Hi all, I am not a scrapbooker but I am attempting to make a album up for my partners birth mum, he was adopted out when born & has been in contact with birth mum 4 a few years now, I thought it would be a nice idea to make an album up of photos etc from his baby days onwards, all the years his birth mum missed out on, i would love some ideas to consider

Hi,
I think that the idea is a good one, years missed are very important, maybe you could check out the internet copy and paste information into your scrapbook pages as back grounds.
You could maybe (again on the internet) go to Google and search for the actual day born, and find out what was going on in the world then, this again as backgrounds for your pages, this would give a greater understanding to how life was then.
Best of luck

Hello Icmay, thanks for your advice, will check it out

As I see it, Scrapping is a huge $$ thing, you can buy the most expensive albums, get totally hooked into the newest best products. It's expensive unless you use your head and practical sense.
I'm so hopeless with scissors but we can make fantastic scrapbooks by viewing others work and translating it to our budget and skill.
I like digital scrapping because it costs me nothing but printing.
This was my first page, full of fault but I still like it

then I went on into my learning curve.
http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g168/canz1/scrapbook/african-ambiencecopy.jpg

Hi 4eyes
what programme do you use for the great scrapbooking you do Had a look at your work in bucket They are great

http://www.justscrapping.co.nz/?gclid=CNTw4pTkvZkCFQkzawodJGCl4w
Is this any help to anybody? I'm not into scrapbooking. Yet. But I do have several powerpoint slides that I've done.

At last I've found a scrapbooking thread! But alas, over a year since anyone has posted here.Is there ANYONE at all here on G'Ups interested in 'hands on' scrapbooking. I have no idea about digital scrapbooking, although I'm positive that would be fun if 'one' (being me,lol) had the foggiest how to do that. Surely, with scrapbooking being so much fun & so many scrapbookers around, there must be someone on here who's interested in it??? Maybe someone out there from the Bay of Plenty even, wouldn't matter where you were from really. So,anyone interested out there.

I brought scrapbooking folders for that ,, quite expensive they were but oh no! one year down and I haven.t started. I do however make my own cards cover tiles wood and canvas's by hand and sell when available. This I do enjoy but as for scrapbooking I dont know weather my girls will ever receive what I had originally planned on doing. all the best with your project. cheers rose:

Thanks Rose, great to see someone has posted on this thread! I honestly find I have more incentive when I'm attending a class with others. Finally I have found one for the moment in Whakatane. Must admit it is through someone who also sells scrapbooking & card making stuff...well known brand thats around in many towns. Mainly I'm going just for the classes, & only order the occasional thing here & there through them.Used to attend a class held in a Tauranga shop now & then, but seems way too far to travel just for a 2 hour stint, but fortunately have 2 of our kids living there. The shop has now closed anyway. Will get the ol' craft room (was one of the kids bedroom) sorted soon, so might have more incentive when I have adequate space to spread out! I just do one page at a time, when I have gradually got quite a collection I will collate into appropriate albums for each child & grandchild, and heritage one of late parents...well thats the plan anyway! Getting started is the hardest part I have found....like anything really!
May I ask what the covered wood & tiles are covered with & used for? Or are they purely decorative?