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Friday, July 18, 2008

Baby Scrapbooking Ideas for Everyone

Your baby's scrapbook will be something that you and your family will enjoy for a lifetime. Take your time and remember to preserve those memories just as you felt the time of the event.

What should be kept in the Baby Scrapbook?

Any and every occasion can get recorded in a scrapbook that you will have fun watching and recollecting later on in life; after all, every day is special with your baby and family.

A Baby Scrapbooking Idea

Here are a few ideas for your baby's scrapbook:

1. Start your book with pictures of your showers, while you were pregnant, and early ultrasound photos. These are a few great ways to kick off your scrapbook.

2. Dr.'s visits and the actual delivery day.

3. Visitors at the hospital, the nurses, and doctor who were present the day you gave birth to your baby.

4. The day of your baby's birth. Enclude picture of family member holding the baby for the first time. This is a perfect time to get a generational picture with those who come to see you.

5. For the first year you can take a picture every day and gradually show the changes in the baby and/or what cute things he/she did everyday.

6. The "firsts" First day at home, first holidays, first haircut, first bath, first smile, first steps, and first birthday.

7. The impressions of his/her hands, feet, or lips.

Here are Some Scrapbook Decorating Options

1. These can be as cute and funny whole capturing as many feelings and memories in the process. When you look back over the years, it should be able to tell the stories and give you a glimpse into the past. Capture this with the picture you choose and the journaling.

2. Use sticker, brads, and ribbons as decoration. Keep trinkets and remembrances of the season or event such as wrapping paper from Birthday presents, cards, airline tickets, etc.

3. A bit of the hair from your baby's first haircut.

4. Quotes. Either from a book or of the child's first words or sayings.

5. Writing, journaling your feelings down is something that will be cherished forever by your child.

A idea for your babys scrapbook is something that will come to you when the occasion shows up. Go with what you feel, and that will turn out to be the best idea over time. This book is about feelings and memories, which will live forever and ever to be cherished and passed on.

You never know, your own child may steal your ideas when the time comes, and that will probably make you the proudest mom alive. Take your time creating your scrapbooks, you will definitely have fun going through it over the years.

Marcy Larsen - Close To My Heart Consultant. CTMH offers much more than just scrapbook supplies, including opportunities to make money while scrapbooking. I love to help people get started in scrapbooking. To learn more, please visit my website at http://www.marcylarsen.com

by Marcy Larsen

Sunday, July 13, 2008

Baby Girl Scrapbooking Layouts - How to Immortalize Your Little Girls Childhood Memories

Are you a new parent, grandparent or perhaps know of someone who just had a baby girl? The early years of children are exciting. So are their teenage years but let's just look at the early years of your baby girl.

You are going to want to use scrapbooking to preserve the memories of this time because before you know it this time will pass by. To get started you are going to want to look at baby girl scrapbooking layouts and pick one out.

There are a number of themes that you can choose from:

  • Nature: flowers, trees, meadows, beaches, etc.
  • Colorful: bright vibrant colors, pinks, oranges, yellows, reds
  • Fairytale: Castles, pixies, woodlands, fairies, etc.
  • Princess: Belle, Jasmine, Cinderella etc.

Once you have selected from the baby girl scrapbooking layouts you will need to pick out the baby pictures you want to use. If you're anything like my wife and I you will have quite a few to pick from. Remember there's nothing stopping you from making more than one scrapbook.

You can make the scrapbook from scratch or you can use a scrapbook kit. There are many baby girl scrapbooking layouts that come in kits. These kits are great because they have most everything you need. They are put together professionally and pretty much assure a scrapbook that will receive many compliments. You will just need to supply the tape, pictures, scrissors and pens (acid free).

Yet another idea is to purchase a digital scrapbooking kit. These are great because all you are going to need is a computer to make the scrapbook. You will be able to pick from the various baby girl scrapbooking layouts that are online. You'll find that this option is good since it removes all clutter that normally comes with scrapbooking and will allow you to make an outstanding scrapbook.

Enjoy the early years of your baby girl. They are precious and all to soon will be gone. By selecting from one of the baby girl scrapbooking layouts that are either traditional or digital you will be creating something that can be shared for years to come. Undoubtedly when your baby girl has her own baby girl this scrapbook will be proudly shown and your efforts truly appreciated.

If you would like to learn more about preserving your baby girls moments then visit my site at http://www.freeprintablescrapbooking.com/baby-girl-scrapbooking-layouts.html

Erik Birkeland writes on business and family related issues.

To read more about scrapbooking and how to enhance your experience with it then visit http://www.freeprintablescrapbooking.com

by Erik Birkeland

Baby Boy Scrapbooking

If you've just had a baby boy, no doubt you're extremely excited. Congratulations! You have started a great journey that is only going to get better from here. Of course no doubt you are going to want to make sure that you remember all the important moments of your baby's infancy, and what better way to do that than to get involved in baby boy scrapbooking.

Creating a scrapbook is a great idea that will allow you to creatively preserve all of those memories, from the first day at home to the very first bath time. So, let's take a look at a few ideas that will help you out if you are just getting started in baby boy scrapbooking.

Record All the Baby Boy Firsts in the Scrapbook

First of all, if you are going to get involved in baby boy scrapbooking, it's important that you are sure to record all the baby firsts possible in the scrapbook. There are so many moments that you're going to want to remember, and all those firsts are a great place to start.

Make sure to document the very first day that he comes home, the first bath, the first tooth that pops in, the first Christmas, and of course the very first birthday of your baby . These are just a few great ideas for you, and there are many others that you may want to consider as well.

Some Great Scrapbooking Paper Choices to Consider

Of course you'll need some great scrapbooking paper when you start scrapbooking as well. You'll want to go with papers that look good with your baby pictures. Consider going with papers that have little stars on them, teddy bear papers, or even scrapbook papers that have blocks on them or other baby toys. You can even find scrapbooking papers that have words all over them like cute, cuddly, adorable, and more.

Baby Boy Embellishments that Rock

You'll want to add embellishments that rock to your baby book when you are scrapbooking as well. No scrapbook is going to be totally complete without adding a few great embellishments. So, be sure to add a few, such as three dimensional stickers, tags, little outfits , and more, when you are involved in baby scrapbooking.

So, as you can see, there are many great ideas that you can use when you start baby boy scrapbooking. It doesn't matter if you never done this before, you are sure to have a whole lot of fun. It's time to start baby boy scrapbooking today, and be sure to include some of these ideas that will make your scrapbook look great.

Tracy Ballisager is a stay at home mum. To read more on baby scrapbooking go to http://www.babyscrapbooking-ideas.com

by Tracy Ballisager