Sew its Saturday: Grow With Me albums

A couple weeks ago, I posted about doing Monthly Digital Cards for my babies. Even though digital is now my preferred method of scrapbooking, I still have a couple things I like in my traditional albums.

One of those is the “Grow with Me” album. A consultant friend of mine introduced this idea to me very early on in my consulting days. I didn’t have any children at the time, but I loved the idea so much that I knew I wanted to do it when we did have children.

It’s a quick and simple project you can do in a matter of minutes each month or year. Or however often you choose to update your album.

First, create a super cute title page! 

I love how this one turned out with all the different stickers that span a child’s life.

Next, start taking a TON of pictures!! You’ll need a good 8x10 each month for their first year and then you can do 15m, 18m, 21m and 2yrs. Then, just do them semi-annually. Maybe a birthday picture and school picture?

Keep in mind, these don’t always have to be professional ones. Sometimes I like our own pictures better than ones we’ve had done at a studio. Truth: The pictures in my oldest child's album are mostly professional though. He was our first. We wanted to really capture his first year...and I was maybe, just maybe a little obsessed with dressing him up for the month/holiday coming up! Isn't he so darn cute though?!

 I do try to get at least a family picture (and some singles) taken twice a year. I do summer and then Christmas for our cards.

 I like to throw in little touches of stickers that kind of coordinate to the outfit or time of year too. Just makes it a little more fun!

I mean...isn't that smile just the cutest thing?! And what about those chubby fingers?? I just love chubby fingers!!!

So, really…this album takes literally minutes to update!! In fact, I need to get all my kids’ albums caught up. All it takes is printing some 8x10 photos and a few extra minutes during naptime.

How do you preserve your family memories? Do you like digital or traditional scrapbooking? What’s your favorite album?

Happy Memory Keeping!

Blessings,

Annette

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