Scrapbooks are a fun way to keep memories alive and record events throughout your pregnancy. It’s a kind of diary, but with more pictures and heavily embellished with quotes, comments, sketches, magazine clippings, ribbons, dried flowers, and other interesting memorabilia. Some moms like to create their scrapbooks by hand with a blank album, while other more tech-savvy moms like to post their digital scrapbooks online where family and friends from faraway places can view and comment. what has been recently published. Whichever medium is chosen, the following tips should help moms create a week-by-week pregnancy scrapbook.

Choose an overall color scheme for your album layout or layout. Your scrapbook will be made of various objects that look different from each other. The only thing that unites them will be the scrapbook-themed design, like a sepia-toned background with handwritten script for image descriptions and border comments. Do not choose a gender specific theme unless you are sure of the gender of your baby. Also, print your album design if you want a specific design for your background. These suggestions apply to both a real album and a digital one.

Use a Lomo or Instagram camera to create interesting images. These days, an ordinary digital camera looks boring without the extra filters or effects that Lomography or Instagram can provide. Lomography is a popular form of amateur photography using low quality cameras from Holga, Diana or the Austrian Lomo. This subcultural genre of photography has been described as spontaneous and candid. Due to the poor build of the camera, photos often come out with underexposures, washed-out colors, and blurry images that together create a surreal work of art. By comparison, Instagram allows for the same spontaneity and artistic freedom as Lomography, but with a more technical bent by using smartphones instead of analog cameras.

Scrapbooking materials come in many forms. You don’t have to buy ribbons, lace, stencil paper, or Japanese paper to make your album beautiful. Complements with what you have on your work table, in your drawers and in old boxes behind your closet. Your sewing kit or your art deco kit also serve as inspiration to design your scrapbook. Look through old magazines and cut out images or letters to better express what you feel or think during each week that your pregnancy progresses.

Order copies of your ultrasound images and color them in to create a montage of your baby’s growth. Attach photocopies of medical documents from your doctor visits. That your baby is healthy and appears to be growing normally inside your tummy is both a source of joy and fear as the last week approaches. When you look back on those days when you barely appeared, you will be amazed at how far you have come to bring another human being into this world and experience the happiness of walking the path of motherhood once again or for the first time. hour.