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By CathyL

Baby Scrapbooking: A Great Idea for all Parents

Baby Scrapbooking is a widely practised crafting phenomenon, by no means limited to proud parents and proud grandparents. It seems that scrapbooking is attractive even to people who never considered themselves to have any crafting ability before, it's the kind of anti-crafter's craft as well as a crafter's craft.

What better inspiration to start a baby scrapbooking project? Everyone loves baby photos, right? Making a baby scrapbooking album is even cuter, somehow, than putting the photos into a baby photo album.



How to Make a Baby Scrapbook

Thankfully for those of us with not too much crafting talent and little to no drawing ability, the scrapbooking industry has recognized the huge market for baby scrapbooking and has responded with an absolute wealth of scrapbooking supplies that lend themselves perfectly to making scrapbooks of all those new pictures of the most popular person in the family - the new baby.

Starting with a special baby scrapbooking album, one can go on to choose specially designed papers as backgrounds that are obviously meant to be used for baby pictures. The options are unlimited, there are more paper designs and more albums than one could ever need. Surely, if every new baby scrapbooking album was identical to their neighbors, it would not be so interesting to look at, hence the vast variety of scrapbooking materials made for babies' albums.

Any major crafting store will have a decent selection of scrapbooking supplies. These stores are a good place to start collecting things to make a scrapbook, whether it is for a baby, wedding or other occasion. Other great resources where you can find a multitude of scrapbooking supplies are specialty scrapbooking stores that have popped up only in the last decade in order to meet the needs of scrapbookers across the country.

Of course, there is also the internet. Many scrapbookers swear that they find more and more of their supplies on the internet each year. While your local crafting store, or even your local scrapbooking store, might have a lot of supplies, you can find an even greater variety online. If a store carries only 20 different layouts of a particular sticker line, you can be sure that on the internet you will find the other 80 layouts and many, many more lines of stickers.

Baby scrapbooking is no exception and many proud parents are having lots of fun making albums of their babies, and the internet is certainly one of their largest resources in finding the scrapbooking supplies that they need and want for their albums.

baby's first year memory book baby's first year memory book
Price:
Pearhead Scrapbook Blue Pearhead Scrapbook Blue
Price: $29.95
List Price: $34.99
Sweet Pea Scrapbook Sweet Pea Scrapbook
Price: $19.13
List Price: $30.00
Instant Memories: Babies: Ready-to-Use Scrapbook Pages Instant Memories: Babies: Ready-to-Use Scrapbook Pages
Price: $8.00
List Price: $14.95
Pearhead Scrapbook Pink Pearhead Scrapbook Pink
Price: $28.95
List Price: $34.99

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yarntales  says:
2 years ago

Very well-thought out and presented. I agree about scrapbooking appealling to even those who don't consider themself creative. I find scrapbooking somehow pulls the creativity out of me somehow.

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