Baby Shower Album Help, need ideas

Apr '05

Thanks for the great ideas, ladies! I'd better get to work!

Apr '05

ME! ME! I just did one of these. I used a CM 7x7 album and the pastel snap pack. I took a pic of each guest with the mother to be and put that on one page, then on the facing page I put a/f paper for that guest to write words of wisdom. The last several pages were all of her opening gifts, the cake, assorted shots of the guests, everyone playing the games, etc.

Good luck and lets see pics when you get it done!

Mar '05

Hi there. I'm working on a last minute album for my Dr's wife who is expecting twins. The shower is this Saturday.

I'm not a mom. I don't even play one on TV. So I need some help here. What would you put in the baby SHOWER book? I'm hoping she will like it enough to order a custom baby album from me.

I have the invitation to the shower in there. I plan to add a place for shower games, and for shower guests. What else should I include?

TIA

I typed in baby shower in the lo gallery and found these

http://www.scrapbook.com/scrapbook_layouts/showgallery.php?mcats=all&si=baby%20shower&what=allfields&name=&when=&whenterm=

also you may want to include an area where all the guests can write a message

For a few showers I have thrown I have taken a/f paper with me and had people write advice for the new mom and included a few pages like that.

If you can and you have a Target...they have 8x8 scrapbook sets and the book actually says Baby Shower on it. The kits have like paper, decorations, embies, etc. and the book.

You can put a guest list, a present list (after the shower when you copy whatever the present list keeper writes down), of course pictures...

Be sure to take a picture of the decorations, the food table, the cake, a side profile picture of mommy accentuating size of belly, the gift table. might take a single shot of each guest as well....if there are any children there might set one of them to lining opened gifts up alogn wall and take a pic of that (we allowed my 6 year old cousin do this at my friends shower I gave her and ive never seen a neater bunch of gifts!).

Cute diecuts of baby items (rattles, bottles, etc) and have everyone write a tip or wellwish for the parents and baby. If you play any games, take pics of it, and if you have any paper games like quizzes, scrambles, etc. reduce a copy of each on a copier and include it in the album.

Be sure to have a guessing game of what the baby is unless you know! record details...or you could even set out a piece of sb paper for people to sign and then have a guess list in two columns on the side people could initial if they think will be a boy or girl. might could even have that guess list on the inside piece of a foldout attachment to the sb piece of paper (if you want further directions, let us know) that way people could write wishes/messages all on the piece of paper and guess at same time!

If you play the game where people guess how much yarn is needed to go around mommys belly, you could have a measuring tape to meausre each one. Take a piece of colored wire and fold each piece of yarn up and use the wire to hold it closed. Write how long that piece was down and you can attach them to a page in the book with the length written next to each one maybe around the border of a page of yall playing that game....and of course note which one won!

take pics to go with each thing....

I think I would title one page Twice as Nice...perhaps highlighting the twin baby clothes, equipment, whatever she gets!

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dispatchscrapper said:
For a few showers I have thrown I have taken a/f paper with me and had people write advice for the new mom and included a few pages like that.

I did this, also. My SIL had twins last fall. I did pages with the sonogram pics, all of Kristie's appointment cards, congrats cards she had received, and....lemme think.....

I also googled quotes/advice for life for the twins when they get older. We made a few advice pages. I put in as many pics as I could of Kristie while pregnant (there weren't many).

I think that was it for the "before baby" pages. That was all I had finished for the shower.
HTH! Good luck!