Kris took Meredith to see Shrek 4 in theatres today, so I got a bit of time by myself. Fiona ended up falling asleep in one arm, so I decided to just take advantage and relax and ended up starting her baby book. I’ve decided to do hers completely digitally. There are a few things still that need to be changed or tweaked (for example, I apparently don’t have the non-watermarked versions of the professional pictures on my computer so I’ll need to get my disk and switch out those pictures), but overall I’m pretty happy with them so far. The shadows look very pronounced for some reason in the web versions, they will be much more subtle when printed. Click on the pictures to see them bigger.
I may use this picture instead (though in a sepia tone, not stark black and white, I just have to get it off the disk):
Then here is the next page. I may switch around the order of some of the pictures, but otherwise I’m pretty happy with it.
I haven’t left room for margins. I won’t be printing them as a book, I’ll have individual 12×12 pages printed and then put them in an album that way, I just like how that looks better for some reason. I’ve heard that way a lot less ends up cropped off the edges, so I hope that’s true. I’m trying to find some place that would let me print out one or two as samples to check, but with shipping it often ends up being pretty expensive to just print out one or two pages. I guess it would be cheaper than printing out an entire album and discovering I don’t like something about it though!
The next page will be all the professional pregnancy pictures we had done, and then I’ll work on the labour and delivery page. I still haven’t finished Meredith’s scrapbook either, but hers is all paper scrapbooking and it’s so much harder to just spend 20 minutes at a time working on it because I have to get everything out and then put it away again. I have a big 6 foot craft table upstairs now though that has all my sewing stuff on it. I think I may clear off the sewing stuff and use it to try to finish Meredith’s book (and, uh, my wedding album lol).
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Love it so far!! You’ll have to teach me how to digitally scrapbook one of these days
Thanks! I would love to, I think it’s so much fun. You should get Mom to show you how to use the software we got her for her birthday too.
It came with one free photobook, so if she doesn’t look like she’s going to use it you always could. (It expires in November or December I think.)
That looks great.
I finished Sam’s book (with paper), but haven’t done much scrapbooking since her first Christmas. I started a digital flower girl book for her that needs to be done, and I have done nothing for Anthony.
It is funny, I often feel kinda bored, but never think to do these things.
Thanks Jen.
I know the feeling. I finally decided to sit down and start this so maybe I can keep up with it. I now have more done on Fiona’s than I do on Meredith’s, sadly. If I didn’t already have all the paper and the book and stuff for Meredith’s I’d just do the rest of hers digital too.