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Scrapper 'Baby's First Year' Calendar

24 years ago

Hello all! I am new to scrapping, but I have an idea that I would love to do for my girlfriend's new baby. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

I want to make up a blank calendar for the next year, starting with March (her baby is due in March), with a double spread page for each month. I would have it bound together (you can get it done at Staples or Office max, etc. I've done photo calendars before as Christmas gifts to family). The months would be there, but the "picture" side would be blank. After each month (when she has pictures developed), I would like to help her to make up the picture side into a scrap page of what the baby's month was like. I figure that she can actually use the calendar side as she goes along, to write things in the date blocks like "first tooth", "Dr's visit", "first MMR shot", etc. I think maybe we would laminate the calendar after it's done. It could be a memory book and keepsake as well as a type of baby book.

Like I said, I've done calendars before, but I am relatively new to scrapping, and am wondering about the orientation of the page. Most 8x11 pages (the graphics on them) are oriented "portrait" but I want the calendar to be "landscape". Other than all plain backgrounds, any other helpful ideas? I have the DJ Inkers "Keepers" CD with computer artwork that I can use, but it's oreinted to portrait as well. I also have DogByte Creative Photo Album Deluxe software, there are some landscape orientations in it. TIA!!

Also any ideas about what I should include (things that are in baby books)?

Nelda

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Penny
24 years ago
Dear Nelda,
How about fist full night of sleep (always a biggy with parents. LOL) first tooth, first haircut, first pet, first home, first playmate, Me and Grandma, or pa, Me and Daddy or mommy, First step or crawling, potty time, etc. Are these the type of things you are looking for? Penny
Kerrikay
24 years ago
I have a Winnie the Pooh "Baby's First Year" calendar that sounds like what you are trying to put together, only mine didn't have the scrapbook side to it. I loved this calendar and it was my baby "bible" for the first year. I often refer to it when my friends/family ask me " . . .when did she . . ." I have an easy reference.
Anyhow, at the top of each monthly page it has the following: height, weight, baby's sleeping pattern, baby's eating pattern, and notes with spaces to write in a sentence or two about baby's advances that month. Also included were stickers:
first bath
first smile
religious ceremony
sleeps through night
first tooth
first word
says mama
says dada
first solid food
feeds self
first Christmas
doctor's visit (several of these)
It would be cute if you could include some stickers that illustrated these events that she could stick on the days on which they occurred (doctor's bag or stethescope-doctor's visit, spoon or bowl-first solid food, smiley face-first smile, etc.)
Sounds like a cute and very thoughtful gift! Let us know how it turns out!
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