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Post by pancakes on Mar 20, 2017 22:40:38 GMT
Do you scrap chronologically? Or do you just make your layouts based on what story you feel like telling?
If you make separate mini albums for trips, do you put something in your main album indicating there's a larger mini album for more pictures and details?
Just curious how everyone scraps!
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Post by KikiPea on Mar 20, 2017 22:47:45 GMT
Nope! I scrap whatever I want, when I want, and it goes in my albums. All LO's are dated, so I will know when the pics were taken. My DH and I are pretty much the only people who look at them, so there is really no need for the albums to be chronological. The only one that is is our childhood album. Anything after we met is willy nilly.
Vacations have their own albums, and that's the only place those LO's go. If I do a 12x12 album for a trip, and I don't fill it up, I will scrap another trip to that same location in the same album, and put them in the album by trip date. That's as chronological as I get. LOL
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Post by lilacgal on Mar 20, 2017 22:58:45 GMT
Yes, my albums are chronological. I don't scrap that way by any stretch. I scrap what inspires me. I just file it into the correct year when the large stack finally makes it downstairs.
Honestly, I didn't always do this. I don't have a ton of albums like others. However, I saw the need for me to adjust when I was looking for a specific layout to show my daughter. I went through five albums before I found the layout. Granted, even chronologically ordered, it would like have taken more than one album flip through. I can obviously eliminate some of the options though and narrow it down. I couldn't do that before.
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Post by ScrapbookMyLife on Mar 20, 2017 23:02:37 GMT
I scrapbook in chronological order. I go by year, January-December. I very rarely go out of order. When I do, it's usually a filler page, to not mess up the flow of a two(or more) page spread. For instance, I may stick a random cat layout in a couple weeks early or later, so that a multi-page spread, starts off with two pages side by side.
I do not make any separate scrapbooks for myself(no separate vacation, Christmas, birthday, etc...). Everything goes in the yearly scrapbook(or two), in chronological order.
That is my personal preference. I think scrapbooking is one of those "to each, their own" kind of things.
I am several years behind, and that it very okay with me. Sooner or later, it will get done.
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Post by msliz on Mar 20, 2017 23:02:42 GMT
I used to scrap all out of order, but then I'd file my pages into my albums chronologically. But now I have a whole bunch of albums that I started but never finished, so I've made it my mission to remedy that and *finish* my albums. I have 2016 through 2013 FINISHED, and these days I'm working on 2012.
I don't make mini albums; it's just the one family album (with many volumes.) I have a couple of vacations though where we took so many photos they might end up with their own 12x12 albums. Eventually my plan is to scan all my layouts and print a book for each of my kids (or maybe grandkids by then) so they can all have a copy of everything.
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Post by carolynhasacat on Mar 20, 2017 23:30:55 GMT
My regular 12x12 albums are not chronological. I scrap whatever, whenever. But my Project Life albums are in order, for obvious reasons.
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Post by amom23 on Mar 20, 2017 23:35:02 GMT
Yep I have always been a chronological scrapper. That's just how my brain works. I have 1 vacation album that I made in 2002, but all the other vacations are mixed in with the family albums. My kids have school albums that contain school, sports, clubs, friends, etc. I never duplicate family album layouts into the kid albums. I stop the kid/school albums at the college drop off day/layout. Then all things about t hem go into the family album.
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Post by loco coco on Mar 20, 2017 23:39:08 GMT
Yes mine is. It's just how my brain works, when I open my album I want to follow the years story. I like watching the progression of my daughter rowing
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Post by grammadee on Mar 20, 2017 23:42:37 GMT
I tend to scrap one season at a time and put my pages into my albums in chronological order, but I don't feel the need to complete a page about last month before I do one about this month. I date my pages as to when the event took place or the photo was taken. That makes it easier to put them away into their "proper" place in the album.
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Post by Linda on Mar 20, 2017 23:42:55 GMT
I used to scrap all out of order, but then I'd file my pages into my albums chronologically. But now I have a whole bunch of albums that I started but never finished, so I've made it my mission to remedy that and *finish* my albums. I have 2016 through 2013 FINISHED, and these days I'm working on 2012. are we twins? I'm working on finishing albums while staying caught up with the current one too. vacations - either fit into the family album OR get their own album depending on how many layouts they involve but I don't have a placeholder in the family album for them if they're separate. |
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Post by beachhappy22 on Mar 20, 2017 23:58:37 GMT
Yes mine is. It's just how my brain works, when I open my album I want to follow the years story.  I have tried to not scrap chronologically but just can't do it. |
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Post by walkerdill on Mar 21, 2017 0:29:16 GMT
No. Sometimes I have 2 random layouts next to each other 😲. I'm the only one that looks at them anyways.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2017 2:12:42 GMT
yep - both scrap and keep stuff chronologically. boring, i know. but it works for me  |
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Post by katlady on Mar 21, 2017 5:58:33 GMT
I don't scrap chronologically, but the finished layouts go into albums in chronological order.
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Post by artisticscrapper on Mar 21, 2017 5:59:18 GMT
I might be a chronological someday if I ever caught up now I just go with what looks good at the moment.
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Post by sueg on Mar 21, 2017 6:54:18 GMT
Do you scrap chronologically? Or do you just make your layouts based on what story you feel like telling? Both of these! I make my albums depending on what photos grab me at the time. I might work on a set of layouts at one time - a party, a visit to the zoo - as I will usually want them to at least co-ordinate a bit, but then move on to something that happened months later. But, once the layouts are done, they are out into my album in (pretty much) chronological order. I use ring albums, so it's easy to move things around if I miscalculate and have to fit in an extra LO or 2. Sometimes - often in a vacation album - I might be a bit out of strict chrono order if I have several photos of a place from different days of a trip, or if I do a page about food or funny signs. They tend to be used to fill in gaps between single and double pages. Vacations are stroed in separate albums to my 'everyday' - I tend to go a bit overboard with photos on vacation, and being an empty-nester, I don't have so much 'everyday'. |
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Post by Chinagirl828 on Mar 21, 2017 8:38:43 GMT
I don't scrap chronologically but I do store my layouts that way. I really like following the story in my albums from start to finish (albeit with plenty of gaps along the way where there are stories still to be scrapped). I mostly scrap vacations which are always in their own albums. Like sueg I tend to take, and subsequently want to scrap, way too many photos.
My everyday scrapping is usually limited to a double page summary spread per month except for the rare years when I do a weekly PL album. If I have a vacation that occurs in those years I include some of my favourite photos or smaller stories into the PL album and still have the album(s) for the full trip.
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Post by jennyap on Mar 21, 2017 10:04:32 GMT
Do you scrap chronologically? Or do you just make your layouts based on what story you feel like telling? Both of these! I make my albums depending on what photos grab me at the time. I might work on a set of layouts at one time - a party, a visit to the zoo - as I will usually want them to at least co-ordinate a bit, but then move on to something that happened months later.But, once the layouts are done, they are out into my album in (pretty much) chronological order. I use ring albums, so it's easy to move things around if I miscalculate and have to fit in an extra LO or 2. Sometimes - often in a vacation album - I might be a bit out of strict chrono order if I have several photos of a place from different days of a trip, or if I do a page about food or funny signs. They tend to be used to fill in gaps between single and double pages. Vacations are stroed in separate albums to my 'everyday' - I tend to go a bit overboard with photos on vacation, and being an empty-nester, I don't have so much 'everyday'. Apart from the bit in italics, this is almost exactly how I do it. |
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Post by LavenderLayoutLady on Mar 21, 2017 10:43:39 GMT
I scrap all out of order, but I try to place layouts in albums in a roughly chronological manner. It may not be perfect down to the day, but close enough for me. It helps that I use three ring albums, so I can easily put a layout between others already there.
I haven't made a vacation type album for a decade, but when I did, it was for a once in a lifetime type of trip, and no, I didn't make any notes in my regular album to look for the vacation albums I had made separately.
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Post by mikklynn on Mar 21, 2017 12:20:00 GMT
I don't scrap chronologically, but the finished layouts go into albums in chronological order. This is how I scrap, too. |
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Post by PaperAngel on Mar 21, 2017 13:01:36 GMT
My albums are chronological. While I used to also scrap chronologically, I now am so far behind that I have unscrapped stories across many years from which to choose. I have few separate albums (eg sports, school), but no single-event mini albums. HTH, & happy scrapping!
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Post by LisaDV on Mar 21, 2017 13:53:55 GMT
My albums are mostly chronological. I keep separate album for family, each of us individually (dh, me, ds, dd), for my side of the family/friends, for dh's side of the family/friends, and Christmas. I don't fret if 8/6 is before a 7/4, because it fit in an open slot that was there.
I scrap what I want and when. So I may be scrapping 2009 story and then a 2016 story.
I don't do a lot of mini-albums. Vacations are usually just put in the regular album. Although we lots of weekend adventures and not many long week-long "real" vacations. We just took a real vacation last year and I've been working on it this month and I have over 47 pages. So I may put that in it's own album, but I won't elude to it in my family album.
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Post by garcia5050 on Mar 21, 2017 14:15:13 GMT
Chronological for me. I just finished 2011. So I'm a few years behind. I decided to skip to 2015, since there was so much going on and I didn't want to lose that fresh info in my mind. I've never done this and hope I don't regret it.
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Post by scrapcat on Mar 21, 2017 15:18:25 GMT
I don't scrap chronologically, but I do keep my albums in chronological order for the most part. However, I switched from 12x12 to 8.5x11 btwn 2015 and 2016, but sometimes I still may make a 12x12 layout, so I will just put it in the 2015 album. Still chronological is my main sorting system for finished layouts.
I always scrap what I feel like doing at the moment.
For mini albums/trips, if its thin like a travelers notebook, sometimes I will just slip it right into a page protector, or the sturdier project life envelopes in the album.
For larger trips, I generally just do digital photo books, then scrap a few photos, which I put into my chronological albums. I do not indicate that in any way bcz I'm probably the only one who knows/cares anyways.
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Post by katmandu on Mar 21, 2017 15:27:19 GMT
My albums are organized chronologically, and I only do "main" albums (no minis). I tend to scrap mostly chronologically as well. For example, I look at my pictures and plan out my album, so I know where each layout will go, and I work on whichever layouts in that album I feel like working on in the moment and put them in their place in the album when I finish them.
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Post by lostwithout2peas on Mar 21, 2017 17:03:23 GMT
I don't scrap chronologically, but the finished layouts go into albums in chronological order. This is how I scrap, too. Add me to the list as well. I tried just tossing the layouts into an album all willy nilly as I was done with them, but then it bothered me. |
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Post by myboysnme on Mar 21, 2017 18:06:20 GMT
My albums are chronological and it even bugs me when a page is just slightly out of sequence. I just finished a scrapbook for one son from March thru Dec 2016. Well the very last page had to go AFTER the 2 page spread preceding but it occurred before those pages and it bugs the heck out of me!
I do not scrap chronologically though. I work on a certain set of photos and put them in the book but leave space for other photos that occur before or after.
This past weekend I finished up 3 albums and put them on the shelf. Each son got their March to Dec 2016 albums done and younger son's college album vol 2. They are all chronological but they are scrapped over time. I work on whatever I want to up to a point - for example the past month I have been scrapping 'current' photos. Now they are caught up I am going to be working on my project of older photos.
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Post by Elsabelle on Mar 21, 2017 18:10:03 GMT
Yes mine is. It's just how my brain works, when I open my album I want to follow the years story. I like watching the progression of my daughter rowing Same for me. When I started scrapping my oldest was 3 and my baby was about 6 months. I started with their pictures and have scrapped chronologically ever since. It works for me. As they have gotten older I have transitioned from my kids' individual albums to a family album. I also scrap separate vacation/travel albums and will sometimes scrap a highlights kind of layout for the kids' albums for those subjects. But not always. |
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Post by anniefb on Mar 21, 2017 18:46:10 GMT
I have several albums in the go - one for my niece aged 3, one for my latest vacation and one for photos from the 1990s that I'm currently working through. I don't tend to scrap everyday events. I do scrap what I feel like at the time but end up moving things around in the album so they're mostly chronological.
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Post by grammadee on Mar 21, 2017 18:54:10 GMT
I just realized I didn't answer the second part of the question.
For a vacation, or a special event--say when all the kids & grandkids are here for a weekend--I will put together a special album (most 12x12, but some different sizes) for that. But usually there will be at least a couple of pages in my MAIN album for that event or adventure.
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