Here at the bottom of todays post is the video of the baby boy albums I made this week, and a little story about the why and how I am making 12 baby books so far this year!!! 3 done so far!!
We have the arrival of new babies being announced all over the place... We have new great neices and nephews coming... Friends are having babies... and Some of my favorite people are becoming grandparents too!!! And we will be adding grandkiddo #9 to our could be baseball team when Payge delivers sometime around Aug 1st...
At the beginning of the year I had decided that i would make baby albums for all the babies coming this year... At this time there are 12 on my list... Yes, 12... That includes friends and family having babies as well as a couple of grandparents that i will be making brag books for...
I started with scrapbooks I already had actually purchased many years ago... Wanting to use up my stash of paper products I choose a color scheme with 3-4 colors... I went through the craft supplies and added other products that would compliment the paper... I went through my drawers of rubber stamps and pulled out all that would be appropriate and put them in a shallow box... I had purchased a baby's first month calendar that included stickers for firsts and months 1 through 12... The calendar also matched the color scheme... I had bear stickers that said "sweet baby boy" and a sheet of suns and clouds, also a sheet that said Its a boy and had foot prints, bottle, baby pin on it... I also purchased some puffy baby stickers that had a stork and stars and a baby duck that all matched the theme... With all the products out and ready I set my cricket cutting machine up and programmed it with baby theme items that I could use as well...
I made up a layout of what I wanted to fit in the baby book... Some of the things I had thought to add was a page that had the name, date, height, weight, place, time.... I found that in the calendar and cut it out and used it as the first page... I added a page for home sweet home, family, sleeping, and a couple of pages that were generic and will hold more pictures... then I added a page for each month 1 through 12 and two pages for the first birthday the last page just for general photos... I also found in the calendar lists of what baby does and will add them to the 1 - 12 month pages... I also will be including the extra stickers from the calendar as they have all the first time doing things and the months of the year that can be added to the album later...
So I started with an album for my best friends son who is having a boy!!! (update born March 8th congrats) I used an 8X8 binded album that had 24 white pages already included... I was able to use my sticker sheets and stash paper as well as some other stickers that I only have one or two sets of... I purchased a primary color puffy sticker set to add to the book... This book took a while to make but I was okay with that because it is a special book and I could use the page layout ideas for the other 11 books I will be making in the coming weeks, months... Im sure we will have a few more added to the list too!!
I am so glad I made the special album first and it has made a great template for the ones to be made after... I sat down and made 2 books on Monday... Start to finish and they are great... They have a few less embellishments, but they are beautiful and they are ready to go to their new homes... These two books are also the 8X8 binded format that included white pages... I covered most pages with colored and patterned paper and stamped a few pages too... The result is adorable... It is a small album and should be easy for the family to complete and feel good that they have something to show... one of the families this is their 3rd child and well, we know what kind of baby book #3 gets... beautiful but probably empty... I hope you enjoy this video...
And here as promised is the link to the whole album!! enjoy!! please comment and share ;)
Baby boy scrapbook album Animoto Video
