Albums

About Scrapbook Albums

Your scrapbook albums provide a beautiful finishing touch for your memories, and so you owe it to yourself to craft with only the best scrapbooking supplies. You can preserve your family history in a creative fashion at CraftDirect. We carry photo-safe solutions from quality brands.

Types of Scrapbook Photo Albums

Scrapbook albums come in various cover options - surfaced fabric, leather, and other fine materials with different colors and designs. Depending on what type of album you are making, such as for a new baby, a themed album may help complete your project.

When looking to purchase a scrapbook photo album, there are a few things you will want to look for. You should ensure they are lignin and acid-free. Lignin is a compound often in paper products known for breaking down the acidic components and can yellow your paper and age your scrapbook pages quicker. If you are getting started, you will need to stock up, and we carry everything, including page protectors, cardstock, and embellishments.

Three-Ring Binders:

Maybe more commonly referred to as D-ring, these binders are one of the most popular styles. A couple of the biggest advantages of a three-ring album is its capacity. You can typically add a lot of pages! The amount will vary depending on the size of the ring. Ringed binders also allow your pages to lay flat when you are looking through them.

A drawback of using this type of album is the space separating the pages when the binder lays flat. We have also found that the clamps of most three-ring binders separate over time, allowing pages to slip out. For the most part, our design team prefers to use ring binders.

Post Bound Scrapbooking Albums:

These albums are held together with metal posts, which are screwed together. You can unfasten the posts whenever you need to add, remove, or rearrange pages. This process is a bit more tedious than a three-ring binder and makings switching pages inconvenient. These 12" x 12" albums can be enlarged by using expansion posts, but they generally don’t have the same capacity as the three-ring binders. These post-bound albums are loved by scrapbookers because, like a book, they give your scrapbook album the finished look. They also allow two-page spreads to lay right next to each other.

Snapload Albums:

This new Snapload technology can be found in some of our Pioneer photo albums. This solution allows you to store tons of pages and quickly load, remove, and rearrange them. You can even convert post-bound albums into snapload albums!

Buy Discount Scrapbook Albums Online

If you buy scrapbook photo albums, there isn't much that you can do wrong. The only thing we would caution you to avoid is "over-stuffing" your album. Albums should be stored upright on a shelf like a library book would be. This will help protect the binding and the pages inside to enjoy them for years to come!

• Project Life albums
• Pioneer albums
• Simple Stories albums
• We R Memory Keepers albums