Grandparents Album

[ilovebelle]

Hello everyone! This isn't a Disney themed album, but you are all so creative and willing to share your ideas. I am thinking about creating an album for my grandparents for Christmas. I am turing 25 this year, and I was the first grandchild. I thought it would be neat to make a small album of the five grandkids as a Christmas present for my grandparents. I've tentively been titling it "25 years of Grand Children." What do you think? Also, I'm trying to decide how to do everything. I don't want it too sappy, but I want it to have some emotion. I want the pictures to cover the 25 years my grandparents have been grandparents. Other than that, I don't have too many ideas. If you guys can come up with anything or have any examples of things you've done, I would love to see them. I just feel a little at a loss because I've not done any baby or children albums. Plus, I've not done any grandparent albums. I don't want it to be too immature or too mature looking. (sorry I'm rambling) If anyone has any great ideas, please let me know. Also, if you know of any good grandparent, grandma, and/ or grandpa poems, quotes, or lyrics or websites, please, post the link.

I appreciate everyone's help!

Kristin

 

[Spinning]

I made one of these for my mom and Step dad this past Christmas but I only delt with 7 years since my DD was born. I mainly focused on my 2 kids but did add pictures of the entire family.
I broke it down in years with that broken down to holidays, vacations, special events and candids
I tried to keep everything to a 2 page lay out. I used a basic layout idea not a lot of embellishments!
What could be really fun is if you got the other grandchildren involved. Ask them to create a 2 page spread with favorite memories. Ask them to write one of their first memories. Or even Remember when we Grandma/ Grandpa caught us doing.....List favorite foods or places they would take each kid, fond memories!
It will be an album to cherish! Good luck!

 

[ilovebelle]

Thanks for the encouragement, Spinning. You are very creative (as I have seen from your Park swap stuff). I just really hope this works!

Kristin

 

[JudithM]

One of my LSS sells a one page - 8.5" x 11" paper with the year & various categories for the year - like sports, academy awards, in the news, politics, etc. I even bought a four page booklet on how to scrap with it. I've bought the ones for our birth years (when I get aroundto starting those pages ), but I imagine you could use wedding year, graduation year, etc.

I suspect your grandparents will enjoy whatever you put together for them!