Tips For Creating A Scrapbook For Your New Baby

By Joy Lynn Masterson

All new parents and grandparents enjoy capturing the precious new-baby cuteness by taking lots of photos. But if you’re like most families, you have more photos than you know what to do with. If you spend a little time organizing and editing the photos, you’ll be able to enjoy showing them off more easily.

you’ll have a keepsake of all the precious memories if you record them in a scrapbook for the new baby.

Even if you haven’t done any crafting since kindergarden, you’ll enjoy creating a scrapbook for your new baby. You can make simple pages now and embellish them later. You already know the basic skills — cutting out and pasting — and you can learn the rest as you go along.

Just start arranging the material in chronological order. If you keep adding pages to the album, you’ll have a record in photos of your child’s life, that is easy to look at and remember.

You will need some supplies to get started: a scrapbook, various types of pages, good scissors, glue, etc. Be careful about the pages. You need acid-free, archival pages for any precious or heirloom photographs. You can buy everything you need online or at your local crafts’ store.

Don’t get distracted with all the things you can buy. There’s an endless number of adorable stickers and things you can buy for your baby scrapbooks. After you see how your pages are coming out, you’ll know exactly what you want to buy to add just the right special touch.

I start a scrapbook by organizing the photos by date and event. Now is a good time to throw out all the duplicate, fuzzy, and really bad photos. Take the photos from the first pile and spread them out so you can see all of them. Chose the best photos and put them together to tell the story of what happened. You’ll want to add a title and whatever information you like about the occasion. Having these details will make the page more interesting to look at later when you might have forgotten a lot of it.

Complete the story of your baby’s life by including other significant items. Start at the very beginning with shower invitations, a copy of the birth certificate, birth announcement, thumb and foot prints. As your child grows up, you can include other memorabilia such as newspaper clippings, school athletic letters, ribbons and awards that are especially meaningful.

As long as you make the scrapbook for your new baby with love, it’ll be a perfect keepsake that he’ll treasure his whole life.

My mother started my scrapbook when I was born, and I have been hooked on scrapbooking every since. For more tips and ideas, visit my scrapbooking blog.

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