My Mommy Board Book: Photoshop Tutorial

We have a beautiful little girl staying with us until her mother returns from deployment (you might have seen here in my post about printed fabric pillow dolls).  I decided to make a board book for the baby (she is still a baby, relatively speaking) with photos of her mother.  

Here is the first stage:  Creating the Pages in Photoshop
(Note:  this can also be seen at miller626.blogspot.com where I blog about Photoshop.)

First I found a board book at the thrift store that had seen better days.  This one,
in fact, was destined for the trash bin at the end of the week.

7 Great Photo Board Books

I'd really like to make a photo board book for a special girl (you might have seen here in my post about printed fabric pillow dolls) whose mother is deployed to the Middle East.  I love using Mixbooks, and I've made several photo books through them (their scrapbooking software is very user friendly, and they have wonderful designers who are constantly coming up with new designs) so I naturally looked there first.

Personalized Board Books

Beautiful, right?  However, although they look awesome, the price tag is a little too 

steep for my budget right now.  So I set out looking for alternatives.  Below are some of the creative Board Books I came across in my search.

But first, I did come across this blank board book from Amazon.  I was tempted to buy it, because I couldn't bear the thought of destroying a book, but a quick trip to the thrift store uncovered a 

few that were headed to the trash bin.

So on with the inspiration... 

ABC homemade board book

 Audrey from Audrey Pettit's Weblog created a 

nursery rhyme/ABC board book from a recycled kid’s meal toy.

Homemade board book for baby

Katie created this board book to celebrate her child.  

You can see it over at Katies Nesting Spot

Homemade "first words" board book

I love this board book from Chef Messy that is making its rounds on Pinterest. 

Homemade board book of colors

Here's a cute altered board book I saw at Modge Podge Rocks.  (Love that site!)

Family memories homemade board book

This one over at scrabook-crazy.com is really listed as an altered board book.  

Different name, same concept.  Same adorable-ness!

Homemade board book about Dad

Don't you just love this board book idea from rookiemoms.com?  Dad's face is pasted on top of different "environments" cut out of magazines.

Baby's birth recorded in a homemade board book

Another homemade board book celebrating a child!  Oscar will love having this book read to him!  

You can see it, as well as one titled "Oscar's Black and White Book," over at Homemade By Jill.