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Custom Adoption Scrapbook Album

This handmade 8x8 adoption scrapbook album has 5 double-sided cardstock (your choice of color) in it so that you can scrapbook any kind of wonderful memories plus the adoption keepsake pages, described below.

Cardstock is AF/LF.

You decide on color fabric that will be used to create the scrapbook.

Matching ribbon binding to match the adoption embroidery design and fabric.

Adoption embroidery design is approximately: 3 ¾ diameter circle.

Embroidery is done by: Geri's Custom Embroidery
www.geriscutomembroidery.artfire.com

5 8x8 top loading (10 pages) clear sheet protectors. The protectors are archival safe, photo safe, AF/LF.

This book is refillable.

Keepsake pages that will come in the scrapbook:
-Title page(1 pg)
- Adoption day(1 pg)
-Mom & dad's story(3 pgs)
-Big news(2 pgs)
-Baby shower announcement(1 pg)
-Baby shower(1 pg)
-Guest list(1 pg)
-Gift list(2 pgs)
-Big arrival(2 pgs)
-Adoption announcement(1 pg)
-My name(1 pg)
-Hands and feet(1 pg)
-Notes of love(2 pgs)
-The world when You were adopted(2 pgs)
-First home(1 pg)
-First times(2 pg)
-First bath time(1 pg)
-First foods(1 pg)
-First haircut(1 pg)
-First holiday(1 pg)
-My favorites(1pg)

Cardstock is AF/LF.

1- 2 pocket folder. 1 side for birthday cards the other side for left over pictures. Pockets will be in coordinating colors with the book and are hand sewn.


****Please allow 2-3 weeks for delivery***

cardstock, ribbon, fabric, thread, page protector, recycled cardboard

The most important scrapbooking supply is the album itself!



History of scrapbooking:



Beginning in the 15th century, commonplace books, popular in England, emerged as a way to compile information that included recipes, quotations, letters, poems and more. Each commonplace book was unique to its creator's particular interests.



Friendship albums became popular in the 16th century. These albums were used much like modern day yearbooks, where friends or patrons would enter their names, titles and short texts or illustrations at the request of the album's owner. These albums were often created as souvenirs of European tours and would contain local memorabilia including coats of arms or works of art commissioned by local artisans. The friendship albums and school yearbooks afforded girls in the 18th and 19th centuries an outlet through which to share their literary skills, and allowed girls an opportunity to document their own personalized historical record previously not readily available to them.



Starting in 1570, it became fashionable to incorporate colored plates depicting popular scenes such as Venetian costumes or Carnival scenes. These provided affordable options as compared to original works and, as such, these plates were not sold to commemorate or document a specific event, but specifically as embellishments for albums.



In 1775, James Granger published a history of England with several blank pages at the end of the book. The pages were designed to allow the book's owner to personalize the book with his own memorabilia. The practice of leaving pages to personalize at the end of books became known as grangerizing.



The advent of modern photography began with the first permanent photograph created by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce in 1826. Photography became available to an ever-widening population with the invention of George Eastman's paper photographs in the late 1880's and the mass production of the Kodak Brownie, a camera designed to be simple (and inexpensive) enough for a child, in 1900. This allowed the average person to begin to incorporate photographs into their scrapbooks.



Old scrapbooks tended to have photos mounted with photomounting corners and notations of who was in a photo or where and when it was taken. They often included bits of memorabilia like newspaper clippings, letters, and other keepsakes.





For additional information on scrapbooking please visit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrapbooking

This is were I found my information from.

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