How to preserve tickets

Feb '14 USAGirl

Hey everybody,

I'm still new to scrapbooking.
I'm doing a scrapbook about the year I spent in the US as an Au Pair... and I kept all these movie and plane tickets....
Some of them are already starting to fade, so I wanted to know if there's anything I can do to stop them from fading? For example would putting clear packaging tape over them help?
I don't really have the money to buy any expensive sprays and stuff that I read about on here... any DIY tips? Thanks so much
Feb '14 Scrapchica

Copy them on photo safe paper and some papers you can laminate. Some people don't like to do that, but I do both.
Mar '14 Bxr-Linda

RE: Scrapchica: Copy them on photo safe paper and some papers you can laminate. Some people don't like to do that, but I do both.

Clear packing tape will most likely yellow over time.

Laminating will also NOT protect against fading and yellowing.

Other than scrapchica's suggestion of copying, I don't know of any foolproof way to preserve them.

I'm not even sold on the sprays. I highly doubt they work.
Mar '14 Sunnydi

Mine are fading in my books also. So I went back and hand drew over the main words/letters with permanent thin tipped markers. From now on I will photo copy them right away onto photo paper or take a picture with my camera and print on photo paper.
Mar '14 Sunnydi

Oh and... welcome to this site and scrapbooking.