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Post by chances on Oct 5, 2014 6:21:21 GMT
I'm trying to come up with a cohesive way to organize my layouts. I'd prefer to organize by a mix of chronological and thematic. I took Stacy Julian's Library of Memories class and love the idea of organizing in themes. However, the themes she suggests aren't working for me. So, I was curious how the peas organize.
Do you have a title page in your books? Any section pages? If you have chronological albums, do you have multiple years in one book or only a year per book? I'd love to hear any details on your method!
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tduby1
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Post by tduby1 on Oct 5, 2014 13:15:22 GMT
I'm trying to come up with a cohesive way to organize my layouts. I'd prefer to organize by a mix of chronological and thematic. I took Stacy Julian's Library of Memories class and love the idea of organizing in themes. However, the themes she suggests aren't working for me. So, I was curious how the peas organize. Do you have a title page in your books? Any section pages? If you have chronological albums, do you have multiple years in one book or only a year per book? I'd love to hear any details on your method! My albums are color coded by person. (Purple for my daughter, red for one son, blue for the other, those are snapload albums, red strap hinge for Disney, black binder style for DH and me and one pink binder for our vacations). from there the kids each have four albums going at a time. The catagories are: birth and birthdays, School and Sports, holidays and a misc album for everything else (mostly those one photo layouts of photos you love or layouts of them with family and friends). When an album is full it gets put on the shelf with the full albums and a tag labeling it by category and years. All the albums but the misc. albums are organized chronologically. I view the misc albums more as timeless moments and the other albums are event based. The misc albums are loosely organized by years. For instance I may have 2010-2013 all in one album and each layout is grouped within a like time frame but they are not organized down to the month like the others.
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amom23
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Post by amom23 on Oct 5, 2014 13:17:41 GMT
I only scrap chronologically. That's just how my brain works. I don't always do a title page (used to, but after scrapbooking for almost 16 years it isn't as important anymore). I will have more than 1 year in an album if there is room. My kids are older so I don't have as many cute everyday photos to scrap. My kids have school albums that our scrapped chronologically too following the school year. I can usually get at least 4 years in each of their albums which consist of sports, clubs, friend stuff, etc.
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NoWomanNoCry
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Post by NoWomanNoCry on Oct 5, 2014 13:35:17 GMT
I just stick mine in there and move on.
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ambercah
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Post by ambercah on Oct 5, 2014 14:25:31 GMT
That's what I do too nowomannocry. I have plans to one day go back and organize them chronologically but since I don't scrapbook in order it seems like a waste of time right now since I go back and forth between new and old pictures.
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Post by marienadine on Oct 5, 2014 14:52:42 GMT
I just put them in and move on or put them in a box to put in the albums... My big issue is now I need to go through and separate each kids into their own albums...
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tiffanytwisted
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Post by tiffanytwisted on Oct 5, 2014 15:16:20 GMT
I pretty much do what amom23 does. I scrap chronologically and sprinkle any random pages throughout the albums where they physically fit. Typically, I just fill an album and move on. I use book clips to label each album. My Christmas & vacation albums are one year/trip to each album. I find in my Christmas albums, I have enough one-page layouts that I end up w/quite a few empty slots, so I've been printing out lyrics to my favorite Christmas songs & decorating the page w/misc. Christmas embellishments and using those to fill in the spaces.
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Post by redshoes on Oct 5, 2014 16:10:34 GMT
1 family album per year, with a title page including a family pic from sometime during the year. Rest of the album is chronological.
School Days book for my DD, covers 1-4 grades. Title page has a small school pic from each grade. Probably have an album for middle and an album for high school.
Baby book=birth to 1st b-day for each child
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breetheflea
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Post by breetheflea on Oct 5, 2014 17:23:54 GMT
I don't scrap chronologically but store my layouts that way. I use the date of the photo, not when I scrapped the page, as the date to file the pages by. I use D-ring albums so if I need to add an extra page here or there, it is easy to throw another page protector in the album.
That being said, my albums are not completely 100% in date order, sometimes I will have a page with multiple photos from different days, months or years, those pages just get put in the album where it seems to logical. I have generally filled 2 albums per year but with 4 kids I might end up with 3 albums this year unless I make the baby his own first year album.
I have separate albums for school stuff and big vacations.
HTH!
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Post by chances on Oct 5, 2014 21:15:55 GMT
Thanks for all of the feedback! I love to hear everyone's method. I really like the idea of title pages and may work on those first.
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Post by kwitekreative on Oct 5, 2014 21:17:51 GMT
Most of my pages seem to be about our family vacations, so each of those gets its own red album. For the remainder of my pages, I do something similar to LOM. Green albums contain "Things We Do" pages - things like holidays and family gatherings. Blue albums house "People We Love" layouts. I recently added yellow albums to the mix because I completed 31 pages about my own childhood during LOAD314, and I figured I could continue that theme with some "Story of Us" pages. I have not done any of the title pages nor the divider pages. It's on my long "someday" to-do list.
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PaperAngel
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Post by PaperAngel on Oct 5, 2014 21:17:54 GMT
Although I don't scrap chronologically, I store layouts in that order by the subject date. I currently have the following color-coded (3-ring, D-ring) albums in various stages of completion:
baby (1 blue) - pregnancy-1st birthday preschool (1 red) elementary (2 navy) - K-5 gr. middle school (in progress - purple) - 6-8 gr. life (several - black) - day after first birthday-present, includes moments, personality, family, friends, outside school extracurricular activities (e.g. church, rec sports, violin lessons/concerts, charity), birthdays, holidays, vacations, current events, etc.
A clear Becky Higgins divider (& often a "title" page) is placed between years in the same albums. I also plan a high school album (black) & am debating whether to pull layouts from various years/school albums to create a separate basketball album (orange). HTH
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Post by artfulscrapbooking on Oct 5, 2014 21:48:05 GMT
I don't scrap chronologically, but I put my pages in albums that way. I use the binder style albums and that way I can move and shift pages around, from album to album if I need to. I use AC cloth covered binders in Chestnut for these family pages. I have one son, so I have a separate binder album for school layouts. I'm also working on pictures from a trip to Paris and they go in black cloth covered AC binders. (I have older post albums and mini albums too.) So far my system is totally working for me. Later on I may do a type of title page for each year and file it in the appropriate albums. my blog: Artful Scrapbooking
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Post by mamakven on Oct 5, 2014 22:00:12 GMT
My pages are color-coded according to child and also I have wedding albums and month and review albums for the earlier years of scrapping I also have print ones for project life though I haven't really done that in a while. My albums are mostly chronological though I've been lazyabout it lately
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Post by CarolineO'Sullivan on Oct 6, 2014 2:29:09 GMT
I find I generally scrap in order, but only because if I like a picture i will print it on my selphy and work on it there and then (time allowing)
What I have found works for me is I have a few different albums. I have my daughter and one for each year so this year I just keep adding in layouts since she turned 8 and so on. I then have family albums that are just in general, and I just keep adding to them.
It works for me and helps keep things in order.
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Post by bingcherry on Oct 6, 2014 11:58:41 GMT
I really only scrap photos of my DD. While I do not scrap chrono, I do organize my albums that way. I have about 6 albums that I am constantly moving LO's around in. Some years have their own albums and others are combined, just depends on how many LO's I have. My DD's school albums are completely separate. Those are completely up to date and follow a set pattern.
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plasticlight
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Post by plasticlight on Oct 6, 2014 14:38:22 GMT
I intend to go back and someday organized my layouts, but for now, they go in order of creation, into an album, and onto the shelf. I actually kind of like the random-ness of my albums
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Post by myshelly on Oct 6, 2014 15:29:06 GMT
If pages are in page protectors then I'm happy with the level of organization.
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mamakven
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Post by mamakven on Oct 6, 2014 16:09:42 GMT
My pages are color-coded according to child and also I have wedding albums and month and review albums for the earlier years of scrapping I also have print ones for project life though I haven't really done that in a while. My albums are mostly chronological though I've been lazyabout it lately I meant my ALBUMS are color coded
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Post by iammikki on Oct 6, 2014 16:21:27 GMT
I am all over hte map when it comes to organization, I organize my layouts differently depending on the album. I have albums by a modified Stacey Jullian Library of Memories, so I have "Places we go" "Disney" "All about me" "Kaylee" and a catch-all of "School, Everyday Life, ballet, holidays, and birthdays". Inside the albums: Places we go: I have the places grouped together, so all of the same places are together (park, kids museum) and those are chronological. This is definitely my most popular albums topic, so I've expanded to 2 albums, the way I chose to break it up was "Place we go" and "Places we went once", so a trip to the kids museum is likely to happen multiple times per year, where something like a trip to Calico Ghost Town was probably a 1 time thing. Disney: Scrapped whenver I feel like but organized chronologically Kaylee: I put the layouts that look best together next to each other. All about Me: Mostly chronological, also kind of grouped together by theme, so I have a friend who comes to visit every year or so and I have all those toegheter but many of them are personality pages or things that only I do, like "girls night", so those are just put in the order I scrap them. My catch all album is organized by topic: Birthdays, then in chronological order. Holidays: all the Christmas is together, all the Halloween is together but each one is in chronological order. School: Chronological order... I don't have dividers between topics, but it's fairly obvious.
I know I rambled, hope some of this helped. I really love looking at my albums now, much more than when I used to simple organize chronologically or in the order they were scrapped.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 6, 2014 23:45:17 GMT
I tried scrapping by theme and I took too much time deciding what category the picture fit. I took everything apart and put them back chronologically. I do have a separate holiday albums. If one gets too big (like Christmas) I put it in its own binder. In the family album, I still do the holiday layout, but it's generally a bunch of pictures with some journaling. The holiday album is more for me because I like to do a bit more embellishing with this one. I like to put out that specific album during that specific season.
I do have a travel/places we go album but we don't travel often, so there's not much to that one.
My kids albums are a mess. The plan is to do newborn-age 5. Then onto school albums for the rest of the time. I haven't done any school items.
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Post by kristenf on Oct 7, 2014 17:09:08 GMT
Another one who scraps out of order according to whatever inspires me, but stores chronologically in D-ring albums! I have my own system that I came upon by reading Stacy Julian's book as well-her system inspired me to think out of the box and store my layouts in a way that fits how I scrap, what I have scrapped, and how I view our family life. -Each Disney trip gets its own book, the layouts are in trip order. -Each of my 3 boys has their own color book(s) that contains any layout of their life (birth-present) that pertains to just them-school, birthdays, sports, scouts, with special people including mom&dad (other than their brothers) everyday... just them. Stored Chronologically. -The Family Album is a different color, and contains any layout of brothers (in any combo) doing everyday things, family outings, family gatherings, extended family, DH and I, etc... non-holiday. Stored Chronologically. -The Holidays and Traditions Album contains layouts from those that we repeat each year. This is probably the most unique-to-me structure I've adopted The album is sorted first by holiday/season based on the calendar year, then within each "holiday" it's chronological. I don't have every holiday/tradition scrapped for every year, so it fits in one book-for many of you it wouldn't fit, I know! So, Apple Picking 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011 are in order, then Pumpkin Patch 2005, et al, then Halloween et al... We enjoy the ablum this way because of how awesome it is to see the kids grow and change from year to year in the context of whatever activity, whether it's the pumpkin patch, town 4th of July Carnival, or the inlaw's Thanksgiving table. My method sadly reveals that I haven't scrapped even close to all of the holidays and traditions I intend to scrap, and because of that I'm able to fit this broad category in one book. The beauty of it is that I can always reorganize! And the way I'm set up, it's pretty easy to separate a category out into a new book, which I did with Christmas! -Christmas has layouts of cutting down the tree, baking cookies, the actual holiday, our annual holiday photo card, and a layout of the photo cards we receive in the mail. Soon it will include our Elf, who visited for the first time last year Again, these are in category first, then chronological. Some day, when I've scrapped more and filled in more gaps, I might change the holiday books to pure chronological. But this system right now, works for me! It's totally weird and no one else does it like this! Which is why I share it, because the system that works for YOU, might be one that is totally weird and no one else uses! So, be sure and think outside the box!
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Post by loco coco on Oct 7, 2014 17:21:03 GMT
i do 1 year per book and they are chronological. I have a list I add to for pages I need to make so I dont accidentally forget an event
For my genealogy albums I havent figured it out yet, I think Im doing 2 books... 1 for my dads side and 1 for my moms. But then I need to split it again for Moms moms side and moms dads side. Then I will do it by person I think and follow the family tree. No idea if this is going to come together and make sense on paper like it does in my head lol
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