Can you help me with a baby SB thing?

[Gillian]

I hope you creative DISers can help me!

I scrapbook a little, and even less now that DS is 2 1/2! Well, we've got another little devil on the way & I am looking for some fun ways to document its arrival.

One of my friends brought a CM scrapbook page to the hospital and had visitors, nurses, docs, etc sign it to welcome the baby. I really like that idea, but I am planning to use a top loading album. I am looking for ideas on how to do something similar. I also plan to take pictures of people who visit, so I'm trying to plan for that as well as the messages.

Any advice? Have you seen anything similar? I've got so much on my mind right now that I can't come up with any good ideas! Please help me. Thank you!

 

[poohbear1029]

You probably will take 4x6 photos of people who come to visit, right? Cut some paper about 5x6 1/2....it'll give room to mount the photo on and room for the visitors to journal along the bottom...you can even do the paper larger for more room....

You can also just bring a 12x12 or 8 1/2 x11 piece of cardstock with you in a page protector and have people pull it out and sign as they come to visit you in the hospital.

 

[tammie33]

I like Gillian's idea of precuting mats with extra space for visitors to right messages. I'm definitely going to do that. You may also cut the paper into fun shapes, hearts, baby bottles etc. for people to write their wishes on.

Also - you can take some paper (pink and/or blue) and ask the dr. to stamp the baby's foot prints for you after they do the official one.

Make sure to save the hospital ID bracelet and any other memorabilia.

Congratulations!

 

[DMoss3377]

This is an idea I used for a friend who had her second child a couple years ago. I made in it a 6X9 Dalee top loading album. I took coordinating papers from Susan Branch and cut the pages to fit the album. I sent half the pages to the hospital with my friend and her MIL. When each visitor came in, they had a picture taken with the baby and then were given a sheet of paper, they could write to the baby any advice, well wishes, thoughts, etc that they wanted and signed it.

Then I got duplicates of the photos from her MIL, all the sheets of paper that people had written, she helped me match up the pictures to the papers, since I didn't know everyone, and I put the album together. When you open the cover, the title page is the birth announcment. Then each 2-page spread is the picture on the left and their sheet of writting on the right. I used more coordinating paper and stickers from Susan Branch to embellish the pages. Then I left space at the end with extra page protectors and papers for the bracelet, foot and hand prints, notes from mom, etc. She absolutely loved it and can hardly wait until her daughter can read the sheets from everyone herself and know what it all means.

I will definitly do this project again. It took no time at all to put together either. Once I got the pictures and all the sheets back, I put it together in about 4 hours....she had a lot of visitors. The thing you have to remember with Dalee, is that you need the binder fillers so your spine expands with the pages so you don't get aligator mouth.

Congratulations!

 

[Gillian]

Thanks for the great ideas! I am going to go to Michaels and see what they have. I don't have a small album & I don't know if I'll remember to order one. Our nursery is suns, moons & stars, so maybe I will try to find die cuts to match that. There is also a scrap book store that I haven't visited yet. I need someone to watch my 2 year old. I think he'd be dangerous in there!