Scrapbooking Layout Ideas

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Do you need a few awesome scrapbooking layout ideas for your latest project? If so, you are in luck. The following are a few baby scrapbook layout ideas that will make a great looking scrapbook. They are inexpensive, easy to make and you will be amazed at how beautiful they turn out.

Naturally everyone wants to make a scrapbook dedicated to their child or children. This is a great place to put all the early pictures, funny things they have said and the mementos of their childhood. Scrapbooking layout ideas of this type are numerous. When starting the scrapbook, consider what aspect of your child's life you want to use. Will it be the early years when they were newborn or later when they started kindergarten?

Scrapbook layout

How to make Scrapbook layout

If you choose the newborn time you will want to start with a page about the birth and first few hours of your child's life. These scrapbook page layout ideas will depend on whether your child is a boy or a girl. For the sake of the following ideas, lets use a baby girl theme. Start with a photo of your newborn. Using card stock (pink will be fine) cut out a large heart. Cut another heart out of the inside of the one you have just done. This will be the frame for the picture.

Using either a paler pink sheet or a darker pink than the heart place the newborn photo on the paper and place the heart frame over it. In order to keep from gluing an actual photo, you can make a copy on your computer, scan it and print it out for the scrapbook. Then glue the picture and the heart frame to the page. Scrapbook layout ideas can be as complicated or simple as you want to make them. If you want something a little fancier, use scissors that cut wavy or whatever shape you like the best instead of straight scissors for the heart.

After you have the photo and frame aligned, use letter stickers to spell out your baby's name and date and time of birth. Place these across the top of the page and add embellishments of your choice. They can be bottles, diapers, a pink ribbon, strollers, cradles, bassinets or anything you choose. There are a wide variety of embellishments available as you will see when you choose the theme for your scrap booking layout .

The next page could be simple scrapbook layout ideas dedicated to coming home from the hospital. Who was there? Grandma and Grandpa can be included on this page as well as the proud daddy. Their pictures can be framed much as the baby's.

You do not have to use hearts. They can have their own special matting around the photo and the date and time can be added as well as photos of each of them holding their grandchild. The ideas are endless. Once you start putting together scrapbooking layout ideas you will come up with a million different things you want to use in your scrapbook. Well, maybe not a million but it will seem like it when you start. The great thing about scrapbooking layout ideas is they can be anything you want to use and they can be as complex or as simple as you want to make them.

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