If the lady is in a pleasant expectation, and her favorite type of needlework is the scrapbooking technique, an album for newborns, or rather, its creation, will be a great option on how to spend the last weeks before the long-awaited meeting with benefit and pleasure.
Idea development
Needless to say, a scrapbook made in scrapbooking technique for a newborn will be able to save all the most important moments from the baby’s life for at least the first year. But in order not to miss all the most important, you should pay attention to the contents of such a diary of memory.
Special manuals will help you in this difficult matter, providing parents with the most complete information about the development of the baby. Therefore, before planning the number of pages and design, you should carefully study them and make an approximate list of significant events in the life of the peanut. In addition, it is worth considering the seasons with their special dates, as well as events or just pleasant moments spent with the closest people.
When the content of the future album is determined, you can begin to design. An ideal option in which the gender of the newborn is known. In this case, you can think of a separate scrapbooking album for a newborn boy with his truly masculine blue tone, all kinds of balls, cars and designers. Or use the universal technique, according to which each event is highlighted using a symbolic element. For example, decorate a page with a photograph of a baby’s statement with a stork.
If you plan to create an album for a newborn, scrapbooking masters recommend resorting to the decor in the form of dolls, flowers and dresses. Preference is given, naturally, to the pink color and its shades.
When parents are ignorant of their baby’s gender, then neutral yellow, light green, and beige tones come to the rescue using universal patterns in the form of bears, bottles, funny children's items of clothing, etc.
Album creation
The idea is framed, so you can start creating the album. Therefore, one should stock up not only on landscape sheets, but also on scissors, paints, brushes, and glue. In addition, in the asset, if it is provided for by the design, it is necessary to have stickers of selected subjects, ribbons in tone with the main color of the album, buttons, curly holes.
You should try your hand at the simplest option - an album in the form of a notebook. What is required for this: multi-colored cardboard, scissors, a regular hole punch, thin
satin ribbons and a stencil. The latter can be done independently. To do this, just put on the white cardboard contour of the baby body and cut. Then, using a ready-made stencil, transfer the drawing to color cardboard and complete the page blanks. Their number depends only on the desire of the future mother.
Next, on the right shoulder of each body, use a hole punch to make 1 hole through which the ribbons are held to fasten the notebook sheets together. Here we have such a simple scrapbooking album for a newborn.
Those who own this technology at a higher level can try to make a more complex option.
For starters, you should cut blanks from thick paper. Their size depends on the idea underlying the album. Just remember that the very essence of such an album is to capture the most important events in the life of the crumbs, and therefore there should not be too many sheets.
So, we proceed to decorate each page. Design options - a great many, but at the same time, all the leaflets should be made in the same style. For example, you can tint the edges of each page with acrylic paint and a sponge. Or skip a repeating print on one side. After that, each page is assigned to one event, decorating it accordingly.
The cover for such an album can be done on the same principle as the pages. Cut 2 blanks from corrugated cardboard 0.5 cm wider than the content sheets and arrange them according to your taste.
After that, all pages and cover are put together and fixed with the help of a "spring".
As you can see, there is nothing complicated in making a scrapbooking album for a newborn. Imagine, create and get a charge of positive emotions!