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Water Color with Twinkling H20’s pt. 2 by Crissy Armstrong
When you first have children you don’t appreciate how fast time goes by and how quickly your child changes. They’re so dependent on you at the beginning and before you know it they’re running around the house, having their first day at school, first dates, first cars and then they are out of the house and have started their own families. Well maybe it doesn’t happen all that fast while you are living through it. Don’t let the moments slip by you and be lost forever. Here’s how to preserve them by making your baby’s first scrapbook.
Get started by selecting a theme. For your baby’s first scrapbook you can make it be about your baby’s birth. Undoubtedly you have quite a number of pictures from this event. You can also include the hospital bracelets, lock of hair, baby announcement and baby footprints. When selecting pictures you should consider including ones of everyone waiting for the birth. These can be used on the first page or two of your scrapbook and will make it that more special to the family looking at it later.
Now that the theme is selected you want to come up with the layout of your baby’s first scrapbook. You can go a lot ways with this. I recommend keeping this simple. Select a layout that either has the traditional pink for girls, blue for boys or even better subtly mixes the two together. Also I would go the more traditional route on this scrapbook and purchase a high quality scrapbook. You can save money by getting words, titles and embellishments online for free if they don’t come with the scrapbook itself.
Once the layout is selected organize your pictures and embellishments so you know what pages everything will go on. This is also the time to be thinking about the journaling you will be adding to the pages. Journaling is an important part of any scrapbook and will personalize it and make it a more treasured family heirloom through the years. The idea is to be adding titles to your pages, captions to the pictures and perhaps a poem or two.
Now you are ready to make the scrapbook. Remember not to stress out over this. Scrapbooking is supposed to be fun. Enjoy your baby’s first scrapbook once it is done and remember to keep taking pictures and collecting items for your next baby scrapbook.
Happy Scrapbooking!
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Erik Birkeland writes on business and family related issues.
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