with collage art featuring a graduation theme. | | | | college she plans to attend or the job she plans to |
| With today's picture collage programs, you can try out | | | | begin. |
| different types of backgrounds, designs, formats and | | | | - The final page. Your graduate's scrapbook might end |
| embellishments before you commit to one style. | | | | with a page featuring a picture collage of him leaving |
| Anything you do to your page can be redone many | | | | for college or for his first job. You might even close |
| times over until you choose the perfect picture collage | | | | the scrapbook with a picture collage of his first day of |
| to help preserve your child's memories. | | | | kindergarten next to a graduation picture. |
| Keep the following components in mind as you plan | | | | Your son or daughter will likely view this graduation |
| your child's graduation scrapbook: | | | | scrapbook many times over the years to look back |
| - Senior picture. Many scrapbookers kick off the | | | | and remember these special times. Carefully choosing |
| graduation scrapbook with the student's high school | | | | your favorite digital picture collage and collage art now |
| yearbook photo as the title page. If you don't have a | | | | will enable you to create a graduation scrapbook you |
| digital version of the photo already, you can scan it in | | | | and your graduate will always enjoy. |
| or have it put on CD, then choose collage art and | | | | |