Mini Baby Scrapbook Album

by Rose
(Calgary, AB, Canada)

I made a mini baby scrapbook album for my step-grandaughter for Christmas this year. Her baby boy was born last April and I thought it would be a wonderful gift idea if she has a little photo journal showing "highlights" of his first year.

I used a 7gypsies premade envelope type album that has 10 inner "envelope pages" to it.

Each page is decorated with something special about babies like favorite foods, favorite toys, the baby sleeping, bath time, when he starts to crawl, first steps, etc.

I then cut and pasted cardstock on each page to the size of the photos that will be placed in the album (I'm letting her add her own photos so she can choose which ones she wants to display).

With the envelope pockets, I created large "tags" and inked the edges, punched a hole at the top and added alternating colored ribbons that "hang out" the ends so that the tags are easy to grab. I drew lines down each one so that she could add her own thoughts and stories to match the pages, and extra photos if she wants.

I also made a similar mini baby scrapbook album for my daughter-in-law as a grandmother's brag book.

A third mini scrapbook album I made was for my in-laws as a Christmas memories book, which turns out will be a great gift idea as they are coming to visit us this year (we live in Calgary and they're in New Brunswick - Canada), and we haven't seen them in 7 years. So while they're here, I'll be taking lots of pictures and I can then print them off and add them to their mini-album before they go home!