Making Scrapbook Gifts For Mom; Three Gifts To Make Your Mother’s Day

Traditional gifts for Mothers Day center around chocolates, flowers and other pleasant but ephemeral items. How about trying something different that lasts longer and touches your mom’s heart.

One of the best hobbies to go into is Scrapbooking, for it has a variety of uses especially in creating presents that turn out to be family prized possessions.

The star scrapbook is, like its name, a scrapbook shaped like a star that can be used for display or carried around in a bag for all to see and admire. It is a personalized present and is an excellent treat for doting grandparents who wish to keep memories of family on their person. These star scrapbooks are fairly easy to create. A youtube clip that shows step by step instructions on how to make one is available by simply looking up dinglefootdotcom and star scrapbook.

An alternative would be a full size scrapbook album devoted to you and your mother. You can feature pictures of the two of you from the time of your birth right up to the present day. Begin with the first picture you have of the two of you together; if you’re lucky you’ll have one taken just after you were born, then move through the album recording milestones. There will usually be 9 double page spreads a title page and an end page, so plan each one before you start, then it’s easier to get your scrapbook supply and embellishments for a project like this all at the same time.

Here are some suggestions for pages you could create:

•    I am born – a page about your birth, but this time focusing on mother, not baby.
•    Your christening/naming ceremony – a page featuring family, with details on who were present, the date, all from your mom’s perspective.
•    Family Gatherings. Lots of families have times they get together, sometimes for big occasions, sometimes not. Whether it’s Christmas, New Year or a golden or diamond wedding, be sure to add pictures and labels to show who was who, and write about your mothers role in the event, not yours.
•    Your parents significant anniversaries. Chronicle the anniversaries your mom has celebrated. Ten, twenty or thirty years. Include the best memories she’s had.
•    Birthday Bashes. Pictures, invitations, messages from guests and such can be included. Anything significant from her birthday celebration should be added.
•    Family holidays. This is an area for the little and big trips you’ve had with all of your family together.
•    Your graduation. A school or university graduation is usually an occasion for pictures with parents. What was your Mother wearing, where did she get it?
•    A previous Mothers Day
•    A wedding – yours or maybe your mothers!
•    Your mothers first grandchild (if she has any)

The bond between Mother’s and daughters is a very strong one, especially when the daughters become mother’s themselves. If finding the words to express how you feel, simple stamped words can show your emotion or you can also check out quotegarden.com and look up “Mothers”.

Lovely as it is, a whole scrapbook can take time to make, if you are just starting with your gift, perhaps plan for everything a full year ahead and go for variety; a single scrapbook page, framed so it can be hung on the wall as an artwork.  Half way between a simple picture and a full album, these single pages can make wonderful keepsakes and give you the opportunity to take your creativity in a slightly different direction. You can buy a shadow box frame easily from amazon and then, because this will be hung in a deep frame and not kept flat in a book, you can explore the world of three dimensional embellishments.

For inspiration look at some of K and Company’s Grand Adhesions. These are relatively simply constructed using pads to raise some items of the page. Butterflies are easy to make 3D, one flat one duplicated cut out and added with just a dot of silicone and gently teased into shape. The same thing can be done with flowers, using something like the petal packs from Petaloo or, for a different approach the 20 blossom template from Hot Off The Press. Trace the flowers through the template onto paper, cut them out and assemble them.  Curl the petals for the 3D effect and add a little glitter, or even a gem or brad at the flower’s center. It’s all down to the paper you use, experiment with plain paper, patterns and of course vellum which gives a lovely delicate effect.

Shadow boxes are enjoyable to work with, and don’t take a long time do make, showcasing your work rather than keeping them hidden in an album.

Once you’ve completed your gift, don’t spoil the effect by forgetting to wrap it and if you really don’t have time for any of this, visit your Mom. She’d rather see you than a whole house full of scrapbooks.

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