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Post by Mel on Apr 2, 2018 19:41:56 GMT
Chronological? Are you working on the past? The present? How much goes into each book? My answer: I go chronologically. I should say, I always have. Each album contains a year, the first LOs are Birthday/party pages, and the last pages are the last pics before the next Birthday. This works really well because that also means it contains a whole school year. I have summer kiddos. I am dreadfully behind though! I have four kids. DS 23... I'm up to his 11th, I think? DD 20...I'm up to her 10th. DS 12... I've only done the books of our trip and I think his first year with us (he is adopted from Ukraine, he was 4!). DD 11... I think I've done her first 3 years. I am itching to do more recent stuff but I am worried that I won't go back and work on catching up! LOL My life is so different now, I am divorced and now with the love of my life. We have gone on trips and done some fun family activities in the last few years. I'd love to work on those pages. I'm torn!!
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Post by mikklynn on Apr 2, 2018 19:45:12 GMT
I scrapbook whatever I feel like. That is why only 3-ring binder style albums work for me.
I add to my albums as I complete layouts. When the album is full, I start a new album. I put the layouts in chronological order. Sometimes I have to move pages around, if I add a bunch of layouts of older photos. It's not a big deal to me.
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Post by amom23 on Apr 2, 2018 19:48:41 GMT
For the kids school albums I scrap August-July to cover the school year. My oldest has his books completely finished. Child #2 I'm working on HS and he's a college Freshman. Child #3 I still have a long ways to go. I work on those albums in spurts. Otherwise I generally just work on family pages. I also scrapbook chronologically - it's just how my brain works lol.
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Post by Elsabelle on Apr 2, 2018 19:54:58 GMT
I'm a chronological scrapper but have been more flexible with that lately. I've been redoing some layouts and also looking through older pictures for stories I want to tell recently and have not been overly worried about where the layouts go. I'm learning that it really doesn't matter if a story is chronologically out of place in an album. They're all our stories no matter where they are. Sometimes a blast from the past is fun in an album. I'm enjoying not being rigid about scrapping anymore.
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Post by grammadee on Apr 2, 2018 20:02:43 GMT
I scrap most recent stories most often, because often from the time I snap a photo or series of them, I am excited to put the page together and can't wait to get started on the scrapping as soon as the adventure is over. I find that on the occasions that I "make" myself finish one project before starting the next that I lose a little bit of the joy of the craft. When I have time and opportunity I go back and scrap earlier photos. I may do a bunch of birthday pages at the same time while my birthday bin is open, or do a bunch of hockey or baseball pages the same weekend b/c the papers and embellies are at hand. For the most part, my pages are stored chronologically. They all have dates, and I slip them into page protectos in order of those dates. Like mikklynn, that is why I love the 3ring albums. I have one album per season each year. I also have a personal album (soon to be 2 albums as this one is overflowing) with just random pages about me.
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Post by sjwoody1167 on Apr 2, 2018 20:12:30 GMT
I usually scrap based on an event or project. Right now I am scrapping my mom's photos from when my brother and I were young. I will do that for a while and then I get tired of it (it's a big project) and move onto a vacation or other event. Then I will scrap that vacation or event and eventually go back to my mom's pictures.
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Post by christinec68 on Apr 2, 2018 20:19:21 GMT
I don't scrap in any order what so ever but my albums are in chronological order. I put pages in an album until it's full then I move on. It doesn't bother me that it's not one year per book or that sort of thing. I've read where lots of people who want all the chronological stuff but are behind will start with more current pictures and kind of stay current but then work backwards as time permits with the hopes of eventually meeting in the middle. It's a hobby...do the fun stuff you want to work on.
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Post by 950nancy on Apr 2, 2018 20:26:36 GMT
I keep current and then go back and try to get the 8 years I am missing.
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Post by KikiPea on Apr 2, 2018 20:37:16 GMT
I scrap whatever inspires me. I feel like if I were to scrap chronological, it would stifle my creativity.
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Post by workingclassdog on Apr 2, 2018 20:52:50 GMT
I'm all over the place.. it just depends on my mood. Problem is when I do go and scrap something and of course I am not really in order, I either scrap the same thing twice or I am searching to see IF I scrapped it in the first place.
BUT I do organize all my layout chronologically. I usually scrap a whole bunch of layouts then put them in my books all at once. I also do heritage pictures and sometimes I will work on those instead.. depending on my mood.
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Post by nancydrew on Apr 2, 2018 21:15:53 GMT
I am definitely a chronological scrapper. Always have been. Right now, I am about 2 years behind. I'm totally ok with that. Although, I do my DD every December (well I don't usually finish until January..) and I do separate albums for vacations and do them shortly after each trip.
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Post by SweetTea on Apr 2, 2018 21:17:20 GMT
I scrap chronologically but I’m “behind” as well. My solution is to work on the past and the present. Maybe it would work for you to do one old and then one new and back and forth?
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Post by woodysbetty on Apr 2, 2018 21:29:11 GMT
I scrapbook whatever I feel like. That is why only 3-ring binder style albums work for me. I add to my albums as I complete layouts. When the album is full, I start a new album. I put the layouts in chronological order. Sometimes I have to move pages around, if I add a bunch of layouts of older photos. It's not a big deal to me. Exactly this !!!
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Post by myboysnme on Apr 2, 2018 21:57:41 GMT
I scrap recent photos pretty much as I get them. My adult sons 26 and 24 have their entire lives scrapped up to March 2018 with the 2 layouts I did this morning. I put them in the book and that's that.
Then I have a larger project going on. For the past 2 years it has been living history photos broken down by era. Special projects have included my school years, my life in California, my teenage years, my Air Force years, and 18th century living history. I generally work on that project until it is finished, but I got overwhelmed on the 18th century pics when my DH gave me a pile of news articles and photos from the bicentennial he wanted me to include.
I try not to get too far backed up on current photos, and I do take much fewer photos than when I had kids at home. I have been 3 or 4 months behind while trying to finish up a project but then I knock out those photos because it bothers me to fall behind.
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Post by scrapnnana on Apr 2, 2018 22:10:28 GMT
I scrap whatever I feel like scrapping. Do I have pages that I need to go back and do? Of course. A ton of them. But if it becomes a drudgery, then I lose steam.
I have a D ring album for the pages in progress or recently done. Eventually I will put them into date order in the appropriate albums.
I find it easier and more enjoyable to work on pages that are either recent, or ones that I am just excited to scrapbook.
Due to a major move, I am more behind than ever, but after recently going through my albums, I am actually excited to get back to doing a lot more scrapping, so maybe I can start getting caught up.
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Post by Linda on Apr 2, 2018 22:20:02 GMT
my albums are chronological but I don't scrap in order. At the moment I have 6 albums in progress at my desk - Legoland 2017, 2018 Family, DS' Tokoyo trip 2017, DS's Okinawa 2017 (his day to day album), 2012 Family, and DD11's Girl Scout album. I put photos in page protectors by layout and scrap as inspired
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2018 23:04:20 GMT
Trips are a priority because I enjoy them the most. Everything else is done when I have no trips to scrap.
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Post by hutchfan on Apr 2, 2018 23:33:44 GMT
I scrapbook whatever is inspiring me at the time might be a photo or new supplies that I want to use.
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Post by lisacharlotte on Apr 2, 2018 23:34:54 GMT
I scrap chronological using Project Life. I never completed an album until I found PL in 2012. Before that I have a not even 1/2 finished CM album from 1997 or 98. I have completed PL albums 2011-2017 and I’m current on 2018. I have one album per year. I have a mostly completed 2010. My plan is to keep current and continue to work backwards. I’ve been procrastinating because digital photos prior to 2010 I have to corral from our MAC that I never use. That’s the only thing holding me back. It’s always photo printing that trips me up. Once I get back to pre-digital it should be quicker since I just need to sort what to scrap.
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Post by FurryP on Apr 2, 2018 23:40:39 GMT
I scrapbook whatever I feel like. That is why only 3-ring binder style albums work for me. Yeah, that. If I tried to do chronological, I would be a million years behind, and stressed out over it.
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Post by nicolep on Apr 2, 2018 23:43:04 GMT
I scrapbook whatever is inspiring me at the time might be a photo or new supplies that I want to use. Yes. Yes. Yes.
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Post by GiantsFan on Apr 3, 2018 1:55:25 GMT
When I paper scrapped, I was a firm chronological scrapper. When I switched to digi, I was taking classes and I'd pull in photos to whatever fit the theme of that particular lesson. I found this was so much easier but I've got a lot of gaps. Now, when I do actually scrap, it's only big trips and those I do in chrono by day.
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Post by LisaDV on Apr 3, 2018 2:15:26 GMT
I scrapbook whatever I feel like. That is why only 3-ring binder style albums work for me. I add to my albums as I complete layouts. When the album is full, I start a new album. I put the layouts in chronological order. Sometimes I have to move pages around, if I add a bunch of layouts of older photos. It's not a big deal to me. This.
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Post by sueg on Apr 3, 2018 12:46:49 GMT
Trips are a priority because I enjoy them the most. Everything else is done when I have no trips to scrap. So far, I am several vacations behind though. And we just got back from vacation yesterday, and I want to forget all my other trips and do this one. I do try to put each vacation's pages in roughly chrono order, but sometimes that doesn't work out, because of the stories I want to tell with the photos. I don't necessarily scrap them in that order though. Oh well, at least I'll never run out of pages to do!
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Post by caspad on Apr 3, 2018 14:41:51 GMT
when I scrapped 12x12 I was not chronological
now I mostly do Project Life and December Daily I'm working on 2016, 2017 and 2018 all at the same time right now. My goal is to get 2016 done by June, 2017 done by October and stay kind of current with 2018.
I'm way behind on vacations too.
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Post by MDscrapaholic on Apr 3, 2018 16:34:29 GMT
I scrap whatever, whenever. Not chronological, not by vacation, not by anything. Sometimes I get new paper and I know exactly what photos I want to scrap with it! Other times I need to search through my stash to find what I need.
Each of us has our own ways of scrapping and I think it's wonderful!
Right now I'm scrapping my grandkids! I want to get it done while I can remember what they did lol
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Post by refugeepea on Apr 3, 2018 22:24:33 GMT
My albums are arranged chronologically. I don't scrap that way. I plan what photos I want to scrap, order them and put them directly in the correct album. I have finished and unfinished pages in lots of albums. I pull out the photos I feel like scrapping.
I'm far behind. I don't do individual kid albums past age 5 and I don't do school albums. There is a family album and themed holiday albums where I play with paper and embellishments more. Those are put out during holidays and arranged chronological as well.
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Post by crimsoncat05 on Apr 3, 2018 23:06:33 GMT
(eta: wow, I got really wordy with this post! sorry for such a long answer to your question!) I say scrap the topics that interest you to keep your joy of creating alive, but that's definitely influenced by how I scrap, and the fact that scrapping chronologically killed my creativity and made me stop scrapping for a time, years ago. How I scrap now is very different-- I scrap mainly event-style layouts; I scrap randomly, mostly 12x12 (other odd layout sizes are put into the same albums), either one or two-page (mostly 2-page, or even more) layouts, and I only scrap when I'm inspired to do so by my photos. I use 12x12 D-ring albums, but I'm not dead-set on a particular color or mfr of album; they don't all 'match' each other. I also scrap my layouts in 'stages' and I VERY RARELY complete a layout from start to finish in one sitting. My scrapbook layout stages are: - Making page kits of cardstock and patterned papers that coordinate with each other
- Making layout backgrounds-- sometimes with themes or photos in mind, sometimes not. Typically my layouts are made from sketches; 'creating' a layout design is NOT the fun part of the hobby for me.
- Separating / cropping my photos into layout topics
- Adding my photos to layout backgrounds (changing the layout backgrounds as necessary to fit the photos I want to include)
- Adding embellishments / title to the layout (stickers, die-cuts, enamel dots, bling, wood veneer, etc.)
- Writing journaling
I work on multiple layouts / topics, at whatever stage of the process I feel like doing; because of this, it can take me months to complete one particular layout. Until they're complete, the layouts are separated by topic / kit into large zipper bags with their designated supplies. Layouts that only need journaling completed live in a 12x12 Iris case. The finished (or not-quite-finished, lol) layouts go into a 12x12 Iris case for safekeeping until I get the motivation to separate a bunch out and put them into their respective albums. The completed layouts are placed in my 3-ring albums mainly in chronological order-- eventually, lol. My albums are separated loosely into categories: - Home & Family - layouts about us, the house, our pets, etc.)
- Places We Go, SouthWest - trips and topics in / around Arizona, NM, Las Vegas, etc. (day trips or longer)
- Places We Go, WI/IL - trips and topics from when we go back to the Midwest to visit our families
- PL-style Random album - a loose month-in-review album of pocket-style layouts, including different years in the same album
- All About Me - album of random layouts about my childhood memories, etc. from before I met my boyfriend
- Hawaii Trip - (2) 12x12 albums for a 2-week trip we took to Hawaii
- mini albums - I have a few kits to make mini albums that may end up being for particular topics, like my plants / flowers, or extra photos / ephemera from the Hawaii trip- not sure about these yet.
I started scrapbooking chronologically in strap-hinge albums years ago, but feeling like I 'had' to scrap a topic that wasn't inspiring to me before I could move onto the next one totally killed the fun of the hobby for me; I stopped scrapping totally for 3-5 years until I discovered the joy of 3-ring albums.
There's a span of years in there in between the strap-hinge albums and the 3-ring ones that have never been scrapped, and there are blank pages in those strap-hinge albums, but I'm okay with that. I may go back and scrap those events and memories some day, or maybe not. We don't have kids so my albums aren't some sort of 'legacy' that I'm leaving for someone else... they're for me to have fun creating with paper and photos, and for us to re-live the memories of the places we've gone and the things we've done by looking at the completed layouts (instead of the photos only living inside my computer, lol).
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Post by ScrapbookMyLife on Apr 4, 2018 0:00:08 GMT
I scrapbook in chronological order. Each year has it's own scrapbook (or two). Starting in January through December. Everything goes in the scrapbook. Nights out, alumni stuff, family birthday, my cat, work stuff, fun with Nieces and Nephews, etc...
The size of my scrapbooks, vary with the ebb and flow of life....and busy, lots to do(or lack thereof). My post divorce years, are two scrapbooks each, because I was "sowing my wild oats" in my early 30's(better late, than never) and there were many girls/friends nights out. These days, my scrapbooks(really my photos, since I am way behind on scrapbooking) are a bit leaner, because now in my 50's I don't have the energy or desire to go, go, go. As well as my subjects(Nieces and Nephews) are grown and no longer need a babysitter(meaning...no park, no feeding the ducks, no McD's, etc..), plus they are busy with their own lives and responsibilities.
I am many years behind. It will get done, when it gets done. Sometimes I will sit and do 30+ pages in two weeks, then not touch it for months.
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Post by refugeepea on Apr 4, 2018 1:28:20 GMT
I also scrap my layouts in 'stages' and I VERY RARELY complete a layout from start to finish in one sitting. Me too! I use LOTS of post it notes, so when I go back to the unfinished pages, I'll remember what ideas I was thinking of at the time.
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