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joelsgirl

joelsgirl

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So remember last month how my parents were here? I'm sure many of you have tried to block it from memory since I wasn't here every day and you were probably just DYing. But let's try to move on.

I think we took like five thousand pictures. Clearly i'm not scrapping them all, but I have to decide how I want to scrap the pictures. I'm going to make a mini album for sure to be printed in a book, but I'll probably make a few pages to go in their regular albums as well.

SO I can't decide if I should stick to like one kit for the album and then use just whatever to scrap the pictures I really love for their regular albums. Do you think I should scrap each thing we did (i.e. aquarium, park, beach, etc.) Or should I do the mini album like a two page spread for each day?

I want to scrap the photos, but I really want to have a plan first. Tell me what you think and I'll probably do it. That's how much I value yall's opinions.
 
I would probably do a two page spread per day since you have a starting and ending time to the visit especially if you can tell what you did each day. If you can't tell the dates by your pictures then I would just do topic by topic. If there was something that couldn't be contained in the two pages I would allow for adding in a two page of the aquarium behind the two pages for that day. Most times for something like this I use one kit but I'm weird like that.

I probably just made this clear as mud.
 
I would do a coordinated collection - one of my favorite books is one I did of a vacation a couple years ago using a Merideth Fenwick collection - so it wasn't all matchy matchy but it flowed well. Maybe one of the recent Mega - Haiti kits?
 
I think for the mini use coordinating albums and do 2 pages or so for each activity. Then for your regular pages do whatever you want to do.
 
I think it depends on the photos you intend to scrap. I always put off scrapping our big annual vacation with my family since it's so overwhelming to sort the photos. But when I finally do get around to it, I often find that I need to organize at least some of the pages by people.

So this is what my album might look like:
1 spread for each day
1-2 pages of special activities (like the children's museum or beach) that have too many great photos to get lumped in with "day 1"
3 child-specific pages (1 for favorite photos of Lauren with the relatives, 1 for Jason, and 1 for Ben)
1 spread for favorite photos of the entire family and of multiple kids with various relatives
 
rach3975 said:
I think it depends on the photos you intend to scrap. I always put off scrapping our big annual vacation with my family since it's so overwhelming to sort the photos. But when I finally do get around to it, I often find that I need to organize at least some of the pages by people.

So this is what my album might look like:
1 spread for each day
1-2 pages of special activities (like the children's museum or beach) that have too many great photos to get lumped in with "day 1"
3 child-specific pages (1 for favorite photos of Lauren with the relatives, 1 for Jason, and 1 for Ben)
1 spread for favorite photos of the entire family and of multiple kids with various relatives
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Coming back to say I like this plan.
 
lots of great tips already but i'll add my 2 cents :)

i'm working on a baby book for someone right now and struggled with this question too. in the end, i just could not bring myself to use only 1 kit. this might be especially hard for you if there will be several varying themes involved. a kit that works for an aquarium might not work for something else, kwim?

i kept 3 things the same throughout the whole album:

1) same neutral background for each page
2) same font for text and same alpha for titles (for example, I'm using Lauren Grier's One Step Closer alpha because I can fill it with whatever colour matches the page and still maintain the continuity)
3) have an overall colour scheme (but a broad one with freedom - like using only pastels, or only bright colours, or only neutrals, etc.)

and then i'm just using a variety of different kits for the elements depending on the theme of the page. . . i find by just keeping those 3 basic things the same throughout that there is enough cohesiveness to the album

hth! good luck with your album!
 
where is Vanessa when you need her!!! I LOVE her albums and they always look fabulous!!!!

I like th coordinating idea :) maybe same kit or coordinating kits with the same colors~ and I suggest 2 pagers just so it flows easier...
 
mishou said:
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i'm working on a baby book for someone right now and struggled with this question too. in the end, i just could not bring myself to use only 1 kit. this might be especially hard for you if there will be several varying themes involved. a kit that works for an aquarium might not work for something else, kwim?
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I love this! Do you have any pages done you can show me?
 
Kellie...I'm really bad at planning, so mine are always hodge podge layouts. I am still working on a book (two years in the making now) and I'm using solid cardstock for the bg's, and doing it in two page spreads, so at least that all looks good.

I was going for a more graphic look too with multiphoto templates so the focus was on the photos. Here are the links to the ones I actually posted. I haven't gotten around to getting any others up.

https://www.sweetshoppecommunity.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=66709&ppuser=2548
https://www.sweetshoppecommunity.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=66705&ppuser=2548
https://www.sweetshoppecommunity.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=66703&ppuser=2548

anyway...that gives you an idea of what I was doing. I've been picking up Janet's two page templates each week with the multiphotos. I'll get a lot of use out of them.
 
I'm sure a theme would be nice, but I could never bring myself to scrap an entire book in the same kit!! I'd probably have no plan and just scrap the events I loved using multi-pic pages so that you don't have 100 pages from one visit and then if there are a couple of special ones that are especially good pictures, scrap them separately.
 
I am kind of with Melissa. I am in love with Cindy's 2 page templates for getting a ton of pictures from an event and then I usually do some separate pages with pics that are my favorites. I am not a very good planner/scrapper, b/c I start to feel boxed in and then think everything just looks horrible!

That was probably not helpful at all, but it is my 2 cents! :)
 
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