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Redoing books for mom

Hi everyone,

I'm looking for some general advice and artistic input.

Went over to the folks house for Thanksgiving yesterday and we all discussed Christmas. Mom and Dad are fairly well off whereas her two children are in positions of needing every spare penny (my brother and his wife are about to have their first child, my fiance and I just moved from one side of the country to the other and are unemployed at the moment).

Well, during the course of the evening, mom pulled out some photo albums to show to the new spouses (thanks mom). She has stacks of them in those magnetic pages and several in those old paper books that are starting to fall apart. The magnetic ones appear to still be pretty new thank goodness. Spotting the problem and know how much these mean to my mother, the Christmas dilemna was solved. My brother and I are going to scan all of the images, clean up and spice up those that have faded, and remount the pictures in archival safe scrapbooks and give her a digital copy.

I'm still fairly new to scrapbooking. And mom has a lot of her pictures cut into, um, interesting shapes. Now she stores them flat so I can't add really anything in the way of bulky embellishments.

I'll take any advice anyone has to give.

Alex

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M. Alex Robinson
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My 2 cents... pick a theme and keep it simple. When you have a whole album to do. I redid my husband's parents wedding album. It was falling a part. I decide that if I tried to be real creative it would take me forever... so I picked out about 5 different papers for matting and accents. I picked out the stickers again keeping it to a minimum. The album did go quickly. I also did an ABC baby album for a friend using the same idea of keeping to the same papers and same stickers. I would look back at the pages to try and keep it looking different and it worked. Good luck.

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King's Crown

Considering how little time you'll have between now and Christmas, I would keep it as simple as possible. You can do some really great creative things and still simple. As for staying away from bulky, that's still easy to do. There's lots of great stickers out there that look very nice, and die-cuts are always a nice embellisment, too. I'm sure you'll find lots of ideas here. Good luck!

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Deb in AR

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