Scrapbooking Baby

When it comes to your baby scrapbook, you want to include lots of memorable things, and I like to add things that show a real size comparison too.  And well lets think about it, when you think of babies, you think of cute, cuddly, soft and sweet things.  So apart from your gorgeous baby, what else is soft, cute and cuddly?  Teddy bears!

Most babies end up with lots of teddy bears and other soft cuddly toys that can’t hurt them and creating a layout with some of these toys in it, can turn out to be a wonderful thing.  So I am using this example of a layout I did with my little girl, and no we don’t own the teddy bear, he was huge, but boy he was so soft and cute, I couldn’t resist quickly sitting my girl there and taking some quick snaps of her with that huge teddy towering over her.

Now this scrapbooking baby layout is not completed yet, (still looks very plain, it needs a title, embellishments, and some journaling) but I wanted to show you what is possible, she was mesmerized by the huge teddy and she was laughing and smiling so what scrapbooking parent could resist?  This was actually taken at one of our baby nursery stores, and the teddy was part of a display, but I’m sure lots of kids had played with him because he was just so cute.

So I got some snaps of the teddy and her, plus some just of her giggling and smiling about the whole situation, and then with two of the images I ever so carefully cut all of the background out with my Fiskars scissors.  Now you can not tell from the photo of the layout, but i have actually lifted the two bottom images off the page in a 3D fashion and I will include the instructions as to how I did that should you want to give it a try.

One particular bit of advice, that really goes for all scrapbooking, is you really do need a good quality pair of fine precision scissors for these tasks.  I brought mine many years ago and I can not live without them, they make things so much easier and you will see the difference if you do tend to crop images by hand as I have done in a lot of my layouts.  In fact the next post I might dedicate to the benefits of having a great pair of scissors just for scrapbooking, it really is that important.

So here are the steps I took to create the 3D Scrapbooking Baby Technique:
I traced the shape of the two cropped photos onto the background cardstock with pencil
Next using my sharp fine scissors I cut this shape out leaving two holes the same shape as my cropped photos
Next I used two pieces of the blue cardstock and glued them to the back of the background cardstock covering the holes
Next I turned the cardstock right way up again, and chalked the edges of the cream background cardstock with a light brownish chalk to create a shadow effect
Next using foam squares I stuck the photos onto of the blue cardstock.

So when you see the layout in person the two bottom images are in fact off the page and the blue behind them and the chalked edges around them all gives it quite a 3D look and brings those two photos to life.  This again is just a simple layout you can also create in your scrapbooking baby album, I have another one quite similar of her playing with toys in her cot, and again the results are really quite wonderful.

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