Photos? Pages?

If I only have one photo I would probably do a single photo page BUT I would almost certainly want to use an enlargement, 5x7 or 8x10 at least. If I love a photo just because it's so pretty I want it to be big! Maybe some people would frame those photos rather than scrap them. Or they find a way to add more photos (saving it to compare with other similar photos in the future).

It's so interesting to me that some people are all about the story and other people all about the photo or the art

I've never imagined not seeing scrapbooks as (fancy) photo albums!


Social media absolutely counts as a kind of memory keeping in my book - it's a great source for in-the-moment journaling for a lot of people. I think that's part of why a lot of people don't do scrapbooking any more. They can get some of the same thing from looking at their Fbk.

I’m like many of you - I scrap 12x12 and use as many or as little photos as I want. The occasion I’m scrapping does come into play - if it’s a birthday party there’s usually many photos, perhaps a two page spread. If it’s a class picture or a sports picture, I try to take the best picture and scrap that one. I don’t use a lot of embellishments (clusters are not easy for me) but I do like mixing different papers on a layout.

I did the 100 Day Project earlier this year with joblackford and my project was to take one photo a day and journal about it for 100 days. I found out I really like doing that, so have done another book of 100 days since the end of September till now (it ends January 3rd). My photos are random things that happen each day and I love capturing the little day by day memories that we usually forget as time goes by. I devote two pages to three days (I’m using Webster’s Pages composition books) and 100 days fills the book up. I’ll try to upload some photos and add to this post. If I forget to take a photo, I look in my texts or on Facebook and grab a photo from my kids/grandkids and use that.

I recently found Heidi Swapp’s new way of journaling (Storyline/Stop the Blur) and ordered some of the stamps/books she uses for that. While I love making 12x12 pages, this new way of scrapping has kept me interested and excited to try something new. 

Edited to add: Here are several pages from my second 100 days book and here's a link to the first 100 day project we started earlier this year.

  

I'm a single, clean, linear, story-focused, & theme-challenged scrapper who exclusively creates 12x12 albums with various sizes/configurations of page protectors. The majority of my layouts are 12x12 because I prefer a square canvas, include extensive journaling & actual memorabilia, & print 4x6 photos (sometimes trimmed to eliminate unwanted background or use 6x6 patterned papers as mats & occasionally enlarged to 5x7 or 8x10). Layouts are typically single pages, except for events that require 2+ pages. Each 12x12 layout may feature 0-3 (4x6) photos, although 1-2 are the norm. 

Depends on the story I want to tell. Sometimes only 1 photo is needed. Other times 2 or 3 or 4 are needed.

Say we go to the pumpkin patch. I want to include a few from our day.

The kids in their Christmas pj's or Halloween costumes? One is all I need.

After about 6 years as an 8.5x11 scrapper I moved to 12 x 12 around 2004 and have kept to that size (except for the occasional mini album.)

I’m a linear scrapper and like to tell the story of the photos with journaling. Generally 2 or 3 photo, single page LOs with a catchy silhouette-cut title and a few embellishments. I love the look that others get with lots of embellishments but can’t quite get there. I do create a few 2 page LOs or single pages with a lot of smaller photos as I have a slight trigger finger problem with my camera and takes tons of pictures 😉

I am almost always a multi-photo per page scrapper.
But, I've had my fair share of 1 photo pages. These are almost always featuring a photo larger than 4x6.

I do think there will be more and more 1 photo layouts in the future however, as my kids are almost out of the house, and there are just less photos.

I've been buying kits a lot the last couple of years, because it forces me to add more pictures, and makes me think of other ways to do it. If I don't have a picture of my own to add, I've gone online to get a picture, or add logos, etc. It's been kind of fun challenging myself to using 'different' pictures.