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Post by finaledition on Jan 26, 2021 19:19:55 GMT
Several months back I admitted that I was shamefully bad at putting layouts in albums. And I got several responses (and even a YouTube link) that gave me some suggestions. I have made some efforts, mostly with recent pages and feel relatively caught up in that area. I also had a large stack of pages that were in various stages of incomplete. And I finished many of those. One of the tips I got was to slip layouts into sleeves so that also incorporated that into my process. I have several empty album and a lot of sleeves, but I’ve gotten to the point that I’m going to tackle this pile before ordering more sleeves/albums. Figuring out what pages can go in existing albums, etc... I also have an album set aside for homeless layouts that won’t fit in an existing albums. I’m giving myself permission to not get caught up by putting them chronologically.  This is 21 inches of layouts. Wish me luck! Just putting this out there to hold myself accountable. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 26, 2021 19:22:22 GMT
That's awesome! I know someone posted a video (so sorry, cannot remember!) but it was awesome and super helpful. I tackled a similar pile and you can too...go get 'em!  |
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Post by grammadee on Jan 26, 2021 19:31:11 GMT
You go, Girl! It will feel really good when you are done!
I have a stack of pages almost that high that need to go BACK into albums after being pulled out to make copies last fall. Not going to happen today, but I will cheer YOU on!
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Post by finaledition on Jan 26, 2021 20:27:41 GMT
Thanks. Finished sorting.  Now on to phase 2 which is the albums. Gets a little tricky as some are CM and some of those are the 11.5x12. |
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Post by 950nancy on Jan 26, 2021 20:29:17 GMT
I just put about 15 months of layouts (x two) into their proper places. It felt so good. I don't mind that process, but I had been storing them where I didn't see them, so I kind of forgot I had so many. I only saw one pile and that was just from this summer to now.
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Post by Chinagirl828 on Jan 27, 2021 1:08:05 GMT
I'm cheering you on!
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Post by Jessica on Jan 27, 2021 1:38:19 GMT
I'm so proud of you! I just finished reorganizing all of my layouts into order (mostly to get my heritage pages all in one place) and my living room looked just like your room. Oy. Good for you, we are cheering you on!
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Post by joblackford on Jan 27, 2021 2:58:46 GMT
Ooo, that’s a lot of work, but maybe not as bad as you imagined...?
Good for you, tackling that! I hope you have a nice reward lined up for when the job is done.
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Post by mikklynn on Jan 27, 2021 12:33:37 GMT
You got this! Just sorting is a great step.
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Post by nicolep on Jan 27, 2021 14:27:33 GMT
It'll feel soooo good to have them in albums! How fun to also go through them again.  |
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Post by steakgoddess on Jan 27, 2021 14:37:13 GMT
That is awesome! Great job!
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Post by auntmimi on Jan 27, 2021 15:06:31 GMT
The hardest part is always getting started so good for you! You will feel such a sense of accomplishment when you get that finished!
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Post by bingaling on Jan 27, 2021 16:34:07 GMT
No shame from me - as I just did a big stack similar to yours recently. And I made sure to share the process on my channel as motivation for anyone else like me who just hates doing it. I break into stacks per year, then while I file into albums I do 1st and 2nd half of the year (two albums per year at the moment) and listening to a bood/podcast helped keep my thoughts off just HOW many I needed to put away. youtu.be/26T0ub1vw1U |
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Post by mayceesgranny on Jan 27, 2021 18:28:32 GMT
I took an afternoon and put my los in albums a few months ago. Mine had piled up because I only scrapped at crops and never put them away when I came home. Now that I'm not going to crops and scrapping at home, I've been putting the layouts right in the albums as I finish them. It feels great to be able to keep up with it. You'll be so happy when you're done! I also found out I need to buy more albums and find more room to store my albums! It's never ending!
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Post by finaledition on Jan 27, 2021 18:50:32 GMT
Well the worst is behind me! I worked until 10:00 last night with few breaks, but definitely did spend time looking at albums that I haven't looked at in quite awhile. I'd say I'm about 75% done. I hope I'm a cautionary tale to all of you who don't put their layouts in albums-it's far far easier to do them once they are complete! It definitely got way way worse before it got better. I also pulled all the layouts I had in sleeves-those had been placed next to the album they belong, but I do double and single page layouts so there was quite a bit of shifting going on. The room size was challenge, I wish I would have been able to use a 6 foot desk to sort on. I worked on the floor and my back was in pain by the time I crawled into bed.
I definitely feel that in my situation it was better to tackle as a whole day project as it felt a bit like a puzzle with lots of shifting and rearranging. I think I ended up tossing a half dozen ( a drop in the bucket) layouts-they didn't fit in the albums they were meant for and I did not like them and felt I could live without them and not regret it. So even this morning I'm not regretting that decision. I did come across more unfinished layouts so they are in albums and I think I will focus on one album a month to finish them up (and also glue down some embellishments that have come up). I'm fairly current in my scrapping so this doesn't feel too overwhelming.
Here's a few of my issues: Creative Memories. This is my main problem, I have 50 layouts from 2007-they are all in order and ready for an album. But I guess 2007 was around the year CM changed the size of their refill pages? Some are full 12x12s others are not. I don't have any more of the smaller 11.5x12 pages so I guess I'll just make it work. The albums left I have to work with are the smaller pages so the pages would hang out a bit and most of the layouts would have a 1/2" border. I can live with that, right? Totally overthinking it.
My "homeless" layouts-That ended up being 21 layouts. Those are also ready to go in a album. Trying to decide if I reuse an old post bound album-I should probably use what I have.
I have since switched to 3 ring so I do have quite an assortment-I had no idea if I'd need to buy more sleeves/page protectors-it was something I just couldn't predict looking at the stack.
I will probably take a break today as my back is still sore, need to give myself a break. But tomorrow I will begin again!
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Post by finaledition on Jan 27, 2021 18:57:53 GMT
No shame from me - as I just did a big stack similar to yours recently. And I made sure to share the process on my channel as motivation for anyone else like me who just hates doing it. I break into stacks per year, then while I file into albums I do 1st and 2nd half of the year (two albums per year at the moment) and listening to a bood/podcast helped keep my thoughts off just HOW many I needed to put away. youtu.be/26T0ub1vw1UWatching your video. Oh wow, I totally relate! If there is one lesson (aside from put the layouts away) is to put the date. So many I put the month and day, but it's the year that turns out to be the big missing piece. Forget the exact date, month and year would make it 100 times easier. |
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Post by 950nancy on Jan 27, 2021 19:55:17 GMT
You have made great progress. Keep going. I switched album sizes years ago and refuse to change. Too much work.
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Post by Linda on Jan 28, 2021 2:56:07 GMT
well done - what awesome progress!
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Post by Tamhugh on Jan 31, 2021 3:26:37 GMT
No shame from me - as I just did a big stack similar to yours recently. And I made sure to share the process on my channel as motivation for anyone else like me who just hates doing it. I break into stacks per year, then while I file into albums I do 1st and 2nd half of the year (two albums per year at the moment) and listening to a bood/podcast helped keep my thoughts off just HOW many I needed to put away. youtu.be/26T0ub1vw1UGreat video of your process. Now I need to watch more like it and work on my piles. |
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Post by amom23 on Jan 31, 2021 14:49:24 GMT
You are going to feel great when you are all finished!
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Post by Belia on Feb 19, 2021 4:08:04 GMT
I have a stack of pages almost that high that need to go BACK into albums after being pulled out to make copies last fall. Not going to happen today, but I will cheer YOU on! Sorry to hijack an old-ish thread, but do you scrap 12x12? How do you copy your pages? That is my holy grail- figuring out a cheap and easy way to make copies and digitize all of my pages. |
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Post by grammadee on Feb 19, 2021 4:47:44 GMT
I have a stack of pages almost that high that need to go BACK into albums after being pulled out to make copies last fall. Not going to happen today, but I will cheer YOU on! Sorry to hijack an old-ish thread, but do you scrap 12x12? How do you copy your pages? That is my holy grail- figuring out a cheap and easy way to make copies and digitize all of my pages. Our local photographer has a 12x12 screen on his copier and does my pages on thin photo paper. That way, I can get a LOT of those copied pages into one album.
One family reunion album, he actually scanned while he was making copies, so I gave each of my siblings albums, but all the nieces & nephews were given CD's with the album on them.
If you have a place that makes photo books, they may be able to do this for you, too. |
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Post by Belia on Feb 19, 2021 5:02:21 GMT
grammadee Sorry to hijack an old-ish thread, but do you scrap 12x12? How do you copy your pages? That is my holy grail- figuring out a cheap and easy way to make copies and digitize all of my pages. Our local photographer has a 12x12 screen on his copier and does my pages on thin photo paper. That way, I can get a LOT of those copied pages into one album.
One family reunion album, he actually scanned while he was making copies, so I gave each of my siblings albums, but all the nieces & nephews were given CD's with the album on them.
If you have a place that makes photo books, they may be able to do this for you, too. I've looked everywhere, and can't find anyone who has a true 12x12 scanner / copier. The only places I've found are, like, architectural planning places and they wanted to charge more than $20 per page per copy. I've contacted copy places, photography places, local colleges- nada. More than once I've been told "Yeah, we can do that" but when I get there they can't actually copy the full 12x12- only 11.5 (or whatever a standard copier is). I live near Chicago, and there is a do-it-yourself non-profit artist's lab in the city where I have gone once or twice a year for the past few years (before Covid, anyway). I can reserve time at the scanner and sit there and do it myself. (I can print too, but that's a separate reservation, and separate set of equipment, and separate hassle. Can't scan and print at once.) It takes, like, 7 minutes to scan a single page. It's CRAZY. And I always have to hope no one reserved the time after me so I can beg to stay longer to try and get as many pages scanned as possible. I hate it, but its the only solution I've found that is halfway reasonably priced and doesn't involve me mailing my SB pages to some company out-of-state. So. Anyway. That's my tale of woe. Like I said- a true 12x12 scan is my holy grail! Thanks for letting me know what you do! |
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Post by grammadee on Feb 19, 2021 5:18:10 GMT
Belia it sounds like it would be well worth the money to get a 12x12” printer. justjac has one so maybe she could talk to you about using that as a copier.
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Post by Belia on Feb 19, 2021 18:17:41 GMT
Belia it sounds like it would be well worth the money to get a 12x12” printer. justjac has one so maybe she could talk to you about using that as a copier. I have a printer that can print 12x12- a Canon Pro 100? I think that's what it's called? It's huge, but there's no scanner / flatbed to it. It just prints. If there's something else out there I would LOOOOVE it. And probably spend through the nose for it, too. I was so excited when the Brother Scan & Cut came out and I saw it at the Expo, then so sad when I asked and discovered it only goes to 11.5. I mean, that sucker is made for Scrapbookers! How hard would it have been to push it to a true 12 inches? justjac I would love to know what you have and if it could work for me. |
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Post by justjac on Feb 20, 2021 18:28:43 GMT
Belia it sounds like it would be well worth the money to get a 12x12” printer. justjac has one so maybe she could talk to you about using that as a copier. I have a printer that can print 12x12- a Canon Pro 100? I think that's what it's called? It's huge, but there's no scanner / flatbed to it. It just prints. If there's something else out there I would LOOOOVE it. And probably spend through the nose for it, too. I was so excited when the Brother Scan & Cut came out and I saw it at the Expo, then so sad when I asked and discovered it only goes to 11.5. I mean, that sucker is made for Scrapbookers! How hard would it have been to push it to a true 12 inches? justjac I would love to know what you have and if it could work for me. I have the same printer you do Belia. I have been searching high and low for a 12x12 scanner that doesn’t cost a fortune but I’ve yet to find one. The best I can figure that I could try is taking a picture of the layout and then printing it on the 13x19 paper and cutting it out. That would also be really expensive. |
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Post by nicolep on Feb 20, 2021 19:43:15 GMT
I have a printer that can print 12x12- a Canon Pro 100? I think that's what it's called? It's huge, but there's no scanner / flatbed to it. It just prints. If there's something else out there I would LOOOOVE it. And probably spend through the nose for it, too. I was so excited when the Brother Scan & Cut came out and I saw it at the Expo, then so sad when I asked and discovered it only goes to 11.5. I mean, that sucker is made for Scrapbookers! How hard would it have been to push it to a true 12 inches? justjac I would love to know what you have and if it could work for me. I have the same printer you do Belia. I have been searching high and low for a 12x12 scanner that doesn’t cost a fortune but I’ve yet to find one. The best I can figure that I could try is taking a picture of the layout and then printing it on the 13x19 paper and cutting it out. That would also be really expensive. I too have the Canon Pro-100 and it's the love of my wide-format printer life lol. Would be awesome if it copied and scanned also! |
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Post by Belia on Feb 21, 2021 1:28:32 GMT
I have a printer that can print 12x12- a Canon Pro 100? I think that's what it's called? It's huge, but there's no scanner / flatbed to it. It just prints. If there's something else out there I would LOOOOVE it. And probably spend through the nose for it, too. I was so excited when the Brother Scan & Cut came out and I saw it at the Expo, then so sad when I asked and discovered it only goes to 11.5. I mean, that sucker is made for Scrapbookers! How hard would it have been to push it to a true 12 inches? justjac I would love to know what you have and if it could work for me. I have the same printer you do Belia . I have been searching high and low for a 12x12 scanner that doesn’t cost a fortune but I’ve yet to find one. The best I can figure that I could try is taking a picture of the layout and then printing it on the 13x19 paper and cutting it out. That would also be really expensive. Shoot! I was hoping you would have the answers to all my prayers! I guess my quest will continue. |
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Post by Belia on Feb 21, 2021 1:32:23 GMT
I have the same printer you do Belia . I have been searching high and low for a 12x12 scanner that doesn’t cost a fortune but I’ve yet to find one. The best I can figure that I could try is taking a picture of the layout and then printing it on the 13x19 paper and cutting it out. That would also be really expensive. I too have the Canon Pro-100 and it's the love of my wide-format printer life lol. Would be awesome if it copied and scanned also! I love it, too, but I hardly ever use it for large prints- I mostly just use it for 4x6 or 5x7. My husband got it for me so I could print out my pages in 12x12, but the cost of ink is just too high. It's cheaper just to use Walgreens or Shutterfly or whatever. I kind of wish I just had a little portable jobber that I could use for quick 4x6 prints, but I feel like an idiot buying ANOTHER printer when I have a giant top-of-the-line monster sitting on my desk. First world problem for sure! |
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Post by myboysnme on Feb 22, 2021 0:10:21 GMT
I find I have to put my layouts away in albums when I get home from a crop. If I left them in a pile I would end up waking up in the middle of the night and putting them away.
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