NEWBORN PAGE

All books have to have a beginning.  In each of my childrens scrapbooks I made a newborn page. Being a packrat I still had their original hospital certificates and the new born picture the photographers took in the the hospital when they were days old.   Remember these were the days before digital. 

FRIENDS FOREVER

Over the years we have many friends come and go but there are those who seem to be in our lives forever.
My son has a few friends he has had since  he was very young so I decided to do a scrapbook layout of theses special friends.

SCRAPBOOKING THROUGH THE YEARS

In the middle of my sons scrapbooks I made a through the years page with all their school photos.
This is my middles sons pages.

GRADUATION SCRAPBOOK PAGES

My son had so many graduations I needed two sets of  pages to cover them all.  The idea  for the high school grad page was taken from  various cards I had seen.  The collage on the left hand bottom page was an invitation for his last graduation party.

POOL SHARK AND TEENAGERS WITH ATTITUDE

This is a scrapbook page I designed for my teen with attitude.  The pool cues are a digi imaged resized , cut out and colored with markers.

ARMY LIFE

My two sons were in the army reserves for a few years.  I saved their dog tags and added them to their scrapbook pages.  This is one of the army pages. 

SCRAPBOOK PAGES, BEGINNINGS AND ENDINGS.

  My sons were born in the seventies before the age of digital pictures. Fewer pictures were taken back then  so preparing a scrapbook proved to be challenging at times.
I mapped out my scrapbook  like a book trying to cover  pages for different ages and special events in their lives.  Over the years I had gathered up small mementos  of their life which I scanned into the computer , shrank down and added to the pages.
Each book had an opening and closing page.
The following are the opening and closing pages for my middle son, Chris.

SCRAPBOOKS , ABOUT THE AUTHOR

 I decided when I did my scrapbooks for my three sons that I wanted to have a foreword and a note about the author.    I typed them out to fit  in the  clear plastic folds on the inside of the  front and back covers.

SCRAPBOOKING FOR YOUR CHILDREN

I fell in love with the concept of making scrapbooks of your children's life  has a keepsake to share with their future family and friends.   The first ones that I saw were on the Carol Duval Show using just colored paper and  cut out shapes. Since then we have evolved into an amazing world of special papers, stickers, die cuts , etc.etc.  These are a few of the pages I made for my youngest sons scrapbook.