Baby Scrapbooking
Scrapbooking the early years of your child is a great way to create something memorable that will last a lifetime. In our modern age of online photo sharing and virtually unlimited storage on digital cameras, the timeless tradition of distilling all your photos into a few handpicked photos on an 8.5”x11”page still lives on. Most parents will agree that there’s just something extra special about being able to leaf through a physical scrapbook of baby’s cutest moments.
Scrapbooking soared in popularity with the advent of digital photography. All of a sudden, scrapbookers had a plethora of photos they could take, giving them more material to fill their books with. Scrapbooking is the fastest growing sector of the craft and hobby industry. In fact, scrapbooking is now more popular than golfing: 1 in 5 households has someone playing golf, while 1 in 4 has someone involved in scrapbooking.
Baby Scrapbooking Tips
- Take photos regularly and often. The best scrapbooks have an even distribution of photos taken over time. People have a tendency to take photos sporadically: Periods of very active photo taking can be followed by periods when you take almost no photos at all. Resist this urge. A Picwing photo printing subscription can help make sure that you are consistently taking and printing photos of your baby.
- Organize your photos. Put all your printed photos into boxes separated by time and theme. For example, “Christmas 2009”, “Vacation to Hawaii”, “Family Reunion 2008” are some good ways to separate your photos. Keeping your photos constantly organized can reduce the stress of having to do it all at once later.
- You want your scrapbooks to last a long time – generations upon generations. Use acid-free or archival paper. Also, use acid-free glue sticks. This will help reduce the deterioration of your scrapbook pages over hundreds of years – much longer than your hard drive will be able to reliable store your digital photos for.
- Use page protectors. These will help to preserve the pages of your scrapbook. You can get page protectors at Sam’s Club or any thrift or craft store.
- Find friends to scrapbook with! Starting a scrapbooking crew can be a great way to add more fun to scrapbooking. It can also help to keep each other accountable, much like a gym buddy.