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Making Mother's Day Special With Three Scrapbooking Ideas

Traditional gifts for Mothers Day center around chocolates, flowers and other pleasant but ephemeral items. How about trying something different that lasts longer and touches your mom's heart.

One of the best hobbies to go into is Scrapbooking, for it has a variety of uses especially in creating presents that turn out to be family prized possessions.

The star scrapbook is, like its name, a scrapbook shaped like a star which can sit on a shelf as a lovely display, or pack neatly into a handbag, all tied with a ribbon, ready to be shown and admired by all. This is a very personal gift and absolutely perfect for proud grandma's who will want to take the pictures of the new baby to be admired by all. Star scrapbooks are relatively simple to make - take a look at our youtube video by searching for dinglefootdotcom and star scrapbook and you can follow the process step by step.

An alternative would be a full size scrapbook album devoted to you and your mother. You can feature pictures of the two of you from the time of your birth right up to the present day. You can start with a shot of you and your mother, and if luck is on your side, you'll have some good shots of yourself as a newborn and then more pictures of different milestones in your life. There will usually be 9 double page spreads a title page and an end page, so plan each one before you start, then it's easier to get your scrapbooking supplies and embellishments for a project like this all at the same time.

Here are a few ideas for pages you can make:

•    Me as a newborn - a page dedicated to the day you were born but with more focus on your mom rather than yourself.
•    The Christening - a page showing the family - add journaling to show who was there, when it was, again from your mothers point of view. Was she stressed out arranging it? See what you can find out without asking her so it's all a surprise.
•    Family Gatherings. Lots of families have times they get together, sometimes for big occasions, sometimes not. Whether it's Christmas, New Year or a golden or diamond wedding, be sure to add pictures and labels to show who was who, and write about your mothers role in the event, not yours.
•    Your parents significant anniversaries. Have you celebrated a silver, golden or diamond anniversary as a family? Has you Mom been married more than once? Use your judgement here and create an accurate history, but don't go out of your way to bring back unpleasant memories.
•    Birthday Bashes. Pictures, invitations, messages from guests and such can be included. Anything significant from her birthday celebration should be added.
•    Family holidays. Maybe the last holiday when you were all together before you or your siblings left home.
•    Your graduation. A school or university graduation is usually an occasion for pictures with parents. What was your Mother wearing, where did she get it?
•    A previous Mothers Day
•    A wedding - yours or maybe your mothers!
•    Your mothers first grandchild (if she has any)

Mothers and daughters share a strong and special bond that grows even more when the daughters experience motherhood themselves. If you find it difficult to find words for the way you feel you can use rub one and stamped words to convey emotion, or take a look at quotegarden.com and search for 'Mothers'.

Lovely as it is, a whole scrapbook can take time to make, if you are just starting with your gift, maybe plan the full scrapbook for next year and do something a little different; one scrapbook page, framed and placed on a wall like art to admire. Half way between a simple picture and a full album, these single pages can make wonderful keepsakes and give you the opportunity to take your creativity in a slightly different direction. Amazon has plenty of shadow box frames that you can use, and because it will be displayed in a deep frame and not a flat one, you can experiment on 3D embellishments.

Look for good ideas in K and Company's Grand Adhesions. These are relatively simply constructed using pads to raise some items of the page. Butterflies are easy to make 3D, one flat one duplicated cut out and added with just a dot of silicone and gently teased into shape. The same thing can be done with flowers, using something like the petal packs from Petaloo or, for a different approach the 20 blossom template from Hot Off The Press. Trace the flowers through the template onto scrapbooking paper, cut them out and assemble them. Curl the petals for the 3D effect and add a little glitter, or even a gem or brad at the flower's center. It's all down to the paper you use, experiment with plain paper, patterns and of course vellum which gives a lovely delicate effect.

Shadow boxes are great fun, don't take too long to do and its always nice to see your work displayed, rather than shut away in an album.

Once you are done making your gift, don't spoil the effect by forgetting to wrap it and if you really don't have time for any of this, visit your Mom. She'd rather see you than a whole house full of scrapbooks.

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