How do you do your scrapbooks?

[Lux Et Veritas Academy]

I was a creative memory girl for a short while, then went digital in 2000 and would print it out with a journal entry and store in 3 ring binders, now I blog. But I am so confused on how to create one nice book or memory keeper.

 

I am a digital girl- so I would prefer to use something like an online program like blurb. How do you do your photos? Do you make movies out of them? Everything is changing so quickly. I have been looking at my stuff from 15 years ago and I hate my albums. Talk about outdated!

 

With 4 kids it is impossible to make a book for each, and I am taking a million more pics now with digital cam's....help!

[LNC]

I'm keeping up using 12X12 size pages with 4X6 inserts - 6 slots per page. I'm using 4X6 index cards to stamp and decorate for titles and journaling of each new event or celebration. It goes quickly - I have completed an entire year of 500-600 pics in a weekend's work.

 

I used to scrapbook more before I started homeschooling. I have scrapbooks for each child - birth to age 5. I want to make my 2009 family album an actual scrapbook though. We'll see!

[kat19]

Can you show us an example of this? This sounds like something I need to do~I have lots of pictures sitting around.

Thanks :001_smile:

 

I'm keeping up using 12X12 size pages with 4X6 inserts - 6 slots per page. I'm using 4X6 index cards to stamp and decorate for titles and journaling of each new event or celebration. It goes quickly - I have completed an entire year of 500-600 pics in a weekend's work.

 

I used to scrapbook more before I started homeschooling. I have scrapbooks for each child - birth to age 5. I want to make my 2009 family album an actual scrapbook though. We'll see!

[dirty ethel rackham]

Scrapbooks?? You people do scrapbooks?! Oh, Gosh. I must be on an alien planet where are the mothers are superwomen, all the schoolrooms are organized, all all the children are above average. (I only qualifiy for the third one;))

[hmschoolmom22]

I scrapbook the old fashioned way still - paper, stickers, diecuts, etc...I put my pages into sheet protectors and then into 3 ring binders(in a perfect world that is)I currently have over 150 pages that are completed and sitting in a box waiting to go in albums:001_huh:it will take me days to get them put into books.

 

I love creating them but hate storing them, lol!

 

I have a few of my pages on my blog if you want to take a look.

[LNC]

I don't have a photo of my albums. I use 12X12 postbound albums and use these Ultra Pro 4X6 photo inserts (25 pack) from Hobby Lobby.

 

http://www.ultrapro.com/uploads/images/products/57020N-O.jpg

 

I then use clear stamps for decor and journaling on the 4X6 index cards -

 

http://store.scrapbook.com/mm-30267.html

 

HTH!

[H.S. Burrow]

I'm keeping up using 12X12 size pages with 4X6 inserts - 6 slots per page. I'm using 4X6 index cards to stamp and decorate for titles and journaling of each new event or celebration. It goes quickly - I have completed an entire year of 500-600 pics in a weekend's work.

 

I used to scrapbook more before I started homeschooling. I have scrapbooks for each child - birth to age 5. I want to make my 2009 family album an actual scrapbook though. We'll see!

 

I don't have a photo of my albums. I use 12X12 postbound albums and use these Ultra Pro 4X6 photo inserts (25 pack) from Hobby Lobby.

 

http://www.ultrapro.com/uploads/images/products/57020N-O.jpg

 

I then use clear stamps for decor and journaling on the 4X6 index cards -

 

http://store.scrapbook.com/mm-30267.html

 

HTH!

 

I'm new to scrapbooking - and have 2 Creative Memories scrapbooks waiting for my attention! Do you mean that you do one 4x6 "journal" card per page with 5 photos for the event? Or crop a photo and put photo and journal sticker on a 4x6 card?

Thanks to the OP for posting this!

[LNC]

The first card says " " Family Album 2008. Then I use the journal cards to describe the photos following - it may be 2-3 photos or 24! For example, a title/journal card for a field trip, a birthday, a vacation, holiday and then the photos. The cards and photos are all placed in the album in chronological order. If the photos are not event related, for example just lovely pictures of my children playing, they are stilled placed chronologically with the journal card being more about my thoughts/emotions rather than descriptive. Make sense?

 

Now, there are two reasons why I do this with 12x12 scrapbooks. One, so they will match my children's scrapbooks on the bookshelf. Two, so all the year's photos can fit in one scrapbook.

 

If this system is more trouble than it's worth, I also have used these Pioneer photo albums. They are archival also. I have 13 of these filled with photos from 1991-2002. They look nice on the bookshelf, but I didn't like that a year's worth of photos don't fit in one album.

 

http://www.archivalusa.com/k-bdp-35.html

 

One more thing, I wait until Hobby Lobby offers their photo pages and scrapbooks at 50% off and then stock up. I also purchased all of the Pioneer photo albums at Ac Moore and Michaels w/ 40% coupons.

[NevadaRabbit]

I was a creative memory girl for a short while, then went digital in 2000 and would print it out with a journal entry and store in 3 ring binders, now I blog. But I am so confused on how to create one nice book or memory keeper.

 

I am a digital girl- so I would prefer to use something like an online program like blurb. How do you do your photos? Do you make movies out of them? Everything is changing so quickly. I have been looking at my stuff from 15 years ago and I hate my albums. Talk about outdated!

 

With 4 kids it is impossible to make a book for each, and I am taking a million more pics now with digital cam's....help!

 

I'm currently on the scrapbooking plan where you leave the photos in piles or unprinted on your computer so long that you forget where they were taken or when, and just hope that they will leap onto a pretty scrapbook page all by themselves.

 

Anybody else want some of my tea from la-la land?

[camibami]

I've transitioned to mostly digi scrappin. I'm toying with the idea of just doing blog books- Google it, they will put your blog in neat photo book form for you! No work at all, if you've already got stuff blogged. Sometimes I feel like a doofus for repeating blog entries (same photos even sometimes) on a digi page. But, I still enjoy adding fun elements and papers and whatnot- its my creative outlet. Right now I am paper scrapping, hoping to exhaust my substantial stash befre an overseas move next year.

 

I do 2 books a year, that is it. I am ruthless cutting out and combining things if it looks like they won't fit into 2 volumes. I do Jan-June, July-Dec. All pages from thsoe months go in each book. I am up to (gulp!) 32 scrapbooks around here, what with oldest DD's 3 baby books, a military album, misc albums. SO I had to make a plan to keep it reasonable.

[Tess in the Burbs]

I do the CM books and love them. I still enjoy the paper/cut my own stuff though. I earned a free book this year in 12x12 for digital prints. You print off your stuff and slide it into the sleeves. the bad part is there are 14 pages(28 sleeves to put into) and no way to add additional pages. but it's perfect for digital scrapbooking.

 

as for my books I make them chronological. Most years have two books(i do about 50 pages per year) and I just get them in the same color for the year. Each year is a different color. I did do Disney in it's own album since it was so much.

 

When I run out of paper in a few years I may move to digital. But their program isn't for Mac yet ;)

 

But my kids love the albums I make and right now I still enjoy the process of cutting/pasting stuff on each page. As for outdated....sure, the first few years are laughable!!! But it's part of the history of the album...my childhood photos are simply on black paper with no writing around it. But I wouldn't redo them...it's how people did it then. So my 90's scrapbooks are hideous...it's part of the culture of that time and I wouldn't change them.

[mysticamethyst]

This was a huge problem for me for so long till I was able to put them on to a DVD that can be played in a DVD player. I put them with a book looking background and the pages turn with music of my choice. I really enjoy this option and my kids will pull them out and just dance to the music and watch themselves grow up before their eyes. Have fun.:)

[Jann in TX]

I have BOXES of pictures waiting to go into the empty scrap books (and boxes of supplies too)...it is just NOT GOING TO HAPPEN...

 

I just returned from a trip to Uganda. While there I took well over 200 pictures--it was such an awesome experience I really wanted a photo-journal to help preserve the memories.

 

I started by creating a photo-blog on Shutterfly.com Once I made that I decided that I wanted a hard-copy with more journaling. I made a photo-book (also using Shutterfly). It arrived today and I'm VERY pleased. It is a hard-bound book with 25 pages of memories and journaling.

 

I'm hoping that I can start scanning in some of my old pictures--and I want to put them in photo-books too.

[Lux Et Veritas Academy]

These are all great ideas- I love just doing the dvd since that is so easy on Apple. I do want to do more of the shutterfly books. Thanks for the great ideas - keep them coming!