We master the technique of "scrapbooking": an album for a newborn

If the lady is in pleasant expectation, and her favorite kind of needlework is the scrapbooking technique, the album for newborns, or rather, its creation, will be an excellent option for how to spend the last weeks before the long-awaited meeting with the benefit and pleasure.

Development of ideas

Needless to say, that the scrapbooking album for a newborn will be able to preserve all the most important moments from the life of the baby for at least the first year. But in order not to miss out on the most important things, one should pay very close attention to the contents of such a diary of memory.

Help in this difficult matter will be able to special benefits that provide parents with the fullest possible 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 youngster. In addition, it is worth considering the seasons with their special dates, as well as events or simply pleasant moments spent with the closest people.

When the content of the future album is determined, you can proceed with the design development. Ideal option, in which the sex of the newborn is known. In this case, you can think over separately a scrapbooking album for a newborn boy with his truly masculine blue tone, all kinds of balls, cars and designers. Or use the universal method, according to which each event is allocated with the help of a sign element. For example, a page with a photo of a child's statement can be decorated with a stork.

If we plan to create an album for a newborn, scrapbooking-masters recommend resorting to decor in the form of dolls, flowers and dresses. Preference is given, naturally, to the pink color and its shades.

When parents are in ignorance about the sex of their baby, then neutral yellow, green, beige tones come to the aid with the use of universal patterns in the form of bears, bottles, funny children's garments, etc.

Create an album

The idea is framed, so you can start creating an album. Therefore, you should stock up on not only album sheets, but also scissors, paints, brushes, glue. In addition, in the asset, if it is provided for in the design, it is necessary to have stickers of a selected theme, tapes in the tone of the main color of the album, buttons, figure punchers.

Its strength is worth trying on the simplest version - an album in the form of a notebook. What you need for this: multi-colored cardboard, scissors, a conventional punch, thin satin ribbons and stencil. The latter can be done independently. For this purpose it is enough to put a contour of a child's body on a white cardboard and to cut out. Then, with the help of the ready-made stencil, transfer the drawing to the colored cardboard and perform the page preparations. Their number depends only on the desire of the future mother.

Then, on the right shoulder of each body, one hole should be made with the help of a hole punch, through which stretch ribbons, fastening the sheets of the notebook together. Here's a simple scrapbooking album for a newborn we got.

Those who own this technique at a higher level can try to make a more complicated version.

For starters, cut out the page 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 crumbs, and therefore the sheets should not be too much.

So, let's start decorating each page. There are a lot of design options, but all the leaves should be made in the same style. For example, you can tint the edges of each page with acrylic paint and a sponge. Alternatively, you can skip a repeating print on one side. After that, each page is assigned to one event, decorating it accordingly.

The cover for this album can be done on the same principle as the pages. Cut out 2 blanks from corrugated cardboard to 0.5 cm wider than sheets with content and arrange them according to your taste.

After that, all the pages and the cover are assembled and fixed using a "spring".

As you can see, there is nothing difficult in making a scrapbooking album for a newborn. Fantasize, create and receive a charge of positive emotions!