Page Design by Hand

If you are scrapbooking a mini-album featuring a young child, one idea is to design the pages to be the size and shape of their hand.

Draw round their hand to create a template, but maybe changing or adding on to the wrist area so that the finished book can easily be bound by your favorite method.

Use it to trace round to create other pages the same shape. Photos can be mounted into the palms, and journalling written on the fingers ... if you can write small!

Backgrounds on large sized pages can be produced by using hand-prints. I'd plan out where I want the prints, and cut slightly larger holes in these places on a waste sheet of paper to be used to keep other areas clean.

Poster paint or gouache paint (artists' quality poster paint), mixed with water to a creamy consistency, can be used. You could dab it on to the child's hand with a make-up or other  sponge, and then guide the child to place it's hand inside one of the cut holes - but be prepared for some failures. You can always glue on embellishments to  cover smudges or  unsatisfactory areas.

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