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Pioneer Photo TM-12GRN 12-by-12-Inch Scrapbook Album with Sewn Oxford Cover, Green

• 12-by-12-inch scrapbook album for pictures, mementos, and more
• Softly padded, sewn oxford cover with protective metal corner plates
• 3-ring binding system accepts standard refills (not included)
• Archival- and photo-safe; free from harmful acid, lignin, and PVC
• Measures approximately 14-2/5 by 12-1/2 by 2-4/5 inches

Product Description
Holds most 12-inch by 12-inch sheet protectors including Pioneer 12-inch by 12-inch memory book refill pages, 4-inch by 6-inch pocket refill pages or print file cd storage pages. Archival, acid free, photo safe.

Pioneer Photo TM-12GRN 12-by-12-Inch Scrapbook Album with Sewn Oxford Cover, Green

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How to Make a Baby Scrapbook Album

First, you’ll want to begin to purchasing an archival safe and acid-free album of your choice. Sizes can range anywhere from 6″x6″ to 12″x12″. If you want to make one as a gift, you might want to use a smaller size. You can include page protectors, but it’s not a necessity. The album itself can be spiral bound or postbound. Spiral bound albums are nice, because the spirals can also be embellished giving it a special touch.

Decide on a theme. You can turn it into an ABC album, my first year, either whimsical, cartoonisch or elegant, whichever you prefer.

Next you’ll want to choose your colors, blue/green/brown/yellow/orange for boys, ink/purple/yellow/orange/brown for girls and green/yellow/brown for unisex. If possible try to coordinate the colors in the photograph with your cardstock and coordinating patterned papers. Try to stick with double layouts as it is more pleasing to the eye to have coordinated layouts. I usually take the right side of a double spread for the photo(s) and the left side for journaling. You might want to stick with the same color schemes throughout, changing the style from double to double layout.

When embellishing, try to keep it simple. A simple bow, sticker, tag, buttons or flower with ribbon might do. If you’re using a small album, then you have to make use of the space you have available, so it’s best not to clutter the pages with embellishments. Different types of embellishments you can use are stickers, diecuts or cut-outs of baby carriages, baby bottles, safety pins, real saftey pins, bows, angel wings, baby buttons, letter beads, metal plaques with baby’s hands and feet or various stamp images. Just go to your local scrapbooking store and you’ll see what you might need.

For the journaling, you might want to use your printer and print on vellum. It gives the layout a very special and soft look. Adhere the vellum with brads, staples and ribbon, buttons, mini safety pins, eyelets, or with vellum adhesive. If you want a very personal touch, use your handwriting. I tend to mix the two. You can also use large tags for journaling

You’ll also want to decorate the front cover. Sometimes you can find albums with windows on the cover, which is great for placing a beautiful photo of the baby. It’s a good idea to take a piece of transparency to cover the photo for protection in case there isn’t already one included. Cover the front partially or completely with patterned paper, use a wide piece of ribbon and tie around the front cover near the spine. If you have a spiral album, tie a few ribbons into the spirals. Embellish the frame and put on the baby’s name and viola! Cover finished!

When making an album for someone else, you’ll want to make a pre-made scrapbooking album without photos. Make sure that you include photo mats to adhere the pictures onto and make titles or journaling generic. i. e. “Sweet Little Angel” can be for both a girl and a boy.

Hopefully I have provided you with lots of good information to make a great baby scrapbooking album! Have fun!

Make your Own Scrapbook Albums? Yes, you Can!

Seasoned scrapbookers know that scrapbooking is an expensive hobby. In addition to costly tools, embellishments, and paper, there are expensive albums into which you insert your family’s memories for safekeeping. Sometimes, we want to make event scrapbooks to share as gifts with family, friends, and coworkers, but the cost of these albums can be prohibitive. Fortunately, there is an alternative to traditional scrapbook albums that you purchase in the craft store. You can make your own album with your choice of acid free paper using spiral coil binding.

You can buy spiral coil in a variety of lengths and colors. No matter what the theme of your scrapbook, you can definitely find a coordinating color of coil since it is manufactured in over sixty colors. Some of the newer colors include spiral blue, dark purple, copper, tangerine, lilac, light teal, and charcoal.

In addition to spiral coil’s color options, you can also customize your scrapbook’s size through coil size selection. No longer must you choose standard sizes selected for you by the craft industry. You can choose to create books ranging in widths from a quarter of an inch up to two inches. Instead of settling for standard six, eight, eleven, or twelve inch lengths, you can go all the way up to three feet with spiral coil. Taking control of your binding allows you to experiment with different sizes and configurations so that you can create unique scrapbooks that are just perfect for the memories contained inside them.

You may think this type of binding equipment is expensive and is not a viable option for scrapbookers on a budget. That simply is not true. For crafters who make 8. 5” x 11” scrapbooks, the GBC ProClick P50 is available for about $60. Compared to the price for one album, this equipment is a viable option—especially when it can be used to make album upon album. It will pay for itself in just a few projects.

If you are not an 8. 5” x 11” scrapbooker, you will need to look for a machine that can bind scrapbooks of different lengths. The PC200 machine is more expensive (about $250), but it is much more customizable. This machine allows you to shift into creative overdrive since you can bind memory books ranging in length from one inch up to 21 inches long. In addition to its versatility, it uses plastic coils that are slightly less expensive than those used for the GBC ProClick machine.

Not only can spiral coil binding help you create scrapbooks and craft projects for you and your family to enjoy, it can also help you to make money. Think about putting together your own unique scrapbook kits to sell online or in local craft stores. Compared to what you can make—especially by offering products no one else has—the costs associated with binding equipment are minimal. There really is no limit to what sorts of projects you can put together using your imagination and the right equipment.

Scrapbook albums where to find the below?

I am looking for a scrapbook album, i would like 12×12 if possible that has hearts, or love or something along those lines on the front. i am having a very, very difficult time finding anything like this that does not look like a 3 year olds. any suggestions?! thanks
also looking for some really cute pink paper, and some paper that says ‘love’ ‘always and forever’ shows hearts just romantic/love themed paper. thanks