When you have a baby, creative energy sometimes just starts to boil. At this time, many want to create and fantasize, dream and create. Acquaintance with the scrapbooking technique for many begins with the first album about the baby. And now more about this.
Necessary materials
To get a true masterpiece, scrapbooking is often used for a newborn’s album. The result is not comparable to anything else. Photos interspersed with jewelry represent a whole creation created by your hands. And what is needed for this:
- cardboard or watercolor paper ;
- glue "Moment" - a lot;
- 2 sheets of thick cardboard for cover, it is also called binding;
- photo paper for high-quality photo printing;
- fabric or leather to fit the cover;
- synthetic winterizer so that the cover is soft;
- different decorations: ribbons, pearls, buttons, flowers.
At first it is recommended to collect at least the basic material so as not to fall into a stupor in the process of creativity. It will not cost very cheaply, but it is definitely not as expensive as a registered album. In addition, you are likely to get involved in scrapbooking. The album for the baby will be only the first acquaintance with this interesting type of activity.
Getting started
Let's start by printing photos. Without them, not a single album for a newborn girl will turn out. Scrapbooking will be later, now there will be photoshop. If you have decided on the size of the album, you need to print and photos for it. They can and must be pre-processed, cut off excess, change colors, sharpen. Remember that not all photos will fit in the album, but at least 50 need to be printed so that there is plenty to choose from. It is important to do this right now, so as not to be distracted from the creative process later. Next, we prepare the basis of the album. You can pre-prepare the frame from watercolor sheets, onto which you will only paste the desired content later on, or you can just make different pages to stitch them later.
The pages themselves
Scrapbooking for a newborn's album is often used. It is customary to divide the pages by months of child development. In total, you will have 14 pages. The first - with your pregnancy, the last - with the holiday of the first year, the rest - for each month of life. With this calculation you need to print photos. Now it remains to issue them. Scrapbooking for a newborn's album implies a spectacular design. If you do not know how to place elements on a sheet, use a ready-made sketch. So for starters it will be easier to work. Under the photo, they usually lay a substrate, which is 2 mm larger than the photo on each side. Ornaments are best chosen according to the colors that are already in the photo. It is better to arrange all elements according to the principle of a triangle and not to scatter them evenly throughout the page. Well, if some captions appear under the photo. It is better to print them on a printer, and not write by hand.
Conclusion
Using the scrapbooking technique for a newborn’s album, you’ll get not just incredible pleasure, you will be pleased to open this album again and again and turn over its pages. Along with this, you invest a part of yourself in this work, share spiritual warmth. When your child grows up, he will certainly appreciate your work.