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Post by honeypea on Oct 1, 2020 13:45:47 GMT
I’m looking for ideas on how to deal with my childhood photos. My parents sent me a box full, all sizes. There is everything from 4x4, wallets, 3x5, 4x6, school photos and portraits 5x7.
I am primarily a pocket scrapper, and this random sized mess would be a nightmare to deal with in pockets. And I’m not really looking to scrapbook them. I just want them out of a box, into an album. I’d like to maybe add some details- so a bit of journaling. But nothing actually scrapbooky. There might be 1 out of every 20 photos I’ll put into my actual About Me scrapbook. The rest just need to be stored in some sort of accessible way.
Has anyone dealt with this? What did you do?
My solution so far is to adhere them to white card stock, and then just gave a binder of 8.5x11 pages. I’d just collage them on the pages, writing as needed. No frills.
Does anyone have a better solution?
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Post by Linda on Oct 1, 2020 14:22:55 GMT
I'm considering photo books for mine (and for the ones older than me). I'm storing the oldest and the bigger than 4x6 in archival boxes (in page protectors with cardstock - I've added identifying captions to the cardstock). The 4x6 and smaller I'm storing in the big Iris photo boxes chronologically.
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Post by sleepingbooty on Oct 1, 2020 14:40:08 GMT
I've done this with my childhood photos but in a wide spine 6x8 album. I actually didn't do too many "collages" on white cardstock but left a lot of white space. I wanted to leave enough room for the important (to me) photographs to breathe and treat it like a traditional photo album but locked into the protective PP system. I'm very happy with the result.  |
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Post by amom23 on Oct 1, 2020 15:18:17 GMT
I did a project a million years ago with the smaller sized photos and used a CM album. I just adhered the photos directly on the page and added journaling here and there. It was clean and simple, but turned out so nice.
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Post by JavaJones on Oct 1, 2020 16:01:32 GMT
I think your plan is a good one, although you might want to use photo corners to adhere the photos to the cardstock, so they are completely removable for scanning at a future date if needed/desired (esp if you don't have negatives). It is good that you are choosing to keep them intact--I am still heartsick about the vintage photos that my mother cut into shapes with decorative scissors in the 1990s when she started scrapbooking. Lots of family photos w/o negatives that were ruined  |
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Post by msliz on Oct 2, 2020 1:24:24 GMT
My solution so far is to adhere them to white card stock, and then just gave a binder of 8.5x11 pages. I’d just collage them on the pages, writing as needed. No frills. That sounds like a great idea too, but using the photo corners, just in case, as javajones suggested. |
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Post by myboysnme on Oct 4, 2020 23:29:48 GMT
When I was considering pocket scrapping I matted the 3x5 photos on 4x6 cardstock and slid it in. I sometimes used the border to journal.
I eventually decided to do more traditional scrapping but this is what I started with.
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Post by carolynhasacat on Oct 4, 2020 23:44:16 GMT
I did an album for DH of all his dad's old family photos. The photos were all weird sizes. I bought a variety of Project Life page protectors, and tried to match the slots to the photos as much as possible. I ended up mounting a lot of them on black cardstock and using photo corners so he could still pull them out and read the backs if he liked. But I didn't try to standardize them. I used extra pockets to type out some of the notes on the back of the photos (who was in the photos, location and date, if known).
It was really time-consuming and not ideal. Some day I'd like to get a good, quick photo scanner and deal with them that way. Scan in and make a photo book and print a copy for all the relatives that want one.
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Post by simplyparticular on Oct 6, 2020 1:17:10 GMT
I’ve got 80 years of photos as small as 1x1 up to 8x10s. The 60s-90s are 3 1/2 x 5 though. And Lots of darkened Polaroids. Some are in boxes, some are failing albums, some are stuck down on 60s “magnetic” albums or newspaper scrapbooks. It’s a hot mess! But I’ve got it all in one spot. I started off with my mom’s childhood putting them in photo corners on black 8.5x11 card stock. Then I got the rest of the generations dropped on me, and tried a few Pioneer photo albums, which have since fallen apart. Switched to WRMK 12x12 albums with a mix of C-Line 3 1/2 x 5, and WRMK 4x6 pocket pages with cream card stock. I don’t stick anything down. I just tuck 1-2 photos per pocket. My grandmother typed or wrote little strips with names, so I can keep those with them. C-Line 3 1/2x5 insertsWRMK 4x6Haven’t gotten to the late 70s-80s Poloroids or 90s 110 negatives yet... |
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