Luisa’s Scrapbooking IdeasCapture Family Memories With Fun Scrapbooking Ideas

A baby shower is one of the most important events in a mother’s life, and of course she will want to find orginal baby shower scrapbooking layouts to capture her memories.Baby shower scrapbooking layouts are perfect for remembering those cute presents and visits by friends and relatives! Are you looking for more free digital scrapbooking?

Of course there are many different paper packs and templates that a person can purchase when it comes to commemorating a baby shower.  Many scrapbook companies put together pages that are set with frames for photos, cute sayings, and everything you need to make a baby scrapbook page.  If you’re new to scrapbooking or aren’t creatively gifted then these baby shower scrapbooking layouts can be the right thing for you.  All that’s needed are those pictures!  But some people aren’t interested in having their pages already designed for them but still are a bit overwhelmed with what to do when it comes to making up their own baby shower scrapbooking layouts.

Remember that you are not limited to baby pink and blue colors, and you can go beyond these colors and use any colors that you like.Try autumn colors on your baby shower scrapbooking pages - rusty red, warm yellow and chocolate brown work well together.  One reason for this is that these colors are somewhat neutral and a bit easier on the eyes than strong blues, but aren’t as washed out as pink can sometime seem.  You might also try these same colors but in primary shades, meaning red, blue and yellow.  Usually baby toys are tinted with primary colors so this can really be appropriate for baby shower scrapbooking layouts.

Get creative with the scrapbooking poem and the fonts you use.  Many opt for “childish” fonts that resemble the writing of a child but there’s no need to do this if you prefer something more elegant or something simpler.  You can put the child’s name or a simple phrase such as “Baby Boy” or “Baby Girl” across the top of any baby shower scrapbooking layouts and some simple wording underneath in a smaller font for a nice touch. Try using cricut machine with to create your letters.  You don’t always have to use the word “baby” on your pages- try other words like Cherished, Love, Welcome, and Precious.

Even though the current economic conditions are strained, people still want to throw beautiful baby showers. The trick to doing this in a slow economy is to cut corners in ways that no one will notice. That can start with the baby shower invitations and include the decorations and any scrapbooks created to commemorate the event.

One way to do that is to find good baby clipart. Often you can find cool free images online. Just search for “free baby shower clip art,” plus the type of image you want. For example, if you want pink baby girl clip art, enter those words or some variation of them in the search box. That will work with almost any baby shower theme you can think of, although the more obscure the concept, the less likely it will be that you’ll get enough good search results. If when you search you can locate images that have high resolution, you’ll be able to use the images in a variety of ways. The reason for that is print projects such as invitations or decorations require high resolution images. You certainly wouldn’t want to use low-resolution images because the end result won’t be clear. That would, of course, be unacceptable for a baby shower invitation, thank you card or decorations.

But clip art isn’t the only baby art resource you can find free on the Internet. There are also many sites that present baby scrapbook paper. A number of talented designers give away no-charge versions of their baby shower scrapbook page designs to promote scrapbook designs they sell or to get people to come to pages that have advertising. Either of these models give them a financial incentive to offer scrapbooking paper and embellishment freebies. No matter the reason the free scrapbook materials are offered, you win! Baby scrapbook themes are almost as plentiful as stars in the sky, so they can be used instead of or in addition to clip art to make shower invitations and decorations. Themes range from fun and silly to vintage and retro to classy and luxurious. If the mother-to-be likes retro you might want to try searching for vintage scrapbook embellishments. A mom-to-be who is into that kind of art would probably be thrilled to have that as her baby shower theme!

It goes without saying that all the clip art, scrapbook papers and embellishments can also be used to preserve baby shower memories forever in a scrapbook that can be given to the mom-to-be. This means the time you spend looking for images will pay off over and over, giving the new mom a baby shower she’ll never forget.