Baby and Toddler Pages



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Baby and Toddler Pages

Top Tips for Baby & Toddler Pages

Tip #1: Record the story of your baby’s arrival in the world! Write down the circumstances of Mom’s labor—from preparations to the ride to the hospital.

Tip #2: Tell the story behind the baby’s name. Why did you choose it? Is it a family name, does it have a special meaning—and did both parents agree on it?

Tip #3: A toddler changes so much from day to day! Photograph the child each month to capture that growth. Include a monthly physical growth chart, recording changes in weight and height.

Tip #4: Every child has a favorite toy. What’s the story behind your child’s favorite? Was it a gift, and from whom? Does it have a special name?

Tip #5: Record a conversation with your toddler every few months and ask him or her about likes and dislikes: food, games, book, movie, clothes and friends will change so quickly!

Ask scrappers how they got started in the craft and many will tell you the obsession began when they had kids! Suddenly the new parent finds herself with lots of photos and no way to keep them organized or documented. Of course, still more scrappers start preserving those baby photos long after their kids have grown up and moved out!

Whatever the case may be, scrapping parents (or aunties, siblings and grandparents) usually want the same thing: Great-looking layouts that don’t take a ton of time or money. Shauna Berglund-Immel, a scrapbooker and busy mom, has tried-and-true advice on scrapping those baby and toddler pages—complete with tips, tricks and two inspiring layouts!

Jack

“The Busy Scrapper Boys: Baby & Toddler Papers come in great trendy colors (so they’ll match your kids’ clothes) and have so much artwork that it’s easy to create a layout in no time at all!” says Shauna.

Shauna first matted her photo on blue paper and inked the edges with black. She matted again on red paper, inked the edges and glued the photo to the bordered background paper. She cut out the alphabet tiles to spell Jack’s name and slightly folded each one at the “stitched” line, then glued them along the right edge of the matted photo.

Notice Shauna’s unique journaling? She computer-generated her journaling, leaving space in between the words for cut-out word fragments from the Busy Scrapper cut-out sheet. “Test your spacing on a scrap paper first,” she advises, adding: “I inked the edges of the journaling plaque and matted it on red paper, leaving an extra 1/4” on the left-hand side of the red paper so I could fold it over onto the journaling.” Shauna inked the folded edge, added red penwork stitching and secured the fold to the journaling plaque with two silver brads. The journaling is glued to the background paper underneath the photo.

Shauna journaled the date on a red paper ribbon cut-out and added a silver brad on the left-hand side, then attached it to the photo with foam tape. She wrote “months” on a tag cut-out, punched a hole at the top and threaded white embroidery floss through the hole to attach it to the ribbon fragment. The tag is secured to the page with foam tape.

Supplies

• Busy Scrapper Boys: Baby & Toddler Papers
• Cardmaker’s™ Gold & Silver Mini Brads
• white paper
• Graphite Black inkpad
• black pen, red pen
• 1/16” hole punch
• white embroidery floss
• foam tape

A You’re Adorable

“The toddler years are really when you start to see changes as your baby grows into a little person,” says Shauna. “The Busy Scrapper Girls Baby & Toddler Papers are great because the papers reflect that changing time.” Shauna used an ABC-style for her journaling, starting each letter of her sentence with an alphabet tile cut-out.

Shauna trimmed the yellow texture paper to a 7 3/4” x 10 3/4” rectangle, then inked the edges black. She matted this piece on salmon paper and inked the edges again. Black penwork stitching adds a fun edge to the yellow paper, which she centered on the patterned background paper.

“I love making unique photo mats, and this is one of my favorite techniques,” Shauna said. “Mat a 5”x7” photo on green linen paper, trim to 1/16” and ink the edges black. Mat again on striped paper (with the stripes running horizontally) and trim the right and left sides to 1/4”. The top and bottom edges are flush with the green mat.” Ink all four edges black and glue to the right side of the yellow mat, 1/4” from the right edge. Her finishing touches? A 1/2”-wide piece of striped paper tied in a loose knot that’s glued to the corner of the photo and a “toddler” label cut-out that appears to hang from the photo.

For her journaling, Shauna simply cut out the alphabet tiles and arranged them on the yellow mat and added her own journaling with a black pen. An inked “happiness” tape-style fragment is inked with black and glued to the top of the yellow mat.

Supplies

• Paper Pizazz® Busy Scrapper’s Solution Girl Baby & Toddler Papers
• Graphite Black inkpad
• black pen

For great layouts, Shauna relies on The Busy Scrapper’s Solution collections. Each one contains patterned papers, faux-textures to use as solids, plus hundreds of alphabet tiles and cut-out embellishments like tags, labels and fragments. They’re also a terrific value at just $14.99 each! Check out the complete line of Busy Scrapper’s Solution books to see the other themes available.