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Scrapbook Mania

 

Scrapbooking has long been a favorite craft
for adoptive families. Learn everything you
need to know about how to make your own lifebook, memory book, and digital and paper scrapbooks with these tips and resources.


Tips from AF

Scrap Mania!
Digital scrapbooking is the easy, new way to preserve your memories—and adoptive parents are leading the way!
Thanks for the Memories!
A lifebook can fill in the gaps of your child's early story—and creating it can be a fun project for all of you.
Adoption Scrapbooks Made Easy
Creating a keepsake scrapbook for your child may seem daunting. But with these strategies, you can fashion a memento your entire family will cherish for years.

A Bridge to Your Child's Beginnings
Why lifebooks, long treasured by foster adopters, make sense for all adoptive families.

Custom Storybooks
A host of websites will help you tell your child's story in hardcover.

It's Your Life!
Several companies offer fill-in-the-blank lifebooks. Here's how to pick which one will work best for your child's story.

Capturing Your Child's Journey Through Life
This 1995 article predated the explosion of interest in scrapbooking.


Stores, Resources & Tutorials
Find tips, how-tos, and more

Scrap-and-Tell
Comprehensive adoption scrapbook and lifebook supplies and information for both the digital and paper scrapper. Includes a substantial layout gallery to provide examples and inspiration, and features many country-specific kits.

Digital Scrapbooking Top 50
List of top scrapbooking sites.
Digiscrapping Moms
Gallery and forum, plus an online store with adoption-related materials, alphabets, kits, and elements.

Two Peas in a Bucket
Gallery with message boards, plus an online store with freebies, tutorials, and more.

Digital Scrapbook Place
Gallery with message boards, store, tutorials, and more.

Scrapbook Elements
Digital scrapbooking tutorials, including printing information.

Shabby Elements
Digital elements and more.
Scrapbook-Bytes
Community and online store.
Digiscrapdivas.com
Gallery with message boards, store, tutorials, and more.


Custom Adoption Books
Online store for personalized adoption books and more.

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