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Things To Consider When Making A Scrapbook For Mother’s Day

As Mother’s Day comes around all scrapbookers will want to create a scrapbook layout – but for what purpose? Here are three things you should think about when considering a project like this.

1. Your Mom. Celebrate your Mother in a scrapbook or layout, large or small.

2. Your daughter. Scrapbooks can be given to daughters. I’m not sure why. If you are fortunate enough to have a daughter, consider including one page in the scrapbook that is exclusively for her that features something you did together in the past.

3. Yourself. Add to your own scrapbook special times you’ve spent with your mother, your daughter, or both!

If your mother is a scrapbooker herself, you may like to create a layout for her to add to her own scrapbook. You can showcase things you’ve done together in the past year, or an event from your joint past. Go for a layout that is simple and uses colors that blend well with the photographs that you have. The relationship between Mother and Daughter can sometimes be quite challenging, so if you find yourself struggling to find the right words you can use something like a rub on to display your feelings, or find a poem or a favorite quotation on quotegarden.com (search for ‘mothers’) that sums up your relationship. One of my favorites is from Milton Berle ‘If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?’

My mom and I always have a great time when singing, so the best method for me to design a layout for her is to visualize one line from a song. She is also particularly fond of butterflies, so it won’t be difficult to create just the right theme for her, and I enjoy creating colorful butterflies and flowers, with the Garden Delight or Patterned Bug scrapbooking stamps from Inkadinkadoo. I usually stamp and emboss these onto colored card and cut them out, but recently I’ve been experimenting with the Suakura embossing glaze pens, a fabulous way to make butterflies almost as colorful as the real thing. My latest page was made from the saying ‘Friends are Flowers in Nature’s Garden’ because I found we had lots of small pictures of our friends. I cut these into circles and made them the center of flowers. It was a two page layout with small 3D flowers along the lower border and stamped bugs and birds flitting among the blooms. A great big tag with the name of each friend finished off the page, tied with a toning ribbon. Flowers are commonly associated with Mother’s Day as well, however, try to come up with something that is personal by adding her favorite flower, animal or color.

If your mom is not a scrapbooker, you may prefer to make her a whole scrapbook, but that doesn’t mean you have to do everything on your own. This is a lovely project to do with your siblings, if you can get them interested. If that’s not the case and you have children, ask them what ‘Grandma’ means to them. Children don’t always get the chance to do this. Each one can contribute, if not a page, a picture and tag that says something about what ‘Mother’ or ‘Grandmother’ means to them. One of the best things about scrapbooks is that everything is on the same level and it is the memories and personality that counts.

In considering a theme for the entire scrapbook, perhaps a word would do. ‘Busy’ or ‘Creative’ would be just right for my Mom, or a simple color scheme of blues and lilacs; you can try looking for themed papers that can be associated with any of your mom’s interests. A friend of mine has a mother who has collected sheep all her life; cuddly sheep, china sheep, glass sheep, every kind of sheep, so when they put together a scrapbook for her 60th birthday, guess what was the theme! In the past I’ve created an album with a pineapple theme and another for a friend who was seriously into rabbits. Both really enjoyed their personalized scrapbooks, but if there is nothing personal you can think of, try to get inspiration from your Mother’s house. Her taste in decor are great sources for clues.

The things you will need for the entire scrapbook are

1 album with page protectors
20 good quality pieces of scrapbooking paper/card to use as a background. It’s best to choose background paper that comes in sets, or to make your own, using card, stamps and Distress Inks. You can see how it’s done in our YouTube video Ranger Distress Ink Ideas – just go to youtube and search for Dinglefootdotcom.
Double sided tape
6 or more pages of contrasting papers. You can cut border, mattes and tags from these sheets.
Assorted brads, stamps and embellishments, for example

- Amy Butler Fabric Covered Brads ~ K & Company — use these to attach tags and journalling papers
- Amy Butler Belle Chipboard Alphabet – K & Company – use these to make heading for some pages
- 20 Blossoms 12″ x 12″ Template ~ Hot Off the Press – use this template to create flower embellishments to add to your pages
- some Tim Holz Distress Ink pads – use to create patterns on plain background pages or to stamp and emboss with

A pen to write your journalling with, unless you plan to do this on a computer.
Other suggestions would include

- and ink pad and embossing powder (gold and silver go with everything)
- a paper punch to create cut outs on border or frames
- some frames to place over your pictures
- vellum to create focus on your pages
- some mattes to place under other pictures
- ribbon
- some rubber stamps
- Scrapbooking is a great venue for recycling broken things, broken earrings, left over buttons can all be glued in to pages to make delightful embellishments.

In terms of photographs, you’ll need at least one for each event. Dig out pictures of your mother’s life (ask friends and relatives if necessary) or you can just focus on her life with you. You can create an effective two page layout with just one picture on one page and some journalling on the other, but it can be boring if the whole album is the same. Try to vary the layouts and the shapes of the pictures so your pages don’t all look the same, but remember there is no right or wrong. The only opinions that count are yours and your mom’s.

If you are pressed for time and don’t have enough to make a scrapbook, buy your mother the next best thing, an introduction to scrapbooking as a hobby. A good book, an album to start with and a scrapbooking gift basket may be just the thing to get her started, and who knows what you might get, next year.

CHERYL JAVILLO WEBCAM FROM PHILIPPINES GUESS EARRINGS