Preserve Your Memories with These Easy Scrapbooking Ideas

These days we have photos all over our screens—in our text threads, on our social media stories and posts, uploaded to this app and that one—but do you ever wonder how we will look back on them 20, 30, and 40 years down the road? One preserver of memories will know will live on for our kids and grandkids, though, is the old-school scrapbook. There's something extra meaningful about not only having your photos on printed pages but artfully placed on layouts along with memorabilia like ticket stubs, children's drawings, notes, and pressed flowers that can just take a few simple supplies.

The next time you are feeling crafty you could DIY a gift or some paper flowers, or perhaps the best gift to mark a birthday, be it No. 1 or No. 40, is a scrapbook of aesthetic pages showcasing the most colorful parts of life you have shared together. While you're at it, you might as well wrap the finished product just the right way before its grand unveiling for a kid or for an adult.

And now for 20 scrapbooking ideas to inspire you to pull out paper, stickers, and scissors and get to creating, whether you are. a beginner or a pro. With this list, the possibilities will be endless for the memory-keeping fun you'll create.