Mother’s Day Gift.

Front Cover. I’m obsessed with silhouettes…this one was done on the cricut!

Yes, Mother’s Day was many months ago, but I figure I might as well share. I made mini-scrapbook albums for my mom and mom-in-law, and of course for myself. Here’s how:

I love seeing all the colors of all the pages.

First, I do all my scrapbooking digitally, so I did that like normal. Then when I was finished with his 2009 pages, I created a photoshop action that would automatically resize them into 4×4 then create a “page” that was 4×6 so i could print them out as pictures. I just got them printed at Costco.

For the most part I’ve laid the pages out chronologically. Some pages are two page spreads, so some pages had to be moved a round a bit.

I cropped them down square. Then came the hard part – layout. I figured out the order and glued them front to back. Finally, I borrowed my friend’s laminator and laminated them all. They are pretty sturdy pages which is exactly what I wanted.

So fun to see how small his hand is.

I had an extra page in the back, so I helped Ben make a hand-print. Mine is slightly smudged…but it shows how “easy” it was to make.

This is a nice thick brag book, about 1 1/2 inches.

Oh, and I punched a hole in the upper left corner and ran a binder ring through it. I think it turned out super cute and I love to look at it. I still need to get his 2009 book printed out (as a book) but this works for now.
♥ Julliana