How does scrapbooking begin for a newborn album?

When you have a baby, creative energy sometimes starts to just boil. At this time, many people want to create and fantasize, dream and create. Acquaintance with the technique of scrapbooking begins with the first album about the baby. And now more about this.

Necessary materials

To get a real masterpiece, often use scrapbooking for a newborn album. The result can not be compared to anything else. Photos interspersed with decorations represent the whole creation created by your hands. And what you need for this:

• Cardboard or watercolor paper ;
• Glue "Moment" - very much;
• 2 sheets of thick cardboard for the cover, it is also called bookbinding;
• Photo paper for high-quality photo printing;
• Cloth or leather in order to cover the cover;
• Sintepon in order for the cover to be soft;
• Different decorations: ribbons, pearls, buttons, flowers.

At first it is recommended to collect at least the main material, so as not to fall into a stupor in the process of creativity. It will not be very cheap, but it's definitely not as expensive as a custom album. In addition, you are likely to become involved in scrapbooking. The album for the kid will be only the first acquaintance with this interesting kind of activity.

Getting Started

Let's start with printing photos. Without them, not one album for a newborn girl. Scrapbooking will be later, now it will be Photoshop. If you have decided on the size of the album, you need to print and photos for it. They can and should be pre-processed, crop unnecessary, change colors, increase sharpness. 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. This is important to do right now, so that you do not get distracted from the creative process. Then we prepare the basis of the album. You can pre-prepare a frame from watercolor sheets, which you will then only paste the desired content, or you can just make different pages to later sew them.

The pages themselves

Scrapbooking for a newborn album is used often. It is accepted to divide pages by the months of the child's development. Total you will have 14 pages. The first - with your pregnancy, the last - with the holiday of the first year, the rest - for every month of life. With this calculation it is necessary and print photos. Now it remains to arrange them. Scrapbooking for a newborn album implies a spectacular design. If you do not know how to arrange items on a sheet, use the finished sketch. So for a start it will be easier to work. Under the photograph, usually put a substrate, which is more than 2 mm photo on each side. Decoration is better to select by the colors that are already in the photo. All the elements are better positioned on the principle of a triangle and do not spread evenly throughout the entire page. It's good, if under the photo there will be some signatures. It is better to print them on a printer, rather than write by hand.

Conclusion

Using the scrapbooking technique for a newborn album, you get not just an unspeakable pleasure, you will be pleased to again and again open this album and leaf through its pages. Together with this you invest a part of yourself in this work, share your warmth. When your child grows up, he will certainly appreciate your work.