Baby Scrapbooking Ideas: Creating The Perfect Album

Baby Scrapbooking Ideas: Creating The Perfect Album
By Michelle Cardello

Two important baby scrapbook ideas to bear in mind are physical
changes and milestones. First smiles, first roll over and crawl,
first words and gestures are all priceless and need to be
recorded quickly before the infant advances to toddler hood
(which could be a whole other scrapbook and will happen in what
will appear to be the blink of an eye)!

Here are some baby scrapbook ideas, which will help you
organize your material.

1. Begin the baby scrapbook journey during your pregnancy.

Start with photos from baby showers and early ultrasounds.
Include doctor’s visits and the actual delivery day. What was
the weather like? Anything else special happen on that day? (Of
course, there couldn’t be anything more special than baby’s
arrival into the world.) Who was present at the birth? Doctors,
nurses, visitors? Record it for all time in your baby scrapbook.

2. Focus on the first year of life.

Some things should be written down for the sake of posterity,
like weight and length at birth for example. You might also want
to include color of eyes and hair, time of birth, doctor’s name
and how long you were in labor. Other baby scrapbook ideas will
come to you as you progress in your project such as perhaps, the
price of gas, houses and cars at the time of birth and
information on the family tree.

3. Use photos to indicate milestones.

Take photos every day of the first month of life and then once
a month next to a large stuffed animal. Keep a list of events
connected to each month until the baby is a year old. Take
pictures of different looks and moods; happiness, sadness and
don’t forget the most adorable moments of sleeping time. Don’t
be afraid to take too many pictures, as that can never happen in
the endless search for baby scrapbook ideas.

4. The baby scrapbook must reflect emotion.

You want to smile and maybe even cry whenever you look at your
baby scrapbook. The way to insure this is to pick those topics
to write about that cannot help but evoke special feelings even
when viewed years later. Some baby scrapbooking ideas might
include: how the baby got his or her name, what does the name
mean, how often did he or she cry, where did he or she sleep,
did the baby sleep through the night and how did the little one
react around people? Have other close relatives and friends
write their feelings about these events on a special page
designated for this purpose.

5. Decorate your baby scrapbook with items that are
baby-related.

Although this may seem obvious, it’s still a good baby
scrapbooking idea to keep in mind while trying to capture as
many feelings and memories about past happiness. Use stickers
and ribbons. Keep trinkets and mementos, even things like
wrapping paper from special presents. Capture all these moments
of baby’s first year with pictures and journaling. One baby
scrapbooking idea for use of ribbons could involve cutting a
journaling block into strips and then tying a ribbon in a bow to
the left end of the first strip, then the right end of the
second strip etc. Still another effective baby scrapbooking idea
for ribbon might involve scraps, which could be made into bows
and used to cover a spiral binding.

Don’t forget real mementos, such as a clip of hair from baby’s
first haircut and also famous quotes and sayings about babies
and babyhood might be appropriate as headings or captions on the
different pages. The world of literature is your source
material. Try to choose selections that are not so common. It
may take a little research but this is one baby scrapbooking
idea that is sure to pay off at the end.

Your baby will only be an infant for a moment in time. Capture
it for always with a memorable baby scrapbook. Use these baby
scrapbooking ideas, and as you do you will certainly come up
with ideas of your own. But hurry. Time’s a wasting!

About the Author: Michele Cardello, director of marketing for
Life Imprints, a creating scrapbooking supplies company in
Cleveland, Ohio, has worked in the photo packaging industry for
10 years. Cardello helps customers find creative ways to
preserve and appreciate a lifetime of memories.
http://www.lifeimprints.com

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