Most of you know that Dh and I are adopting. We want to start putting together a scrapbook for the child(ren) which will introduce them to us, to our community, home, school, pets, family, etc.
BUT, I am NOTTTTTTTTT a scrapbooker.
I am hoping someone might help me get started. What do I need to get started on a scrapbook (in the scrapbooking method) that everyone is doing nowadays.
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You don't need anything special to scrap book, just creativity and a Sharpie marker. I usually buy a scrapbook from a photo store like Blacks, they come in two sizes and are around $25 for the large ones. You can buy double sided sticky tabs to put on the back of your photos- glue sticks don't hold well I find. Get yourself a pair of good scissors and if you want a paper cutter to crop pics. I cut out pics and words out of magazines to spice things up and collect bits and pieces of memorabilia like ticket stubs, coins, receipts, menus, etc. and integrate them between and sometimes overlapping the photos. Some people use craft scissors the cut like pinking shears or wavy lines- Crayola makes them for kids in a pack of three. Others use borders by gluing on backings of coloured paper. You can buy prefab stuff (frames, speech bubbles, stickers, letters etc.) at photo stores, card stores and sometimes even the dollar store. Michael's defintely has some of that stuff. A neat way to make your own lettering is to use your Sharpie marker to outline the letters on any magazine page and them cut them out. A more inexpensive way to scrap book is to get some cardstock from Staples, punch holes in them and put them in a binder- you can always add stuff and you can use plastic covers to protect anything particularly important. Sometimes I use envelopes or make an envelope on a page to hold loose items that don't lend themself to being stuck on with dbl. sided corners or glue sticks. Hope this helps (probably way too much, sorry).
mo
this site..i've never done it ...but i thought about it...
[url]www.scrapbookscrapbook.com/beginners.html[/url]
if you don't mind my asking...where are you adopting from?...are the kids from around here or another country?...how old are they?
Where ever you would get your scrapbooking supplies, they usually have scrapbooking classes. Some scrapbooking stores even give you one free class, because they know you will be buying the stuff you need at their store.
Otherwise, I have even seen the papers at the dollar stores or equivelant.
I have also seen a scrapbooking kit for about $30 that can start you off for the first few pages.
that you could investigate - ask at a craft store, if you have Michael's there.