Birth of a child - this is the happiest event. I want to capture every moment of his life, his tiny hands and feet, his angelic smile, his first independent steps. Such pictures will become dear memories to your heart for a lifetime. Trivial design of photographs of a newborn is not enough for loving parents. Scrapbooking is a creative direction for creating original cards, albums, family books, notebooks and anything that the craftsman’s imagination allows.
Once you try this activity, it is impossible to stop, because the desire to create beauty is indomitable. Even a beginner can make an album for newborns using scrapbooking technology. To work, a talented craftsman will only need a basic set of knowledge, a boundless flight of imagination, materials and tools, as well as a sunny mood.
Photo albums for newborn boys: design ideas, sheet templates
To make your photo album look organic, you can use ready-made templates to decorate its pages. These are backgrounds or cutouts that should be printed on a printer and glued to sheets (before or along with photographs). Some are great for signing photos, while others can be used as borders or frames.
IMPORTANT: Templates or “tags” will help identify each photo, for example, remind you exactly what moment the child in the photo was experiencing, for example, “my first step” or “my first tooth.”
Templates and tags:
Tags for a photo album with signatures
Tags and templates for photo album
Cuttings and templates for decorating a children's photo album
Background for decorating a children's photo album
Background “elephants” for decorating a children's photo album
Album content
With the advent of a baby, we become more sentimental, look at the world in a new way, and appreciate every moment of life. By creating an album for a newborn with our own hands, we are writing history, because even after many years these events will not lose their value.
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What does the baby album contain?
- Photo before the baby was born. Touching pictures of mommy tenderly stroking her belly, listening to the kicks and movements in anticipation of a miracle. Let such photographs decorate the first pages.
- A photo of a young mother and baby immediately after birth, when there is happiness in the eyes, a glimpse of jubilation and something elusively new.
- Touching photos of a baby sleeping serenely in his crib. You can capture the moment a newborn wakes up with a sleepy face and a cautious smile.
- Category “We eat!” The most fun section: dirty baby and mother, joyful laughter and happiness in the eyes.
- First walks. Young children are introduced to the big world around them for the first time. Bright moments in the photo will remind you of a happy time for many years.
- First baths. It is during bathing, according to psychologists, that complete agreement occurs and the baby learns to trust its parents. Photos of a baby in a fluffy towel after bathing are one of the most touching and sweetest.
Baby album pages
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When creating an album using scrapbooking technology for newborns, ideas for filling and decorating can be very different. A smile, first steps, games and getting to know the outside world - all this is so significant during the development of the baby for parents. Each photograph requires a special treatment, the decor must be thematic, and the journaling must hit the bull’s eye, complementing and revealing the deep meaning of the memorable image. Many years will pass, the events will fade and be forgotten. But as soon as you pick up the album, the unforgettable moments that its pages so carefully preserve will flash through your memory in a bright series.
Photo albums for newborn girls: design ideas, sheet templates
A photo album for a girl should be especially elegant and delicate. To do this, you will need not only tags with signatures, but also beautiful feminine backgrounds, pictures, frames and frames.
Options:
Sizes and tables for gluing into a children's photo album
Tags with signatures for pasting into a children's photo album
Templates and frames for a photo album
background for baby girl photo album
Background for a children's photo album
New technology
The word scrapbooking is heard today. Someone has already tried to work with this technique, someone has just come across the name, and someone is hearing it for the first time. First, let's say a few words about the technology itself.
Scrapbooking is a technique for making and designing personal and family photo albums. At the same time, personal and family history is formalized using special tactile and visual techniques, stored in the form of photographs, newspaper notes, notes, drawings and other memorable little things. Albums using this technique can have not only a standard shape, but also be created in the form of boxes, houses, baskets, etc. Basic design techniques are distressing (aging pages), embossing (convex design), stamping (design with ink and stamps).
For work you can use materials:
- decorative paper for scrapbooking;
- cardstock;
- Pictures;
- tags;
- white and colored paper;
- lace;
- buttons;
- ribbons;
- rhinestones;
- textile;
- pencils;
- crayons;
- markers;
- paints;
- laces;
- pendants;
- sequins;
- napkins for decoupage.
Tools:
- regular scissors and with curly attachments;
- glue;
- ruler;
- stamps;
- hole punch, including a figured one;
- scotch;
- stationery knife;
- tweezers;
- You may even need a sewing machine.
All of these are optional lists and far from being the most complete. Even natural material is perfect for decoration. Give free rein to your imagination and choose what you need for your creation.
DIY photo album title options for newborn boys and girls
In addition to the fact that all the decor, and the photo album itself, can be made with your own hands, you can also name it as you wish. To do this, you don’t have to use only the child’s name (that’s quite boring). Remember what you called your baby at birth, for example, “our little bead” or “Princess Elizabeth”).
Also suitable names:
- "Our little prince"
- "Restless Legs"
- "The cutest girl in the world"
- "Our happiness"
- "Gift from Heaven"
- "Our kids"
- "My heart"
- "Little Princess"
- "Our sunshine"
- "This is a boy!" (“It’s a girl!”)
- "Our Treasure"
- "The Most Expensive Treasure in the World"
- "Sweet face"
- "Pearl"
Inscriptions on photo albums for newborns with photos of a boy and a girl
Don't know what to write next to your baby's photos? Then you can print (if you don’t know calligraphy) tags, poems or inscriptions that will very emotionally and accurately convey the mood to those who are looking at the photo album.
Options:
Inscriptions for a children's photo album Inscriptions for a children's photo album
Inscriptions and inserts for a children's photo album
Inscriptions for a children's photo album and caption
Cuttings and pastes for a children's photo album
Cut-out pictures for a children's photo album
Template-cutting for a children's photo album
Cover and photo clippings for a children's photo album
Cutting-drawings for a children's photo album
Clippings with drawings and captions for a children's photo album
Decorating tradition
The name of the original technique was given to the English words scrap and book, which translated means “clipping” and “book”. From the title, even a beginner understands that the book should contain clippings from newspapers or magazines that emphasize the topic. The tradition of beautifully decorating an album with your own hands was born in the 15th century. In Europe, it was considered fashionable to collect books with records of poems, quotes, drawings, and sketches. The advent of printing made it possible to make scrap, supplementing albums with lithographs, images, and engravings. Fans of this unusual hobby decorated their products with personal items, labels, travel tickets, and invitations to attend social events. The more varied the scrap, the more luxurious and interesting the book looked. As children, we all loved to leaf through old grandmother’s albums, full of secrets, personal memories, and our imagination painted us pictures from the past.
Today, scrapbooking masters are actively searching for new creative forms for their masterpieces, decorating chocolate bowls, tea houses, and miniature birdhouses in unusual ways. But a scrapbooking album for newborns is a valuable gift for parents and a memory for a child, an unchanging classic of touching design.
Children's album design
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Inscriptions on photo albums for newborns with grandparents
In a photo album you can paste photographs not only of mom and dad, but also of other close relatives, for example, grandparents.
Signature options:
- My beloved grandmother
- My beloved grandfather
- I'm like a grandma!
- I'm like a grandfather!
- And I love my grandmother!
- And I love grandpa!
- I'm visiting grandma!
- I'm visiting grandpa!
- My big family!
- My loved ones and loved ones
- Beloved granddaughter!
- Dear grandson!
Poems in a photo album for newborns for a boy and a girl
You can also complement photographs of your baby with beautiful poems.
Options:
Poems in photo album No. 1
Poems in photo album No. 2
Poems in photo album No. 3
Poems in photo album No. 4
Poems in photo album No. 5
Photo album-diary, questionnaire for a newborn: how to keep it - tips
A questionnaire for a newborn is a kind of list of characteristics and personal information about the baby, for example, his height and weight at a certain age. Such a questionnaire will be a great addition to a children's photo album.
Questionnaires and inserts:
Questionnaires for children in a photo album
Questionnaire insert into a children's photo album
Questionnaire for newborns in a photo album
Questionnaire for entering the baby's details
Questionnaire for a newborn in a children's photo album by month
Data for the baby (for pasting into a photo album)
Cuttings and pastes with the baby’s data in a photo album
What do you need for work?
If you decide to create an album for a newborn using the scrapbooking technique with your own hands, then you should get acquainted with the basic rules of design. Popular materials and tools:
- Rings and brads. The function of the rings is to securely fasten the album pages. Brads are shaped like a nail but have two flat legs. If you decorate the hat with a bead or flower, it will turn into a trendy decor.
Fastening materials
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- Stamping. Ready-made stamps with an applied pattern or inscription will give the product an aesthetic and noble appearance. Stamps can be acrylic or rubber.
Stamps for decoration
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Stamps should be stored in special packaging containers with a tightly closed lid. To wash the stamp, use a regular soap solution, after which the stamp is wiped dry.
High-quality care of stamps will allow them to serve the scrapbooking business faithfully for a long time.
- Ink. They are applied to the stamp and are responsible for the bright colors in the composition. When choosing, you should know that they can be alcoholic, chalky, or based on water-soluble dye. It is important to make sure what surfaces they are intended for.
Various inks
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- Figured hole punch. Such tools are needed for punching shaped holes, creating carved borders and rounded corners. If you don’t have such equipment at hand, you can use thin nail scissors the old-fashioned way.
Tools for punching shaped holes
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- Stationery set. While a craftsman can do without specialized tools, he is unlikely to do so without standard office supplies. Several scissors, glue, a pencil and a ruler are essential tools, without which work is almost impossible.
Useful tools for beginners part 1
Useful tools for beginners part 2
Useful tools for beginners part 3
Useful tools for beginners part 4
In addition to equipment for scrapbooking, there is all kinds of decor. The industry suggests using metal pendants, cardboard cut-outs, ready-made paper or fabric flowers, cardboard chipboards, and plaster frames. Glitters, paints, structural pastes, patina, pastels will help create unusual effects on paper. When listing the decor for a newborn’s album, one cannot fail to mention lace and ribbons. An ideal addition to the photographs will be the first cut strand of hair, the imprint of a tiny hand and foot. It is the decor that will help you create an exclusive product, and your heart will tell you the theme of the album!
Beautiful photo albums for newborns: samples, photos
You can get an idea for creating your own personal photo album for your baby by looking at ready-made versions of works in different techniques. Before you start creating, decide what style you like and what album design is right for your child.
Finished works:
Children's photo album No. 1
Children's photo album No. 2
Children's photo album No. 3
Children's photo album No. 4
Children's photo album No. 5
Children's photo album No. 6
Children's photo album No. 7
