ABC Album Scrapbook
for Babies & Beyond

In a traditional ABC album scrapbook, each page of the scrapbook represents a letter of the alphabet. You can use the entire alphabet or just part of it, depending on how long you want your scrapbook to be.

For instance, if you are doing this type of album after the birth of a baby, you may have the following sayings very prominent on the first three pages (or two-page layout sets) of your album:

• "Adorable in Pink"
• "Bath in the Sink"
• "Cookie Cutter Fingers & Toes"

Using the ABC theme makes it very easy to determine what embellishments you will add onto the page because you want to coordinate with your chosen alphabet phrase. So, for example, our "adorable in pink" page may include a picture of the new baby in the hospital swaddled in a pink blanket. "Bath in the sink" could use bubbles or rubber duckies for embellishments, and for our "cookie cutter fingers & toes" page, we may show the baby's perfect little toes and fingers with cookie accents around the page.

You will typically keep going through the entire alphabet with this type of ABC "all about me" scrapbook, since only using the first three letters would obviously only make a three page album, and stopping at any other point would make the finished product feel incomplete.

Alternative ABC Album Scrapbook Ideas

What if your album doesn't have enough pages for a full alphabet book, but you don't want just a three page A-B-C book? One great alternative is to separate your scrapbook into three sections, creating an A section, B section, and C section, with each section consisting of several layouts. These letters must be presented prominently on the layouts in each section, and the layouts must include different words and sayings that begin with the assigned letter.

It is a good idea to coordinate paper colors and patterns within each section so they feel like a cohesive unit. Make each section a different color scheme, so that they stand apart from one another, with the letter as the organizational thread between all of them.

ABC Album Scrapbook Themes

While the ABC organizational theme lends itself very well to baby scrapbook albums, your options are unlimited when it comes to possible themes. Most people think of baby blocks with the capital letters engraved on the sides when they think of the alphabet, but you don't have to use it in that sense. I have seen the ABC theme used for a cheerleading squad's memory book - and even for adult themes that are not suitable for children's eyes. Absolutely any type of scrapbook that you want to make could make use of the alphabet in this manner. Just like creating any other type of scrapbook, you have to determine how you will lay it out and what type of paper and embellishments you want to use throughout the scrapbook. Once proper supplies are collected, you are ready to insert pictures and start creating your layouts.

If you are searching for quotes that begin with a certain letter, go online and look up websites that list hundreds if not thousands of quotes on a wide variety of subjects. Or, you can use the second or third word of a quote and raise the letter up off the page with pop-up glue dots so it stands out.

Show Off Your ABC Scrapbooks

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