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Custom It's A Girl Baby Feet Scrapbook Album

You choose:
- Fabric for the cover.
- One color for the feet.
- Once color for the phrase "It's A Girl"
- Color of keepsake pages.
- Color of blank scrapbooking pages.

Embroidery is done by Geri's Embroidery
www.gerisembroidery.etsy.com

This 8x8 handmade baby shower scrapbook has 28 (14 double-sided) keepsake pages and 10 (5 double-sided) blank pages so that you can scrapbook those wonderful pictures that are taken at the baby showerand the birth of the baby.

This book also has a two pocket folders in it for extra pictures and birthday cards, in coordinating colors to match the scrapbook.

Cardstock is AF/LF.

8x8 top loading (10 pages) clear sheet protectors and a cd holder. The protectors and cd holder is archival safe, photo safe, AF/LF.

Book is refillable.

Ribbon binding will match the color of the embroidery and a charm pacifier will be added. Charms are available in pink, purple, yellow, and light blue.

The font for the keepsake pages will be same as the font on the cover.

Keepsake pages:
- mom & dad's story (3 pgs)
- the big news (2 pgs)
- baby shower announcement
- baby shower
- guest list
- gift list (2 pgs)
- big arrival (2 pgs)
- birth announcement
- your name
- hands & feet
- notes of love (2 pgs)
- the world when you was born (2 pgs)
- first home
- first times (2 pgs)
- bath time
- first foods
- first haircut
- first holiday
- your favorites

**Please allow 1-3 weeks for delivery**

thread, cardstock, fabric, ribbon, page protectors, 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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