Not JUST a Navywife: Making Memories

After a couple trips to Michaels and A.C Moore along with a weeks worth of actual scrapbooking, the pages for Nicholas's First Year Album have been designed and created. Like I mentioned earlier, I tend to break my projects into stages and this Album has been based around that. Today's post is all about stage 1: desinging and creating the page layouts.

Stage 1 of 4

Part One - Designing the Page Layouts

I created this nineteen page album to highlight the important milestones and moments in Nicholas's first year and overall the album has 19 - 12 X 12 pages and can hold up to 45 photos.

Pages are as follows:

Page 1: "It's a boy!" - room for one double mat photo along with a journaling area for birth information and a circle mat for a footprint stamp.

Pages 2 & 3: "New Little Boy" - room for five double mat photos along with two journaling areas that will be filled with tid-bits from his early days and a quote reading "A brand new baby boy, to fill our lives and hearts with joy."

Pages 4 & 5: "Mommas Boy/Father & Son" - room for six double mat photos.

Pages 6 & 7: "Sleepyhead" - room for four double mat photos along with two journaling areas and a quote reading "Sleepyhead just close your eyes, listen to the lullabies. You are safe cuz mama's here. Dream sweet dreams my little dear."

Pages 8 & 9: "Making a Big Splash" - room for four double mat photos along with two journaling areas, a mat for a rubber ducky embellishments and a quote reading "Happy as a Duck in Water!"

Pages 10 & 11: "Messy Face" - room for four double mat photos along with two journaling areas for his favorite and least favorite foods, a mat for a highchair embellishment, three mat circles for other embellishments.

Pages 12 & 13: "A First Time for Everything" - room for seven double mat photos labeled with important milestones (First Haircut; Before & After, First Tooth and First Steps).

Pages 14 &15: "Family Ties" - room for six double mat photos and a quote reading "The best thing to hold onto in life is each other."

Pages 16 & 17: "How I Grew... and Grew" - room for twelve double mat photos for each month.

Pages 18 & 19: - "The Birthday Boy" - room for four double mat photos along with a journaling area, a mat for a birthday cake embellishment and a mat for a 1st Birthday tag.

Part Two - Creating the Pages

After making a blue-print like structure of how I wanted the pages to look it was off to the store. Though I have only made it to stage one of four, the album thus far was created using Me & My Big Ideas "Baby Boy" papers as well as some various solid color papers by Bazzil.

Page 1: "It's a boy!"