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Scrapbooking With Jessica Turner

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This week, our friend Jessica Turner is favorite her best scrapbooking kit with us.

Jessica TurnerHello Friends! Let me quickly introduce myself – I’m Jessica Turner, a 20-something girl who loves her husband Matthew, 5-month-old son Elias, scrapbooking and her job.

When I am not working, I can be found spending time with my sweet family and/or scrapbooking about them. I got into scrapbooking six years ago and haven’t looked back. On my blog, The Mom Creative, I often write about discoveries as a new mom, share my latest and greatest attempts at photographing Elias and scrapbooking projects.

This week I would like to discuss tackling those baby photos! I recently hosted “The Best in Baby Scrapbooking” on my blog and received lots of feedback from moms who either had never put together a baby album for their children, felt overwhelmed by their photos or just didn’t know where to begin. Thankfully, I have found a great kit that allows busy moms to tell their kids’ baby stories with ease. 

The Creating Keepsakes Becky Higgins Sweet Baby Kit was created by mom of three and scrapbooking guru Becky Higgins. As a busy mom, she incorporated all the right stuff to make scrapbooking your baby’s first year a breeze. I tackled the kit a week ago and put a big dent into this project.

Here are the top five things I liked about tackling this kit:

  1. Room for Lots of Photos – I have been overwhelmed about scrapbooking my son’s birth because of the sheer number of photos that we took. The kit comes with lots of divided page protectors, which allowed me to incorporate more than 30 photos on one page (front and back)

    Scrapbook with baby photos
     

  2. Journaling PromptsJournaling Prompts – Sometimes I just don’t know what to write in my scrapbooks! This kit includes journaling cards with lots of prompts, which made telling my story a breeze. 
     
  3. Boy or Girl – A lot of times it seems that kits seem to lean more girl than boy, but everything about this kit is double-sided giving me lots of options.

    I was able to select “boy” colors for all the pages having to do with Elias, but more girly options for pages about my pregnancy and relationship with Matthew.
     

  4. Flexibility – While I would consider myself a more advanced scrapbooker, I like the flexibility of this kit… meaning, I was able to scrap simply and efficiently and still have a great looking layout when I finished a page.

    It can be easy to get caught up in the mentality of “this has to be perfect because it is my child’s baby book,” but thanks to the great design of this kit, I didn’t have to worry about it! It looks great on its own. 
     

  5. Tons of Products – A lot of times I feel like kits don’t give you enough product to do a satisfactory job on an album.

    scrapbook with embellishments

    This is not the case with this kit. I don’t think I will be able to use it all! I loved having lots of options for the embellishments on my pages like chipboard frames, ribbon, and epoxy stickers.


For a video of me talking about this kit (can you tell how much I love it?) check out my blog. 

 

Keeping You Up To Date…

Today is July 20, 2022, and I was just revisiting this very special blog post from back in 2008. It’s a special post because Jessica Turner is still one of our favorite blogging friends and she’s also now a superstar author and speaker.

From the first time I met Jessica online to the first time I met her in person and even to this day, I knew that Jessica was an incredible force for good in the universe.

Be sure to hop over to her website, check out the books she has written and stay up to date with what she’ll be doing next.
 

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191 Comments

  2. When you think about it time flies when your a MOMMY and you really need the pictures to relive those special moments. Scapbooking gives my heart a JUMPKICK and makes me feel closer to my children and famliy. Getting a chance to document and keep those feelings for a very long time is my way of going on in life and letting things fall where they may. I really need a new baby kit. thanks for the opportunity but whoever wins GOD BLESS and have fun if I don’t .

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  3. I would absolutely love to have this kit. I have 3 children, 20, 15 and 8. I have been scrapbooking about 3 years and have not touched the baby pictures of any of them because I am so overwelmed by the amount of pictures I have, I just don’t know what to do with them all and I can’t leave any out. (lol) So, if I could get this kit I could do one and then have a sort of guide line to follow with the other two. If that makes any sense.

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  9. My baby girl just turned 9 months and I have yet to start her scrapbook for ALL of the reasons that you mentioned here. This would be a godsend!

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  10. I would LOVE to win. I have a teenager, a toddler, and number three on the way and I haven’t scrapped a SINGLE baby album yet. UGH!
    give_me_a_latte at yahoo

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  12. There’s something so magical about scrapbooking! This baby kit would be such a perfect gift for my husband’s oldest daughter who just gave birth to an angelic beautiful girl a few weeks ago!!!

    Thanks so much for this fabulous give~away! : )))

    leahita[at]gmail[dot]com

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  14. Wow! What a great looking kit! I’ve got a 7 month old, and have thousands of photos, but don’t know where to start, and I’m a bit intimidated, too. Whoever wins this kit will be very lucky. :o)

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  15. The kit can be used for so much, or even giving it to someone you know would love to scrapbook, but don’t think they have the time.

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  16. I tackled moving my children from one bedroom to another. What fun…not! I am still not done and I have worked on it all day long!
    Thanks for the chance to win =) I am behind in my scrapbooking.

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  22. What a wonderful kit. I know of a young mother with a 2 year old that would love to get started doing something like this. Thanks for a chance to win.

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  24. I would love to win this kit! I have four children, two boys and two girls, including my 4 month baby boy, so I could get a lot of use out of this kit, playing catch up:)
    Julia

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  26. This would be a great kit for my daughter (preggers with number 4!!) She works and doesnt have much free time for things like this, but I think this would give her opportunity since it looks so simple! Thanks

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  31. Happy New Year! What a fantastic kit giveaway!
    I need all the help I can get. Please add my name in your drawing. I do appreciate it very much.
    Thanks, Cindi

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  32. I have one of those pre-done baby kits for my first daughter, but my second is scrapbookless. I don’t want her to be that second kid who feels secretly that she might have been adopted since there are so few pictures and books of her…help a mommy out here! 🙂 Thanks for the opportunity!

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  33. I like to scrapbook, but sometimes I’m too haphazard about it and stop before I’m finished. This kit sounds perfect. Thanks for the opportunity to win it.

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  34. I was so good when it came to scrapbooking for my 1st and the 2nd and 3rd are gonna think they were unwanted! I would love to win this to kick-start me into doing their books!

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  35. New baby in 2006 and in 2008 but no baby albums to show. I carry my camera everywhere and while I have tons of pix, I also have too little time to scrap. This pre-organized kit might help me get organized and simply… started!

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  36. I was just looking for this kit. I remember seeing it when Becky first had it available. Now with baby #3 coming in August, this is just what I need (especially since my first 2 kids’ baby scrapbooks aren’t done yet)!

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  41. What a great kit! Baby #2 is due in March and I think a simple and easy-to-use kit like this would help motivate me to get back into scrapbooking.

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  44. I am so far behind on my scrapbook for my LO. She is almost 5 months old, and I only have up to when she is 6 weeks old cropped.

    This would be great!~

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  45. Those pages are fabulous, and I have a hard time putting that many pictures on a page. Thanks so much for sharing, I have so many pictures to scrap that this would definitely come in handy.
    carolyn s
    ceashark at aol dot com

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  46. I have a sister-in-law that creates beautiful memory books for all the kids. I would like to win this so I can give it to her as a surprise.

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  50. Found your website through Jessica’s website. Love the pages she has done with this kit! Would love to win and play with it myself.

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  53. I love scrapbooking! My friends and I get together one Friday a month to scrapbook and gossip. I’d love to win this prize. I haven’t tackled anything this week except Christmas 🙂

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  55. I lvoe following Jessica’s blog and I’ve used a lot of her ideas as I haev worked on my baby’s scrapbook. Thanks for the chance to win a kit!

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  65. I love the pages you have created! I love the idea of the 365 kits. I would love to win one! Thanks for sharing your ideas.

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  67. This is my first visit to this blog and I like what I am reading. I will be back everyday if time permits. And yes the baby kit is very cute and very practical I must say.

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  70. What a wonderful gift. My twins are almost 11 months old and their baby books lay empty and I haven’t even developed pictures of them! I used to love scrapbooking and have plenty for my other kids. I kinda feel I’m neglecting them, but I have no time! A kit would be most helpful

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  72. What a great kit. I haven’t tackled the baby book yet, so this would be perfect as my little guy is now 6 months old. Yikes, where did the time go?

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  74. Oh I would really love to have this kit. I am like Jessica…overwhelmed by all the photos I have that I want to display of my babies.

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  75. I have this dream of one day owning a beautiful baby book for my son. I even had a friend offer to teach me how to scrapbook, but I felt too overwhelmed at the project. Maybe this kit would help me finally start to learn to scrapbook.

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  77. I’ve barely gotten anything done in my 2 year old twins’ scrapbooks and now #3 is due to arrive in less than 2 weeks! This would help me get at least ONE of the kids’ scrapbooks done!

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  79. I love Becky Higgins and this kit seems fantastic! I have twins who just turned 2 and i have yet to start their baby books!

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  83. Love baby scrapbooking! My son is 4 months old and I’m a tad behind on his book – I’m through his first bath and I assure you he’s had a few more since then 🙂 Perhaps I’ll get to it one of his next naps.

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  86. I am really excited about this product and I love reading Jessica’s blog. She always has such great tips on scrap booking!

    Amber

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  89. I would absolutely LOVE to win the Becky Higgins scrapbook for baby – I’m putting together a baby scrapbook for my niece who is due in February (a boy, her first) – so this would be perfect!!! Enter me to win!!

    [email protected]

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  91. Daughter #1 is 2 – and Daughter #2 is due in Feb. I have yet to start #1’s baby book…please enter me in the contest for the kit. I need it!

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  93. i love to have this for when my little one gets here! baby’s due in july and, i think i felt him move this morning!!!

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  97. This kit looks awesome-kind of like the Project 365 kit but specifically for your baby’s first year! Thanks for sharing!

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  102. Wow! You really went to work! Go ahead and enter to me to win. I have a niece who’s expecting and this would be a fantastic gift for her.

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  103. I think that that scrapbook kit is pretty cool in it’s ability to be boy OR girl using the same products! Thanks for the chance to win; very cool of you to offer it! 🙂

    HAPPY NEW YEAR,

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  105. I have been wanting to learn how to scrapbook forever. This is just the thing I need to get me in the right direction 🙂

    Thanks as always for another great giveaway.

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  110. Wow this looks so cool and easy. I would love to win on of these kits. It would be fun! Thanks for showing us Great Things. Jayne

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  118. I so need that kit. Our son was born in September, a month early, which makes him & his sister only 16 months apart. I’m still trying to get her birth scapbooked let alone his, too.

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  119. I just found you thru Jessica’s blog. Your blog is quite interesting, since my attention span is about 5 minutes. 🙂 Please enter my name in the drawing for give-away for I have four daughters to scrapbook photos of. I am a beginner scrapbooker and so lots and lots to catch up on. The Becky Higgins Kit sounds like my miracle.

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  120. I love to scrapbook; just don’t have enough time to devote to it now that I have a little one. But I’ve slowly been working on her baby album. This kit would be a great resource to have!

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  121. I think this looks great! I want to get into scrapbooking..have TONS of photos but am overwhelmed at the idea of it. This seems like it would a fun and easy way to start!

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  127. I would love this kit! I am expexting my second child in March, and still haven’t scrapped my daughters photos…Shes 18months old!

    Kylie

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  128. I could definitely get some use out of this to get caught up on my scrapbooking! It also looks like it would make a great gift too!

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  132. This kit looks fabulous.. so easy and love that it all cordinates so well. The double sided feature is genuis!
    What a great way to simplify.. baby number three sure could use this! 😉

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  133. I think this kit looks fabulous and is just what I need for my baby due in February! I’ve been trying to figure out how to do a better job with my second babies baby album and I think this is it!

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  135. LOVE this kit!! I am busy scrapping my daughter and due with baby boy in 2 weeks! what a great way to simplify scrapbooking!!

    and i found a new blog to visit!! thanks Jessica!

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  142. isn’t jessica awesome? i’ve been reading her blog for a while and she has the best ideas. so creative.
    i love the idea of this album… it doesn’t seem like too much or too little… just right!

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  164. I love this kit! I too feel very overwhelmed with all the photos from my little boy’s first year and a half. I think this kit would be perfect to guide me to get all the memories together so none are forgotten!

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  169. What a great idea. I am so far behind on my two boys scrapbooks. I love the idea of tackle it Tuesdays. The baby kit looks awesome! This would make it much easier to catch up! 🙂

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  172. Wow, that kit sounds awesome!

    I’m one of those Moms who’s temporarily given up on scrapbooking simply because I feel so overwhelmed by it. My 2nd sons album is practically *empty*! (Poor kid…I tell myself I’ll get to it one day!) Would love to have something that makes it easier…

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  179. Great kit! I’m getting things together to do my 13-month-old daughter’s baby book, and this would be great to use!

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  183. I am so behind in scrapbooking. Part of the problem is that I don’t have any place to scrapbook! Hopefully one day I will have a craft room or at least a place to put a table that cannot be touched by little hands.
    Toni

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  184. I am not technically a novice, but my scrapbook (yes all 1 of them) looks like it. Maybe I am technically a novice. Either way, I haven’t done any baby things and my baby is officially a toddler. I have heard really good things about creative keepsakes too.

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  189. I love scrapbooks but I am horrible at it. Strange because I’m pretty creative but when it comes to scrapbooking, I’m a step below horrible. I love the collage photo that say’s, “Meet Elias” it looks great!

    Wishing you guys a happy and safe New Year!

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