Beautiful baby album using Tiny Treasures photobook templates
Trace
is a dedicated digital scrapper from Queensland, Australia who is doing
an amazing job of documenting the first years of her little boy
Lincoln's life.So it made me very happy when I saw she had chosen the "Tiny Treasures" photobook templates from Designer Digitals to create the "baby's first year" photobook album for Lincoln's little sister Poppy.
(It made me especially happy as the photobook templates are ones I designed to document the very tiny digital photos of Daughter-two as a baby ... that'll teach us to be early adopters of technology).
Here are a couple of my pages using the templates:
Trace discovered digital scrapbooking in 2009 while googling for online scrapbooking sites.
I asked her to tell me about Poppy's album:
Poppy is our second and last child
so I had a million ideas about how I wanted to approach memory keeping
for her. With her big brother I scrapped a page every week for his first
year and it’s one of my favourite projects ever. So I always knew I was
going to do the same thing with Poppy.
This time though I knew I would not
have as much time and I wanted to take a simpler approach but still
make a co-ordinated album. So, I decided to use a template set to make
things easy for me.
All of the hard work is done
for me. :) These are the easiest and quickest pages I have put together
because I don’t have to think about the page design. I then use the same
kits/elements over a 2 page spread to keep it all co-ordinated. I tend
to choose a kit to match the colours in the photo to make it even
easier. I really love how it is all coming together.
I think the best thing about
template albums is that it takes away the hard work of the page design
and leaves you the fun job of recording the memories. But at the same
time they also are a great starting point if you want to play. A
yearlong project does not have to be hard and can actually come together
quite easily by using templates to start your pages.
Digital scrapbooking is much easier
and less messy than scrapbooking with paper, glue and scissors, but I
am still amazed at how Trace has managed to stay on top of this project
with a tiny baby and a toddler at home, but she says scrapbooking is
something she does for herself as much as for them:
Digi scrapping is how I relax
and what I do for ‘down time’. I am not normally a very crafty person
but I love that I can usually achieve what I want with digi scrapping.
It’s easy to learn new techniques and if I don’t like something I can
always hit undo or delete. I like that if I have time I can spend hours
playing but if I don’t have time then with the help of a template I can
still have our memories recorded.
Creating personalised photobooks
from templates appealed to her more than just printing a 'drag and drop"
photobook (or leaving the photos on her camera or hard drive!):
With a baby it seems like
things change every week and sometimes every day and we forget those
details so easily. There are so many milestones and the little day to
day things that I want to remember. And I also wanted to record my
feelings week to week. That’s not something that I could do if I left
the photos on my camera. Scrapping them rather than dropping them into a
photobook means I also get to put a little bit of me into the pages.
And have fun doing it. ;)
The books I have
printed as gifts are loved and treasured. My partner also loves flicking
through the first year book I did for our son and we have spent hours
laughing and remembering so many little day to day details that were
forgotten before we read the journaling. He will also ask regularly to
see my new pages. :)
I asked Trace which were her favourite
pages so far and, like most scrapbookers, she answered that the latest
one she had finished usually was. But these two she especially liked:
Here's a few of the kits Trace has been using - proving you don't need themed baby kits to scrap gorgeous baby layouts!
All supplies from Designer Digitals.
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