108 Scrapbooks!

Wow! 108 scrapbooks... maybe I should start using your aunts method.

Thanks for sharing!!

--Tammy

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Hi LynDel:>)

This makes perfect sense to me. I often leave my journaling & finishing touches until later. Usually because it's too sentimental to share with everyone. Once everyone has seen the work, I'll go back in & journal, so just the person I want to see it will. I don't care who the show, I just don't want to be embarassed by the reactions:>) (positive or negative)

-BTW, I still haven't manages to finish anywhere close to 108 albums!!(LOL)

- Trish

I've just started scrapbooking, so my supplies are limited at the moment, and this is the way I'm basically going about it...laying out the photos, using post-it-notes to remind myself what I want to do where on each page, and then moving on to another page. I've completed six pages in one week (with an 8 month old in tow). I've also gone back to my first few pages and added the journaling to that - that I need a little more "quiet time" to do, and so I work on that after DS is in bed, but the photos I can work on while he's up...

Louise

Hi Louise, I don't think I have said ,Welcome! Glad to see you.

Sabrina :-)

WOW!! How long has she been at it?! My niece has been at it about 4 years now and she has completed about 30 albums (12x12). Anyhow I too am relatively new at it and felt the same way, do ALL of one subject or page then move on. My problem is, I love the color blocking idea, guess being a man I guess. Drives sis and niece nuts! Anyhow niece does a combination of what ya'll do. She assembles some pages, then goes back and does the other things as time permits.So I have taken here recently some of her advice, since I have now got ALL my photos out of their old "things" and chronologically filed. I am here to tell you though, I have more than I thought I had!! Anyhow I put my pages together, add post-its and move on. That way also lets me see how any protector sheets I need. But ya'll know what the hardest thing for me is? Figuring out which paper to use for what photos - LOL!Whatever, I love doing it and it helps me unwind as well as reminince about the past, not to mention trying to remember who, what, when or where on those I DID NOT write on!! Oh well, guess we all can't be perfect!

Wow! 108. Well, if that method works for her then that's great. Personally, I complete one at a time. Her method sounds intriguing. I guess it's up to each person and their style. That's really awesome though that she has such a treasure trove of memories completed in scrapbooks.

Wanda in Winnipeg

2003 - pages 17.5, 21 recipe pages, 4 tags. (just experimenting with the tag thing.)

30 albums -- that's impressive, too!

My aunt started making albums about 15 years ago, after her husband was killed in an accident -- she wanted to preserve memories for her children, and she made duplicate albums for each of her three kids.

She made four albums this past month, all with photos from her daughter's 40th birthday party, one for herself, and one for each of her kids. They were smaller albums than she usually makes -- 7x7 or something like that. She used the mostly the same photos in each of the albums, and mostly the same journaling, but each is decorated and embellished differently.

Since she makes multiples of most of her albums for various friends and family members, that's why they add up so quickly. But she doesn't just use the pages the book comes with; she usually adds extra packets of pages to each one, as many as the cover will hold (mostly strap-hinge, or 3-ring binders). They are all very FAT.

LynnDel

This sounds kind of like the whole Power Layout idea that was big in CM a while ago. I probably should go back to that so I get some pages done! Here are the steps in a nutshell.

1. pick the pictures you want to use and how many pages you want to get started. 10 or 20 at once is a good starting point.

1. I like to lay out the blank white CM scrapbook pages on a table so that I can lay the photos out on them to see how they would fit. Also I can start to see how any 2-page spreads will look. As I'm looking at them I'm also starting to get ideas as far as color and embellishments. Writing your ideas out on post-it notes is a good idea so you won't forget anything you've thought of.

2. At any point during this process you can use one of those gift boxes or another 12x12 box to lay the pages with the loose photos in, to keep them in order. This makes it easy to put away and get back out at any point.

1. Now you can get out your cutters and crop your photos. This is nice because all you will need out is your cutters and nothing else. Again make notes on post-its if you have any ideas for future steps.

2. Decide on what papers you will use with each page. Get out anything that you think might work; if it doesn't you can always put it back. These would be your background papers, matting papers, and any paper for embellishments. Just place them with the loose pictures for now.

1. At this point you can either go ahead and put the basic page together without embellishments, or keep everything loose and choose your embellishments.

2. Cut all your paper pieces and mattes, make any embellishments, titles, etc. I like to hold off on putting the whole page together until I'm done with the whole 10-20 pages. Then with everything done I finalize my layout and paste everything down.

1. Now I journal. As I've been doing the pages I've made notes to myself for what I'd like to write, and I've left myself places to do this journaling. Sometimes I freehand, other times I use the computer. I like the computer be cause I just measure the space I've left myself, make a text box that size, then play around with the size and font until it looks right and fits in the space.

I've gotten so many pages done when I've used this method. I need to get back to it.