Do you scrap chronologically?

I don't scrap chronologically. I scrap what I'm excited about, what suits my latest purchases, my newest photos. My intention is then to file the layouts chronologically by the photos, but that hasn't been working. My last few albums are layouts basically in the order I made them, stuffed in page protectors so they don't get damaged. I've thought about starting to go by theme. My nieces' birthday parties, school photos, and dance recitals are now going in one book. I might do the same for Christmases. I do have some vacations that have their own book, but shorter ones are just mixed in with all the others. I keep talking about doing a great scrapbook organization but so far it's a hodge podge. My 2001-2010 are chronological because that's what I did then. Everything since needs help.

I get bored easily, too. But I try to stay on one theme for a particular scrapping session. I don't put stuff away very consistently, so it makes sense that when there is a bunch of hockey themed papers and embellishments spread all over the scrap counter that perhaps I should use some of them to scrap another hockey LO. After 3 or 4 LO's though, it starts feeling like work, so I will move on to something else. That is why I have to pack everything but the kitchen sink to go to a three day crop. I could never scrap one event or theme for that long that long.


For the most part this is me. I try to date my pages as per photos so that makes it easier to get the pages into the right place in the right album.



Yes. One new set of stickers will set me scrapping a set of photos I had set aside months ago b/c either I couldn't figure out how to scrap them or one of artbabe's squirrels ran by. Or I find myself frantically shopping for papers to scrap the photos that are still on my camera taken yesterday and to be printed tomorrow on my way home from time with dgk's.

Nope. Heck, I don’t even finish a lot of pages before moving on to the next one. Squirrel issues are real!

nope - I started out chronologically, but now it's mostly by event or by whatever I'm inspired by at the time. Someday I will store the completed layouts in albums by theme, like family, holidays or vacation or person. The albums are generally in semi chronological order.

I scrap mostly chronologically because I like to organize my albums that way, and I like the adjacent pages to flow/match aesthetically. However, if I feel like scrapping something else, just to break out of a rut of scrapping the same thing over again, then I don't have a problem doing that. I also have my mini-albums on the side that I can scrap if I am feeling like something different.

I make photobooks that are mostly chronological reviews of each year or a trip, but I don't necessarily make each page in order. I also jump around between a couple of projects.

Writing this I just realized I didn't do my photo workflow, getting pix onto EHDs and into Lightroom, for last month and so I'm definitely several weeks behind on making pages for this year's book. That's normal and OK, but I try not to leave it too late in the year because I get busy with my nephew's photobook and my Christmas Journal, plus the book is a Xmas gift for family. But I'm also working on remaking an album into a photobook for a trip from spring 1999.

No. Nope. Never. I scrap just like you described art babe. And sometimes it’s all about the paper!

I mostly scrapbook chronologically and my albums are the same.

I'm not afraid to just grab some photos I'm excited about and scrap them.

No I don't scrap chronologically.

I'll usually scrap an event (multiple pages) all at the same time but otherwise I just pick photos and start. Sometimes I'm inspired by getting new paper and will dig up some old pics to use.

My albums are a mix of theme/event and chronologically within those themes. I have Christmas, Vacations (each has their own album) & Beach (we go multiple times a year so I have books just for these trips), DS school, DS Scouting, a "Me" album, Family album, DS Birthdays album, DS general albums (for pics that don't fit any of the other themes). I also have some mini albums for different events/trips (DH 50th bday, Trip to Pioneer Woman's store & ranch, etc).

I'm just kind of all over the place LOL!

No, I scrap what-ever and them put them in albums somewhat chronologically. I mostly scrap current stuff (last 2 years). I've done all my kids growing up years so now I just scrap current stuff or stories that need to be told.

No. Although I don't scrap chronologically, I organize my layouts/albums in chronological order.

Not at all. I did not start chronologically, and continued not to do so. My pile would be giant if I tried to do that.

I'm actually kind of surprised how many people have said they scrap chronologically, I guess we just don't really talk about it that often, so it was a bit under my radar. I can definitely see where it would be beneficial, especially on travel on yearly albums where I often run out of steam before the project is finished (I still have a 2011 weekly PL album that needs to be finished, that was mostly scrapped in real time and then just ignored for the following 12 years).

I scrap whatever I want and file my layouts chronologically, or as much as possible. Like others, I'll move layouts out of order to keep a 2 page layout together or create a filler type page to fill an odd gap. I keep my yearly layouts in albums by year, large vacations usually have a couple of overview pages in my yearly album then a gazillion layouts in separate albums. Even a one week trip is likely to get a separate album (albeit a 6x8).

I have a lot of gaps in my albums, but when I get part way through a project I tend to print out the remaining photos and drop them into page protectors in the right spots in the album. This helps me include all the stories I want and makes it easier when doing sketches/challenges to just find some pre-printed photos that will work. When I get close to finishing an album I'll keep a list of what is left to go along with the photos sizes so I can easily choose something to work on.

Squirrel! I scrapped chronologically for about 3 months back in 2000 and then realized that itself was a block to my mojo, so I set myself free.
With babies, you simply cannot keep up with your photos, and you start being a month "behind" then a year "behind" then a CHILD "behind" and that isn't a good feeling to a brain (it's like you are failing!)

I really enjoyed the freedom of grabbing a photo or stories that spoke to me in any particular scrappy mood.

I am currently trying to scrap a 5 day family visit last year and complete that "story" before moving on. It feels good - and hard. It is hard not to "take a break" from these photos, BUT it makes me quicker to produce because I have less choices in photos and supplies (I have a wide assortment of paper I'm starting with in order to give the photos a slightly cohesive feel. If you look in the gallery, my last 7 pages are from this "kit" and while they don't look matchy matchy, they are less ecclectic than my normal approach.

I have about 4 layouts left to go. I have a list I'm crossing things off to keep my squirrel practice at bay!