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My Current Active Scrapbook Albums

Wednesday, September 7th, 2011

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These are the albums I’m most actively adding layouts to all the time right now.

I scrapbook whatever I feel like at the moment, and then I slip the page into the album I want it to go into.

Here are topics of the active albums (shown above):

  1. Everyday Life #2 - The kinds of stuff we do from day to day.
  2. This is Us - I’m just about finished with the final details of this album and I’m excited to start the 2nd This is Us! These highlight the personality of our family relationships.
  3. This is Trinity - This highlights Trinity’s personality. I finished a This is Aiden album a while back and I haven’t been as active doing layouts on him recently. His and Blake’s This Is albums are in the living room cabinet.
  4. Celebrations - Right now this holds a big mix of things we celebrate, like holidays, birthdays, and accomplishments, including business accomplishments. I’ll eventually separate some of these into different albums.
  5. Everyday Life #1 - This one’s just about done. It’s time for me to go through it the same way I showed in this month’s episode! Fun, fun!
  6. Nancy Holt Hyman - This is a heritage Album of Izzy’s deceased mom. I’m not really working on this much right now so I need to move it out and replace it with something else that is more active.
  7. Dancer - Trinity’s dance album. This one in particular tells the story of her transition from a once-per-week ballet dancer to a 20+ hour/week company dancer.
  8. Yesterday & Today - I started this album with Ali Edwards’ class. It has stories from my childhood, and stories that compare my childhood to my current family life.

Active — Just LESS Active

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One of these is actually complete. The rest are all in-progress. Since I add to these slightly less often than the others, they’re out in the living room cabinet.

  1. At Home - This is all about our home, including our yard and neighborhood.
  2. Extended Family - Pages with Grandma’s and Grandpa’s, extended families. As this gets fuller I’ll separate grandparents into their own album. For now I also have pages about our friends in here because I needed to buy another album.
  3. Izzy and Noell - Pages about Izzy and me together and our personality as a couple.
  4. This is Aiden #2 - Right now there are only 4 pages in this.
  5. This is Noell - It’s all me!
  6. This is Aiden #1 - This album is finished, except that I want to add an explanation inside the cover.
  7. This is Blake - Another personality album, this time about Blake.

I love having these different topics I can add to. I love the focus of topic when I look through the scrapbooks, and stories that develop within them, too!

Another benefit of having themes is that it’s easy to tell what parts of the story I’m missing.

* * Remember * * With the method that I shared in video episodes 175-176, you don’t have to plan these out ahead of time. It’s about being spontaneous with the scrapbook layouts you feel like doing, and then pulling it together with a few easy steps at the end!

More Info on Scrapbook Albums

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Transform Your Albums Into Unified Stories – Part 2 – Paperclipping 176

Wednesday, August 31st, 2011

This is Us

I don’t remember when it happened — maybe it was when scrapbooking companies started making transparencies and die-cut shaped pages — but at some point in my scrapbooking evolution I realized that when my albums were full, I still didn’t feel like they were ready for viewing.

What do you do with the backs of all those odd pages?

Not only that, but sometimes there would be abrupt topic changes that just felt weird and out of place.

Two or three pages of vacation layouts after a nice run of pages about us all at home.

Or a big slew of pages about Aiden with just one of Blake.

Ummm, awkward…

And what about that memorabilia you find just two weeks after you did the scrapbook page, having forgotten about the cool stuff you originally wanted to go with the layout?

Album Solutions

All these things bothered me and over the years I’ve been playing around with solutions to make each album feel like it’s own cohesive story and to fix all those awkward dilemmas.

There were a few ideas I tried and tossed out.

I’m not sharing those. ;)

But the good stuff — the stuff that really works for me — is in this week’s video tutorial, along with last week’s.

Here’s one of the layouts in the episode. That layout at the top of this post is, too –

1+1 Isn’t Always Easy
1+1 Isn't Always Easy
I still need to add the journaling onto the left side.

The rest of the pages in the video were basic and clear enough that I don’t think I need to post them here.

If you feel like you’re having to make explanations for people about awkward stuff they see in your albums, you’ll get a lot of this tutorial.

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And when you sign up for your membership, you’ll not only get this episode, but 175 others, too! You’ll also get two more new videos every month!

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Storage Solution: In-Progress Scrapbook Albums

Tuesday, August 30th, 2011

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The albums I’m most actively working on wait for their pages on this shelf in my scrap room.

It’s an old ugly TV stand and the perfect depth for 12×12 albums!

Completed albums move to the living room cabinet where dust is less likely to slip into the page protectors. Unfortunately, they’re also less likely to get viewing time in there, so I do bring one out and set it on top of a waist-high cabinet once in a while.

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Our babysitter says she looks through the, so at least I know somebody’s looking!

I do have a few in-progress albums in that cabinet, as well, since my scrap room shelf isn’t big enough. But they’re the ones I add to the least often.

In the next couple days I’ll share the albums I’m most actively working on.

Where do you keep the scrapbooks you’re regularly adding pages to?

Note: This is part of a new series on scrapbook albums. Here’s what else we’ve got so far —
Transform Your Albums Into Unified Stories

Choosing an Album for a Dance Scrapbook

There are five video tutorials in this series, the fifth one will release by tomorrow!

You’ll need to have a current Paperclipping Membership to view the videos (but not the articles). Click here to learn more.

Members can return to these episodes in the membership for the five videos:

#175 – Transform Your Albums Into Unified Stories – Part 1
#176 – Transform Your Albums Into Unified Stories – Part 2
#29 – Inside the Album
#18 – Solving Your Two-Page Layout Problem
#13 – See-through Layouts

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Transform Your Albums Into Unified Stories – Part 1 – Paperclipping 175

Monday, August 22nd, 2011

Our Own Cheerleaders

I’m all for scrapbooking however and whatever makes you happy.

That includes how we organize our scrapbook pages into albums. So I understand this comment on a recent Paperclipping blog post:

At one point I tried to put my layouts into albums chronologically. Now it’s a free for all. When I fill up one album, I just buy another and put the layouts in. I just don’t want to spend the time putting things in categories. I’m just not sure anyone is really going to care in the long run.

Whatever keeps you scrapbooking is priority number one for me, so if all you’re interested in doing is slipping the next page you made into the next empty page protector, I say go for it.

But before you say, “No one is going to care” or “It doesn’t make a difference,” just ask yourself whether that’s really true.

What if you could tell a larger story by the way you organize your pages into albums?

Scrapbook Albums: How You Can Tell Bigger Story

My albums have topics, which make them like memoirs!

There’s a topic connection between all of the layouts so that when an album is full there is a complete story. You see how the home has changed over time, and how it fits the personality of the family in an album about home. You see how a child’s personality develops over time — how parts of it seem to change in some ways while other parts remain unchanged and immovable — in an album about that child’s personality.

A mix of topics such as vacation, sports, personalities, weekend activities, everyday moments, and holidays crowd out the bigger story that is hiding for each of those topics.

In an album about things we love to do as a family you see over a number of years how our activities have changed with our maturing ages. Or I might be reminded of something we once loved but have forgotten.

(I mostly follow Stacy Julian’s Library of Memories system for album topics).

You don’t get these broader revealing stories when you put all the pages into strict chronological albums that mix topics. And not when you place layouts in the order of your scrapbooking either.

Not that there’s anything wrong with that! ;)

There is just more story you can be telling! And discovering!

Turning Your Scrapbook Albums Into Visual Memoirs

As an album gets close to its full point, I spend some time with it to flesh it out and turn it into a viewable finished story. In the process I deal with all the tricky pages — the backs of the odd-shaped pages, for example.

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In this week’s episode of Paperclipping we go inside one of my albums to see…

  • the story that has developed naturally by having a purpose (such as the personality of the album).
  • what’s missing from my story
  • the problems in the album, like die cut shaped and transparent pages

I then share some solutions for dealing with those tricky pages where we don’t want the stuff to show through.

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