Tell Us What You Are Working On
Monday November 17, 2008
What type of scrapbooks are you currently working on? Are you curious what other scrapbookers would say to that question? Answer the poll question below to find out what kind of scrapbooking is the most popular right now. If you are working on several types of scrapbooks, feel free to select more than one answer.
Comments
All of the above.
I think a lot of scrappers work on a variety of projects all at once.
I have just started doing my four year old daughter’s album as she keeps bugging me to do hers, but at times will do a page in my son’s album when I get an idea and then if I see a Wedding layout that I like I do some of our Wedding Album. I have also holiday and family albums in progress as well. There just doesn’t seem to enough time.
I am usually working on our family book: birthdays, vacations, holidays, and everday events. I scrap for some neices and nephews so I work on pages for them too, same themes. I very rarely do ‘theme’ scrapbooks, however I made one last February for my parents 50th Anniversary party.
I’ve got a store in Spain, at the same time that I distribute some scrapbooking brands. As this hobby is new in my country, and the beginners use to make pages, now the fashion is to make mini albums.
Mireia
I have several projects going on at once. My daughter just announced her engagement so I am scrapping that. She and her fiancee have a new house with a barn they are renovating-I am scrapping it as it progresses. Also, my daughter has 3 horses which I always take lots of pictures to scrapbook. And, I scrapbook pictures of family members.
I started a heritage scrapbook last summer. I had completed several pages and was enjoying doing this. However, in August my daughter had a little boy who was born healthy but suffered complications after birth and who lived for only a few days. We were devastated but I then started a scrapbook to commemorate his short life. This was a theraputic experience and I would recommend anyone who has lost a baby to do the same. I gave the scrapbook to my daughter who I know will treasure it.
I have not yet gone back to my heritage album but I will sometime in the future I hope.
I try to keep my photos organized by category, but don’t seem to have much success getting around to actually scrapbooking them. So, now I’ve starting doing something new that is working for me - a scrapbook for each year. There was something about compartmentalizing my photos for 2007 . . . having a deadline for finishing the scrapbook . . . it just worked! I’m so pleased! And now I have a photo-journal of the year, which makes it easy to share with folks we don’t see regularly.
The photos for 2008 are assembled and I will start it soon. Hope this works for someone else, too.
I am working on:
1. Family “Annual” album - 8×8 in size, one double-page spread with a ‘diary’-type journalling entry, then anything from one to six pages on events or moments from that month. I find it a fantastic size, quick and easy to do a lovely layout.
2. Family holiday album - a simple album using a 200-photo slip-in style album with4×6 prints. Every so often there is a 4×6 block made up of journalling about the holiday and the photos. A really quick and beautiful way of scrapping and displaying lots of photos quickly. I have bought about ten albums that are the same, and will go back and scrap four other family holidays once this one is finished. I love consistency!
3. Our wedding album (wedding was 2002 pre-digital photography!) - a 12×12 album, all done in the same three cardstock types and the same embellishments and title formats. The ceremony section and formal photos are done, now for the reception. As always, though, I’d like to re-do some pages! Ah, the temptation.
4. A digital version of the 2008 family album, which I will get printed on 6×8 photos and then laminated and coil bound. This will be the version my 2-year-old can look at by himself. He adores looking at the family “Book”, but can get a little rough with it. This way (and I know it’s not archive-safe at all!) he gets somethign he can look at whenever he likes. And, because it’s digital, I can make another one if he destroys the first through loving it too much!
5. I continue to do occasional 12×12 pages and put them into one of three ongoing albums - from various years. I’m not a huge fan of 12×12 any more, but occasionally return to it when I have something special or tricky I want to have a go at.
I got so sick of not finishing albums that I began the 8×8 format, and the formula as above. It works! I get things done, and the simplest idea looks amazing in the smaller format. I thoroughly recommend it to anyone who just wants to get SOMETHING completed!