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Whew! Busy scanning days are done... for now...

Ugh! My sister got married in Sept. of last year and through a series of mishaps the photos she had taken (some sepias and some color), when developed, got the negatives lost (and the company is claiming no responsibility), SO... for over a year she's had just the one copy of all her photos and no way (except very expensively) of having copies made. There is no way she was letting those copies out of her sight, so we were all stuck with no photos. Then I had a brilliant idea.... Why didn't she give them to me and I'd scan them and then she could order copies from Costco (plus I wanted to make a scrapbook for her for Christmas of them)... SO, last week she brought them to me... all

225 of them! So I've been spending lots and lots of time scanning the photos in and then touching up what needed it. I'm finally done now though! So if you've been wondering what happened to me... That's what happened! :) I've also got three 400 photo books borrowed from my grandparents just before I got my sister's pictures that I need to do, but I'm delaying that a few days until my hands recover! Any brilliant ideas on how to incorporate 225 pictures (about 85 of which are sepia toned) into an album while leaving room for journalling??? Thanks for any advise...

-CC

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CC
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CC I don't have any ideas but wahoo for you for doing all of that!!! Wow!

Sabrina :-)

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Sabrina

Could you go to a bigger album? A friend of mine use the 12X17 CM one as her work album. She's a school teacher and makes a page every year of all her students on one page with journaling.

Lynne

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King's Crown

I would do the no thrills no bells version.. all very straight lines.. pictures matted.. and no more then one embellishment on a page.. If it were me (this is how I want to do my wedding album) All the pages would be in the same LO.. Ive seen these done and they are gorgeous...entire book either done in the same colors.. or the pages alternate in color scheme.. example.. page 1.. A colors.. page 2.. B colors... page 3 C colors... page 4 A colors.. and so on.. no wild pattern paper used.. Just elegent cardstocks and specialty papers.. any whoo... was getting carried away.. my bad.. dreaming on the ng!

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Mindi

Wow!! That a lot of scanning.

Teresa in MD

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Tazmadazz

Yes! I saw one like that done by Anna Griffin on DIY Scrapbooking and it was absolutely gorgeous.

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cbet

First kuddos on doing all that scanning! I am sure that your sister must be estatic!

I have to admit that the first thing that came to mind was a huge album with many, many pages and a special rolling cart to move the album around on!

However there are a couple of ways I've used to solve the problem which might work for you. The first is to do a collage of some of the pictures,

12x12 with nothing else on the page or... you could even add some journalling on vellum and overlay it over the collage. I usually design the left hand page with the party invitation (bridal shower, rehersal dinner etc)and a larger picture of the special couple taken at the party and add a slightly smaller one of the immediate family or host(s) with a large journaling box (which I usually leave blank for the bride to journal) and do the collage of the party on the right hand side.

The other possibility is to create dynamic pages, something like adding a mini book or books on a single page which allows you to scrap a whole lot more pictures on one page.

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M-C

Thanks all for the ideas. That 225 didn't include any shower pictures or any memorabilia, so that'll add to it as well. I've got some photos shot at the shower my dh and I gave and another set from the "prepartions" that I took (since I played chauffer that day). Anyway, I'll probably do some flip-outs/flip-downs for them and I'll definitely be doing a collage or mosaic on one of the pages to include all the dance pictures (so and so dancing with so and so, etc). I've already gotten the paper (Sharon Soneff's Sonnets block and swirl papers

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Anyway, it's amuch bigger project than I knew when I set out, but I'll get it doneby gosh! and I'll share my results when I finish :)-CC

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CC

Could you go to a bigger album? A friend of mine use the 12X17 CM one as her work album. She's a school teacher and makes a page every year of all her students on one page with journaling. It seems really big when you first look at it, but once you hold and start going through it... it's very nice.

Lynne

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King's Crown

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