Chronological... or not?

this is where I am also - my albums are chronological but I scrap what I want to scrap when I want to scrap it.

My albums are in chronological order. When I print photos I put them in order using 4x6 photo pages into the album. Then I scrap what I feel like, when I feel like it and stick the page into the correct spot in the timeline. Love my 3 ring binders for this reason.

I don’t scrap chronologically but I store them in albums chronologically

When I scrapped traditionally as opposed to pocket pages, I scrapped whatever I wanted, whenever I wanted. I did tend to at least have an album for each year, but I just put my LOs in as I finished them.

Now that I use pocket pages, it takes a bit more advance consideration since your next bunch of photos have to go into the back of the pocket page you just used on the last batch. So for these I do scrap chronologically, but I fudge a bit within any given month.

I want to do some heritage albums some day, and I do not plan on those being chronological. Just by family branch, with whatever photos & stories I have.

I scrap almost exclusively in chronological order and I store my pages chronologically. There are just a few exceptions (my heritage and childhood albums). This is my current way of scrapping. When I first started 20 years ago, I jumped around in the pages I made, but even then I stored the pages chronologically.

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I scrapbook big events and trips chronologically, but I mostly scrap what pictures grab my attention. I have several types of albums, that I file my layouts in by the date they were created. I love your idea of scrapping by where you lived such a great way to enjoy the process and relive the memories .

I don't scrap chronologically at all. I'm all over the place. I'd say 50% of what I scrap are photos from the past few years but I'll also scrap a photo from 15 years ago, or 40 years ago, or whatever. Whatever strikes my fancy at the moment.

I have an insane amount of photos. I mean over 10,000. So I'm never going to scrap all of them- I just pick highlights here and there. Trying to do things in order would be so stressful and boring for me.

My albums are roughly chronological, but they are also by theme. There are separate albums for selfies, beach trips, Disney World, Christmases, Halloweens, Friends, etc. I love storing them that way because that is how I like to look at them. When I'm missing my beach vacations I just pull out the beach albums, for example, and it makes me happy.

Like others, I don’t scrap in chronological order, but my albums are. I wish I could let go of that, it would be so much easier to put layouts away! I do have Christmas albums that span years and it’s fun to see my kids’ progression through them

For me, scrapbooking is purely a creative outlet and I have no real intention of passing them on to anyone.  If my family wants them, great, but it's not my goal.  I have my albums separated into me or me and my husband, family, christmas, each of my kids have their own, and then misc.  I scrapbook whatever I want, whenever I want, depending on if I'm in the mood to use certain papers, certain pics, or certain embellishments.  There is literally no rhyme or reason to what I do.  And my albums are not chronological at all.

I am currently not scrapping chronologically; however, I do put layouts in my albums chronologically. Right now I am just grabbing whatever photos I have and making layouts. While I like the flexibility of this, it isn't the most organized way of doing things and sometimes it leads to things being missed or scrapped twice.

One of my most favourite projects ever was an album I did of an Alaskan cruise. My mom and I both had photos so we got doubles of our prints, and spent a whole day sorting the photos into chronological order. I also pulled all the paper collections and supplies that I was going to use on the album and put them together. While the prep was not the most exciting thing, I love the way the album turned out and I think it was because of the pre-planning and scrapping chronologically. I used traditional layouts, ephemera and pocket pages of all different sizes. The album is really interactive and fun, and I think it is because I organized it as a whole and worked on it in order that it came together so well.

I have a similar project for a month I spent in Europe. I have not sat down and worked on it chronologically (or organized my photos as such) and it is a real mess. Eight years later, I have layouts not in albums, I don't know what photos I am missing, my printed photos are in disarray and I have not printed any of the journaling. I need to do a major organizational session for this project, and I have major regrets that I didn't do the organization up front.

I am learning that ultimately what works best for my is a hybrid approach. I can handle picking the pages and photos that appeal to me when I am scrapping everyday events, but I think for larger "projects" or themed albums I benefit from doing some up front planning and organization.

I will say that while I scrap randomly, when I print photos, I do label them and put them in page protectors in binders chronologically and if there's ephermera or journalling notes, I pop those in the page protectors also. That helps ensure that I don't duplicate layouts and everything I want to scrap is there and ready to scrap.

So yesterday I scrapped four layouts - Aug 2013, summer 2013, Aug 2023, and Oct 2023. For three of them I was working on a Shimelle class so flipping through the binders looking for a specific number, orientation, and rough colour scheme of photos that work with the specific layout prompts. Since all three used similar layout designs, I like that they won't be especially close together in albums.

Once I've completed a full month's worth of photos from any specific binder - then I move those layouts to an album. This has the benefit of making it easy to spot (on my shelves) where I have unscrapped photos (they are in the binders not the albums) - I store albums and binders on the same shelves in chronological order.

And yes - trip albums are planned out layout by layout in binders also complete with brochures and receipts and any journalling notes. I don't tend to sit down and scrap a whole trip all at once but I also don't tend to use a single colour scheme for the whole trip album either.

I do this except not with binders.  When I get a photo order I sort them by page ideas or event, and they go into a hanging file folder box with anything that goes with it, or sometimes I have a paper or scrap in mind I don't want to forget to use. Then when I am ready to scrap I flip through and pick one.  The empty folders go in the back of the box, and when there are more empty folders than used ones, it's probably time to order new photos. 


    

Nope, I don't scrap chronologically. Sometimes, I don't even scrap one event in chronological order, like a big trip to somewhere. I do put my pages in the book in chronological order though.