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Summary: Not Their Best
Review: I'm a Memory Makers fan and I tend to like their idea books. This one, however, seemed fairly uninspired to me. Lots of cute pages of cute toddlers doing cute toddler things -- but nothing that really sparked my creativity for scrapping the hundreds of photos that I have of my own cute toddler.A general scrapbooking book would probably take you just as far as this book would.
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Summary: Keep returning to this one!
Review: This is always out on a table for me to browse at when I get brain freeze for my page designs. There are alternatives presented to doing "traditional" pages and it covers a majority of things that toddlers are into. Would make any scrapper a great gift.
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Summary: Keep returning to this one!
Review: This is always out on a table for me to browse at when I get brain freeze for my page designs. There are alternatives presented to doing "traditional" pages and it covers a majority of things that toddlers are into. Would make any scrapper a great gift.
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Summary: Some good ideas, but not Memory Makers' best
Review: Well, for as much as I couldn't wait to get a copy of this, I have to admit I was a bit disappointed. Memory Makers' Baby Scrapbooks idea book was great--full of good layout/journaling ideas and beautiful sample layouts to look at. Maybe I'm becoming a scrapbook snob, but the first thing that rubbed me the wrong way was that the majority of the sample layouts just didn't seem up to caliber with what I'm used to seeing in their and Creating Keepsakes magazines. Too much primary colors, simple hand-printed or sticker letter titles, bland papers...I know, it sounds SO pretentious to say that, but I truly am used to seeing different types of pages in the books and magazines I buy. To its credit, Toddler Scrapbooks has a good "Checklists" page to give parents ideas on what to scrapbook that they may not have considered (e.g., funny faces, waking up, daily routines, Sunday school), and on the same page, it mentions that it's a good idea to keep notes on a calendar of: some current favorites(books, songs, etc.), Growth, milestones and firsts...There are also poems, sayings, page title ideas and reproducible patterns at the back of the book which could be useful. To be honest, this book is probably geared toward a beginning scrapbooker, as simple techniques are covered, and the editors probably want to simply encourage parents to take the time to do this important job of preserving the family history. Scrapbooking can get quite involved, and maybe the simple layouts are there to avoid intimidating the beginner. From this standpoint, it's a good book. However, if you've been scrapbooking awhile, a lot of the info covered here can be found in Scrapbooking periodicals. It definitely wasn't worth the money in my case!
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Summary: Some good ideas, but not Memory Makers' best
Review: Well, for as much as I couldn't wait to get a copy of this, I have to admit I was a bit disappointed. Memory Makers' Baby Scrapbooks idea book was great--full of good layout/journaling ideas and beautiful sample layouts to look at. Maybe I'm becoming a scrapbook snob, but the first thing that rubbed me the wrong way was that the majority of the sample layouts just didn't seem up to caliber with what I'm used to seeing in their and Creating Keepsakes magazines. Too much primary colors, simple hand-printed or sticker letter titles, bland papers...I know, it sounds SO pretentious to say that, but I truly am used to seeing different types of pages in the books and magazines I buy. To its credit, Toddler Scrapbooks has a good "Checklists" page to give parents ideas on what to scrapbook that they may not have considered (e.g., funny faces, waking up, daily routines, Sunday school), and on the same page, it mentions that it's a good idea to keep notes on a calendar of: some current favorites(books, songs, etc.), Growth, milestones and firsts...There are also poems, sayings, page title ideas and reproducible patterns at the back of the book which could be useful. To be honest, this book is probably geared toward a beginning scrapbooker, as simple techniques are covered, and the editors probably want to simply encourage parents to take the time to do this important job of preserving the family history. Scrapbooking can get quite involved, and maybe the simple layouts are there to avoid intimidating the beginner. From this standpoint, it's a good book. However, if you've been scrapbooking awhile, a lot of the info covered here can be found in Scrapbooking periodicals. It definitely wasn't worth the money in my case!
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