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Scrapbooking Your Adoption Experience

Scrapbooking your adoption experience is not a whole lot different than scrapbooking your everyday life. You create a page in the same manner you would a traditional layout. However, because your adoption experiences are so special and unique, you might wish to commemorate them into a whole album dedicated solely to the experience, and use special journaling, poems or quotes. I am part of the adoption triad, I am an adoptee. I have a great relationship with both my adoptive mother, and my biological mother. Both women are included in my albums. However, my experiences with searching for my biological … Continue reading →

Memorabilia: Including Greeting Cards In Your Albums

There are several different ways to incorporate greeting cards into your layouts and albums and still be able to protect and read them. The easiest and fastest way is to create a pocket page and slip them all inside. If you are using top loading page protectors (which I highly recommend), it’s easy to pull the cards out while flipping through the album and read them. Pocket Page You will need: two sheets of paper or cardstock personal trimmer adhesive pen or marker page protector To create a pocket page, you will need two coordinating pieces of paper or cardstock … Continue reading →