Memory books are a great way to create a lasting, unique tribute to your baby's first year. Even if you don't consider yourself to be artistic, it's easy to create something touching and beautiful.
Instructions
1. Make sure you have negatives for all the prints you plan to use. This way, you can replace them if necessary.
2. Sort through your prints carefully - choose only the best for your scrapbook, and keep the others in an archival quality photo box for later use.
3. Record major milestones such as first food, first step and when the first tooth made its debut.
4. Arrange your photos in groups according to themes, not just chronologically. You could have a "bath time" layout, a "trips to the zoo" page and so on.
5. Avoid discarding duplicates or very similar pictures - they can often become part of creative layouts.
6. Cut, crop, trim and silhouette your photos. Remember, you have the negatives, so you can always replace a print.
7. Leave some blank space. Rather than placing photos close together and filling up the whole page, leave space for headlines, captions, journal entries, and stickers or drawings.
8. Lay out everything in a number of different configurations before you glue it into place.
9. Be creative and have fun.
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