RE:12x12's and Intro

Welcome LeAnn!

First, let me say, I already really like you - you show a fabulous sense of humor!

Second, while I myself am a "traditional" scrap booker, (although, I have no children beyond my feline ones, therefore, I have the time and space), I appreciate digital scrapping as well.

Third - you have found a place that is filled with some of the most wonderful folks - who appreciate all forms of memory keeping, and will have tons of ideas and helpful hints, and support and friendship!

Welcome to RCS!

Jessica

Jessica...stick with the cats!!! My husband is allergic to cats so I'm considering getting a really BIG FLUFFY ONE!!! (hehehe) I have an 8 year old I'd trade for a box of kittens....

I have a nine year old that makes the 'Ransom of Red Chief' look like a saint. I've tried for years to work out a trade..................if he didn't look so much like his older brother I'd swear there was a mix-up at the hospital. . Welcome to the group. I know exactly what you mean about the tools and supplie. My oldest DD started scrapbooking laast fall. She has five at home between the ages of 1-9. She keeps the basics at home, but the rest stay at my house for safety. Course it's not much better here at times. Two of my five are still at home, and they both scrapbook. We fight over tools and stickers and paper and die cuts like they're gold. DH knows better than to get in the middle. When we get out the scrapbook supplies he goes to the basement to "work." Do you have any of your LO's online? I'd love to see some of the pages you've made, especially with your printed albums in book form. I've not done any digital LO's yet, but it looks more interesting all the time. I had thought of copying the 12x12 LO's to share, but the price changed my plans ...fast! I had wanted to be able to share the special photos with all of my children. I make scrapbooks for each of the two still at home...lots of times doing two identical LO's so they will each have one years down the road. (It comes from having eight other siblings and one large box of family photos of our childhood.) If I never get time, I figure the older three can scrap their own photos, so I put theirs in acid-free sleeve albums as I go through the boxes. Sandy

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Hi gals -

Find a store near you that has one of these -

It takes a bit of careful research, but the cost of printing layouts need not be prohibitive. I print at home on a wide format printer (prices range from $300 on up to lotsa $$$$) on 13x19 photo paper. I'm able to produce 1

Sally, Thanks for the info. Does the printing on the 12x12 go all the way to the edge? Sandy

LOL and Welcome LeAnne ! My goodness you sound like a composite of this group! How wondeful to have you with us and we do look forward to your sharing some of your work Six kids are a lot of fodder for scrapbooks!

Hugs, Sabrina

Hi Sally ! Welcome to the group!

Hugs, Sabrina

Yes, but when they reach the age of mine, you wouldn't take ANYTHING for them...if, of course, you make it that long... LOL

Hugs, Rach

Sally,

Do you print your copies on archival paper to prevent fading and if so, where did you find to have the cheapest acid free 13x19 paper etc? Do you put your 12x12 layouts in protective sleeves and if so, where do you get these also? Because of what I do for a living, I'm always trying to be POSITIVE that I'm giving my customers the best value for their bucks. When I calculated the cost of our 12x12 book with 48 pages in it, it worked out to $2.80 per page TOTAL. So that would make the heavy grade archival paper, the full bleed and full color, digitally PRESSED (not copied or printed) professionally hard bound, with customizable cover totally FREE. If you added all those freebies into the price of the pages, then the printed pages would be less than one dollar but printed professionally.

Also, can you tell me where to get the best 12x12 binders? I do all of my digi scrapping in our books, but I've often wondered about putting together a sample binder of my layouts.

Some of my layouts are posted at a site called

You are all GREAT and I can't decide if I'm happy to find a group like me or if I should be VERY afraid......

Welcome to the group! As everyone has said, I'm sure you will just love this group, very talented ladies and gentleman.

Welcome to RCS LeAnn!

Welcome both LeAnn and Sally, I'm sure you will both fit right on in here :o)

Welcome to the group LeAnn. I love your sense of humor. You will fit in quite well around here.

Welcome, LeAnn.

Hi LeAnn

Welcome to our group! You will fit right in as I think most of us are chatterboxes :) I'm with you on the idea of the desert Island and pic of Johnny Depp! hehhehe Looking forward to be seeing some of your work.

Judy, SA

I don't use 12x12 paper, I use Super B size, which is 13x19. Then I trim it down to 12x12 (with my handy dandy paper scrapbooker paper trimmer! ;-))))

Hi there, thanks.

I print on Epson paper generally. Research done on many photographic paper/ink combinations indicates digital prints produced on some inkjet printers have an archival life expectancy of 120+ years under glass. (And scrapbooks aren't stored under glass, generally, so they should last even longer.) Generally - Epson and Hewlett Packard ink/paper combinations have the longest life expectancy, but even other combinations are good for 25+ years.

But I really don't even worry about it, because if I need another copy I can always print another one!

I buy photo paper online at

Yes, I use the same scrapbook sleeves and binders the paper scrappers do.

It's nice for a special event, like a wedding or a baby book. I like to re-arrange my pages, so a hard bound book limits that flexibility. Custom covers are very nice, though. But most digital scrappers build albums a page at a time, just like paper scrapbookers do. I like to see my albums grow and progress.

I just use whatever I feel like - I like top-loading post bound myself. I have a really cute 8x8 gatefold album I'm working on right now.