Oh Crap! – Musings of an Unperfect Mommy

Scrapbooking Redux

June 14, 2017

In an effort to declutter my office, I also decided that it was high time to do something once and for all with these photos hanging around. Yeah, actual pictures from way back when. I do have digital photos as well, but I’ll be doing something different with those. For now, I’m just focusing on the hard copies if you will. The plan is either Creative Memories or Project Life. Or maybe both.

I started scrapbooking with Creative Memories years ago because I liked their approach – simple pages, completed albums. This was before scrapbooking took off as the craft and also all the embellishments that made you panic that you weren’t being creative enough. Kind of the opposite of what you were trying to do. I looked over some pages I did at least 8 years ago and they were all really good. Very simple, but the pages were all done. So, if I go down this road, I need to get all my finished pages in albums first – which means someone is going to have to help. For the life of me I can’t figure out these damn strap hinge books! Then, continue with these traditional style pages up to a certain year – maybe the last year of photos I made traditional pages with. I still have lots of paper and stickers so I’m ready to go.

After that, I think I’ll do Project Life. PL is a whole different concept in scrapbooking, but still the same concept as CM – simple pages, albums done. And, really, that’s the point – getting these pictures out of boxes and into a place where everyone can enjoy them. With PL you have photo pages to put your pictures in (cropping is very optional), and they also have these cute cards to journal on or just to add pizazz to your page. You can even put ticket stubs or other memorabilia into the pockets. All you do is slip it all into the page pockets and you’re done. I still have an entire kit I’ve not used, and I also bought a smaller album kit that I started putting photos in because the large book just seemed so daunting. Again, it’s all ready to go. Just do it.

Now, let me talk about journaling a minute. You might think the picture is the star, and it is, but the journaling completes the memory. That’s the other big point – you’re getting your memories down on paper instead of just in your head. It doesn’t have to be perfect, just write out the details in your own voice. It can be as much or as little as you like. My kids love our albums not just for the pictures, but also the writing – it completes each page of pictures.

So, I got all the picture sorting done yesterday. Before you throw something at me, I had the major amount of sorting done years ago into my CM Power Sort boxes ordered by year. I just had a huge stack of stragglers I’d pulled out and some I could not for the life of me figure out which years they were. So, finally got all that done and it’s on to the actual scrapbooking.

I’m excited to dive back in and get creative. I’ve got more time now that my kids are older so maybe I can finally get these pictures out of the box and onto the page. That way we can enjoy the memories any time.

(Note: I’m not a consultant for anyone. I’m just using what I have and CM and PL are what I have.)

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June 14, 2017

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